Geoffrey Chaucer -- William Shakespeare -- John Milton -- John Dryden -- Samuel Johnson -- William Cowper -- Thomas Campbell -- Lord Byron -- Lord Tennyson -- Thomas Hardy -- W.B. Yeats -- Rupert Brooke -- Laurence Binyon -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Edward Thomas -- Wilfred Owen -- G.K. Chesterton -- Rex Warner -- Stephen Spender -- C. Day Lewis -- W.H. Auden -- Ted Hughes -- Henry Reed -- Randall Jarrell -- Louis MacNeice -- Charles Causley -- Barry Amiel -- Ruthven Todd -- Peter Porter -- Peter Appleton
Notes
Includes indexes
Bibliography
Bibliographical references included in "Acknowledgements" (page ix-x)