British Poetry and Prose 1870-1905 (1987)
Edited by Ian Fletcher. Poets included were:
Sir Edwin Arnold - Alfred Austin - Aubrey Beardsley - Robert Bridges - Edward Carpenter - Mary Coleridge - John Davidson - Austin Dobson - Digby Mackworth Dolben - Edward Dowden - Ernest Dowson - Mary Duclaux - Edwin John Ellis - Michael Field - Richard Le Gallienne - Sir W. S. Gilbert - Sir Edmund Gosse - John Gray - William Ernest Henley - Ellice Hopkins - Gerard Manley Hopkins - A. E. Housman - Lionel Johnson - Rudyard Kipling - Andrew Lang - Eugene Lee-Hamilton - Alfred Lyall - Charlotte Mew - Alice Meynell - A. C. Miall - Sir Henry Newbolt - Roden Noel - Arthur O'Shaughnessy - William James Renton - T. W. Rolleston - George William Russell - William Sharp - J. K. Stephen - Algernon Charles Swinburne - John Addington Symonds - Arthur Symons - Lord De Tabley - James Thomson (B.V.) - Francis Thompson - Margaret Veley - Sir William Watson - Augusta Webster - Oscar Wilde - W. B. Yeats
Also, prose by: Sir Max Beerbohm - Samuel Erewhon Butler - Hubert Crackanthorpe - Richard Garnett - Sir W. S. Gilbert - George Gissing - Walter Pater - Richard Jefferies - Rudyard Kipling - George Moore - Arthur Morrison - Olive Schreiner - Robert Louis Stevenson - H. G. Wells
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