The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 is an anthology of English poetry, edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, that had a very substantial influence on popular taste and perception of poetry and remained the leading general anthology of English verse throughout the 20th century. Poets included in the collections are:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Alexander Pope
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Emily Brontë
Robert Browning
Robert Burns
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
John Milton
John Ruskin
John Keats
William Butler Yeats
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Wordsworth
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Thomas Love Peacock
George Meredith
Lord Tennyson
John Bunyan
John Dryden
Sir Walter Scott
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
George Mac Donald
William Blake
James Joyce
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
And many more.
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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 and for his literary criticism.