Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse

The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse is a poetry anthology edited by Philip Larkin. It was published in 1973 by Oxford University Press with ISBN 0-19-812137-7. Larkin writes in the short preface that the selection is wide rather than deep; and also notes that for the post-1914 period it is more a collection of poems, than of poets. The remit was limited by him to poets with a period of residence in the British Isles. The volume contains works by 207 poets.

Contributing poets

 * Allison, Drummond
 * Allott, Kenneth
 * Amis, Kingsley
 * Asquith, Herbert
 * Auden, W. H.
 * Bantock, Gavin
 * Barker, George
 * Barton, Joan
 * Beer, Patricia
 * Beerbohm, Max
 * Bell, Martin
 * Belloc, Hilaire
 * Bennett, Arnold
 * Benson, Stella
 * Betjeman, John
 * Binyon, Laurence
 * Blackburn, Thomas
 * Blunden, Edmund
 * Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
 * Lyon, Lilian Bowes
 * Bridges, Robert
 * Brooke, Rupert
 * Brownjohn, Alan
 * Bunting, Basil
 * Cameron, Norman
 * Campbell, Joseph
 * Campbell, Roy
 * Cannan, May Wedderburn
 * Caudwell, Christopher
 * Causley, Charles
 * Chesterton, G. K.
 * Church, Richard
 * Clarke, Austin
 * Cole, Barry
 * Cole, G. D. H.
 * Colum, Padraic
 * Comfort, Alex
 * Connor, Tony
 * Conquest, Robert
 * Cornford, Frances
 * Coward, Noël
 * Currey, R. N.
 * Davidson, John
 * Davie, Donald
 * Davies, Idris
 * Davies, W. H.
 * Day-Lewis, Cecil
 * Dehn, Paul
 * de la Mare, Walter
 * Douglas, Keith
 * Drinkwater, John
 * Dunn, Douglas
 * Durrell, Lawrence
 * Dyment, Clifford
 * Eliot, T. S.
 * Lewis, Colin
 * Empson, William
 * Enright, D. J.
 * Ewart, Gavin
 * Falkner, John Meade
 * Flecker, James Elroy
 * Flint, F. S.
 * Frankau, Gilbert
 * Fraser, G. S.
 * Fuller, Roy
 * Garioch, Robert
 * Gascoyne, David
 * Gibson, Wilfrid
 * Gittings, Robert
 * Gogarty, Oliver St. John
 * Gould, Gerald
 * Graham, W. S.
 * Gransden, K. W.
 * Graves, Robert
 * Green F. Pratt
 * Grenfell, Julian
 * Grigson, Geoffrey
 * Gunn, Thom
 * Gurney, Ivor
 * Haldane, J. B. S.
 * Hamburger, Michael
 * Hardy, Thomas
 * Harvey, F. W.
 * Hassall, Christopher
 * Heath-Stubbs, John
 * Henri, Adrian
 * Herbert, A. P.
 * John Hewitt
 * Higgins, Brian
 * Higgins, F. R.
 * Hill, Geoffrey
 * Hobsbaum, Philip
 * Hodgson, Ralph
 * Holbrook, David
 * Holden, Molly
 * Housman, A. E.
 * Hughes, Ted
 * Hulme, T. E.
 * Iremonger, Valentin
 * Isherwood, Christopher
 * Ivens, Michael
 * Jennings, Elizabeth
 * Joseph, Jenny
 * Joyce, James
 * Kavanagh, P. J.
 * Kavanagh, Patrick
 * Keyes, Sidney
 * Kinsella, Thomas
 * Kipling, Rudyard
 * Kirkup, James
 * Larkin, Philip
 * Lawrence, D. H.
 * Lehmann, John
 * Lerner, Lawrence
 * Lewis, Alun
 * Lewis, C. S.
 * Lewis, Wyndham
 * Logue, Christopher
 * Lowry, Malcolm
 * Lucie-Smith, Edward
 * MacBeth, George
 * MacCaig, Norman
 * MacDiarmid, Hugh
 * MacDonagh, Donagh
 * MacNeice, Louis
 * Madge, Charles
 * Masefield, John
 * McGough, Roger
 * Mew, Charlotte
 * Meynell, Alice
 * Michie, James
 * Miles, Susan
 * Mitchell, Adrian
 * Mitchell, Matthew
 * Monro, Harold
 * T. Sturge Moore
 * Muir, Edwin
 * E. Nesbit
 * Newbolt, Henry
 * Noyes, Alfred
 * Philip O'Connor
 * Moira O'Neill
 * Orwell, George
 * Owen, Wilfred
 * Herbert Palmer
 * Patten, Brian
 * Phillpotts, Eden
 * Pitter, Ruth
 * Plomer, William
 * Popham, Hugh
 * Porter, Peter
 * Powys, John Cowper
 * Prince, F. T.
 * Pudney, John
 * Raine, Kathleen
 * Read, Herbert
 * Redgrove, Peter
 * Reed, Henry
 * Reeves, James
 * Rendall, Robert
 * Rickword, Edgell
 * Roberts, Michael
 * Rosenberg, Isaac
 * Ross, Alan
 * Rowse, A. L.
 * Sackville-West, Vita
 * 'Sagittarius'
 * Sassoon, Siegfried
 * Scannell, Vernon
 * Scovell, E. J.
 * Seymour-Smith, Martin
 * Shanks, Edward
 * Silkin, Jon
 * Sillitoe, Alan
 * Sisson, C. H.
 * Sitwell, Edith
 * Sitwell, Osbert
 * Smith, Iain Crichton
 * Smith, Stevie
 * Spencer, Bernard
 * Spender, Stephen
 * Squire, J. C.
 * Stephens, James
 * Strong, L. A. G.
 * Stuart, Muriel
 * Summers, Hal
 * Synge, J. M.
 * Tessimond, A. S. J.
 * Thomas, Dylan
 * Thomas, R. S.
 * Thwaite, Anthony
 * Tomlinson, Charles
 * Tonks, Rosemary
 * Wain, John
 * Walcott, Derek
 * Waley, Arthur
 * Watkins, Vernon
 * Wellesley, Dorothy
 * Wickham, Anna
 * Williams, Hugo
 * Wolfe, Humbert
 * Wordsworth, Elizabeth
 * Yeats, W. B.
 * Young, Andrew
 * Young, Francis Brett