Books in the Oxford Books of Verse series

Seven centuries of verse, from 1250 to 1950. Dame Helen Gardner reflects the critical consensus of the day in broadening her choices beyond those of Quiller-Couch's lyrical tastes. The anthology balances poems dealing with public events and historic occasions, poems of private life, and religious, moral.

Philip Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse provoked controversy and dispute on first publication in 1973. It was also considered a quirky and idiosyncratic collection by some critics. Today it is recognized as a fine and wide-ranging selection of modern English verse.

An anthology of over 350 poems written for children by 200 poets between the years 1715 to 1995, including American, African American, Caribbean/Black British, Australian and Canadian poets, with the emphasis on modern work.

Companion volume to: The Oxford book of children's verse.

A unique anthology of English poetry from all ages translated from the classics. The collection bears witness to the remarkable richness of both poetic traditions, with poets as diverse as Pope and Jonson to Aubrey Beardsley and Ted Hughes.

This magnificent anthology presents the Irish tradition as a unity: verse in Irish and English, usually regarded separately, are shown as elements in a shared and often painful history. The selection begins in pre-Christian times and closes with nineteenth- and twentieth-century verse. Poets featured include Swift, Goldsmith, W. B. Yeats, Patrick Kavanagh, and Seamus Heaney.