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Pre 1914

Post 1914

0-	The Gawain Poet
0-	Anonymous (Lord Randall)
1340-1400	Geoffrey Chaucer
1503-1542	Thomas Wyatt
1552-1599	Edmund Spenser
1561-1621	Mary Sidney Herbert
1563-1586	Chidiock Tichborne
1564-1616	William Shakespeare
1564-1593	Christopher Marlowe
1572-1631	John Donne
1592-1669	Henry King
1608-1674	John Milton
1612-1672	Anne Bradstreet
1621-1678	Andrew Marvell
1631-1700	John Dryden
1632-1664	Katherine Philips
1647-1680	John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
1661-1720	Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
1688-1744	Alexander Pope
1689-1762	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
1731-1800	William Cowper
1743-1825	Anna Laetitia Barbauld
1747-1809	Anna Seward
1749-1806	Charlotte Smith
1757-1800	Mary Robinson
1757-1827	William Blake
1759-1796	Robert Burns
1762-1851	Joanna Baillie
1770-1850	William Wordsworth
1772-1834	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1774-1843	Robert Southey
1788-1824	Lord George Gordon Byron
1791-1823	Charles Wolfe
1792-1822	Percy Bysshe Shelley
1793-1864	John Clare
1795-1821	John Keats
1806-1861	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1809-1892	Alfred Tennyson
1812-1869	Robert Browning
1818-1848	Emily Brontë
1819-1892	Walt Whitman
1822-1888	Matthew Arnold
1825-1864	Adelaide Anne Proctor
1830-1894	Christina Rossetti
1830-1898	Lewis Carroll
1832-1898	Emily Dickinson
1837-1909	Algernon Swinburne
1840-1928	Thomas Hardy
1844-1930	Robert Bridges
1844-1889	Gerard Manley Hopkins
1854-1900	Oscar Wilde
1861-1889	Amy Levy
1865-1936	Rudyard Kipling
1868-1963	W. E. B. DuBois
1872-1906	Paul Dunbar
1873-1956	Walter da la Mare
1874-1925	Amy Lowell

1865-1939	W.B. Yeats
1869-1928	Charlotte Mew
1870-1953	Hilaire Belloc
1874-1963	Robert Frost
1878-1917	Edward Thomas
1884-1947	Anna Wickham
1885-1972	Ezra Pound
1885-1930	D. H. Lawrence
1886-1961	Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
1887-1977	Elizabeth Daryush
1887-1964	Edith Sitwell
1888-1965	T. S. Eliot
1889-1948	Claude McKay
1890-1937	Ivor Gurney
1893-1918	Wilfred Owen
1895-1985	Robert Graves
1895-1974	David Jones
1900-1985	Basil Bunting
1902-1971	Stevie Smith
1906-1984	John Betjeman
1907-1963	Louis MacNeice
1907-1973	W.H. Auden
1908-1963	Theodore Roethke
1911-1979	Elizabeth Bishop
1914-1972	John Berryman
1914-1953	Dylan Thomas
1915-1944	Alun Lewis
1917-2003	Charles Causley
1917-1977	Robert Lowell
1918-1986	W.S. Graham
1920-2010	Edwin Morgan
1920-1944	Keith Douglas
1922-1985	Philip Larkin
1923-1997	Denise Levertov
1924-1999	Patricia Beer
1926-1966	Frank O'Hara
1926-1997	Allen Ginsberg
1929-2012	Adrienne Rich
1929-2010	Peter Porter
1929-2009	U. A. Fanthorpe
1930-1998	Ted Hughes
1930-	Derek Walcott
1930-	Kamau Brathwaite
1930-	Roy Fisher
1932-1963	Sylvia Plath
1932-	Rosemary Tonks
1939-	Michael Longley
1939-	Seamus Heaney
1941-	Derek Mahon
1944-	Kit Wright
1944-	Eavan Boland
1944-	Mimi Khalvati
1948-	Denise Riley
1949-	James Fenton
1949-	John Agard
1951-	Paul Muldoon
1952-	Rita Dove
1953-	Jo Shapcott
1954-	Jane Draycott
1954-2004	Michael Donaghy
1955-	Carol Ann Duffy
1958-	Benjamin Zephaniah
1961-	Jackie Kay
1962-	Kathleen Jamie
1962-	Lavinia Greenlaw
1963-	Simon Armitage
1965-	Patience Agbabi
1965-	Paul Farley
1966-	Alice Oswald
1966-	Anthony Joseph
1966-	Daljit Nagra
1973-	Vahni Capildeo
1974-	Choman Hardi
1975-	Jacob Polley
1976-	Jacob Sam-La Rose

1375	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1380	The Miller’s Tale, lines 35-40 and 47-89
1557	They flee from me that sometime did me seek
1586	Tichborne’s elegy
1595	O
1595	Amoretti LV: so oft as I her beauty do behold
1599	In summer’s heat and mid-time of the day
1601	When that I was and a little tiny boy
1633	The good morrow
1657	An exequy to his matchless never to be forgotten friend, lines 81-120
1662	Verses upon the burning of our house
1667	Paradise Lost book 1 lines 242-270
1667	Epitaph
1681	Bermudas
1687	A song for St Cecilia’s Day (lines 1 -47)
1713	A nocturnal reverie
1714	The Mistress
1717	Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the town, after the Coronation
1748	A receipt to cure the vapours
1783	On being cautioned against walking on a headland
1784	Epitaph on a hare
1788	Female fashions for 1799
1790	A mother to her waking infant
1792	Song: ae fond kiss, and then we sever
1792	The rights of women
1792	An old cat’s soliloquy
1798	The Battle of Blenheim
1803	Lord Randall
1803	Auguries of innocence
1807	The solitary reaper
1815	The destruction of Sennacherib
1816	Kubla Khan
1817	The burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna
1818	Ozymandias
1820	Ode to a nightingale
1832	I found a ball of grass among the hay
1836	Porphyria’s lover
1842	Ulysses
1846	Remembrance
1850	Sonnets from the Portuguese XXIV
1861	Envy
1865	You are old, father William
1866	Snake
1867	Dover beach
1867	Dirge for two veterans
1876	A forsaken garden lines 1 – 40
1885	A frog’s fate
1887	The windhover
1889	Philosophy
1890	London snow
1890	Thoughts of Phena
1898	The ballad of Reading gaol lines 1-36
1907	The song of the smoke
1910	The way through the woods
1912	Miss Loo
1913	A blockhead
1913	Invitation to love

1915	The river merchant’s wife
1916	Out, out-
1916	Sea roses
1916	Fame
1916	The fired pot
1917	Lights out
1917	Strange hells
1918	The show
1920	The second coming
1922	Harlem shadows
1923	Ha’nacker mill
1929	Welsh incident
1930	The journey of the Magi
1933	Bavarian gentians
1934	The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
1936	Still life
1937	The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
1940	Musée des Beaux Arts
1942	My papa’s waltz
1942	Goodbye
1943	How to kill
1944	Heart and mind
1946	The fish
1955	Mr Bleaney
1956	A supermarket in California
1958	To the snake
1959	Skunk hour
1960	February 17th
1963	Soap suds
1963	Badly chosen lover
1964	The day lady died
1964	Dream Songs No 67: I don’t operate often
1965	The applicant
1968	What the Chairman told Tom
1968	Ballad of the bread man
1968	Strawberries
1970	The beast in the space
1971	Sea canes
1972	The galloping cat
1972	The King of the cats is dead
1973	Wounds
1974	A, A, A, Domine Deus
1975	A disused shed in County Wexford
1980	Ö
1983	The lost woman
1983	God, a poem
1983	The boys bump-starting the hearse
1984	The cleaner
1987	Meeting the British
1987	The way we live
1990	Originally
1990	The black lace fan my mother gave me
1991	Rubaiyat
1992	Love from a foreign city
1992	Phrase book
1993	Dusting the phone
1994	Birmingham river
1995	What kind of times are these?
1996	Wedding
1996	St Kevin and the blackbird
1998	A minute’s silence
1999	Prince Rupert’s drop
2000	Oleanna
2000	Machines
2001	It’s work
2003	Smoke
2003	Lilies
2004	Two pages
2004	The shout
2005	Bread
2006	Toussaint L’Ouverture Acknowleges Wordsworth’s sonnet “To Toussaint L’Ouverture”
2007	Look we have coming to Dover!
2008	Josephine Baker finds herself
2009	Conductors of his mystery
2010	A life in dreams

1913	A blockhead
1876	A forsaken garden lines 1 – 40
1885	A frog’s fate
1790	A mother to her waking infant
1713	A nocturnal reverie
1748	A receipt to cure the vapours
1687	A song for St Cecilia’s Day (lines 1 -47)
1595	Amoretti LV: so oft as I her beauty do behold
1657	An exequy to his matchless never to be forgotten friend, lines 81-120
1792	An old cat’s soliloquy
1803	Auguries of innocence
1681	Bermudas
1867	Dirge for two veterans
1867	Dover beach
1861	Envy
1717	Epistle to Miss Blount, on her leaving the town, after the Coronation
1667	Epitaph
1784	Epitaph on a hare
1788	Female fashions for 1799
1832	I found a ball of grass among the hay
1599	In summer’s heat and mid-time of the day
1913	Invitation to love
1816	Kubla Khan
1890	London snow
1803	Lord Randall
1912	Miss Loo
1595	O
1820	Ode to a nightingale
1783	On being cautioned against walking on a headland
1818	Ozymandias
1667	Paradise Lost book 1 lines 242-270
1889	Philosophy
1836	Porphyria’s lover
1846	Remembrance
1375	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1866	Snake
1792	Song: ae fond kiss, and then we sever
1850	Sonnets from the Portuguese XXIV
1798	The Battle of Blenheim
1380	The Miller’s Tale, lines 35-40 and 47-89
1714	The Mistress
1898	The ballad of Reading gaol lines 1-36
1817	The burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna
1815	The destruction of Sennacherib
1633	The good morrow
1792	The rights of women
1807	The solitary reaper
1907	The song of the smoke
1910	The way through the woods
1887	The windhover
1557	They flee from me that sometime did me seek
1890	Thoughts of Phena
1586	Tichborne’s elegy
1842	Ulysses
1662	Verses upon the burning of our house
1601	When that I was and a little tiny boy
1865	You are old, father William

1975	A disused shed in County Wexford
2010	A life in dreams
1998	A minute’s silence
1956	A supermarket in California
1974	A, A, A, Domine Deus
1963	Badly chosen lover
1968	Ballad of the bread man
1933	Bavarian gentians
1994	Birmingham river
2005	Bread
2009	Conductors of his mystery
1964	Dream Songs No 67: I don’t operate often
1993	Dusting the phone
1916	Fame
1960	February 17th
1983	God, a poem
1942	Goodbye
1922	Harlem shadows
1923	Ha’nacker mill
1944	Heart and mind
1943	How to kill
2001	It’s work
2008	Josephine Baker finds herself
1917	Lights out
2003	Lilies
2007	Look we have coming to Dover!
1992	Love from a foreign city
2000	Machines
1987	Meeting the British
1955	Mr Bleaney
1940	Musée des Beaux Arts
1942	My papa’s waltz
2000	Oleanna
1990	Originally
1916	Out, out-
1992	Phrase book
1999	Prince Rupert’s drop
1991	Rubaiyat
1971	Sea canes
1916	Sea roses
1959	Skunk hour
2003	Smoke
1963	Soap suds
1996	St Kevin and the blackbird
1936	Still life
1917	Strange hells
1968	Strawberries
1972	The King of the cats is dead
1965	The applicant
1937	The arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel
1970	The beast in the space
1990	The black lace fan my mother gave me
1983	The boys bump-starting the hearse
1984	The cleaner
1964	The day lady died
1916	The fired pot
1946	The fish
1934	The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
1972	The galloping cat
1930	The journey of the Magi
1983	The lost woman
1915	The river merchant’s wife
1920	The second coming
2004	The shout
1918	The show
1987	The way we live
1958	To the snake
2006	Toussaint L’Ouverture Acknowleges Wordsworth’s sonnet “To Toussaint L’Ouverture”
2004	Two pages
1996	Wedding
1929	Welsh incident
1995	What kind of times are these?
1968	What the Chairman told Tom
1973	Wounds
1980	Ö