The Book of Bodley Head Verse was edited by J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley, OM , known as J. B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions , as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls...

 and published by The Bodley Head

The Bodley Head

The Bodley Head is an English publishing house, founded in 1887 and existing as an independent entity until the 1970s. The name has been used as an imprint of Random House Children's Books since 1987...

 in 1926.

Poets included were:

Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie

Lascelles Abercrombie was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets"...

 — A. E. — T. B. Aldrich — Kenneth Ashley — Maurice Baring

Maurice Baring

Maurice Baring was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent...

 — Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, done in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A....

 — Henry C. Beeching — Arthur Christopher Benson — Archibald Allan Bowman — Mary Brotherton — Emile Cammaerts

Émile Cammaerts

Émile Leon Cammaerts was a Belgian poet.He became Professor of Belgian Studies at the University of London in 1933, and his papers are held there in Senate House Library....

 — Ethel Clifford — Ernest Hartley Coleridge

Ernest Hartley Coleridge

Ernest Hartley Coleridge was a British literary scholar and poet. He was son of Derwent Coleridge and grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He did scholarly work on his grandfather’s manuscripts, being the last of the Coleridges involved in their editing. He also took part in the campaign to buy...

 — Stephen Coleridge

Stephen Coleridge

Stephen William Buchanan Coleridge was a UK author, barrister, opponent of vivisection and co-founder of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children....

 — Francis Coutts — Lord Curzon Of Kedleston — Olive Custance

Olive Custance

Olive Eleanor Custance was a British poet. She was part of the aesthetic movement of the 1890s, and a contributor to The Yellow Book....

 — John Davidson

John Davidson (poet)

John Davidson was a Scottish poet, playwright and novelist, best known for his ballads. He also did translations from French and German...

 — Lord de Tabley — Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas , nicknamed Bosie, was a British author, poet and translator, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde...

 — Ernest Dowson

Ernest Dowson

Ernest Christopher Dowson , born in Lee, London, was an English poet, novelist and writer of short stories, associated with the Decadent movement.- Biography :...

 — Helen Parry Eden — Leolyn Louise Everett — Eugene Field

Eugene Field

Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.-Biography:...

 — Darrell Figgis

Darrell Figgis

Darrell Edmund Figgis was an Irish writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent parliamentarian in the Irish Free State. The little that has been written about him has attempted to highlight how thoroughly his memory and works have been excised from Irish popular culture.-Early life:Darrell Figgis...

 — Norman Gale

Norman Gale

For the Wales international rugby union player see Norman Gale Norman Rowland Gale was a poet, story-teller and reviewer, who published many books over a period of nearly fifty years....

 — Richard Garnett

Richard Garnett

Richard Garnett C.B. was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. He was son of Richard Garnett, an author, philologist and assistant keeper of printed books in the British Museum....

 — H. W. Garrod

H. W. Garrod

Heathcote William Garrod was a British classical scholar and literary scholar. He was Fellow of Merton College, Oxford for over 60 years...

 — Stephen Gwynn — John Hay

John Hay

John Milton Hay was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln.-Early life:...

 — Alfred Hayes

Alfred Hayes (writer)

Alfred Hayes was a British screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States...

 — F. R. Higgins

F. R. Higgins

Frederick Robert Higgins was an Irish poet and theatre director.-Early years:Higgins was born on the west coast of Ireland in Foxford, which is located in County Mayo...

 — Katherine Tynan Hinkson — Edmond Holmes

Edmond Holmes

Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes was an educationalist, writer and poet who was born at Moycashel, co. Westmeath, Ireland. His The Creed of the Buddha is well known; he also wrote a pantheist text All is One: A Plea for a Higher Pantheism.Words from his The Triumph of Love were set to music by the...

 — Nora Hopper — Ford Madox Hueffer — E. Pauline Johnson — Herbert Jones — Frank Kendon

Frank Kendon

Frank Samuel Herbert Kendon was an English writer, poet and academic. He was also an illustrator, and journalist.He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1948. He was a published poet in the 1920s and later a writer of stories and a novel. From 1935 to 1954 he...

 — Richard Le Gallienne

Richard Le Gallienne

Richard Le Gallienne was an English author and poet. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne was his daughter, by his second marriage.-Life and career:...

 — Arthur E. J. Legge — R. C. Lehmann

R. C. Lehmann

Rudolph Chambers "R.C." Lehmann was an English writer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. As a writer he was best known for three decades in which he was a major contributor to Punch as well as founding editor of Granta magazine.Lehmann was born in...

 — Winifred Lucas — E. A. Mackintosh — Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.-Biography:...

 — Bernard Miall — Rosa Newmarch

Rosa Newmarch

Rosa Newmarch was an English writer on music.-Biography:Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson was born in Leamington in 1857. She settled in London in 1880, when she began contributing articles to various literary journals. In 1883 she married Henry Charles Newmarch, thereafter using her married name in her...

 — Stephen Phillips

Stephen Phillips

Stephen Phillips was a highly famed English poet and dramatist, who enjoyed considerable popularity in his lifetime....

 — Marjorie L. C. Pickthall — Victor Plarr

Victor Plarr

Victor Gustave Plarr was an English poet; he is probably best known for the poem Epitaphium Citharistriae....

 — Dollie Radford

Dollie Radford

Caroline Maitland was an English poet and writer. She married in 1883 Ernest Radford, and wrote as Dollie Radford. They had three children, one being Maitland Radford....

 — Dorothy Una Ratcliffe — Ernest Rhys

Ernest Rhys

Ernest Percival Rhys was an English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. He wrote essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays...

 — Lady Margaret Sackville

Lady Margaret Sackville

Lady Margaret Sackville was an English poet and children’s author.-Life:Born at 60 Grosvenor Street, Mayfair, Lady Margaret was the youngest child of Reginald Windsor Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr, who died when she was fourteen...

 — Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West

The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH , best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933...

 — Sir Owen Seaman — Leonard Shoobridge

Leonard Shoobridge

Leonard Knollys Haywood Shoobridge was an English writer, archaeologist, poet and politician. He is best known as a contributor to The Book of Bodley Head Verse Leonard Knollys Haywood Shoobridge (20 October 1858 – 1 February 1935) was an English writer, archaeologist, poet and politician. He is...

 — Dora Sigerson — John Still

John Still

John Still , bishop of Bath and Wells enjoyed considerable fame as a preacher and disputant. He was formerly reputed to be the author of the early English comedy drama Gammer Gurton's Needle .-Career:...

 — Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer

Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer

Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer was a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States....

 — John B. Tabb — Frederick Tennyson

Frederick Tennyson

Frederick Tennyson was an English poet.-Life:Frederick Tennyson was the eldest son of George Clayton Tennyson, Rector of Somersby, Lincolnshire, and brother of Alfred Tennyson. He was educated at Eton College and St John's College, Cambridge...

 — Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book, Poems in 1893...

 — Iris Tree

Iris Tree

Iris Tree was an English poet, actress and artists' model, described as a bohemian, an eccentric, a wit and an adventuress....

 — Emile Verhaeren

Emile Verhaeren

Emile Verhaeren was a Belgian poet who wrote in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism....

 — I. Henry Wallis — Rosamund Marriott Watson

Rosamund Marriott Watson

Rosamund Marriott Watson was a Victorian poet and critic who wrote under the pseudonym of Graham R. Tomson. Her poems, which presaged modernism, are informed by aestheticism and occasionally avant-garde sensibilities. Watson's personal life was fraught with scandal, she left first husband George...

 — Sir William Watson — Theodore Watts-Dunton

Theodore Watts-Dunton

Theodore Watts-Dunton was an English critic and poet. He is often remembered as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he rescued from alcoholism.-Birth and education:...

 — Margaret Woods