The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse is a poetry anthology edited by Philip Larkin. It was published in 1973 by Oxford University Press with ISBN 0-19-812137-7. Larkin writes in the short preface that the selection is wide rather than deep; and also notes that for the post-1914 period it is more a collection of poems, than of poets. The remit was limited by him to poets with a period of residence in the British Isles. The volume contains works by 207 poets.
Contributing poets
- Allison, Drummond
- Allott, Kenneth
- Amis, Kingsley
- Asquith, Herbert
- Auden, W. H.
- Bantock, Gavin
- Barker, George
- Barton, Joan
- Beer, Patricia
- Beerbohm, Max
- Bell, Martin
- Belloc, Hilaire
- Bennett, Arnold
- Benson, Stella
- Betjeman, John
- Binyon, Laurence
- Blackburn, Thomas
- Blunden, Edmund
- Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
- Lyon, Lilian Bowes
- Bridges, Robert
- Brooke, Rupert
- Brownjohn, Alan
- Bunting, Basil
- Cameron, Norman
- Campbell, Joseph
- Campbell, Roy
- Cannan, May Wedderburn
- Caudwell, Christopher
- Causley, Charles
- Chesterton, G. K.
- Church, Richard
- Clarke, Austin
- Cole, Barry
- Cole, G. D. H.
- Colum, Padraic
- Comfort, Alex
- Connor, Tony
- Conquest, Robert
- Cornford, Frances
- Coward, Noël
- Currey, R. N.
- Davidson, John
- Davie, Donald
- Davies, Idris
- Davies, W. H.
- Day-Lewis, Cecil
- Dehn, Paul
- de la Mare, Walter
- Douglas, Keith
- Drinkwater, John
- Dunn, Douglas
- Durrell, Lawrence
- Dyment, Clifford
- Eliot, T. S.
- Lewis, Colin
- Empson, William
- Enright, D. J.
- Ewart, Gavin
- Falkner, John Meade
- Flecker, James Elroy
- Flint, F. S.
- Frankau, Gilbert
- Fraser, G. S.
- Fuller, Roy
- Garioch, Robert
- Gascoyne, David
- Gibson, Wilfrid
- Gittings, Robert
- Gogarty, Oliver St. John
- Gould, Gerald
- Graham, W. S.
- Gransden, K. W.
- Graves, Robert
- Green F. Pratt
- Grenfell, Julian
- Grigson, Geoffrey
- Gunn, Thom
- Gurney, Ivor
- Haldane, J. B. S.
- Hamburger, Michael
- Hardy, Thomas
- Harvey, F. W.
- Hassall, Christopher
- Heath-Stubbs, John
- Henri, Adrian
- Herbert, A. P.
- John Hewitt
- Higgins, Brian
- Higgins, F. R.
- Hill, Geoffrey
- Hobsbaum, Philip
- Hodgson, Ralph
- Holbrook, David
- Holden, Molly
- Housman, A. E.
- Hughes, Ted
- Hulme, T. E.
- Iremonger, Valentin
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Ivens, Michael
- Jennings, Elizabeth
- Joseph, Jenny
- Joyce, James
- Kavanagh, P. J.
- Kavanagh, Patrick
- Keyes, Sidney
- Kinsella, Thomas
- Kipling, Rudyard
- Kirkup, James
- Larkin, Philip
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Lehmann, John
- Lerner, Lawrence
- Lewis, Alun
- Lewis, C. S.
- Lewis, Wyndham
- Logue, Christopher
- Lowry, Malcolm
- Lucie-Smith, Edward
- MacBeth, George
- MacCaig, Norman
- MacDiarmid, Hugh
- MacDonagh, Donagh
- MacNeice, Louis
- Madge, Charles
- Masefield, John
- McGough, Roger
- Mew, Charlotte
- Meynell, Alice
- Michie, James
- Miles, Susan
- Mitchell, Adrian
- Mitchell, Matthew
- Monro, Harold
- T. Sturge Moore
- Muir, Edwin
- E. Nesbit
- Newbolt, Henry
- Noyes, Alfred
- Philip O'Connor
- Moira O'Neill
- Orwell, George
- Owen, Wilfred
- Herbert Palmer
- Patten, Brian
- Phillpotts, Eden
- Pitter, Ruth
- Plomer, William
- Popham, Hugh
- Porter, Peter
- Powys, John Cowper
- Prince, F. T.
- Pudney, John
- Raine, Kathleen
- Read, Herbert
- Redgrove, Peter
- Reed, Henry
- Reeves, James
- Rendall, Robert
- Rickword, Edgell
- Roberts, Michael
- Rosenberg, Isaac
- Ross, Alan
- Rowse, A. L.
- Sackville-West, Vita
- 'Sagittarius'
- Sassoon, Siegfried
- Scannell, Vernon
- Scovell, E. J.
- Seymour-Smith, Martin
- Shanks, Edward
- Silkin, Jon
- Sillitoe, Alan
- Sisson, C. H.
- Sitwell, Edith
- Sitwell, Osbert
- Smith, Iain Crichton
- Smith, Stevie
- Spencer, Bernard
- Spender, Stephen
- Squire, J. C.
- Stephens, James
- Strong, L. A. G.
- Stuart, Muriel
- Summers, Hal
- Synge, J. M.
- Tessimond, A. S. J.
- Thomas, Dylan
- Thomas, R. S.
- Thwaite, Anthony
- Tomlinson, Charles
- Tonks, Rosemary
- Wain, John
- Walcott, Derek
- Waley, Arthur
- Watkins, Vernon
- Wellesley, Dorothy
- Wickham, Anna
- Williams, Hugo
- Wolfe, Humbert
- Wordsworth, Elizabeth
- Yeats, W. B.
- Young, Andrew
- Young, Francis Brett