Penguin poetry anthologies

The Penguin poetry anthologies, published by Penguin Books, have at times played the role of a 'third force' in British poetry, less literary than those from Faber and Faber, and less academic than those from Oxford University Press

1 The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse (1997)
2 Poetry of the Nineties (1970)
3 Poetry of the Thirties (1964)
4 The Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse (1980)
5 Poetry of the Forties (1968)
6 The Mid Century: English Poetry 1940–60 (1965)
7 The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001)

The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse (1997)

Edited by Daniel Karlin. The poets included were:

William Allingham – Alexander Anderson – Matthew Arnold – Alfred Austin – W. E. Aytoun – Jane Barlow – William Barnes – Thomas Lovell Beddoes – Hilaire Belloc – A. C. Benson – L. S. Bevington – Laurence Binyon – Samuel Laman Blanchard – Mathilde Blinde – Robert Bridges – Anne Brontë – Charlotte Brontë – Shirley Brooks – T. E. Brown – Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Caerleon – C. S. Calverley – William Canton – Lewis Carroll – Elizabeth Charles – John Clare – Arthur Hugh Clough – Hartley Coleridge – Mary E. Coleridge – Mortimer Collins – Eliza Cook – Thomas Cooper – William Johnson Cory – John Davidson – Richard Watson Dixon – Sydney Thompson Dobell – Digby Mackworth Dolben – Alfred Domett – Edward Dowden – Ernest Dowson – R. E. Egerton-Warburton – George Eliot – Ebenezer Elliott – Anne Evans – Sebastian Evans – Michael Field – Edward Fitzgerald – David Gray – John Gray – Dora Greenwell – Thomas Gordon Hake – John Hanmer – Thomas Hardy – Frances Ridley Havergal – Robert Stephen Hawker – W. E. Henley – James Henry – Thomas Hood – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. E. Housman – Mary Howitt – Leigh Hunt – Jean Ingelow – Lionel Johnson – Ebenezer Jones – Ernest Jones – May Kendall – Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King – Charles Kingsley – Rudyard Kipling – Mary Montgomerie Lamb – Letitia Elizabeth Landon – Walter Savage Landor – William Larminie – Edward Lear – Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Robert Leighton – Amy Levy – Caroline Lindsay – Frederick Locker-Lampson – Alfred Comyns Lyall – Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton – James Clarence Mangan – Philip Bourke Marston – George Meredith – Alice Meynell – Thomas Miller – F. B. Money-Coutts – Cosmo Monkhouse – William Morris – Arthur Munby – Robert Fuller Murray – Constance Naden – Edith Nesbit – Henry Newbolt – Eliza Ogilvy – George Outram – Coventry Patmore – Emily Pfeiffer – Stephen Phillips – Victor Plarr – May Probyn – Adelaide Anne Procter – Bryan Waller Procter – Dollie Radford – William Brighty Rands – William Renton – James Logie Robertson – Mary. F. Robinson – William Caldwell Roscoe – William Stewart Rose – Christina G. Rossetti – George William Russell – Richard Hill Sandys – William Bell Scott – George Augustus Simcox – Joseph Skipsey – Menella Bute Smedley – Alexander Smith – Walter C. Smith – J. K. Stephen – Robert Louis Stevenson – Henry Septimus Sutton – Algernon Charles Swinburne – Arthur Symons – Henry Taylor – Alfred Tennyson – William Makepeace Thackeray – William Thom – Francis Thompson – James Thomson – John Todhunter – Charles Turner – John Leicester Warren – Rosamund Marriott Watson – William Watson – Augusta Webster – Charles Whitehead – Oscar Wilde – James Chapman Woods – William Wordsworth – W. B. Yeats

Poetry of the Nineties (1970)

Edited by R. K. R. Thornton. The poets included were:

Alfred Austin – John Barlas – Aubrey Beardsley – Laurence Binyon – Olive Custance – John Davidson – R. W. Dixon – Lord Alfred Douglas – Ernest Dowson – Michael Field – John Gray – G. A. Greene – Thomas Hardy – W. E. Henley – Herbert Horne – A. E. Housman – Selwyn Image – Lionel Johnson – Rudyard Kipling – Richard Le Gallienne – Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Alice Meynell – Henry Newbolt – Vincent O'Sullivan – Stephen Phillips – Victor Plarr – Dollie Radford – Ernest Radford – Ernest Rhys – Arthur Symons – Francis Thompson – Theodore Wratislaw – W. B. Yeats

Poetry of the Thirties (1964)

Edited by Robin Skelton. The poets included were:

Kenneth Allott – W. H. Auden – George Barker – Julian Bell – John Betjeman – Ronald Bottrall – Norman Cameron – Christopher Caudwell – John Cornford – Hugh Sykes Davies – Clifford Dyment – William Empson – Gavin Ewart – Edgar Foxall – Roy Fuller – David Gascoyne – Geoffrey Grigson – Bernard Gutteridge – Robert Hamer – Rayner Heppenstall – Peter Hewitt – Laurie Lee – John Lehmann – C. Day Lewis – Louis MacNeice – Charles Madge – H. B. Mallalieu – Philip O'Connor – Clere Parsons – Geoffrey Parsons – F. T. Prince – John Pudney – Henry Reed – Anne Ridler – Michael Roberts – Roger Roughton – Francis Scarfe – John Short – Bernard Spencer – Stephen Spender – Randall Swingler – Julian Symons – Dylan Thomas – Ruthven Todd – Rex Warner – Vernon Watkins

The Penguin Book of Spanish Civil War Verse (1980)

Edited by Valentine Cunningham. The poets and a few writers included were:

Valentine Ackland – Rafael Alberti – Manuel Altolaguirre – W. H. Auden – George Barker – Clive Branson – J. Bronowski – Albert Brown – Roy Campbell – Maurice Carpenter – Christopher Caudwell – Richard Church – Elisabeth Cluer – John Cornford – Nancy Cunard – Charles Donnelly – Eric Edney – A. M. Elliott – Redmayne Fitzgerald – Edgar Foxall – Francis Fuentes – Roy Fuller – R. Gardner – Pedro Garfias – Geoffrey Grigson – Julio D. Guillén – Bernard Gutteridge – Hans Haflin – Charlotte Haldane – J. C. Hall – Bill Harrington – Margot Heinemann – J. F. Hendry – Miguel Hernández – Brian Howard – T. A. R. Hyndman – Luis Perez Infante – W. B. Keal – L. Kendall – H. M. King – A. S. Knowland – Laurie Lee – John Lepper – C. Day Lewis – Jack Lindsay – F. L. Lucas – Antonio García Luque – Somhairle Macalastair – Hugh MacDiarmid – Donagh MacDonagh – Antonio Machado – Louis MacNeice – H. B. Mallalieu – Ewart Milne – Pablo Neruda – T. E. Nicholas – George Orwell – Aileen Palmer – Felix Paredes – Geoffrey Parsons – Herbert L. Peacock – José Herrera Petere – Plá y Bertran – Kathleen Raine – Herbert Read – Stanley Richardson – Edgell Rickword – J. T. Roderick – Jacques Roumain – Sagittarius – Blanaid Salkeld – Zofia Schleyen – Bernard Spencer – H. G. Sutcliffe – Luis de Tapia – Ruthven Todd – Miles Tomalin – González Tuñón – Lorenzo Varela – José Moreno Villa – Rex Warner – Sylvia Townsend Warner – Tom Wintringham – L. J. Yates

Poetry of the Forties (1968)

Edited by Robin Skelton. The poets included were:

Drummond Allison – Kenneth Allott – Patrick Anderson – W. H. Auden – George Barker – John Bayliss – William Bell – Peter Black – George Bruce – Demetrios Capetanakis – Leonard Clark – Alex Comfort – Dorian Cooke – R. N. Currey – Paul Dehn – Patric Dickinson – Keith Douglas – Lawrence Durrell – D. J. Enright – Robin Fedden – G. S. Fraser – Ernest Frost – Roy Fuller – Roland Gant – Wrey Gardiner – David Gascoyne – W. S. Graham – K. R. Gray – Bernard Gutteridge – Michael Hamburger – John Heath-Stubbs – Alexander Henderson – J. F. Hendry – John Jarmain – Sean Jennet – Sidney Keyes – Francis King – James Kirkup – Christopher Lee – Laurie Lee – Patrick Leigh-Fermor – Alun Lewis – C. Day Lewis – Reg Levy – Robert Liddell – Emanuel Litvinoff – Norman MacCaig – Neil McCallum – Louis MacNeice – Roland Mathias – J. S. Mollison – James Monahan – Jane Moore – Nicholas Moore – Norman Nicholson – Julian Orde – David Paul – Mervyn Peake – F. T. Prince – Kathleen Raine – Henry Reed – Anne Ridler – Iver Roberts-Jones – W. R. Rodgers – Alan Rook – Alan Ross – Vernon Scannell – Francis Scarfe – Lawrie Scarlett – Bernard Spencer – Stephen Spender – Hal Summers – Julian Symons – Dylan Thomas – R. S. Thomas – Frank Thompson – Terence Tiller – Ruthven Todd – Henry Treece – James Walker – Vernon Watkins – Paul Widdows

The New Poetry (1962, 1966)

The Mid Century: English Poetry 1940–60 (1965)

Edited by David Wright. The poets included were:

Dannie Abse – Drummond Allison – J. C. Ashby – W. H. Auden – George Barker – William Bell – John Betjeman – Thomas Blackburn – Norman Cameron – Roy Campbell – Maurice Carpenter – Charles Causley – Anthony Cronin – Donald Davie – Keith Douglas – Lawrence Durrell – William Empson – Roy Fuller – David Gascoyne – W. S. Graham – Robert Graves – Thom Gunn – Michael Hamburger – John Heath-Stubbs – Brian Higgins – Geoffrey Hill – Ted Hughes – Elizabeth Jennings – Patrick Kavanagh – Sidney Keyes – Philip Larkin – Christopher Logue – Hugh MacDiarmid – Louis MacNeice – Dom Moraes – Edwin Muir – William Plomer – F. T. Prince – Martin Seymour-Smith – C. H. Sisson – Stevie Smith – Dylan Thomas – Anthony Thwaite – Charles Tomlinson – Vernon Watkins

The Penguin Book of the Sonnet (2001)

Edited by Phyllis Levin. The poets included were:

Francesco Petrarca – Geoffrey Chaucer – Thomas Wyatt – Henry Howard – Anne Locke – George Gascoigne – Edmund Spenser – Fulke Greville – Philip Sidney – Walter Ralegh – George Chapman – Henry Constable – Mark Alexander Boyd – Samuel Daniel – Michael Drayton – John Davies of Hereford – Charles Best – William Shakespeare – John Davies – John Donne – Ben Jonson – Lord Herbert of Cherbury – William Drummond of Hawthornden – Mary Wroth – Robert Herrick – George Herbert – John Milton – Charles Cotton – Thomas Gray – Charlotte Smith – William Blake – Robert Burns – William Wordsworth – Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Robert Southey – Mary F. Johnson – Leigh Hunt – George Gordon, Lord Byron – Percy Bysshe Shelley – John Clare – John Keats – Hartley Coleridge – Thomas Lovell Beddoes – Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Charles Tennyson Turner – Edgar Allan Poe – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Robert Browning – Aubrey Thomas de Vere – George Eliot – Frederick Goddard Tuckerman – Matthew Arnold – George Meredith – Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Christina Rossetti – Algernon Charles Swinburne – Thomas Hardy – Robert Bridges – Gerard Manley Hopkins – Emma Lazarus – Oscar Wilde – W. B. Yeats – Ernest Dowson – Edwin Arlington Robinson – Trumbull Stickney – Rupert Brooke – Alice Dunbar-Nelson – Robert Frost – Edward Thomas – Ezra Pound – Elinor Wylie – Siegfried Sassoon – Robinson Jeffers – Marianne Moore – Edwin Muir – T. S. Eliot – John Crowe Ransom – Claude McKay – Archibald MacLeish – Edna St. Vincent Millay – Wilfred Owen – Dorothy Parker – E. E. Cummings – Jean Toomer – Robert Graves – Edmund Blunden – Louise Bogan – Hart Crane – Roy Campbell – Countee Cullen – Patrick Kavanagh – W. H. Auden – Louis MacNeice – Malcolm Lowry – Stephen Spender – Elizabeth Bishop – George Barker – Robert Hayden – John Berryman – Weldon Kees – Dylan Thomas – Margaret Walker – Gwendolyn Brooks – Charles Causley – Robert Lowell – William Meredith – Amy Clampitt – Howard Nemerov – Hayden Carruth – Marie Ponsot – Richard Wilbur – Philip Larkin – Anthony Hecht – Jane Cooper – Donald Justice – James K. Baxter – James Merrill – John Ashbery – W. S. Merwin – James Wright – Donald Hall – Thom Gunn – John Hollander – Adrienne Rich – Derek Walcott – Geoffrey Hill – Sylvia Plath – John Updike – Jean Valentine – Robert Mezey – Grace Schulman – Charles Wright – June Jordan – Judith Rodriguez – Frederick Seidel – John Fuller – Tony Harrison – Les Murray – Charles Simic – Frank Bidart – Seamus Heaney – Stanley Plumly – Billy Collins – Douglas Dunn – Marilyn Hacker – David Huddle – Charles Martin – William Matthews – Louise Glück – Ellen Bryant Voigt – Eavan Boland – J. D. McClatchy – Leon Stokesbury – Star Black – Marilyn Nelson – Bruce Smith – Molly Peacock – Hugh Seidman – Rachel Hadas – Denis Johnson – Sherod Santos – Julia Alvarez – Dana Gioia – Medbh McGuckian – Paul Muldoon – Rita Dove – Mark Jarman – Elizabeth Macklin – Tom Sleigh – Rosanna Warren – David Baker – Phyllis Levin – John Burnside – Carol Ann Duffy – Robin Robertson – Karl Kirchwey – Deborah Laser – Jacqueline Osherow – James Lasdun – Kate Light – Joe Bolton – Rafael Campo – Mike Nelson – Daniel Gutstein – Beth Ann Fennelly – Jason Schneiderman

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