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Welcome to the 20th Century English Poetry Books section of Fine Books.  Here are excellent poetry books and anthologies filled with brilliant poems by great English poets, many of whom are women.

Other English Poetry Books:

1. World War One British Poets : Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, and Others (Dover Thrift Editions) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Candace Ward(Editor) / Dover Pubns / April 1997
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2. Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Richard Ellmann(Editor), Robert O'Clair (Editor) / W.W. Norton & Company / May 1988
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3. Perspectives on a Grafted Tree : Thoughts for Those Touched ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Patricia Irwin Johnston(Editor), Diana L. Stanley (Illustrator) / Perspectives Press / March 1983
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4. Selected Poems ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

W. H. Auden, Edward Mendelson (Editor) / Vintage Books / January 1990
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5. Upholding Mystery : An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Poetry ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

David Impastato(Editor) / Oxford Univ Press / January 1997
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6. I'll Stand By You - The Letters of Sylvia Townsend ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Sylvia Townsend Warner(Editor), Susanna Pinney / Trafalgar Square / October 1, 1998
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7. Collected Poems ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Stevie Smith, James Macgibbon (Editor) / New Directions / October 1983
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8. The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Philip Larkin(Editor) / Oxford Univ Press / January 1998
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9. Spirits in Bondage : A Cycle of Lyrics ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

C. S. Lewis / Harcourt Brace / February 1984
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10. The Music of What Happens : Poems, Poets, Critics ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Helen Hennessy Vendler / Harvard Univ Pr / September 1989
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11. The Angel of Death in the Adonis Lounge : Poems ~ Back Ordered

Marc Almond / Gay Mens Pr / December 1988
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12. The Complete Poems (Oxford Poets) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Keith Castellain Douglas, et al / Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) / May 1998
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13. Meeting the British ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Paul Muldoon / Wake-Forest Univ Pr / May 1987
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14. Poetry of the World Wars ~ Back Ordered

Michael Foss(Editor) / Peter Bedrick Books / June 1990
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15. Mules and Early Poems ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Paul Muldoon / Wake-Forest Univ Pr / April 1986
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16. Freelancing : Adventures of a Poet ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Hugo Williams / Faber & Faber / November 1995
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17. The Complete Poems and Fragments ~ Back Ordered

Jon Stallworthy(Editor), Wilfred Owen / W.W. Norton & Company / April 1984
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18. Stefan Themerson : Collected Poems ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Stefan Themerson / Overlook Press / December 1998
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19. The English Auden : Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939 ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

W. H. Auden, Edward Mendelson (Editor) / Faber & Faber / October 1988
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20. Modern Poems : A Norton Introduction ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Richard Ellmann(Editor), et al / W.W. Norton & Company / November 1989
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21. Poetry and Poets Essays ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Amy Lowell / Biblo-Moser / June 1971
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22. Dylan Thomas (Twayne's English Authors Series, No 20) ~ Usually ships in 1-2 weeks

Jacob Korg / Twayne Pub / December 1991
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23. After Ovid : New Metamorphoses ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Michael Hofmann(Editor), James Lasdun (Editor) / Farrar Straus & Giroux / February 1995
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24. T.S. Eliot : A Literary Life (Literary Lives Series) ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Tony Sharpe / St Martins Pr (Short) / September 1991
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25. The Great War and the Missing Muse : The Early Writings of Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Patrick J. Quinn / Susquehanna Univ Pr / January 1994
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26. Trading Words : Poetry, Typography, and Illustrated Books in the Modern Literary Economy ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Claire Hoertz Badaracco, Claire Goertz Badaracco / Johns Hopkins Univ Pr / August 1995
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27. The Poetics of Impersonality : T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Maud Ellmann, Maud Ellman / Harvard Univ Pr / December 1988
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28. The New Poetic : Yeats to Eliot ~ Usually ships in 1-2 weeks

C. K. Stead / Athlone Pr / March 1998
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29. The Inland Sea ~ Special Order

Jenny Joseph / Papier-Mache Press / October 1989
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30. R.S. Thomas : Poet of the Hidden God : Meaning and Mediation in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas (Princeton Theological Monograph Series 2) ~ Special Order

D.Z. Phillips / Pickwick Pubns / September 1986
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31. Imagism and the Imagists; A Study in Modern Poetry. ~ Special Order

Glenn, Hughes / Biblo-Moser / June 1973
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32. Pound, Yeats, Eliot, and the Modernist Movement ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

C. K. Stead / Rutgers Univ Press / January 1986
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33. Poetry of Geoffrey Hill ~ Special Order

Henry Hart / Southern Illinois Univ Pr (Trd) / January 1986
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34. Contemporary Poetry Meets Modern Theory (Theory/Culture Series, 10) ~ Special Order

Anthony Easthope, John O. Thompson (Editor) / Univ of Toronto Pr / January 1992
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35. War Poetry : An Introductory Reader (Critical Readers in Theory and Practice) ~ Back Ordered

Simon Featherstone / Routledge / March 1995
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36. Splendours and Miseries : A Life of Sacheverell Sitwell ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Sarah Bradford / Farrar Straus & Giroux / December 1993
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37. Another Fourth Poetry Book ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

John L. Foster(Editor) / Oxford Univ Pr Childrens Books / June 1989
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38. The Scampering Marmoset ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Ken Morrice / Aberdeen Univ Pr / October 1990
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39. Three Mennonite Poets ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Jean Janzen, et al / Good Books / December 1986
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40. The Place of Poetry : Two Centuries of an Art in Crisis ~ Special Order

Christopher, Clausen / Univ Pr of Kentucky / February 1982
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41. Kicking Daffodils : Twentieth-Century Women Poets ~ Special Order

Vicki Bertram(Editor) / Edinburgh Univ Pr / October 1997
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42. Anzac Sonata : New and Selected Poems ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Jon Stallworthy / W.W. Norton & Company / September 1987
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43. Some Corner of a Foreign Field : Poetry of the Great War ~ Special Order

James Bentley(Editor) / Little Brown & Company / June 1995
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44. The Map of All My Youth : Early Works, Friends and Influences (Auden Studies, Vol 1) ~ Special Order

W. H. Auden, et al / Clarendon Pr / December 1990
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45. The Name and Nature of A.E. Housman : From the Collection of Seymour Adelman ~ Special Order

Bryn Mawr College Library / Bryn Mawr Commentaries / October 1986
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46. Best Poems and the Book of Five Makings ~ Special Order

Ivor Gurney, et al / Carcanet Press / December 1995
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47. Burning the Bracken ~ Special Order

Amy Wack(Editor) / Dufour Editions
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48. Sin Eater ~ Special Order

Deborah Randall / Dufour Editions
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49. Movement and Modernism : Yeats, Eliot, Lawrence, Williams, and Early Twentieth-Century Dance ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

Terri A. Mester / Univ of Arkansas Pr / April 1997
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50. Until the Morning After : Collected Poems 1963 1985 ~ Special Order

Kofi Awoonor / Greenfield Review Pr / December 1987
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51. Monster Masks ~ Special Order

Lee Harwood / Small Press Distribution / April 1985
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52. Charles Williams (Arthurian Poets) ~ Special Order

David Llewellyn Dodds(Editor) / Boydell & Brewer / November 1991
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53. Approaching Authority : Transpersonal Gestures in the Poetry of Yeats, Eliot, and Williams ~ Special Order

Anthony Flinn / Bucknell Univ Pr / June 1997
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54. Some Poets and Their Resources : The Future Agenda : Lawrence, Emerson, Heaney, Bishop, Muir, Thomas, Melville, Wilbur ~ Back Ordered

Laurence Stapleton / University Press of America / March 1995
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55. Self and Sequence : The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence ~ Special Order

Holly A. Laird / Univ Pr of Virginia / June 1988
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56. Harmony of Dissonances : T.S. Eliot, Romanticism, and Imagination ~ Special Order

John Paul Riquelme / Johns Hopkins Univ Pr / January 1991
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57. Frontiers in Anglo Welsh ~ Back Ordered

Anthony Conran, Anthony Conrad / Univ of Wales Pr / September 1997
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58. Birthmarks ~ Special Order

Mick Imlah / Trafalgar Square / February 1991
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59. A History of Modern Poetry : Modernism and After ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

David Perkins / Belknap Pr / March 1987
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60. Selected Poems ~ Usually ships in 2-3 days

W. S. Graham / Faber & Faber / July 1996
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61. The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Michael North / Cambridge Univ Pr (Short) / February 1992
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62. The Notebook Poems, 1930-34 ~ Special Order

Dylan Thomas, Ralph Maud (Editor) / J M Dent & Sons Ltd / May 1989
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63. Homage to Imagism (Ams Studies in Modern Literature, No 20) ~ Special Order

William Pratt, Robert Richardson (Editor) / AMS Press / September 1992
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64. Another Fourth Poetry Book ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

John L. Foster(Editor) / Oxford Univ Pr Childrens Books / June 1989
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65. Poets in a Changing World : A Study of the Progressive Movement in Poetry ~ Special Order

K.P. Sasidharan / Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division / September 1991
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66. Self-Referentiality in 20th Century British and American Poetry ~ Special Order

Detlev Gohrbandt(Editor), Bruno Von Lutz (Editor) / Peter Lang Publishing / October 1996
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67. The Triumph of Pan : Poems ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Victor B. Neuburg / Skoob Books Pub Ltd / September 1993
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68. A.E. Housman ~ Special Order

Keith Jebb / Dufour Editions
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69. Nightshift Workers ~ Special Order

George Charlton / Dufour Editions
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70. Complete Poems ~ Special Order

Martin Bell, Peter Porter / Dufour Editions
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71. Contemporary Poets (6th Ed) ~ Usually ships in 1-2 weeks

Thomas Riggs(Editor) / St James Pr / December 1995
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72. R.S. Thomas ~ Special Order

W. Moelwyn Merchant / Univ of Arkansas Pr / July 1990
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73. Hardy to Larkin : Seven English Poets ~ Special Order

John Whitehead / Intl Specialized Book Service / March 1996
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74. A Word Index to the Poetry of C.S. Lewis ~ Special Order

Sara Park McLaughlin, et al / Locust Hill Press / August 1988
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75. Andrew Young-Remembrance and Homage ~ Special Order

Leslie Norris / Tidal Pr / June 1978
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