Index of Poets

Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), 416

Agard, John (1949– ), 1084

Alabaster, William (1568–1640), 150, 151

Allingham, William (1824–1889), 792

Angus, Marion (1866–1946), 965

Anonymous, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 31, 33, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 70, 72, 74, 100, 103, 107, 129, 138, 150, 159, 173, 177, 178, 179, 184, 185, 186, 191, 201, 207, 212, 224, 242, 276, 301, 322, 472, 473, 474, 488, 495, 497, 498, 513 573, 575, 578, 580, 587, 662, 663, 797

Arnold, Matthew (1822–1888), 711, 720, 762, 764, 767

Askew, Anne (1521–1546), 87

Auden, W. H. (1907–1973), 896, 902, 914, 917, 929, 936, 962, 969, 970

Ayres, Philip (1638–1712), 387

Barker, Jane (1625-c.1730), 388

Barnes, Barnabe (1571–1609), 132

Barnes, William (1801–1886), 698, 734, 735, 749, 750

Beckett, Samuel (1906–1989), 963

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803–1849), 716, 719

Behn, Aphra (1640–1689), 355, 356

Belloc, Hilaire (1870–1953), 884

Bentley, E. C. (1875–1956), 898

Betjeman, John (1906–1984), 921, 936, 971

Binyon, Laurence (1869–1943), 863, 956, 957

Blake, William (1757–1827), 520, 527, 535, 537, 538–42, 584, 585, 586, 614

Blunden, Edmund (1896–1974), 886, 899

Boland, Eavan (1944– ), 1091, 1096

Boyd, Mark Alexander (1563–1601), 110

Breton, Nicholas (1555?–1626), 188

Bridges, Robert (1844–1930), 886

Bronte, Charlotte (1816–1855), 712

Bronte, Emily Jane (1818–1848), 705, 706, 712

Brooke, Rupert (1887–1915), 841

Brown, George Mackay (1921–1996), 1026

Browne, William (1590?–1645?), 218, 236

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806–1861), 698, 741, 745

Browning, Robert (1812–1889), 692, 693, 701, 722, 725, 726, 752, 776

Bunting, Basil (1900–1985), 887, 904, 1003

Bunyan, John (1628–1688), 379

Burns, Robert (1759–1796), 523, 525, 528, 534, 544, 565, 567, 568

Butler, Samuel (1613–1680), 326

Byrom, John (1692–1763), 508

Byron, George Gordon (1788–1824), Lord, 604, 617, 646, 649, 650, 679, 680

Cameron, Norman (1905–1953), 944

Campion, Thomas (1567–1620), 121, 183, 184, 185, 211, 220

Canning, George (1770–1827), 545

Carew, Thomas (1594?-1640), 270, 271, 272, 273

Carey, Henry (1687?-1743), 435, 445

Carroll, Lewis (1832–1898), 754, 773

Carson, Ciaran (1948– ), 1087, 1095

Cartwright, William (1611–1643), 306

Causley, Charles (1917– ), 1092

Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673), 314

Chapman, George (1559?-1634), 205, 210

Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343?-1400), 9, 12, 20, 36

Chuilleanáin, Éilean Ní (1942– ), 1033, 1102

Clare, John (1793–1864), 683, 685, 686, 688, 689, 710, 754

Clarke, Austin (1896–1974), 892, 925, 991

Cleveland, John (1613–1658), 292, 307, 308

Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819–1861), 728, 748, 757

Coleridge, Hartley (1796–1849), 682

Coleridge, Mary E. (1861–1907), 813, 826

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834), 542, 547, 558, 569, 604, 607, 668, 682

Collins, Mortimer (1827–1876), 766

Collins, William (1721–1759), 477

Congreve, William (1670–1729), 409, 410

Constable, Henry (1562–1613), 126

Cornish, William (d.1523), 78

Cotton, Charles (1630–1687), 389, 390, 391

Coverdale, Myles (1488–1568), 79

Cowley, Abraham (1618–1667), 319, 320, 328, 330

Cowper, William (1731–1800), 511, 512, 517, 521, 581, 582

Crabbe, George (1754–1832), 600, 612

Crashaw, Richard (1612/13–1649), 285, 312

Daniel, George (1616–1657), 323

Daniel, Samuel (1563–1619), 125, 168

Darley, George (1795–1846), 687, 688

Daryush, Elizabeth (1887–1977), 918, 927

Davenant, Sir William (1606–1668), 350, 351

Davidson, John (1857–1909), 808, 817, 827

Davie, Donald (1922–1995), 999, 1051

Davies, Sir John (1569–1626), 148

Davies, W. H. (1871–1940), 830

Davies of Hereford, John (1565?-1618), 201

De La Mare, Walter (1873–1956), 825, 826

Denham, Sir John (1615–1669), 276, 341

Dhomhnaill, Nuala Ní (1952– ), 1096

Diaper, William (1685–1717), 431

Didsbury, Peter (1946– ), 1085

Donne, John (1572–1631), 161, 224, 225, 227, 229, 231, 232, 233

Douglas, Gavin (1475?–1522), 66

Douglas, Keith (1920–1944), 952, 958, 963

Dowson, Ernest (1867–1900), 815

Drayton, Michael (1563–1631), 163, 223, 240, 241

Drummond of Hawthornden, William (1585–1649), 218, 235, 236, 300

Dryden, John (1631–1700), 354, 376, 380, 381, 384, 385, 396, 397, 398, 400, 403, 405

Dunbar, William (1456?–1513?), 59, 63, 64

Dunn, Douglas (1942– ), 1015, 1032, 1083

Durcan, Paul (1944– ), 1071, 1072

Dyer, John (1700–1758), 436, 459

Dyer, Katherine, Lady (fl.1630–), 234

Eliot, George (1819–1880), 757

Eliot, T. S. (1888–1965), 847, 851, 865, 871, 876, 902, 941

Empson, William (1906–1984), 911, 913, 937, 938, 963

Enright, D. J. (1920– ), 1047

Evans, Abel (1679–1737), 436

Fallon, Padraic (1905–1974), 1042

Fanshawe, Sir Richard (1608–1666), 292, 312

Farewell, George (fl. 1733), 452

Fenton, James (1949– ), 1060, 1072

Fergusson, Robert (1750–1774), 509, 518

Field, Michael (Katherine Bradley 1846–1914; Edith Cooper 1862–1913), 826

Finch, Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), 407, 412, 417

Fisher, Roy (1930– ), 982, 1012, 1013

Fitzgerald, Edward (1809–1883), 732

Fowler, William (1560–1612), 211

Frere, John Hookham (1769–1846), 545

Fuller, John (1937– ), 1047

Garioch (1909–1981), Robert, 972, 1055

Gascoyne, David (1916– ), 950, 951

Gay, John (1685–1732), 423, 429, 442, 446

Godolphin, Sidney (1610–1643), 265, 266

Golding, Arthur (1536?–1605), 95, 98

Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774), 494, 503, 504, 513

Googe, Barnabe (1540–1594), 93, 94

Gower, John (1330?-1408), 37

Graham, James (1612–1650), Marquis of Montrose, 301

Graham, W. S. (1918–1986), 1017, 1054

Graves, Robert (1895–1985), 886, 899, 900, 901, 926, 959

Gray, Thomas (1716–1771), 484, 504

Green, Matthew (1696–1737), 460

Greenwell, Dora (1821–1882), 765

Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke (1554–1628), 169

Gunn, Thom (1929– ), 973, 985, 986, 1024, 1049, 1099, 1100

Gurney, Ivor (1890–1937), 860, 861, 879

Habington, William (1605–1654), 274, 275

Hall, John (1627–1656), 290

Hamilton, Ian (1938– ), 1021, 1022

Hands, Elizabeth (fl.1789), 528

Hardy, Thomas (1840–1928), 823, 824, 831, 834, 853, 891

Harington, Sir John (1560–1612), 122, 212

Harrison, Tony (1937– ), 1075, 1076

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961), 834, 953

Heaney, Seamus (1939– ), 1008, 1030, 1032, 1043, 1067, 1080, 1097

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (1793–1835), 668

Henley, W. E. (1849–1903), 802, 822

Henry, James (1798–1876), 721

Henryson, Robert (1424?-1506?), 54

Herbert, Mary, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), 154, 155

Herbert of Cherbury, Edward, Lord (1582–1648), 252, 333

Herbert, George (1593–1633), 243–9

Herrick, Robert (1591–1674), 293, 296

Heyrick, Thomas (1649–1694), 395

Heywood, Jasper (1535–1598), 103

Hill, Geoffrey (1932– ), 978, 1011, 1025, 1056

Hoccleve, Thomas (c.1368–1426), 41

Holmes, John (fl. 1600), 179

Hood, Thomas (1799–1845), 666, 691, 700

Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–1889), 778, 779, 790, 794

Housman, A. E. (1859–1936), 815, 873, 876, 919, 920

Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547), 85, 89, 90

Hughes, Ted (1930–1998), 1008, 1009, 1023, 1066, 1094

Hulme, T. E. (1883–1917), 832, 833

Hume, Alexander (c.1556–1609), 163

Hunt, Leigh (1784–1859), 690

Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784), 461, 468, 482, 495, 515, 516, 518, 519

Jones, David (1895–1974), 922

Jones, Samuel (d.1732), 418

Jonson, Ben (1572?-1637), 190, 191, 215, 217, 238, 264, 265

Jordan, Thomas (1612?-1685), 255

Joyce, James (1882–1941), 891

Kavanagh, Patrick (1904–1967), 919, 946, 980, 981

Keats, John (1795–1821), 606, 609, 624, 635, 637, 638, 639, 640

Kendall, May (1861–1943), 800

King, Henry (1592–1669), 267

Kinsella, Thomas (1928– ), 1034, 1037, 1057

Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936), 805, 806, 818, 862, 907

Knevet, Ralph (1601–1671/2), 349

Landon, Laetitia Elizabeth (1802–1839), 671, 674

Landor, Walter Savage (1775–1864), 680, 711, 720, 721, 751

Langland, William (1330?-1386?), 15

Larkin, Philip (1922–1985), 973, 996, 997, 998, 999, 1039, 1040, 1041

Lawrence, D. H. (1885–1930), 842, 879, 881, 883, 897, 907

Leapor, Mary (1722–1746), 480

Lear, Edward (1812–1888), 704, 705, 772

Lee, Sir Henry (1530–1610), 110

Leonard, Tom (1944– ), 1022

Levy, Amy (1861–1889), 792, 803

Lewis, Alun (1915–1944), 944

Lodge, Thomas (1558–1625), 129

Logue, Christopher (1926– ), 987

Longley, Michael (1939– ), 1014, 1037, 1048, 1068, 1098

Lovelace, Richard (1618–1657/8), 297, 324

Lowry, Malcolm (1909–1957), 987

Lyly, John (1554?-1606), 125

MacCaig, Norman (1910–1996), 974, 1015, 1053, 1094

MacDiarmid, Hugh (1892–1978), 889, 890, 910

Maclean, Sorley (1911–1996), 955

MacNeice, Louis (1907–1963), 913, 927, 932, 939, 940, 977, 990, 991

Mahon, Derek (1941– ), 1029, 1044, 1045, 1077, 1083

Mangan, James Clarence (1803–1849), 707

Marlowe, Christopher (1564–1593), 156, 159, 174

Marvell, Andrew (1621–1678), 364, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372

Meredith, George (1828–1909), 746

Mew, Charlotte (1869–1928), 838, 845

Meynell, Alice (1847–1922), 811, 812

Milton, John (1608–1674), 255, 259, 280, 333, 342, 351, 352, 353

Mitchell, Elma (1919– ), 1048

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689–1762), 432, 450, 479

Montague, John (1929– ), 1009

Moore, Thomas (1779–1852), 599

Morgan, Edwin (1920– ), 1093

Morris, William (1834–1896), 804

Muir, Edwin (1887–1959), 888, 964, 975

Muldoon, Paul (1951– ), 1038, 1069, 1070, 1078, 1086, 1096

Nashe, Thomas (1567–1601), 176

Newman, John Henry (1801–1890), 687

Oldham, John (1653–1683), 374

Oliphant, Caroline, Baroness Nairne (1766–1845), 660, 661

Orleans, Charles of (1394?-1465), 44, 45, 46

Owen, Wilfred (1893–1918), 857, 858, 859

Patmore, Coventry (1823–1896), 727, 777

Paulin, Tom (1949– ), 1069, 1079

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785–1866), 675

Peele, George (1556–1596), 142, 167

Philips, Katherine (1632–1664), 340, 341

Phillips, Ambrose (1674–1749), 413

Pitter, Ruth (1897–1992), 962

Plath, Sylvia (1932–1963), 1000, 1001, 1002

Pope, Alexander (1688–1744), 419, 424, 429, 446, 451, 454, 456, 459, 462, 463, 467, 469

Pound, Ezra (1885–1973), 833, 839, 866, 867

Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802–1839), 663, 676

Prior, Matthew (1664–1721), 412, 426, 427

Probyn, May (fl.1895), 812

Procter, Adelaide Anne (1825–1864), 739

Quarles, Francis (1592–1644), 250

Raine, Craig (1944– ), 1064

Ralegh, Sir Walter (1554?-1618), 109, 126, 175, 221, 223

Ramsay, Allan (1686–1758), 428, 438

Randolph, Thomas (1605–1635), 257

Reed, Henry (1914–1986), 949

Reid, Christopher (1949– ), 1065, 1102

Riding, Laura (1901–1991), 918

Riley, Denise (1948– ), 1098

Robinson, A. Mary F. (1857–1944), 802

Rosenberg, Isaac (1890–1918), 852, 853

Rossetti, Christina (1830–1894), 739, 740, 761, 762, 775, 777, 789, 814

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–1882), 737, 751, 771, 795

Sandys, George (1578–1644), 237

Sassoon, Siegfried (1886–1967), 859, 860

Scott, Alexander (1520?–1590?), 99

Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832), 573, 603, 611, 612

Sedley, Sir Charles (1639?–1701), 396, 407

Sempill of Beltrees, Robert (1590?-1660?), 252

Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), 137, 180, 181, 193–9, 207, 208

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822), 606, 611, 615, 642, 644, 645, 651, 653, 656

Shenstone, William (1714–1763), 478

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751–1816), 515, 516

Sheridan, Thomas (1719–1788), 442

Shirley, James (1596–1666), 291

Sidney, Robert, Earl of Leicester (1563–1626), 151

Sidney, Sir Philip (1554–1586), 108, 119, 134, 152, 153

Skelton, John (1460?–1529), 50, 74, 76

Skipsey, Joseph (1832–1903), 789

Smart, Christopher (1722–1771), 481, 488, 491, 502

Smith, Charlotte (1749–1806), 527, 546

Smith, Iain Crichton (1928–1998), 1016

Smith, Ken (1938– ), 1095

Smith, Stevie (1902–1971), 945, 966, 977, 978, 1027

Sorley, Charles Hamilton (1895–1915), 843

Soutar, William (1898–1943), 914

Southwell, Robert, S.J. (1561–1595), 139, 141

Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599), 100, 102, 111, 138, 143, 192

Stanley, Thomas (1625–1678), 310

Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894), 791, 799, 811

Strode, William (1600–1643), 321

Suckling, Sir John (1609–1641), 258, 289, 323

Swift, Jonathan (1667–1745), 415, 430, 448, 449, 452, 463

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909), 748, 758, 760, 781, 783

Symons, Arthur (1865–1945), 808, 818

Synge, J. M. (1871–1909), 829, 830

Taylor, John (1580–1653), 322

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809–1892), 696, 709, 713, 735, 786, 792

Theiner, George (1928–1988), 1010

Thomas, Dylan (1914–1953), 909, 960, 966, 968

Thomas, Edward (1878–1917), 843, 844, 854, 855, 856

Thomas, R. S. (1913–2000), 982, 990, 1007

Thomson, James (1700–1748), 438

Tichborne, Chidiock (1558?-1586), 106

Tomlinson, Charles (1927– ), 988, 1028

Townshend, Aurelian (1583?-1651?), 313

Traherne, Thomas (1637–1674), 344, 345, 347

Turner, Charles (1808–1879), 765, 789

Vaughan, Henry (1621–1695), 303, 314

Wainwright, Jeffrey (1944– ), 1062

Waller, Edmund (1606–1687), 278, 279, 386

Wanley, Nathaniel (1634–1680), 362

Watson, Thomas (c.1557–1592), 103

Watts, Isaac (1674–1748), 410, 411, 427

Webster, Augusta (1837–1894), 767

Webster, John (1575?-1634 or 1638?), 209, 211

Weever, Robert (fl.1550), 93

Wesley, Charles (1707–1788), 468, 476

Wickham, Anna (1884–1947), 844

Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900), 819

Williams, Hugo (1942– ), 1100, 1101

Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), 355, 356, 360, 363, 392, 393, 394, 395

Wordsworth, Dorothy (-), 670

Wordsworth, William (1770–1850), 553, 554, 560, 590, 591, 593, 594, 699

Wotton, Sir Henry (1568–1639), 237, 276, 311

Wroth, Lady Mary (1857?–1652?), 234

Wyatt, Sir Thomas (1503–1542), 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 88

Yeats, W. B. (1865–1939), 804, 807, 837, 838, 864, 869, 885, 892, 893, 894, 908, 928

Young, Edward (1683–1765), 434