| My wish is that the reader should in his own pleasure quite forget the editor’s labour, which too has been pleasant: that, standing aside, I may believe this book has made the Muses’ access easier when, in the right hour, they come to him to uplift or to console. |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch |
The Oxford Book of English Verse
1250–1900
Chosen and Edited by A. T. Quiller-Couch
From Arthur Quiller-Couch’s 1919 Introduction to this extensive collection: “For this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse…. To bring home and render so great a spoil compendiously has been my capital difficulty. It is for the reader to judge if I have so managed it as to serve those who already love poetry and to implant that love in some young minds not yet initiated.”
Contents
| TO THE PRESIDENT, FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD: A HOUSE OF LEARNING ANCIENT, LIBERAL HUMANE AND MY MOST KINDLY NURSE |
| OXFORD: CLARENDON, 1919 NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999 |
CHRONOLOGIC INDEX OF AUTHORS
| Anonymous (XIII–XIV Century) | to | Marlowe (1564–93) |
| Shakespeare (1564–1616) | to | Waller (1606–1687) |
| Milton (1608–1674) | to | Jago (1715–1781) |
| Gray (1716–1771) | to | Wolfe (1791–1823) |
| Shelley (1792–1822) | to | Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) |
| Arnold (1822–1888) | to | Blackmore (1825–1900) |
ALPHABETIC INDEX OF AUTHORS
| Addison, Joseph | to | Brome, Alexander |
| Brontë, Emily | to | Cutts, Lord |
| Daniel, Samuel | to | Hyde, Douglas |
| Jago, Richard | to | Milton, John |
| Montgomerie, Alexander | to | Shakespeare, William |
| Shelley, Percy Bysshe | to | Yeats, William Butler |
INDEX OF TITLES
| A Bequest of His Heart | to | By the Margin of the Great Deep |
| Call | to | Grief |
| Half-asleep | to | Myra |
| Nameless One | to | Quia Amore Langueo |
| Rainbow | to | Sweet Content |
| Take, O take those Lids away | to | Youth and Age |
INDEX OF FIRST LINES