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Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry
Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry
Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry is a poetry anthology edited by Keith Tuma, and published in 2001 by Oxford University Press...
American Poetry Since 1950
American Poetry Since 1950 (poetry anthology)
American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders is a 1993 poetry anthology edited by Eliot Weinberger. First published by Marsilio Publishers, it joined two other collections which appeared at that time: From the Other Side of the Century: "A New American Poetry, 1960-1990" and "Postmodern...
Book of Aneirin
Book of Aneirin
The Book of Aneirin is a late 13th century Welsh manuscript containing Old and Middle Welsh poetry attributed to the late 6th century Northern Brythonic poet, Aneirin....

(c. 1265) Welsh
Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

medieval manuscript
Best American Poetry series (with links to articles on annual volumes)
Best New Poets series
Best New Poets
The Best New Poets series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing fifty poems from poets without a previously published collection...
British Poetry since 1945
Broadview Anthology of Poetry
Broadview Anthology of Poetry
The Broadview Anthology of Poetry is a 1993 poetry anthology compiled by Canadian academics Hernert Rosengarten and Amanda Goldrick-Jones....
Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain
Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain
Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain, an anthology of poetry, was edited by Michael Horovitz and published by Penguin Books in 1969...
Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology
Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology
Conductors of Chaos: A Poetry Anthology is a poetry anthology edited by Iain Sinclair, and published in the United Kingdom in 1996 by Picador. In a backhanded piece of self-justification, Sinclair in the Introduction wrote that...
CrossTIME Science Fiction Anthology

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Englands Helicon
Englands Helicon
Englands Helicon is an anthology of Elizabethan lyric poems compiled by John Flasket, and first published in 1600. There was an enlarged edition in 1614...
Faber Book of Irish Verse
Faber Book of Irish Verse
The Faber Book of Irish Verse was a poetry anthology edited by John Montague and first published in 1974 by Faber and Faber. Recognised as an important collection, it has been described as 'the only general anthology of Irish verse in the past 30 years that has a claim to be a work of art in itself...
Faber Book of Modern American Verse
Faber Book of Modern American Verse
The Faber Book of Modern American Verse was a poetry anthology edited by W. H. Auden, and published in London in 1956 by Faber and Faber. Auden had moved from the UK to the USA in 1939, and had been directly involved in the American poetry scene, particularly through his time spent on the Yale...
Faber Book of Modern Verse
Faber Book of Modern Verse
The Faber Book of Modern Verse was a poetry anthology, edited in its first edition by Michael Roberts, and published in 1936 by Faber and Faber. There was a second edition edited by Anne Ridler, and a third edition edited by Donald Hall. The selection was of poems in English printed after 1910,...
Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse
Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse
The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology of Verse in Britain 1900-1950 was a poetry anthology edited by John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright, and first published in 1953 by Faber and Faber. A selection in self-conscious contrast to the Faber Book of Modern Verse, it did not attempt to...
From the Other Side of the Century: "A New American Poetry, 1960-1990"
From the Other Side of the Century
From the Other Side of the Century: "A New American Poetry, 1960-1990" is a poetry anthology published in 1994. It was edited by American poet and publisher Douglas Messerli – under his own imprint Sun and Moon Press ISBN 978-1-55713-131-7 – and includes poets from both the U.S...
Georgian Poetry
Georgian Poetry
Georgian Poetry was the title of a series of anthologies showcasing the work of a school of English poetry that established itself during the early years of the reign of King George V of the United Kingdom....
Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry
Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry was edited by Hugh MacDiarmid, and published in 1940. From the introduction:The difference … between this anthology and all previous anthologies of Scottish poetry — is that some little effort has been made to present an "all-in view" of Scottish poetry...

edited by Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid is the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve , a significant Scottish poet of the 20th century. He was instrumental in creating a Scottish version of modernism and was a leading light in the Scottish Renaissance of the 20th century...
GlassFire Anthology
Greek Anthology
Greek Anthology
The Greek Anthology is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature...
The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English is a poetry anthology edited by Michael Schmidt, and published in 1999. Schmidt is an American academic and long-term UK resident, who is the founder of Carcanet Press; he has also written extensive biographical books about poets.A paperback...
Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain
Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain
Hinterland: Caribbean Poetry from the West Indies and Britain is a 1989 poetry anthology edited by E. A. Markham. In a long introductory essay Markham writes...
Hyakunin Isshu
Hyakunin Isshu
is a traditional anthology style of compiling Japanese waka poetry where each contributor writes one poem for the anthology. Literally, it translates to "one hundred people, one poem [each]"...

(13th century) (one hundred people, one poem) compiled by the 13th century Japanese poet and critic Fujiwara no Teika
Fujiwara no Teika
Fujiwara no Teika , also known as Fujiwara no Sadaie or Sada-ie, was a Japanese poet, critic, calligrapher, novelist, anthologist, scribe, and scholar of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods...

, an important collection of Japanese waka
Waka (poetry)
Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...

poems from the 7th through the 13th centuries.
Kaifūsō
Kaifuso
is the oldest collection of Chinese poetry written by Japanese poets.It was created by an unknown compiler in 751. In the brief introductions of the poets, the unknown writer seems sympathic to Emperor Kōbun and his regents who were overthrown in 672 by Emperor Temmu after only eight months of the...

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751
Year 751 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 751 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.- Europe :* Pepin the Short is elected as king of the...

) (Fond Recollections of Poetry) the oldest collection of Chinese poetry
Chinese poetry
Chinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Yue Chinese, as well as many other historical and vernacular varieties of the Chinese language...

(kanshi
Kanshi (poetry)
is a Japanese term for Chinese poetry in general as well as the poetry written in Chinese by Japanese poets. It literally means "Han poetry". Kanshi was the most popular form of poetry during the early Heian period in Japan among Japanese aristocrats and proliferated until the modern period.The...

) written by Japanese poets
Kokin Wakashū (completed around 905
905
Year 905 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.- Africa :* The Abbasid Caliphate re-establishes control of Egypt from the Tulunids.- Asia :...

) (collection of Japanese poems from ancient and current times) the first Japanese Imperial poetry anthology

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Lieblingminne und Freundesliebe in der Weltliteratur
Man'yōshū (around 759
759
Year 759 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 759 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.- Europe :* The Franks capture Narbonne; the Saracens...

) (Anthology of a Myriad Leaves) the first great Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese poetry
Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

anthology, compiled by the poet Ōtomo no Yakamochi
Otomo no Yakamochi
was a Japanese statesman and waka poet in the Nara period. He is a member of the . He was born into the prestigious Ōtomo clan; his grandfather was Ōtomo no Amaro and his father was Ōtomo no Tabito. Ōtomo no Kakimochi was his younger brother, and Ōtomo no Sakanoe no Iratsume his aunt...
Metrical Dindshenchas
Modern Scottish Poetry (Faber)
Modern Scottish Poetry (Faber)
Modern Scottish Poetry: An Anthology of the Scottish Renaissance 1920-1945 was a poetry anthology edited by Maurice Lindsay, and published in 1946 by Faber and Faber.It covered the Scottish Renaissance literary movement in Scotland....
The New British Poetry
The New British Poetry
The New British Poetry was a poetry anthology from 1988, jointly edited by Gillian Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram, respectively concerned with feminist, Black British, younger experimental and British poetry revival poets. The time frame involved was 1968-1988...
The New American Poetry 1945-1960
The New American Poetry 1945-1960
The New American Poetry 1945–1960 was a poetry anthology edited by Donald Allen, and published in 1960. It aimed to pick out the "third generation" of American modernist poets, and included quite a number of poems fresh from the little magazines of the late 1950s. In the longer term it attained a...
New Poets of England and America
New Poets of England and America
New Poets of England and America was a poetry anthology edited by Donald Hall, Robert Pack and Louis Simpson, and published in 1957 by Meridian Books. In the post-war story about relations between American and British poetry, it represents the moment of closest rapprochement, actual or intended....
The New Poetry
The New Poetry
The New Poetry was a poetry anthology edited by Al Alvarez, published in 1962 and in a revised edition in 1966. It was greeted at the time as a significant review of the post-war scene in English poetry....

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New Provinces
New Provinces (poetry anthology)
New Provinces: Poems of Several Authors was an anthology of Canadian poetry published in the 1930s, anonymously edited by F.R. Scott assisted by Leo Kennedy and A.J.M. Smith. The first anthology of Canadian modernist poetry, it has been hailed as a "landmark anthology" and a "milestone selection...

, F.R. Scott
F. R. Scott
Francis Reginald Scott, CC commonly known as Frank Scott or F.R. Scott, was a Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert. He helped found the first Canadian social democratic party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and its successor, the New Democratic Party...

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The Oestara Anthology of Poetry, Oestara Publishing LLC
New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950
New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950
The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1950 is a poetry anthology edited by Helen Gardner, and published in New York and London in 1972 by the Oxford University Press with ISBN 0-19-812136-9, as a replacement for the Quiller-Couch Oxford Book of English Verse...
Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970
Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970
Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 is a poetry anthology edited by Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain, and published in 1999 by Wesleyan University Press...
Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse
Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse
The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse, edited by D. J. Enright, is a poetry anthology from 1980, published by Oxford University Press. It might be considered one of the 'last words' from a founder-member of The Movement, with its comments in the Introduction still in an anti-romantic vein, and that...
Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse
Oxford Book of English Verse
Oxford Book of English Verse
The Oxford Book of English Verse most commonly means the Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, an anthology of English poetry that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry for at least a generation...
Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935
Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935
The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 was a poetry anthology edited by W. B. Yeats, and published in 1936 by Oxford University Press. A long and interesting introductory essay starts from the proposition that the poets included should be all the 'good' ones active since Tennyson's death...
The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse
Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English
Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English
The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English was a 1977 poetry anthology edited by Gwyn Jones. It covered both Welsh poetry, in English translation, and Welsh poets writing in English ....
Oxford poetry anthologies
Oxford poetry anthologies
The Oxford University Press published a long series of poetry anthologies, dealing in particular with British poetry but not restricted to it, after the success of the Oxford Book of English Verse ....
- Oxford period poetry anthologies
  Oxford period poetry anthologies
  These are Oxford poetry anthologies of English poetry, which select from a given period. See also The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse.-New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse :Edited by Alastair Fowler...
- Oxford religious poetry anthologies
  Oxford religious poetry anthologies
  -Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse:The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse was a poetry anthology edited by Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson and Arthur Hugh Evelyn Lee, and published in 1917 by the Oxford University Press. The compilation contains much religious verse, mainly from English...

The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Edited by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Published by Oxford University Press, N Delhi; SBN 019 562867 5

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Palgrave's Golden Treasury
Palgrave's Golden Treasury
The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics is a popular anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861. It was considerably revised, with input from Tennyson, about three decades later...
Penguin Book of Canadian Verse
Penguin Book of Canadian Verse
The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse was first published in 1942 as Anthology of Canadian Poetry under the Pelican Books imprint. Edited by Canadian poet Ralph Gustafson, revised and expanded editions were published in 1958, 1967 and 1984....
Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry
Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry
The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry was a poetry anthology edited by Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion, and published in 1982 by Penguin Books....
Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (1918-1960)
Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry
The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry , is a 1984 poetry anthology edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier. It consists mainly of poems written in English and English translations of French or Portuguese poetry; poems written in African languages were included only in the authors' translations...

(1984)
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry
The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry is a major anthology of twentieth century Australian poetry. Edited by poets Philip Mead and John Tranter it was published by Penguin Australia in 1991...

(1991)
Penguin poetry anthologies
Penguin poetry anthologies
The Penguin poetry anthologies, published by Penguin Books, have at times played the role of a 'third force' in British poetry, less literary than those from Faber and Faber, and less academic than those from Oxford University Press....
- Penguin Modern Poets
  Penguin Modern Poets
  Penguin Modern Poets was a series of 27 poetry books published by Penguin Books in the 1960s and 1970s, each containing work by three contemporary poets . The series was begun in 1962 and published an average of two volumes per year throughout the 1960s...
Percy Folio
Poem and Poet
Poems of Black Africa
Poems of Black Africa
Poems of Black Africa is a poetry anthology edited by Wole Soyinka, and published in 1975 as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series. It was arranged by theme.-Poets in Poems of Black Africa:...

edited by Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...
Poems of Today
Poems of Today
Poems of Today was a series of anthologies of poetry, almost all Anglo-Irish, produced by the English Association. Poems of Today a collection of the contemporary verse of America and Great Britian was edited by Alice Cecilia Cooper Supervisor of Senior English, University High School Oakland,...
Poets for Peace ISBN 1-8808-4946-1
Poetry Sepaks Expanded edited by Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby
Postmodern American Poetry
Postmodern American Poetry
Postmodern American Poetry is a 1994 poetry anthology edited by Paul Hoover; it is a Norton anthology published by W. W. Norton & Company. The introduction identifies the use of postmodern with its early mention by Charles Olson, and identifies the field chosen as experimental poetry from after 1945...
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry is a collection of ballads and popular songs collected by Thomas Percy and published in 1765.-Sources:...
Shi Jing
Shi Jing
The Classic of Poetry , translated variously as the Book of Songs, the Book of Odes, and often known simply as its original name The Odes, is the earliest existing collection of Chinese poems and songs. It comprises 305 poems and songs, with many range from the 10th to the 7th centuries BC...
Three Chinese Poets
Three Chinese Poets
Three Chinese Poets is a book of poetry by the titular poets Wang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fu translated into English by Vikram Seth. The Three Poets were contemporaries and are considered to be amongst the greatest Chinese poets, though Du Fu did not receive much recognition for his poetry during his...

translated by Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.-Early life:Vikram Seth was born on 20 June 1952 to Leila and Prem Seth in Calcutta...
Tottel's Miscellany
Tottel's Miscellany
Songes and Sonettes, usually called Tottel's Miscellany, was the first printed anthology of English poetry. It was published by Richard Tottel in 1557, and ran to many editions in the sixteenth century.-Richard Tottel:...
Up The Line To Death
Up The Line To Death
Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914-1918 is a poetry anthology edited by Brian Gardner, and first published in 1964. It was a significant revisiting of the tradition of the war poet, writing in...
Van Gogh's Ear: Best World Poetry & Prose
The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry, 1967-2000
Words from Across the World

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