Quiller-Couch, Arthur, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250

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My wish is that the reader should in his own pleasure quite forget the editor’s labour, which too has been pleasant: that, standing aside, I may believe this book has made the Muses’ access easier when, in the right hour, they come to him to uplift or to console.

Arthur
Quiller-Couch

The Oxford Book of English Verse

1250–1900

Chosen and Edited by A. T. Quiller-Couch

From Arthur Quiller-Couch’s 1919 Introduction to this extensive collection: “For this Anthology I have tried to range over the whole field of English Verse…. To bring home and render so great a spoil compendiously has been my capital difficulty. It is for the reader to judge if I have so managed it as to serve those who already love poetry and to implant that love in some young minds not yet initiated.”

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record Preface

TO THE PRESIDENT, FELLOWS AND SCHOLARS OF TRINITY COLLEGE OXFORD: A HOUSE OF LEARNING ANCIENT, LIBERAL HUMANE AND MY MOST KINDLY NURSE

OXFORD: CLARENDON, 1919
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 1999

CHRONOLOGIC INDEX OF AUTHORS Anonymous (XIII–XIV Century) to Marlowe (1564–93) Shakespeare (1564–1616) to Waller (1606–1687) Milton (1608–1674) to Jago (1715–1781) Gray (1716–1771) to Wolfe (1791–1823) Shelley (1792–1822) to Locker-Lampson (1821–1895) Arnold (1822–1888) to Blackmore (1825–1900)
ALPHABETIC INDEX OF AUTHORS Addison, Joseph to Brome, Alexander Brontë, Emily to Cutts, Lord Daniel, Samuel to Hyde, Douglas Jago, Richard to Milton, John Montgomerie, Alexander to Shakespeare, William Shelley, Percy Bysshe to Yeats, William Butler
INDEX OF TITLES A Bequest of His Heart to By the Margin of the Great Deep Call to Grief Half-asleep to Myra Nameless One to Quia Amore Langueo Rainbow to Sweet Content Take, O take those Lids away to Youth and Age
INDEX OF FIRST LINES A book of Verses underneath the Bough to Expense of Spirit in a waste of shame Fain would I change that note to Hyd, Absolon, thy gilte tresses clere I am that which began to My true love hath my heart, and I have his Nay but you, who do not love her to Round the cape of a sudden came the sea Sabrina fair to Twenty years hence my eyes may grow Underneath this myrtle shade to Your eyen two wol slee me sodenly

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