The Oxford Book of English Verse

The Oxford Book of English Verse ist eine Anthologie englischer Gedichte.

Diese Gedichtsammlung wurde erstmals von Arthur Quiller-Couch erstellt und 1901 von der Oxford University Press mit großem Erfolg veröffentlicht.

Die erste Ausgabe umfasste Gedichte aus den Jahren 1250 bis 1900, weitere Ausgaben Gedichte aus den Jahren 1250 bis 1918 sowie in einer weiteren Ausgabe, besorgt von Helen Louise Gardner, Gedichte 1250 bis 1950.

Autoren der Ausgabe 1939

Lascelles Abercrombie – Joseph Addison – AE – Mark Akenside – William Alexander, Earl of Stirling – William Allingham – Matthew Arnold – Robert Ayton – Grizel Baillie – Joanna Baillie – Frances Bannerman – Anna Laetitia Barbauld – John Barbour – Richard Barnefield – William Barnes – James Beattie – Francis Beaumont – John Beaumont – Thomas Lovell Beddoes – Henry Charles Beeching – Aphra Behn – Hilaire Belloc – Arthur Christopher Benson – Laurence Binyon – Richard Doddridge Blackmore – William BlakeEdmund BlundenWilfrid Scawen BluntGordon Bottomley – Francis William Bourdillon – William Lisle Bowles – Mark Alexander Boyd – Nicholas BretonRobert Bridges – Alexander Brome – Rupert Brooke – William Broome – Emily Brontë – Thomas Edward Brown – William Browne of Tavistock – Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRobert Browning – Michael Bruce – William Cullen BryantJohn BunyanRobert BurnsLord Byron – Jeremiah Joseph Callanan – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – Thomas Carew – Henry Carey – Bliss Carman – William Cartwright – George ChapmanThomas ChattertonGeoffrey ChaucerG. K. ChestertonJohn ClareArthur Hugh CloughHartley ColeridgeMary Elizabeth ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge – William Collins – Padraic Colum – William Congreve – Henry ConstableWilliam CornishWilliam Cory – Charles Cotton – Abraham Cowley – William Cowper – George CrabbeRichard Crashaw – Allan Cunningham – Robert Cunninghame-Grahame of Gartmore – Henry Cust – Samuel DanielGeorge DarleyWilliam Davenant – John Davidson – John Davies – William Henry Davies – Francis oder Walter Davison – Thomas Dekker – Walter de la Mare – Aubrey de Vere – Emily Dickinson – Richard Watson Dixon – Sydney Dobell – Henry Austin Dobson – John DonneEarl of DorsetLord Alfred DouglasErnest Dowson – Francis Hastings Doyle – Michael DraytonWilliam Drummond of HawthorndenJohn DrydenAgnes Mary Frances DuclauxGeorge du Maurier – William Dunbar – Thomas d’UrfeyRichard EdwardesEbenezer ElliottJane ElliotRalph Waldo EmersonGeorge EtheregeRichard Fanshawe – Samuel Ferguson – Edward FitzGerald – Thomas Flatman – James Elroy FleckerGiles Fletcher – John Fletcher – Phineas Fletcher – John Ford – George FoxNorman GaleGeorge GascoigneJohn GayOliver St. John GogartyOliver GoldsmithEdmund GosseJames Graham, Marquis of MontroseThomas Gray – Robert Greene – Julian Grenfell – Fanny Greville – Fulke Greville, Lord BrookeGerald Griffin – Nicholas Grimald – William HabingtonThomas HardyBret Harte – Stephen Hawes – Robert Stephen HawkerFelicia Dorothea HemansWilliam Ernest HenleyRobert Henryson – George Herbert – Edward Herbert, 1. Baron Herbert of CherburyRobert HerrickJohn HeywoodThomas HeywoodKatharine Tynan Hinkson – Thomas Hoccleve – Ralph HodgsonThomas HoodJames HoggGerard Manley HopkinsRichard Henry HorneLord HoughtonA. E. HousmanHenry Howard, Earl of SurreyWilliam Dean HowellsLeigh HuntDouglas Hyde – Selwyn Image – Jean Ingelow – Richard Jago – James I of Scotland – Lionel JohnsonSamuel Johnson – Ebenezer Jones – William Jones – Ben Jonson – Thomas Jordan – James JoyceJohn KeatsJohn Keble – Henry Clarence Kendall – John Kenyon (Dichter) – Henry KingCharles KingsleyRudyard KiplingCharles LambMary Ann LambWalter Savage LandorAndrew LangWilliam Langland – Emily Lawless – Richard Le Gallienne – Lady Anne Lindsay – John Gibson Lockhart – Thomas LodgeHenry Wadsworth LongfellowRichard LovelaceJohn LydgateJohn LylyThomas Babington Macaulay, Lord MacaulayGeorge MacDonald – Francis Mahony – James Clarence Mangan – Robert Mannyng of Brunne – Christopher MarloweAndrew MarvellJohn Masefield – Jasper Mayne – George MeredithAlice MeynellJohn MiltonAlexander MontgomerieThomas MooreT. Sturge MooreThomas Osbert MordauntWilliam MorrisAnthony Munday – Carolina Nairne – Thomas NasheHenry Newbolt – Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton – Alfred Noyes – John Oldham – William Oldys – John Boyle O’Reilly – Orinda (Pseudonym für Katherine Philips) – Thomas OtwayWilfred Owen – Isabel Pagan – Herbert Edward Palmer – Gilbert Parker – Thomas Parnell – Coventry PatmoreThomas Love PeacockGeorge PeeleEden Phillpotts – William Philpot – Edgar Allan PoeAlexander PopeWinthrop Mackworth PraedMatthew Prior – May Probyn – Bryan Waller Procter – Francis QuarlesWalter Raleigh – Allan Ramsay – Thomas Randolph – William Brighty Rands – John Hamilton Reynolds – Ernest Rhys – Samuel Rogers – Thomas William Rolleston – Christina Georgina RossettiDante Gabriel Rossetti – Henry Rowe – Richard Rowlands – John Ruskin – Charles Sackville, 6. Earl of Dorset – Siegfried Sassoon – Alexander Scott – John Scott of Amwell – Walter ScottWilliam Bell ScottCharles SedleyWilliam ShakespeareJohn Sheffield, Duke of BuckinghamshirePercy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam ShenstoneJames ShirleyPhilip Sidney – Dora Sigerson – John Skelton – Christopher Smart – Walter Chalmers Smith – Tobias George Smollett – Charles Hamilton Sorley – Robert SoutheyEdmund Spenser – Thomas Stanley – James Stephens – Robert Louis Stevenson – William Stevenson – William Strode – John SucklingEarl of SurreyAlgernon Swinburne – Joshua Sylvester – John Warren, 3. Baron de Tabley – Henry Taylor – Frederick Tennyson – Lord Tennyson – William Makepeace Thackeray – William Thom – Edward Thomas – Francis Thompson – James Thomson – James Thomson ('B.V.') – Wilfrid Thorley – Edward Thurlow, 1. Baron ThurlowThomas Traherne – Herbert Trench – Charles Tennyson Turner – Henry Vaughan – William Sidney Walker – Edmund Waller – William Walsh – William Watson – Isaac Watts – Thomas Webbe – John WebsterCharles Wesley – Robert Wever – Joseph Blanco White – Charles Whitehead – Walt WhitmanJohn Greenleaf WhittierJohn Wilmot, Earl of Rochester – Charles Williams – George Wither – Charles Wolfe – Margaret Louisa Woods – William WordsworthHenry WottonThomas WyattWilliam Butler Yeats

Ausgabe von 1972

William AllinghamMatthew ArnoldW. H. Auden – William Barnes – Richard Barnfield – John Beaumont – Thomas Lovell BeddoesAphra BehnHilaire BellocJohn BetjemanLaurence BinyonWilliam BlakeEdmund Blunden – Mark Alexander Boyd – Nicholas BretonRobert BridgesEmily BrontëRupert Brooke – William Browne of Tavistock – Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRobert BrowningJohn BunyanRobert Burns – Samuel Butler – John Byrom – Lord Byron – Thomas Campbell – Thomas Campion – Thomas Carew – Lewis CarrollGeorge ChapmanThomas ChattertonGeoffrey ChaucerG. K. ChestertonHenry ChettleJohn ClareJohn ClevelandArthur Hugh CloughSamuel Taylor Coleridge – William Collins – William Congreve – Richard CorbetWilliam CornishWilliam CoryAbraham CowleyGeorge CrabbeRichard CrashawSamuel DanielGeorge DarleyWilliam Davenant – John Davidson – John Davies – William Henry DaviesCecil Day-LewisWalter de la Mare – Richard Watson Dixon – John Donne – Keith Douglas – Ernest DowsonMichael DraytonWilliam Drummond of HawthorndenJohn Dryden – William Dunbar – Edward DyerT. S. EliotWilliam EmpsonRichard Fanshawe – Edward Fitzgerald – James Elroy FleckerGiles FletcherPhineas Fletcher – John Ford – Roy FullerGeorge GascoigneJohn Gay – Sidney Godolphin – Oliver GoldsmithJames GrahamRobert GravesThomas Gray – Robert Greene – Fulke GrevilleWilliam HabingtonThomas HardyWilliam Ernest Henley – George Herbert – Edward Herbert, 1. Baron Herbert of CherburyRobert HerrickRalph HodgsonThomas HoodGerard Manley HopkinsA. E. HousmanHenry Howard, Earl of SurreyJames Leigh HuntLionel JohnsonSamuel JohnsonBen Jonson – Thomas Jordan – James JoyceJohn KeatsRudyard KiplingFrancis KynastonCharles LambWalter Savage LandorWilliam LanglandD. H. LawrenceEdward Lear – Alun Lewis – Thomas LodgeRichard LovelaceJohn LylyThomas Babington MacaulayLouis MacNeiceChristopher MarloweAndrew MarvellJohn MasefieldGeorge MeredithAlice MeynellJohn MiltonThomas MooreThomas Osbert MordauntWilliam MorrisEdwin MuirAnthony MundayThomas NasheCharles of OrleansWilfred OwenCoventry PatmoreThomas Love PeacockGeorge PeeleAlexander PopeEzra PoundWinthrop Mackworth PraedMatthew PriorFrancis QuarlesKathleen RaineWalter Raleigh – Thomas Randolph – Henry Reed – Anne Ridler – Samuel Rogers – Isaac RosenbergChristina RossettiDante Gabriel Rossetti – Charles Sackville – Thomas SackvilleSiegfried Sassoon – John Scott of Amwell – Walter ScottCharles SedleyWilliam ShakespearePercy Bysshe ShelleyWilliam ShenstoneJames ShirleyPhilip SidneyEdith SitwellJohn Skelton – Christopher Smart – Stevie SmithRobert SouthwellStephen Spender – Thomas Stanley – Robert Louis Stevenson – William Strode – John SucklingJonathan SwiftAlgernon SwinburneAlfred Tennyson – Chidiock Tichborne – Dylan ThomasFrancis Thompson – James Thomson – James Thomson (1834) – Aurelian TownshendThomas Traherne – Walter James Turner – Henry VaughanEdmund WallerIsaac WattsJohn WebsterCharles Wesley – Robert Wever – Oscar WildeJohn WilmotGeorge Wither – Charles Wolfe – William WordsworthHenry Wotton – Thomas Wyatt – W. B. Yeats

Ausgaben

  • Arthur Quiller-Couch (Herausgeber): The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1901, 1918
  • Helen Gardner (Herausgeber): The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950, Oxford University Press 1972
  • Christopher Ricks (Herausgeber): The Oxford Book of English Verse, Oxford University Press 1999
  • Onlineversion der Ausgabe von 1901, Bartleby