INDEX OF POETS

• Akhmatova, Anna (1889–1966) 13
• Angelou, Maya (b.1928) 8, 125
• Anon 3, 130, 191
• Archilochus (c.680–c.645 BC) 57
• Armitage, Simon (b.1963) 114, 183
• Arnold, Matthew (1822–88) 127
• Auden, W. H. (1907–73) 132, 181

• Berry, Wendell (b.1934) 168
• Betjeman, John (1906–84) 56
• Bishop, Elizabeth (1911–79) 75
• Blake, William (1757–1827) 27, 51, 60, 131
• Blunden, Edmund (1896–1974) 70
• Bly, Robert (b.1926) 64
• Boran, Pat (b.1963) 34
• Bradstreet, Anne (1612–72) 137
• Brontë, Emily (1818–48) 177
• Brooke, Rupert (1887–1915) 36
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806–61) 65
• Browning, Robert (1812–89) 30, 54
• Bryce, Colette (b.1970) 110
• Burns, Robert (1759–96) 38
• Burnside, John (b. 1955) 23
• Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788–1824) 186

• Callimachus (c.300–240 BC) 28
• Carver, Raymond (1938–88) 184, 195
• Causley, Charles (1917–2003) 107
• Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1343–1400) 149
• Clare, John (1793–1864) 135
• Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819–61) 165
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834) 192
• Coolidge, Susan (1835–1905) 19
• Cope, Wendy (b.1945) 37, 93
• Cummings, E. E. (1894–1962) 148

• Davies, William Henry (1871–1940) 150
• Dickinson, Emily (1830–86) 69
• Donaghy, Michael (1954–2004) 40, 190
• Donne, John (1572–1631) 20, 167
• Dooley, Maura (b.1957) 103
• Dryden, John (1631–1700) 94
• Duffy, Carol Ann (b.1955) 151
• Dunn, Douglas (b.1942) 170
• Dunn, Stephen (b.1939) 59

• Eliot, George (1819–80) 152
• Eliot, T. S. (1885–1965) 42, 196
• Ewart, Gavin (1916–95) 180

• Fanthorpe, U. A. (1929–2009) 129
• Farjeon, Eleanor (1881–1965) 21
• Fell, Alison (b.1944) 164
• Fenton, James (b.1949) 29
• Frost, Robert (1874–1963) 68, 109
• Frye, Mary E. (1905–2004) 124

• Graves, Robert (1895–1985) 88
• Gunn, Thom (1929–2004) 18

• Hafez (1325–90) 42
• Hammerstein II, Oscar (1895–1960) 15
• Hanagid, Shmuel (993–1056) 96
• Hardy, Thomas (1840–1928) 77
• Heaney, Seamus (b.1939) 11, 91, 160
• Henley, William Ernest (1849–1903) 58
• Herbert, George (1593–1633) 90
• Herrick, Robert (1591–1674) 32, 99, 179
• Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–89) 10, 159
• Housman, A. E. (1859–1936) 92
• Hughes, Langston (1902–67) 97, 187
• Hughes, Ted (1930–98) 158

• Jamie, Kathleen (b.1962) 108

• Kavanagh, Patrick (1904–67) 185
• Kay, Jackie (b.1961) 140
• Keats, John (1795–1821) 5, 98
• The King James Bible (1611) 16
• Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936) 104

• Larkin, Philip (1922–85) 142, 173
• Lawrence, D. H. (1885–1930) 188
• Levertov, Denise (1923–97) 157
• Logue, Christopher (1926–2011) 6
• Lowell, Amy (1874–1925) 99

• McGough, Roger (b.1937) 122
• MacNeice, Louis (1907–63) 153
• Magee, John Gillespie (1922–41) 7
• Mahon, Derek (b.1941) 143
• de la Mare, Walter (1873–1956) 118
• Marlowe, Christopher (1564–95) 41, 155
• Marvell, Andrew (1621–78) 141
• Masefield, John (1878–1967) 76
• Milne, A. A. (1882–1956) 17
• Milton, John (1608–74) 171
• Mitchell, Adrian (1932–2008) 61
• Moore, Marianne (1887–1972) 102

• Nash, Ogden (1902–71) 172
• Neruda, Pablo (1904–73) 138
• Niemöller, Pastor (1892–1984) 106

• O’Brien, Sean (b.1952) 52
• Oswald, Alice (b.1966) 87

• Parker, Dorothy (1893–1967) 86
• Paterson, Don (b.1963) 67
• Plath, Sylvia (1932–63) 163
• Pollard, Clare (b.1978) 80
• Pugh, Sheenagh (b.1950) 4, 116

• Raine, Craig (b.1944) 154
• Roethke, Theodore (1908–63) 62
• Rossetti, Christina (1830–94) 50, 72, 189
• Rumi, Jalaluddin (1207–73) 121

• Sansom, Ann (b.1951) 31
• Sassoon, Siegfried (1886–1967) 95
• Shakespeare, William (1564–1616) 22, 78, 101
• Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822) 144
• Simic, Charles (b.1938) 161
• Simonides (c.556–469 BC) 176
• Smith, Stevie (1902–71) 71
• Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809–92) 14, 111

• Thomas, Dylan (1914–53) 55, 169
• Thomas, Edward (1878–1917) 145
• Tolkien, J. R. R. (1892–1973) 74
• Untermeyer, Louis (1885–1977) 166
• da Vinci, Leonardo (1452–1519) 120

• Untermeyer, Louis (1885–1977) 166
• da Vinci, Leonardo (1452–1519) 120

• Walcott, Derek (b.1930) 178
• Whitman, Walt (1819–92) 119
• Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850–1919) 85
• Williams, William Carlos (1883–1963) 33
• Wintle, Walter D. (late C19–C20 centuries) 49
• Wordsworth, William (1770–1850) 12, 66, 136
• Wotton, Sir Henry (1568–1639) 146
• Wright, James (1927–80) 162

• Yeats, W. B. (1865–1939) 26, 63, 115