Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-485) and indexes
Contents:
Authors included: Geoffrey Chaucer John Skelton Robert Wisdome John Lyly Sir John Harington William Shakespeare John Davies of Hereford Sir John Davies Samuel Rowlands Ben Jonson Richard, Bishop Corbet Samuel Butler Charles Cotton John Dryden Thomas Flatman Sir Charles Sedley John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Tom Brown Matthew Prior Ned Ward Jonathan Swift William Congreve George Farquhar John Gay Henry Carey Alexander Pope John Byrom Matthew Green George Farewell Sir Charles Hanbury Williams Samuel Johnson John Banks Thomas Gray James Cawthorn John Cunningham Oliver Goldsmith Isaac Bickerstaffe John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) Richard Brinsley Sheridan William Blake Robert Burns Catherine Fanshawe Richard Alfred Millikin John Hookham Frer George Canning Sydney Smith Charles Lamb Walter Savage Landor Thomas Moore William Hone Jane Taylor Thomas Love Peacock George Gordon, Lord Byron R. H. Barham John Keats J. R. Planche Thomas Haynes Bayly Thomas Hood W. M. Praed James Clarence Mangan Benjamin Hall Kennedy Charles Lever Alfred, Lord Tennyson Oliver Wendell Holmes William Makepeace Thackeray Robert Browning Edward Lear Bon Gaultier Arthur Hugh Clough James Russell Lowell Frederick Locker-Lampson Thorold Rogers C. G. Leland Mortimer Collins Dante Gabriel Rossetti Emily Dickinson C. S. Calverley Lewis Carroll Harry Clifton George A. Strong George Du Maurier W. S. Gilbert Bret Harte Thomas Hardy Max Adeler Eugene Ware Godfrey Turner George R. Sims Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel C. Bushnell Percy French J. K. Stephen Sir Arthur Conan Doyle J. W. Mackail A. E. Housman Edgar Bateman Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Ernest Lawrence Thayer Oliver Herford Rudyard Kipling Gelett Burgess George Ade E. G. Murphy (Dryblower) Charles Inge Hilaire Belloc A. H. Sidgwick J. M. Synge Arthur Guiterman Sir Max Beerbohm Walter de la Mare G. K. Chesterton Robert Frost Don Marquis Harry Graham Clarence Day Robert W. Service E. C. Bentley T. W. Connor R. P. Weston E. V. Knox P. G. Wodehouse Franklin P. Adams William Hargreaves Billy Merson James Joyce A. A. Milne Clement Attlee J. C. Squire Keith Preston D. H. Lawrence Ezra Pound W. N. Ewer Humbert Wolfe Maurice Hare Rupert Brooke Gus Kahn Edith Sitwell T. S. Eliot Ronald Knox Irving Berlin R. J. P. Hewison Gerry Hamill Gerard Benson P. J. Kavanagh E. William Seaman Eric Salzman George Starbuck John Updike George MacBeth Adrian Mitchell Shel Silverstein James Simmons Barry Humphries Chris Wallace-Crabbe Fleur Adcock Edward Baugh John Fuller James Fenton Robert McGough Les A. Murray Clive James Tom Disch Basil Ransome-Davies E. J. Thribb Geoff Page John Mole Kit Wright Paul Durcan Wendy Cope Liz Lochhead David Lehman James Fenton Christopher Reid Richard Tipping Sean O'Brien Vikram Seth Victoria Wood Glyn Maxwell Conrad Aiken Dion Titherage Stanley Holloway Samuel Hoffenstein Cole Porter Morris Bishop J. B. Morton Dorothy Parker Gerald Bullett Philip Heseltine E. E. Cummings Aldous Huxley Robert Graves Edmund Wilson Lorenz Hart L. A. G. Strong Ira Gershwin Sagittarius (Olga Katzin) David McCord C. S. Lewis W. C. Sellar Noel Coward Joseph Moncure March Ogden Nash Roy Campbell Langston Hughes Stevies Smith Evelyn Waugh William Plomer Cyril Connolly Dorothy Fields Phyllis McGinley John Betjeman Luis d'Antin Van Rooten William Empson John Sparrow W. H. Auden Louise MacNeice Nicholas Bentley A. D. Hope Patrick Barrington Theodore Roethke Robert Garioch (Robert Sutherland) Malcolm Lowry Johnny Mercer W. R. Rodgers Joyce Grenfell Peter De Vries Richard Usborne Stanley J. Sharpless Paul Dehn Roy Fuller Virginia Graham Lawrence Durrell Michael Burn Dyland Thomas John Berryman R. P. Lister Henry Reed Harry Hearson Gavin Ewart Robert Conquest John Heath-Stubbs Martin Bell Louise Bennett William Cole Alexander Scott Howard Nemerov Edwin Morgan D. J. Enright Richard Wilbur Philip Larkin Howard Moss Kingsley Amis Vernon Scannell Lord Beginner (Egbert Moore) Anthony Butts Allan M. Laing Justin Richardson Michael Flanders Anthony Hecht Louis Simpson Edward Field Vincent Buckley Kenneth Koch A. R. Ammons Nissim Ezekiel Edward Gorey Tom Lehrer Donald Hall Bruce Beaver X. J. Kennedy Ray Mathew Connie Bensley Peter Porter John Hollander U. A. Fanthorpe Anthony Thwaite Bruce Dawe
