The Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Christopher Ricks and published by Oxford University Press in 1999 is the third major anthology to carry that title. Arthur Quiller-Couch compiled the first in 1900, covering 1250 to 1900, and revised it in 1939; Helen Gardner replaced it in 1972 with The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950.
Christopher Ricks (editor) · CatalogChristopher Ricks (editor)Christopher Ricks (editor) · CatalogChristopher Ricks (b. 1933) is a British literary critic and editor, formerly professor at Boston University and Oxford.The Oxford Book of English Verse
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