Introduction Old English Poetry Middle English Poetry Chaucer Poetry in Scots: Barbour to Burns From Ballads to Betjeman Printing and Distribution of Poetry Varieties of Sixteenth-Century Narrative Poetry Sixteenth-Century Lyric Poetry Spenser, Sidney, Jonson Lyric Poetry from Donne to Philips Miltion Dryden and Pope Poetry in the Eighteenth Century Blake Coleridge Poetry, 1785-1832 Byron, Shelley, and Keats Wordsworthe and Tennyson The Victorian Era Victorian Religious Poetry Pre-Raphaelite Poetry The 1890s 1898-1945: Hardy to Auden Yeats, Lawrence, Eliot Poetry in England, 1945-1990 Poetry in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1930-1990 Brief Biographies of the Poets Editions Notes on Contributors Index