Kirstein – Stanley Kunitz – Philip Larkin – Laurie Lee – J. B. Leishman – Denise Levertov – Alun Lewis – Sir Richard Lovelace – James Russell Lowell – Robert Lowell – Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay – George MacBeth – John McCrae – Hugh MacDiarmid – Archibald MacLeish – Louis MacNeice – Allen Mandelbaum – Andrew Marvell – Herman Melville – Robert Mezey – James Michie – Adam Mickiewicz – John Milton – Adrian Mitchell – Marianne Moore – Howard Nemerov – Sir Henry Newbolt – George Orwell – Wilfred Owen – George Peele – Benjamin Perét – Peter Porter – Ezra Pound – F. T. Prince – John Pudney – Herbert Read – Henry Reed – Edgell Rickword – Rihaku – Rainer Maria Rilke – Arthur Rimbaud – T. W. Rolleston – Isaac Rosenberg – Alan Ross – Charles Sackville – Carl Sandburg – Siegfried Sassoon – Dorothy L. Sayers – Vernon Scannell – John Scott – Karl Shapiro – Percy Bysshe Shelley – Simonides – Louis Simpson – Edith Sitwell – W. D. Snodgrass – Charles Sorley – Robert Southey – Bernard Spencer – Stephen Spender – Edmund Spenser – William Stafford – Jon Stallworthy – Wallace Stevens – Allen Tate – James Tate – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – William Makepeace Thackeray – Dylan Thomas – Edward Thomas – James Thomson – Charles Tomlinson – William Tyndale – Fyodor Tyutchev – Virgil – Andrei Voznesensky – Arthur Waley – Edgar Wallace – Sylvia Townsend Warner – Walt Whitman – Richard Wilbur – Charles Wolfe – William Wordsworth – W. B. Yeats Oxford Book of Short Poems (1985) Edited by James Michie and P. J. Kavanagh. Poets included were: Henry Aldrich - William Allingham - Drummond Allison - John Amner - Matthew Arnold - W. H. Auden - Philip Ayres - William Baldwin - George Barker - Jane Barker - Clement Barksdale - Richard Barnfield - Thomas Bastard - Francis Beaumont - Samuel Beckett - Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Thomas Beedome - Hilaire Belloc - Sir William Berkeley - John Berryman - John Betjeman - Elizabeth Bishop - Thomas Blackburn - William Blake - Edmund Blunden - Francis William Bourdillon - Anne Bradstreet - Robert Bridges - John Digby, Earl of Bristol - Emily Brontë - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Robert Browning - John Bunyan - Robert Burns - George Gordon, Lord Byron - Norman Campbell - Roy Campbell