The Anthology

Poetry from the beginnings.

1,441 poems arranged through the tradition, from medieval alliterative verse to poets writing today.

01. The Beginnings

59 poems

Cædmon

c. 657–c. 684 · 1 poem

William Langland

ea. 1330–ca. 1400 · 1 poem

Charles D'Orleans

1391–1465 · 1 poem

William Dunbar

ea. 1460–ca. 1525 · 2 poems

02. The Sixteenth Century

229 poems

George Gascoigne

ea. 1534–1577 · 1 poem

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke

1554–1628 · 2 poems

Thomas Lodge

1558–1625 · 1 poem

Robert Southwell

ea. 1561–1595 · 1 poem

Christopher Marlowe

1564–1593 · 1 poem

Aemilia Lanyer

1569–1645 · 1 poem

John Fletcher

1579–1625 · 1 poem

Edward Herbert

1582–1648 · 2 poems

James Shirley

1596–1666 · 2 poems

03. The Seventeenth Century

116 poems

The Massachusetts Bay Psalm Book

1640 · 2 poems

Abraham Cowley

1618–1667 · 2 poems

Henryvaughan

1621–1695 · 4 poems

John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester

1647–1680 · 3 poems

Anne Killigrew

1660–1685 · 1 poem

Matthew Green

1696–1737 · 1 poem

04. The Eighteenth Century

147 poems

James Thomson

1700–1748 · 2 poems

Jean Elliot

1727–1805 · 1 poem

Oliver Goldsmith

ea. 1730–1774 · 2 poems

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

1743–1825 · 2 poems

Philip Freneau

1752–1832 · 2 poems

George Crabbe

1754–1832 · 2 poems

Joanna Baillie

1762–1851 · 1 poem

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772–1834 · 4 poems

William Cullen Bryant

1794–1878 · 2 poems

05. The Nineteenth Century

380 poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807–1882 · 3 poems

Lanes Very

1813–1880 · 2 poems

Henry David Thoreau

1817–1862 · 2 poems

Julia Ward Howe

1819–1910 · 1 poem

Herman Melville

1819–1891 · 3 poems

Emily Dickinson

1830–1886 · 1 poem

Lewis Carroll

CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON) (1832–1898 · 1 poem

William Morris

1834–1896 · 2 poems

W. S. Gilbert

1836–1911 · 1 poem

Sidney Lanier

1842–1881 · 2 poems

Emma Lazarus

1849–1887 · 1 poem

Rudyard Kipling

1865–1936 · 2 poems

Edwin Arlington Robinson

1869–1935 · 4 poems

Charlotie Mew

1869–1928 · 1 poem

Stephen Crane

1871–1900 · 2 poems

Paul Laurence Dunbar

1872–1906 · 4 poems

John Mccrae

1872–1918 · 1 poem

Walter De La Mare

1873–1956 · 2 poems

Amy Lowell

1874–1925 · 2 poems

Trumbull Stickney

1874–1904 · 1 poem

Carl Sandburg

1878–1967 · 2 poems

Edward Thomas

1878–1917 · 4 poems

E. J. Prati

1883–1964 · 2 poems

Elinor Wylie

1885–1928 · 2 poems

H. D.

HILDA DOOLITTLE) (1886–1961 · 5 poems

Siegfried Sassoon

1886–1967 · 3 poems

Rupert Brooke

1887–1915 · 3 poems

Edwin Muir

1887–1959 · 3 poems

Conrad Aiken

1889–1973 · 1 poem

Isaac Rosenberg

1890–1918 · 2 poems

Archibald Macleish

1892–1982 · 2 poems

Dorothy Parker

1893–1967 · 3 poems

Edmund Blunden

1896–1974 · 2 poems

Allen Tate

1899–1979 · 2 poems

06. The Twentieth Century

510 poems

Basil Bunting

1900–1985 · 1 poem

Laura

RIDING) JACKSON (1901–1991 · 2 poems

Sterling A. Brown

1901–1989 · 3 poems

Roy Campbell

1902–1957 · 2 poems

Countee Cullen

1903–1946 · 3 poems

Earle Birney

1904–1991 · 2 poems

Richard Eberhart

b. 1904 · 1 poem

Patrick Kavanagh

1904–1967 · 1 poem

Stanley Kunitz

b. 1905 · 3 poems

William Empson

1906–1984 · 2 poems

Josephine Jacobsen

1908–2003 · 3 poems

Robert Fitzgerald

1910–1985 · 1 poem

Norman Maccaig

1910–1996 · 3 poems

Weldon Kees

1914–1955 · 1 poem

For H. V.

1901–1927 · 2 poems

Norman Nicholson

1914–1987 · 2 poems

Henry Reed

1914–1986 · 1 poem

Alun Lewis

1915–1944 · 2 poems

Margaret Walker

1915–1998 · 2 poems

David Gascoyne

1916–2001 · 2 poems

P. K. Page

b. 1916 · 1 poem

Charles Causley

1917–2003 · 2 poems

Robert Lowell

1917–1977 · 4 poems

William Meredith

b. 1919 · 2 poems

Barbara Guest

b. 1920 · 2 poems

Edwin Morgan

b. 1920 · 3 poems

Mona Van Duyn

b. 1921 · 1 poem

Sidney Keyes

1922–1943 · 2 poems

Howard Moss

1922–1987 · 1 poem

James Dickey

1923–1997 · 2 poems

A Letter For All-Hallows

1949 · 2 poems

Anthony Hecht

1923–2004 · 4 poems

John Ormond

1923–1990 · 2 poems

James Schuyler

1923–1991 · 1 poem

James K. Baxter

1926–1972 · 3 poems

Allen Ginsberg

1926–1997 · 2 poems

James Merrill

1926–1995 · 3 poems

Frank O'Hara

1926–1966 · 2 poems

Elizabeth Jennings

1926–2001 · 2 poems

James Wright

1927–1980 · 3 poems

Peter Davison

b. 1928 · 1 poem

Donald Hall

b. 1928 · 2 poems

Thomas Kinsella

b. 1928 · 2 poems

Anne Sexton

1928–1974 · 2 poems

L. E. Sissman

1928–1976 · 2 poems

A. K. Ramanujan

1929–1993 · 2 poems

Gre Go Ry Co Rso

1930–2001 · 1 poem

Gary Snyder

b. 1930 · 2 poems

Alan Brownjohn

b. 1931 · 1 poem

Jay Macpherson

b. 1931 · 2 poems

Sylvia Plath

1932–1963 · 6 poems

John Updike

b. 1932 · 1 poem

Anne Stevenson

b. 1933 · 1 poem

Amiri Baraka

LEROI JONES) (b. 1934 · 1 poem

Audre Lorde

1934–1992 · 2 poems

N. Scott Momaday

b. 1934 · 4 poems

Daryl Hine

b. 1936 · 2 poems

C. K. Williams

b. 1936 · 2 poems

Dom Moraes

b. 1938 · 2 poems

Les Murray

b. 1938 · 2 poems

Charles Simic

b. 1938 · 2 poems

Michael Longley

b. 1939 · 2 poems

Billy Collins

b. 1941 · 1 poem

Robert Hass

b. 1941 · 2 poems

Derek Mahon

b. 1941 · 2 poems

Eric Ormsby

b. 1941 · 3 poems

Louise Glock

b. 1943 · 2 poems

Michael Palmer

b. 1943 · 2 poems

Kit Wright

b. 1944 · 2 poems

Wendy Cope

b. 1945 · 3 poems

Richard Kenney

b. 1948 · 2 poems

Agha Shahid All

1949–2001 · 1 poem

James Fenton

b. 1949 · 2 poems

Dana Gioia

b. 1950 · 1 poem

Nicholas Christopher

b. 1951 · 2 poems

Paul Muldoon

b. 1951 · 2 poems

Rita Dove

b. 1952 · 1 poem

Daniel Hall

b. 1952 · 1 poem

Sean O'Brien

b. 1952 · 2 poems

Vikram Seth

b. 1952 · 1 poem

Gary Soto

b. 1952 · 1 poem

Brad Leithauser

b. 1953 · 2 poems

G]Ertrud Schnackenberg

b. 1953 · 2 poems

Li-Young Lee

b. 1957 · 1 poem

Cynthia Zarin

b. 1959 · 1 poem

Lavinia Greenlaw

b. 1962 · 2 poems

Simon Armitage

b. 1963 · 1 poem