The Oxford Book of English Verse

The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 is an anthology of English poetry, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry and remained the leading general anthology of English verse throughout the 20th century. Poets included in the collections are: Geoffrey Chaucer Alexander Pope Christopher Marlowe Edmund Spenser Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emily Brontë Robert Browning Robert Burns Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Milton John Ruskin John Keats William Butler Yeats William Makepeace Thackeray William Wordsworth Sir Thomas Wyatt Thomas Love Peacock George Meredith Lord Tennyson John Bunyan John Dryden Sir Walter Scott Robert Louis Stevenson Rudyard Kipling George MacDonald William Blake James Joyce Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman And many more.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900 and for his literary criticism.