Introduction Part I. Circa Eighth Century BCE to Second Century CE Homer (8th-7th century BCE) Sappho (c. 630-570 BCE) Anacreon (c. 582-485 BCE) Theocritus (3rd century BCE) Catullus (84-54 BCE) Virgil (70-19 BCE) Ovid (43 BCE-17 CE) Martial (c. 38-104 CE) Part II. Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) Hafez (c. 1310-1390) Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) Anne Locke (c.
1533-c. 1590) Marie Maitland (c. 1550-1596) Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) Philip Sidney (1554-1586) Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) Henry Reynolds (1563-1635) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Thomas Nashe (1567-c. 1601) Thomas Heywood (c. 1570-1641) John Donne (1572-1631) Ben Jonson (1572-1637) Richard Barnfield (1574-1620) "T.W." [Thomas Woodward (baptized 1576, died seventeenth century)] Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649) Henry King (1592-1669) George Herbert (1593-1633) Thomas Carew (c. 1594-1640) Hester Pulter (c.
1605-1678) Edmund Waller (1606-1687) John Milton (1608-1674) Richard Crashaw (c. 1613-1649) Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) Charles Cotton (1630-1687) Katherine Philips (1631-1664) Aphra Behn (1640-1689) John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680) Sor Juana (Juana Inés de la Cruz) (1648-1695) Anne Killigrew (1660-1685) Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720) Anonymous (late 1600s) Part III. Eighteenth Century Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718) Elizabeth Thomas (1675-1731) Andrew Michael Ramsay (1686-1743) Anonymous (early 1700s) Anonymous (early 1700s) Thomas Gilbert (1713-1766) Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Susanna Highmore Duncombe (1725-1812) Anonymous (mid-1700s) Anonymous (late 1700s) Anonymous (late 1700s) Anna Seward (1742-1809) Part IV. Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries William Beckford (1760-1844) or George Colman (1762-1836) or Anonymous Mary Matilda Betham (1776-1852) George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867) Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) Robert Browning (1812-1889) Herman Melville (1819-1891) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868) Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) "Michael Field" (Katherine Bradley, 1846-1913, and Edith Cooper, 1862-1913) Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) George Moore (1852-1933) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Horatio Brown (1854-1926) Edward Cracroft Lefroy (1855-1891) George Edward Woodberry (1855-1930) A. E. Housman (1859-1936) Amy Levy (1861-1889) John Gambril Nicholson (1861-1931) Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907) Marc-André Raffalovich (1864-1924) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Lionel Johnson (1867-1902) Charlotte Mew (1869-1927) Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945) Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925) Nora Hopper Chesson (1871-1906) Willa Cather (1873-1947) Amy Lowell (1874-1925) Rose O''Neill (1874-1944) Ursula Bethell (1874-1945) Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1937) Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) Douglas Malloch (1877-1938) James Stephens (1880-1950) Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958) John Moray Stuart-Young (Odeziaku) (1881-1939) Charles Badger Clark (1883-1957) George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962) Gertrude "Ma" Rainey (1886-1939) H.D. (1886-1961) Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) Claude McKay (1889-1948) Geoffrey Cust Faber (1889-1961) Lesbia Harford (1891-1927) Archie Austin Coates (1891-1967) Edna St.
Vincent Millay (1892-1950) Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) "Clement Andrews" (20th century) Elsa Gidlow (1898-1986) Hart Crane (1899-1932) Countee Cullen (1903-1946) Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) Langston Hughes (1901-1967) Acknowledgments Sources and Texts, with a Note on the Texts Biographies Suggestions for Further Reading Index.