Acquisitions (71): Oxford Books of Verse

Christopher Ricks, ed.: The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999)

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Christopher Ricks (1933- )


Christopher Ricks: The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999)
[Xanadu Books, Tauranga - 26/11/2019]:

Ricks, Christopher, ed. The Oxford Book of English Verse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Xanadu Books (Papamoa, NZ)

Sir Christopher Ricks has been described (by W. H. Auden) as “the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding” and by a pseudonymous former student as “the kind of professor you would have if you went to Hogwarts”.

- Leo Robson: 'Christopher Ricks: “Criticism is being good at noticing things".'
(The New Statesman, 13 July 2021)

I'm not sure that he'd be terribly flattered by the "Hogwarts" reference, but certainly Christopher Ricks is quite a considerable figure: witness the fact that I've written about him twice already on this blog - once about his editing of the Penguin English Poets series, and again about his wonderful Longmans edition of Tennyson - which shows, at the very least, the importance he holds for me.

I've never met him, but one of the Professors I knew at Edinburgh, Aidan Day (whom I'm very sorry to see died a couple of years ago at the early age of 66), was a student and subsequently colleague and collaborator with him on the 31-volume Tennyson archive. He shared Ricks's interest in Bob Dylan, and in fact wrote a rather po-faced book entitled Jokerman: Reading the Lyrics of Bob Dylan (1988), which actually earned him a coveted spot as Private Eye's "Pseud of the week."

Aidan Day was a very nice man - a little humourless, but friendly and hospitable to errant Doctoral students. The fact that Ricks is still teaching in his late 80s implies that he, too, values such interaction with his students. For the most part, though, it's on the page that we're forced to judge him.

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch: The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1918 (1900 / 1939)

I picked up a copy of his 1999 revisionist Oxford Book of English Verse at that immense print warehouse Xanadu Books, located in an industrial estate just outside of Tauranga. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's original anthology had already been updated once, by Helen Gardner's New Oxford Book of English Verse in 1972.

Helen Gardner, ed. The New Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1950 (1972)

Ricks had something even more radical in mind, however - though it's doubtful that his version of the national canon has reached nearly as many people as Q's - or even Helen Gardner's, for that matter.

There is something fascinating about such anthology wars: who's been left out, who's been put in - what's been underrepresented in the past and therefore needs reemphasis, what's been done to death and therefore needs cutting back ... the subject is as open-ended (and potentially inexhaustible) as speculative theology.

Thinking about it has inspired me to make a list of all the Oxford Books of various types I myself own. I've arranged these under a number of headings: chronological, national, and thematic verse, on the one hand, and prose, on the other, for want of a better system of classification. I think the sheer number of them I've collected shows just how fascinating I find the form.

I guess it shows, also, how assiduously the editors at Oxford University Press have pursued it, ever since the surely unexpected breakaway success of the old man's initial effort:

Henry Lamb: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944)

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Celia & Kenneth Sisam, ed. The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse (1150-1500) (1970)

Oxford Books of Verse
(& Prose)

Categories:

1. Chronological
2. National
3. Thematic
4. Prose

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Philip Larkin, ed. The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse (1970)


Chronological



1. Sisam, Celia & Kenneth Sisam, ed. The Oxford Book of Medieval English Verse (1150-1500). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.


2. Sisam, Kenneth, ed. Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose. 1921 / Tolkien, J. R. R. A Middle English Vocabulary. 1922. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962.


3. Robbins, Rossell Hope, ed. Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries. 1952. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964.


4. Chambers, E. K., ed. The Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse. 1932. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1950.


5. Grierson, H. J. C. & G. Bullough, ed. The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse. 1934. London: Oxford University Press, 1976.


6. Nichol Smith, David, ed. The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse. 1926. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.


7. Milford, H. S., ed. The Oxford Book of Regency Verse, 1798-1837. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928.


8. Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, ed. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913.


9. Hayward, John, ed. The Oxford Book of Nineteenth Century Verse. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964.


10. Yeats, W. B., ed. The Oxford Book of Modern Verse: 1892-1935. 1936. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947.


11. Yeats, W. B., ed. The Oxford Book of Modern Verse: 1892-1935. 1936. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.


12. Larkin, Philip, ed. The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse. 1973. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.


13. Larkin, Philip, ed. The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse. 1973. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.



Archibald Stodart-Walker, ed.: The Moxford Book of English Verse (2013)


National



14. Palgrave, Francis Turner, ed. The Golden Treasure of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. 1861. With Additional Poems to the Present Day: Annotated Edition. 1914. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1953.


15. Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, ed. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900. 1900. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912.


16. Stodart-Walker, A., ed. The Moxford Book of English Verse: 1340-1913. London: Everleigh Nash, 1913.


17. Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, ed. The Oxford Book of English Verse. 1900. New Edition 1250-1918. 1939. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1948.


18. Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, ed. The Oxford Book of English Verse. 1900. New Edition. 1250-1918. 1939. London: Book Club Associates, 1968.


19. Gardner, Helen, ed. The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950. 1972. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.


20. Ricks, Christopher, ed. The Oxford Book of English Verse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.


21. Lucas, St. John, ed. The Oxford Book of French Verse, xiiith Century-xxth Century. 1907. Oxford: Clarendon Press / London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1946.


22. Higham, T. F., & C. M. Bowra, ed. The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938.


23. MacQueen, John & Tom Scott, ed. The Oxford Book of Scottish Verse. 1966. London: Oxford University Press, 1981.


24. Poole, Adrian, & Jeremy Maule, ed. The Oxford Book of Classical Verse. 1995. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.



Kingsley Amis, ed.: The New Oxford Book of Light Verse (1978)


Thematic



25. Amis, Kingsley, ed. The New Oxford Book of Light Verse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.


26. Auden, W. H., ed. The Oxford Book of Light Verse. 1938. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.


27. Dearmer, Percy, R. Vaughan Williams & Martin Shaw, ed. The Oxford Book of Carols. 1928. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1950.


28. Dixon, W. MacNeile & H. J. C. Grierson, ed. The English Parnassus: An Anthology Chiefly of Longer Poems. 1909. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1943.


29. Hall, Donald, ed. The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse in America. 1985. Oxford Paperbacks. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.


30. Kavanagh, P. J., & James Michie, ed. The Oxford Book of Short Poems. Book Club Associates by arrangement with Oxford University Press. London: Guild Publishers, 1985.


31. Kinsley, James, ed. The Oxford Book of Ballads. 1969. Oxford Paperbacks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.


32. Nicholson, D. H. S. & A. H. E. Lee, ed. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (XIII-XX Centuries). 1917. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927.


33. Opie, Iona & Peter, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. 1951. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.


34. Opie, Iona & Peter, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. 1951. Rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.


35. Opie, Iona & Peter, ed. The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book. Illustrations by Joan Hassall. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955.


36. Opie, Iona & Peter, ed. The Oxford Book of Children’s Verse. 1973. London: Book Club Associates, 1978.


37. Opie, Iona & Peter, ed. The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse. 1983. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.


38. Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, ed. The Oxford Book of Ballads. 1910. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1930.


39. Stallworthy, Jon, ed. The Oxford Book of War Poetry. 1984. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.


40. Tomlinson, Charles, ed. The Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation. 1980. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.


41. Woods, Frederick, ed. The Oxford Book of English Traditional Verse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.



James Sutherland, ed.: The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (1975)


Prose



42. Sutherland, James, ed. The Oxford Book of English Talk. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.


43. Sutherland, James, ed. The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes. 1975. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.


44. Hastings, Max, ed. The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes. Book Club Associates by arrangement with Oxford University Press. London: Guild Publishing, 1985.


45. Cox, Michael, & R. A. Gilbert, ed. The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories. 1986. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.


46. Muir, Frank, ed. The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, From William Caxton to P. G. Wodehouse: A Conducted Tour. 1990. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.


47. Baldick, Chris, ed. The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales. 1992. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.


48. Gross, John, ed. The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

John Gross, ed.: The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (2006)

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Acquisitions (70): Arthur Hugh Clough

F. L. Mulhauser, ed.: The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough (1974)

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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)


The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough (1974)
[Pegasus Books, Wellington - 12/6/2022]:

Mulhauser, F. L., ed. The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough. 1951. Second Edition. Translations edited by Jane Turner. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.

Petone Settlers Museum (Wellington, NZ)

We were in Wellington last weekend for the launch of Bronwyn's brilliant new exhibition "History Repeats" at the Petone Settlers' Museum.

This involved getting up early on Saturday morning to take an Air New Zealand flight down to the capital, attending a late morning event, then driving back into the CBD to check into our hotel and do a bit of bookshopping (for me) and gallery-hopping (for Bronwyn).

Arty Bees Books (Wellington)

Would to God we'd had the sense to book a late afternoon flight back home instead of staying on overnight! And would to God, too, that I'd resisted the temptation to make the most of our trip away by making the flight home a late rather than an early afternoon one.

John Bisset: Thunderstorm watch

Needless to say, we were delayed. By a whole day, in fact. Air New Zealand doesn't control the weather, and the mass of thunderstorms which blanketed the country that weekend was (we're told) very unusual, and bound to disrupt travel - especially in a city such as Wellington, with its high hills and notoriously windy climate.

Concrete Playground: Pegasus Books (2015)

Looking on the bright side, though, I did get the chance to visit a few bookshops while I was there, and picked up a few trifles to add to my collections.

At first, conscious of the need to save space, I was pretty conservative in my choices. On the second trawl through, though, on Sunday morning, I threw caution to the winds and added a few larger, heavier volumes. The first of these was a slightly battered copy of Martin Gardner's annotated Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

Martin Gardner: The Annotated Ancient Mariner (1965)

I already had a paperback copy of this, but there's something rather magnificent about the oversized, profusely illustrated original.

The second was the Oxford English Texts edition of The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough pictured at the top of this post. The only reason I hesitated over this when I first saw it was because I already have a couple of copies of his poetical works:

Arthur Hugh Clough: Poems (1877)

Poems. 1891. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1903.

The Poems. Ed. A. L. P. Norrington. Oxford Standard Authors. 1967. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Thorpe, Michael, ed. A Choice of Clough’s Verse. Faber Paper Covered Editions. London: Faber, 1969.

Arthur Hugh Clough: The Poems (1968)

I assumed (wrongly, as it turned out) that all the poems by him I actually needed to read were already included in the Oxford Standard Authors volume, and those left out of that book could be found in the older, Victorian text.

I'm very glad I went back for it, though. On closer examination, it turns out that the 1968 selection was based on an earlier version of the Oxford English Texts edition, somewhat compromised by disagreements among its three editors about just what in Clough's work merited preservation.

In 1951, his reputation was at its nadir, and he'd been relegated to the role of a mere footnote to the major movers and shakers of Victorian poetry: Arnold, Browning, Tennyson and the like. By 1974, he'd undergone a bit of a renaissance, and it no longer seemed appropriate to exclude such unfinished works as "Mari Magno" and the bulk of his verse translations from the canon.

This second edition accordingly takes an entirely fresh look at Clough, using the (extensive) new manuscript evidence to reverse some of the pruning and bowdlerising his work received when it was collected by his widow after his untimely death.

I'm still fond of that beautifully printed, very readable Oxford Standard Authors edition, but there's no doubt that any real appreciation of Clough requires reference to the updated Oxford English Text edition. So, costly as the decision to stay in Wellington for a second day turned out to be, at least I came out of it with this splendid volume, one of several Oxford English Text editions I'm proud to own.

I've concluded this post with a list of my collection. It's both an extensive and a constantly evolving series, and the individual volumes tend now to be prohibitively expensive. The complex relationship between the "Oxford English Texts" and "Oxford Standard Authors", too, while simple in principle - the first for technical details of ms. provenance and copytext, the second to provide sound, readable texts - can be quite complex in practice.

Revisions and whole new editions of authors appear continually, and as a consequence the two series cannot be expected to march entirely in tandem. I've therefore listed in bold the books I own from both of these series, while including any other details I've managed to glean in more summary form. How does Clough himself put it?

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.

And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light,
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright.

Michael Thorpe, ed.: A Choice of Clough's Verse (1969)

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John Clare: The Later Poems of John Clare, 1837-1864. Vol. 8 of 9 (1984-2003)

Oxford English Texts

Books I own are marked in bold:

1. William Blake (1757-1827)
   • Prophetic Writings. Ed. D. J. Sloss & J. P. R. Wallis. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts
   • Writings. Volume 1: Engraved and Etched Writings. Ed. G. E. Bentley, Jr. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
   • Writings. Volume 2: Writings in Conventional Typography and in Manuscript. Ed. G. E. Bentley, Jr. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
2. Robert Browning (1812-1889)
   • The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Ed. Ian Jack, Margaret Smith, Rowena Fowler, Stefan Hawlin & Michael Meredith. 15 vols. Oxford English Texts (1983-2009)
   • Poetical Works, 1833-1864. Ed. Ian Jack. 1970. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
3. John Bunyan (1628-1688)
   • The Pilgrim's Progress. Ed. J. B. Whary. 2nd ed. Rev. R. Sharrock. Oxford English Texts
   • Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. Ed. R. Sharrock. Oxford English Texts
   • The Pilgrim’s Progress. 1678 & 1684. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Biographical Introduction by Edmund Venables, M.A., revised by Miss Mabel Peacock. Oxford Standard Authors. 1904. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1945.
   • Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World to that which is to come. 1666, 1678, & 1684. Ed. Roger Sharrock. 1962 & 1960. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
4. Robert Burns (1759-1796)
   • Poems and Songs. Ed. James Kinsley. Oxford English Texts
   • The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns. 4 vols. Ed. Nigel Leask & Kirsteen McCue. Oxford English Texts (2014-2021)
5. Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
   • Hudibras. Ed. John Wilders. 1967. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
6. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
   • The Complete Poetical Works. Ed. Jerome J. McGann & Barry Weller. 7 vols. Oxford English Texts (1980-1993)
   • The Complete Poetical Works. Volume 1. Ed. Jerome J. McGann. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
   • Poetical Works. Ed. Frederick Page. 1904. Rev. John D. Jump. 1970. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
7. Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
   • The Works. Ed. Percival Vivian. 1909. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
8. Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
   • The Poems with His Masque Coelum Brittanicum. Ed. Rhodes Dunlap. 1949. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.
9. Caroline Poets
   • Minor Poets of the Caroline Period. Ed. George Saintsbury. 3 vols. Oxford English Texts
10. Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
    • The Complete Works. Ed. Donald S. Taylor & Benjamn B. Hoover. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts
11. John Clare (1793-1864)
    • The Poetry of John Clare. Ed. Eric Robinson, David Powell, Margaret Grainger & P. M. S. Dawson. 9 vols. Oxford English Texts (1984-2003)
    • John Clare. Ed. Eric Robinson & David Powell. The Oxford Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
12. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
    • Mulhauser, F. L., ed. The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough. 1951. Second Edition. Translations edited by Jane Turner. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
    • The Poems. Ed. A. L. P. Norrington. Oxford Standard Authors. 1967. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.
13. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
    • Poems, including the Dramas. Ed. E. H. Coleridge. 2nd ed. Oxford English Texts
    • Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, ed. The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Including Poems and Version of Poems Herein Published for the First Time. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1935.
14. William Cowper (1731-1800)
    • The Poems of William Cowper. Ed. John D. Baird & Charles Ryskamp. 3 vols. Oxford English Texts (1980-1995)
    • The Poems of William Cowper. 1905. Oxford Standard Authors. Ed. H. S. Milford. 4th Edition. 1934. London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
15. Richard Crashaw (c.1613-1649)
    • The Poems: English, Latin and Greek. Ed. L. C. Martin. 1927. Second ed. 1957. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.
16. Thomas Deloney (c.1543-1600)
    • Works. Ed. F. O. Mann. Oxford English Texts
17. John Donne (1572-1631)
    • Poems. Ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts
    • The Divine Poems. Ed. Helen Gardner. 1952. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.
    • Elegies, Songs and Sonnets. Ed. Helen Gardner. Oxford English Texts
    • Satires, Epigrams and Verse. Ed. W. Milgate. Oxford English Texts
    • Poetical Works. Ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson. Oxford Standard Authors. 1933. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.
18. John Dryden (1631-1700)
    • Poems. Ed. James Kinsley. 4 vols. Oxford English Texts
    • The Poems and Fables. Ed. James Kinley. 1958. Oxford Standard Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962.
19. John Evelyn (1620-1706)
    • Diary. Ed. E. S. De Beer. 6 vols. Oxford English Texts
    • The Diary. Ed. E. S. de Beer. 1955. Oxford Standard Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959.
20. John Gay (1685-1732)
    • Poetry and Prose. Ed. Vinton A. Dearing & Charles E. Beckwith. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts
    • Faber, G. C., ed. The Poetical Works of John Gay, including ‘Polly’. ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ and Selections from the other Dramatic Work. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1926.
21. Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
    • Poems. Ed. H. W. Starr & J. R. Hendrickson. Oxford English Texts
    • Poems Published in 1768. The Oxford Miscellany. London: Henry Frowde / Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1909.
    • Poole, Austin Lane, ed. Gray and Collins: Poetical Works. 1919. Rev. ed. Leonard Whibley & Frederick Page. 1937. Oxford Standard Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974.
22. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
    • The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy. Ed. Samuel Hynes. 5 vols. Oxford English Texts (1982-1995)
    • The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy. Volume 1: Wessex Poems; Poems of the Past and the Present; Time’s Laughingstocks. 1898, 1901, 1909. Illustrated by the Author. Ed. Samuel Hynes. 5 vols. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
    • The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Ed. Richard Little Purdy, Michael Millgate & Keith Wilson. 8 vols. Oxford English Texts (1977-2012).
    • The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Volume III: 1902-1908. Ed. Richard Little Purdy & Michael Millgate. 8 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
23. William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
    • New Writings of William Hazlitt. Ed. Duncan Wu. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts (2007)
24. George Herbert (1593-1633)
    • Works. Ed. F. E. Hutchinson. Oxford English Texts
25. Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648)
    • Poems (Latin and English). Ed. G. C. Moore Smith. Oxford English Texts
26. Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
    • Poetical Works. Ed. L. C. Martin. Oxford English Texts
    • The Poems. Ed. L. C. Martin. 1956. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
27. A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
    • The Poems of A. E. Housman. Ed. Archie Burnett. Oxford English Texts (1997)
    • The Letters of A. E. Housman. Ed. Archie Burnett. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts (2007)
28. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
    • The Poems. Ed. David Nichol-Smith and Edward L. MacAdam. 1941. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
    • Samuel Johnson. Ed. Donald Greene. The Oxford Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
29. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
    • The Oxford Jonson. Volume VIII: The Poems / The Prose Works. Ed. C. H. Herford, Percy & Evelyn Simpson. 1947. 11 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.
    • Poems. Ed. Ian Donaldson. Oxford Paperbacks. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
30. John Keats (1795-1821)
    • Poetical Works. Ed. H. W. Garrod. 2nd ed. Oxford English Texts
    • The Poetical Works. Ed. H. Buxton Forman. 1908. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1953.
    • The Letters. Ed. Maurice Buxton Forman. 1931. 4th Ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1952.
31. Mary Leapor (1722-1746)
    • The Works of Mary Leapor. Ed. Richard Greene & Ann Messenger. Oxford English Texts (2003)
32. Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
    • The Poems. Ed. C. H. Wilkinson. 1930. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
33. Sir Thomas Malory (c.1405–1471)
    • Vinaver, Eugène, ed. The Works of Sir Thomas Malory. 1947. 3 vols. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948.
    • Vinaver, Eugène, ed. The Works of Sir Thomas Malory. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1954.
34. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
    • Poems and Letters. Ed. H. M. Margoliouth. 2 vols. 2nd ed. Oxford English Texts
    • The Rehearsal Transpros'd and The Rehearsal Transpros'd: The Second Part. Ed. D. I. B. Smith. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
35. John Milton (1608-1674)
    • The Poetical Works. Ed. H. C. Beeching. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1925.
    • Poetical Works. Ed. Helen Darbishire. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts (1952 & 1955)
    • The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Translations of the Italian, Latin and Greek Poems from the Columbia University Edition. Ed. Helen Darbishire. Oxford Standard Authors. 1952, 1955. London: Oxford University Press, 1958.
    • Poetical Works. Ed. Douglas Bush. Oxford Standard Authors. 1966. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
36. John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
    • Apologia pro vita sua. Ed. M. J. Svaglic. Oxford English Texts
37. Dorothy Osborne (1627–1695)
    • Letters to William Temple. Ed. G. C. Moore Smith. Oxford English Texts
38. Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
    • Literary Works. Ed. H. Bunker Wright & Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. 2nd ed. Oxford English Texts
39. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
    • The Dramatic Works. Ed. Cecil Price. Oxford English Texts
40. Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
    • The Poems. Ed. William A. Ringler, Jr. 1962. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
    • Miscellaneous Prose. Ed. Katherine Duncan Jones & Jan Van Dorsten. Oxford English Texts
41. Christopher Smart (1722-1781)
    • The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart. Ed. Karina Williamson & Ann Belcher. 6 vols. Oxford English Texts (1980-1996)
42. Robert Southwell (1561–1595)
    • Poems. Ed. J. H. McDonald & N. P. Brown. Oxford English Texts
43. Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)
    • Minor Poems. Ed. E. de Selincourt. Oxford English Texts
    • Faerie Queene. Ed. J. C. Smith. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts
    • Poetical Works. Ed. J. C. Smith & E. de Selincourt. 1912. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
44. Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
    • The Plays. Ed. L. A. Beauline. Oxford English Texts
    • Non-Dramatic Works. Ed. Thomas Clayton. Oxford English Texts (1971)
45. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
    • A Tale of a Tub; To which is added The Battle of the Books and the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. Together with The History of Martin, Wotton's Observations upon the Tale of a Tub, Curll's Complete Key, etc. Ed. E. C. Guthkelch & D. Nichol Smith. 1920. Second ed. 1958. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
    • Satires and Personal Writings. Ed. William Alfred Eddy. 1932. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
    • The Poems. Ed. Harold Williams. 1937. Second ed. 1958. 3 vols. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.
    • Journal to Stella. Ed. Harold Williams. 1948. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
    • Gulliver’s Travels and Other Writings: A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, &c. Ed. Louis A. Landa. 1960. Oxford Paperbacks. London & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.
    • Poetical Works. Ed. Herbert Davis. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
    • Major Works: Including A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books. Ed. Angus Ross & David Wooley. 1984. Oxford World's Classics. 2003. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
46. James Thomson (1700-1748)
    • The Seasons. Ed. James Sambrook. Oxford English Texts (1981)
    • Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and Other Poems. Ed. James Sambrook. Oxford English Texts (1986)
    • Poetical Works. Ed. J. Logie Robertson. Oxford Standard Authors. 1908. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
47. Thomas Traherne (c.1636/7-c.1674)
    • Centuries, Poems and Thanksgivings. Ed. H. M. Margoliouth. 1958. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
    • Poems, Centuries and Three Thanksgivings. Ed. Anne Ridler. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
48. Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
    • Works. Ed. L. C. Martin. 2nd ed. Oxford English Texts
    • Poetry and Selected Prose. Ed. L. C. Martin. 1957. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
49. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
    • Poetical Works. Ed. Ernest de Selincourt & Helen Darbishire. 5 vols. Oxford English Texts
    • The Prelude. Ed. Ernest de Selincourt. 2nd ed. Rev. Helen Darbishire. Oxford English Texts
    • The Prose Works. Ed. Jane Worthington Smyser & W. J. B. Owen. 3 vols. Oxford English Texts (1974)
    • Hutchinson, Thomas, ed. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. 1904. Rev. Ernest de Selincourt. 1950. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1951.

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