Top Twenty Verse Anthologies

Top Twenty Verse Anthologies – no particular order

1.  Wavell, Other Men's Flowers - An Anthology of Poetry Compiled by A. P. Wavell by A. P. Wavell (Hardcover – 1945)

2.  Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Hardcover - Mar 26, 1963)

3.  Larkin, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse by Philip Larkin (Hardcover - Mar 29, 1973)

4.  Matthiessen, Oxford Book of American Verse by F. O. Matthiessen (Hardcover - Dec 31, 1950 )

5.  Ricks, The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks (Hardcover - Oct 29, 1999)

6.  Jones, The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) by Emrys Jones (Paperback - Jul 9, 2002)

7.  Murray, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse by Les A. Murray (Hardcover - Nov 1, 1996)

8.  Hughes and Heaney, Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney (Paperback - Mar 17, 2005)

9.  Symonds, Wine, Women, and Song: Mediaval Latin Students' Songs Now First Translated into English Verse, with an Essay by John Addington Symonds (Leather Bound - 1900)

10.  Waddell, Mediaeval Latin lyrics by Helen Waddell (Unknown Binding - 1957)

11.  Auden, W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse (New York Review Books Classics) - W.H. Auden; Paperback

12.  Harrison and Stuart-Clark, The Oxford Treasury of Classic Poems by Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark (Paperback - Sep 23, 2004)

13.  Hughes, A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse- Ted Hughes Paperback

14.  Eliot, A choice of Kipling's verse by T. S. Eliot, with an essay on Rudyard Kipling by T. S. Eliot (Hardcover - 1943)

15.  Schwartz, And the Green Grass Grew All Around: Folk Poetry from Everyone

16.  de Angeli, Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes

17.  Jarman & Mason, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism

18.  Harmon, The Oxford Book of American Light Verse

19.  Wordsworth, Abrams and Gill, Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 (Norton Critical Edition)

20.  Norbrook & Woudhuysen, The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 (Penguin Classics)