Oxford Book of Irish Verse

Oxford Book of Irish Verse

The Oxford Book of Irish Verse, 17th century-20th century was a poetry anthology edited by Donagh MacDonagh and Lennox Robinson. It was published by Oxford University Press in 1958.

A new compilation, the New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, edited by Thomas Kinsella, was published in 1986.

Poets Included in the Oxford Book of Irish Verse

Luke Wadding - Jonathan Swift - John O'Keefe - William Drennan - Richard Alfred Milliken - Thomas Moore - George Darley - Eaton Stannard Barrett - Jeremiah Joseph Callanan - Eugene O'Curry - George Fox - Edward Fitzgerald - Thomas Davis - Emily Brontë- John Kells Ingram - William Allingham - John Todhunter - Arthur O'Shaughnessy - Emily Lawless - Augusta Gregory - Fanny Parnell - Oscar Wilde - Percy French - Kuno Meyer - Eleanor Hull - Katherine Tynan - Douglas Hyde - W. B. Yeats - Herbert Trench - Philip Francis Little - Dora Sigerson Shorter - Ethna Carbery - Thomas Boyd - Nora Hopper - James H. Cousins - Thomas MacDonagh - Lord Dunsany - Padraic Pearse - Joseph Campbell - Alice Milligan - Blanaid Salkeld - Robin Flower - James Joyce - Padraic Colum - James Stephens - Arnold Bax ('Dermot O'Byrne') - Francis MacNamara - Joseph Plunkett - Patrick Browne - Geoffrey Taylor - Helen Waddell - Francis Ledwidge - Thomas MacGreevy - Austin Clarke - Monk Gibbon - R. N. D. Wilson - Eileen Shanahan - Patrick MacDonogh - Earl of Longford - Rhoda Coghill - Frank O'Connor - Patrick Kavanagh - C. Day-Lewis - Bryan Guinness - Louis MacNeice - Sheila Wingfield - Denis Devlin - Francis Macmanus - Robert Farren - Brian O Nolan - Leslie Daiken - Valentin Iremonger - Máire MacEntee - Roy McFadden


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