The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
- The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
"The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English" is a poetry anthology edited by Michael Schmidt, and published in 1999. Schmidt is an American academic and long-term UK resident, who is the founder of Carcanet Press; he has also written extensive biographical books about poets.
A paperback edition was issued in London by Harvill Press in 2000 with ISBN 1-86046-735-0.
Poets in The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
These 117 poets are represented in the anthology:
*Simon Armitage
*John Ash
*John Ashbery
*W. H. Auden
*George Barker
*James K. Baxter
*Patricia Beer
*John Berryman
*John Betjeman
*Sujata Bhatt
*Elizabeth Bishop
*Eavan Boland
*Kamau Brathwaite
*Basil Bunting
*Gillian Clarke
*David Constantine
*Wendy Cope
*Hart Crane
*E. E. Cummings
*Allen Curnow
*Donald Davie
*H. D.
*Mark Doty
*Keith Douglas
*Carol Ann Duffy
*Robert Duncan
*T. S. Eliot
*William Empson
*Elaine Feinstein
*James Fenton
*Roy Fisher
*Veronica Forrest-Thompson
*Robert Frost
*Allen Ginsberg
*Louise Glück
*Jorie Graham
*W. S. Graham
*Robert Graves
*Ivor Gurney
*Sophie Hannah
*Thomas Hardy
*Tony Harrison
*Gwen Harwood
*Seamus Heaney
*Geoffrey Hill
*Michael Hofmann
*A. D. Hope
*A. E. Housman
*Langston Hughes
*Ted Hughes
*Randall Jarrell
*Robinson Jeffers
*Elizabeth Jennings
*David Jones
*Patrick Kavanagh
*Thomas Kinsella
*Rudyard Kipling
*R. F. Langley
*Philip Larkin
*D. H. Lawrence
*Gwyneth Lewis
*Robert Lowell
*Mina Loy
*Norman MacCaig
*Hugh MacDiarmid
*Sorley MacLean
*Louis MacNeice
*Derek Mahon
*Bill Manhire
*Glyn Maxwell
*James Merrill
*Charlotte Mew
*Christopher Middleton
*Edna St. Vincent Millay
*Robert Minhinnick
*Marianne Moore
*Edwin Morgan
*Andrew Motion
*Edwin Muir
*Paul Muldoon
*Les Murray
*Lorine Niedecker
*Frank O'Hara
*Charles Olson
*George Oppen
*Wilfred Owen
*Michael Palmer
*John Peck
*Robert Pinsky
*Sylvia Plath
*Ezra Pound
*F. T. Prince
*John Crowe Ransom
*Henry Reed
*Adrienne Rich
*Laura Riding
*Theodore Roethke
*Isaac Rosenberg
*E. J. Scovell
*Peter Scupham
*Burns Singer
*C. H. Sisson
*Iain Crichton Smith
*Stevie Smith
*Stephen Spender
*Wallace Stevens
*Dylan Thomas
*Edward Thomas
*R. S. Thomas
*Charles Tomlinson
*Jeffrey Wainwright
*Derek Walcott
*Richard Wilbur
*William Carlos Williams
*Yvor Winters
*Judith Wright
*W. B. Yeats
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