Includes index

Geoffrey Chaucer -- The Ballads -- Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Henry Howard, earl of Surrey -- Thomas Sackville -- Edmund Spenser -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- John Lyly -- Sir Philip Sidney -- George Peele -- Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam -- Samuel Daniel -- Michael Drayton -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- Thomas Campion -- Walter Davison -- Thomas Dekker -- A.W. -- Ben Jonson -- John Donne -- Thomas Heywood -- Sir John Davies -- John Fletcher -- John Webster -- Francis Beaumont -- George Wither -- William Browne -- Robert Herrick -- Henry King -- George Herbert -- Thomas Carew -- James Shirley -- Sir William Davenant -- Edmund Waller -- John Milton -- Sir John Suckling -- Richard Crashaw -- Abraham Cowley -- Richard Lovelace -- Andrew Marvell -- Henry Vaughan -- John Dryden -- Thomas Traherne -- Matthew Prior -- Jonathan Swift -- Alexander Pope -- Thomas Gray -- William Collins -- William Cowper -- Thomas Chatterton -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- William Wordsworth -- Sir Walter Scott -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Walter Savage Landor -- Thomas Campbell -- Thomas Moore -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Charles Wolfe -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keats -- John Clare -- William Cullen Bryant -- Thomas Hood -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Edward Fitzgerald -- Robert Browning -- Walt Whitman -- Matthew Arnold -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- George Meredith -- Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Emily Dickinson -- William Morris -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Sidney Lanier -- Arthur O'Shaughnessy -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Emily Bronte -- Thomas Hardy -- Andrew Lang -- William Ernest Henley -- Alice Meynell -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- Oscar Wilde -- Lizette Woodworth Reese -- John Davidson -- A. Mary F. Robinson -- Francis Thompson -- A.E. Housman -- Lionel Johnson -- George Santayana -- Rudyard Kipling -- William Butler Yeats -- George William Russell. Ernest Dowson -- William Vaughn Moody -- George Sterling -- Edward Arlington Robinson -- William H. Davies -- Alfred Douglas -- Ralph Hodgson -- Walter de la Mare -- Amy Lowell -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Ridgeley Torrence -- Robert Frost -- John Masefield -- Carl Sandburg -- Vachel Lindsay -- Padriac Colum -- James Stephens -- John Drinkwater -- Richard Middleton -- Sara Teasdale -- James Elroy Flekcer -- Louis Untermeyer -- John Hall Wheelock -- Hilda Doolittle -- Elinor Wylie -- Robert Brooke -- Robinson Jeffers -- Maxwell Anderson -- Conrad Aiken -- W.J. Turner -- Frances Ledwidge -- Irene Rutherford McLeod -- Edward Shanks -- Richard Aldlington -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Wilfred Owen -- Genevieve Taggard -- Babette Deutsch -- Louise Bogan -- Stephen Vincent Benet -- Leonie Adams.

A collection of English poetry that gives a broad scope to those unfamiliar with poetry.