by Paul Keegan
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Index of Poets
Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), 416
Agard, John (1949– ), 1084
Alabaster, William (1568–1640), 150, 151
Allingham, William (1824–1889), 792
Angus, Marion (1866–1946), 965
Anonymous, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 31, 33, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 70, 72, 74, 100, 103, 107, 129, 138, 150, 159, 173, 177, 178, 179, 184, 185, 186, 191, 201, 207, 212, 224, 242, 276, 301, 322, 472, 473, 474, 488, 495, 497, 498, 513 573, 575, 578, 580, 587, 662, 663, 797
Arnold, Matthew (1822–1888), 711, 720, 762, 764, 767
Askew, Anne (1521–1546), 87
Auden, W. H. (1907–1973), 896, 902, 914, 917, 929, 936, 962, 969, 970
Ayres, Philip (1638–1712), 387
Barker, Jane (1625-c.1730), 388
Barnes, Barnabe (1571–1609), 132
Barnes, William (1801–1886), 698, 734, 735, 749, 750
Beckett, Samuel (1906–1989), 963
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803–1849), 716, 719
Behn, Aphra (1640–1689), 355, 356
Belloc, Hilaire (1870–1953), 884
Bentley, E. C. (1875–1956), 898
Betjeman, John (1906–1984), 921, 936, 971
Binyon, Laurence (1869–1943), 863, 956, 957
Blake, William (1757–1827), 520, 527, 535, 537, 538–42, 584, 585, 586, 614
Blunden, Edmund (1896–1974), 886, 899
Boland, Eavan (1944– ), 1091, 1096
Boyd, Mark Alexander (1563–1601), 110
Breton, Nicholas (1555?–1626), 188
Bridges, Robert (1844–1930), 886
Bronte, Charlotte (1816–1855), 712
Bronte, Emily Jane (1818–1848), 705, 706, 712
Brooke, Rupert (1887–1915), 841
Brown, George Mackay (1921–1996), 1026
Browne, William (1590?–1645?), 218, 236
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806–1861), 698, 741, 745
Browning, Robert (1812–1889), 692, 693, 701, 722, 725, 726, 752, 776
Bunting, Basil (1900–1985), 887, 904, 1003
Bunyan, John (1628–1688), 379
Burns, Robert (1759–1796), 523, 525, 528, 534, 544, 565, 567, 568
Butler, Samuel (1613–1680), 326
Byrom, John (1692–1763), 508
Byron, George Gordon (1788–1824), Lord, 604, 617, 646, 649, 650, 679, 680
Cameron, Norman (1905–1953), 944
Campion, Thomas (1567–1620), 121, 183, 184, 185, 211, 220
Canning, George (1770–1827), 545
Carew, Thomas (1594?-1640), 270, 271, 272, 273
Carey, Henry (1687?-1743), 435, 445
Carroll, Lewis (1832–1898), 754, 773
Carson, Ciaran (1948– ), 1087, 1095
Cartwright, William (1611–1643), 306
Causley, Charles (1917– ), 1092
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–1673), 314
Chapman, George (1559?-1634), 205, 210
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343?-1400), 9, 12, 20, 36
Chuilleanáin, Éilean Ní (1942– ), 1033, 1102
Clare, John (1793–1864), 683, 685, 686, 688, 689, 710, 754
Clarke, Austin (1896–1974), 892, 925, 991
Cleveland, John (1613–1658), 292, 307, 308
Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819–1861), 728, 748, 757
Coleridge, Hartley (1796–1849), 682
Coleridge, Mary E. (1861–1907), 813, 826
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834), 542, 547, 558, 569, 604, 607, 668, 682
Collins, Mortimer (1827–1876), 766
Collins, William (1721–1759), 477
Congreve, William (1670–1729), 409, 410
Constable, Henry (1562–1613), 126
Cornish, William (d.1523), 78
Cotton, Charles (1630–1687), 389, 390, 391
Coverdale, Myles (1488–1568), 79
Cowley, Abraham (1618–1667), 319, 320, 328, 330
Cowper, William (1731–1800), 511, 512, 517, 521, 581, 582
Crabbe, George (1754–1832), 600, 612
Crashaw, Richard (1612/13–1649), 285, 312
Daniel, George (1616–1657), 323
Daniel, Samuel (1563–1619), 125, 168
Darley, George (1795–1846), 687, 688
Daryush, Elizabeth (1887–1977), 918, 927
Davenant, Sir William (1606–1668), 350, 351
Davidson, John (1857–1909), 808, 817, 827
Davie, Donald (1922–1995), 999, 1051
Davies, Sir John (1569–1626), 148
Davies, W. H. (1871–1940), 830
Davies of Hereford, John (1565?-1618), 201
De La Mare, Walter (1873–1956), 825, 826
Denham, Sir John (1615–1669), 276, 341
Dhomhnaill, Nuala Ní (1952– ), 1096
Diaper, William (1685–1717), 431
Didsbury, Peter (1946– ), 1085
Donne, John (1572–1631), 161, 224, 225, 227, 229, 231, 232, 233
Douglas, Gavin (1475?–1522), 66
Douglas, Keith (1920–1944), 952, 958, 963
Dowson, Ernest (1867–1900), 815
Drayton, Michael (1563–1631), 163, 223, 240, 241
Drummond of Hawthornden, William (1585–1649), 218, 235, 236, 300
Dryden, John (1631–1700), 354, 376, 380, 381, 384, 385, 396, 397, 398, 400, 403, 405
Dunbar, William (1456?–1513?), 59, 63, 64
Dunn, Douglas (1942– ), 1015, 1032, 1083
Durcan, Paul (1944– ), 1071, 1072
Dyer, John (1700–1758), 436, 459
Dyer, Katherine, Lady (fl.1630–), 234
Eliot, George (1819–1880), 757
Eliot, T. S. (1888–1965), 847, 851, 865, 871, 876, 902, 941
Empson, William (1906–1984), 911, 913, 937, 938, 963
Enright, D. J. (1920– ), 1047
Evans, Abel (1679–1737), 436
Fallon, Padraic (1905–1974), 1042
Fanshawe, Sir Richard (1608–1666), 292, 312
Farewell, George (fl. 1733), 452
Fenton, James (1949– ), 1060, 1072
Fergusson, Robert (1750–1774), 509, 518
Field, Michael (Katherine Bradley 1846–1914; Edith Cooper 1862–1913), 826
Finch, Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720), 407, 412, 417
Fisher, Roy (1930– ), 982, 1012, 1013
Fitzgerald, Edward (1809–1883), 732
Fowler, William (1560–1612), 211
Frere, John Hookham (1769–1846), 545
Fuller, John (1937– ), 1047
Garioch (1909–1981), Robert, 972, 1055
Gascoyne, David (1916– ), 950, 951
Gay, John (1685–1732), 423, 429, 442, 446
Godolphin, Sidney (1610–1643), 265, 266
Golding, Arthur (1536?–1605), 95, 98
Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774), 494, 503, 504, 513
Googe, Barnabe (1540–1594), 93, 94
Gower, John (1330?-1408), 37
Graham, James (1612–1650), Marquis of Montrose, 301
Graham, W. S. (1918–1986), 1017, 1054
Graves, Robert (1895–1985), 886, 899, 900, 901, 926, 959
Gray, Thomas (1716–1771), 484, 504
Green, Matthew (1696–1737), 460
Greenwell, Dora (1821–1882), 765
Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke (1554–1628), 169
Gunn, Thom (1929– ), 973, 985, 986, 1024, 1049, 1099, 1100
Gurney, Ivor (1890–1937), 860, 861, 879
Habington, William (1605–1654), 274, 275
Hall, John (1627–1656), 290
Hamilton, Ian (1938– ), 1021, 1022
Hands, Elizabeth (fl.1789), 528
Hardy, Thomas (1840–1928), 823, 824, 831, 834, 853, 891
Harington, Sir John (1560–1612), 122, 212<
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Harrison, Tony (1937– ), 1075, 1076
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961), 834, 953
Heaney, Seamus (1939– ), 1008, 1030, 1032, 1043, 1067, 1080, 1097
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (1793–1835), 668
Henley, W. E. (1849–1903), 802, 822
Henry, James (1798–1876), 721
Henryson, Robert (1424?-1506?), 54
Herbert, Mary, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), 154, 155
Herbert of Cherbury, Edward, Lord (1582–1648), 252, 333
Herbert, George (1593–1633), 243–9
Herrick, Robert (1591–1674), 293, 296
Heyrick, Thomas (1649–1694), 395
Heywood, Jasper (1535–1598), 103
Hill, Geoffrey (1932– ), 978, 1011, 1025, 1056
Hoccleve, Thomas (c.1368–1426), 41
Holmes, John (fl. 1600), 179
Hood, Thomas (1799–1845), 666, 691, 700
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–1889), 778, 779, 790, 794
Housman, A. E. (1859–1936), 815, 873, 876, 919, 920
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547), 85, 89, 90
Hughes, Ted (1930–1998), 1008, 1009, 1023, 1066, 1094
Hulme, T. E. (1883–1917), 832, 833
Hume, Alexander (c.1556–1609), 163
Hunt, Leigh (1784–1859), 690
Johnson, Samuel (1709–1784), 461, 468, 482, 495, 515, 516, 518, 519
Jones, David (1895–1974), 922
Jones, Samuel (d.1732), 418
Jonson, Ben (1572?-1637), 190, 191, 215, 217, 238, 264, 265
Jordan, Thomas (1612?-1685), 255
Joyce, James (1882–1941), 891
Kavanagh, Patrick (1904–1967), 919, 946, 980, 981
Keats, John (1795–1821), 606, 609, 624, 635, 637, 638, 639, 640
Kendall, May (1861–1943), 800
King, Henry (1592–1669), 267
Kinsella, Thomas (1928– ), 1034, 1037, 1057
Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936), 805, 806, 818, 862, 907
Knevet, Ralph (1601–1671/2), 349
Landon, Laetitia Elizabeth (1802–1839), 671, 674
Landor, Walter Savage (1775–1864), 680, 711, 720, 721, 751
Langland, William (1330?-1386?), 15
Larkin, Philip (1922–1985), 973, 996, 997, 998, 999, 1039, 1040, 1041
Lawrence, D. H. (1885–1930), 842, 879, 881, 883, 897, 907
Leapor, Mary (1722–1746), 480
Lear, Edward (1812–1888), 704, 705, 772
Lee, Sir Henry (1530–1610), 110
Leonard, Tom (1944– ), 1022
Levy, Amy (1861–1889), 792, 803
Lewis, Alun (1915–1944), 944
Lodge, Thomas (1558–1625), 129
Logue, Christopher (1926– ), 987
Longley, Michael (1939– ), 1014, 1037, 1048, 1068, 1098
Lovelace, Richard (1618–1657/8), 297, 324
Lowry, Malcolm (1909–1957), 987
Lyly, John (1554?-1606), 125
MacCaig, Norman (1910–1996), 974, 1015, 1053, 1094
MacDiarmid, Hugh (1892–1978), 889, 890, 910
Maclean, Sorley (1911–1996), 955
MacNeice, Louis (1907–1963), 913, 927, 932, 939, 940, 977, 990, 991
Mahon, Derek (1941– ), 1029, 1044, 1045, 1077, 1083
Mangan, James Clarence (1803–1849), 707