The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English is a poetry anthology edited by Michael Schmidt, and published in 1999. Schmidt is an American academic and long-term UK resident, who is the founder of Carcanet Press; he has also written extensive biographical books about poets.
A paperback edition was issued in London by Harvill Press in 2000 with .
Poets in The Harvill Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English These 117 poets are represented in the anthology:
Simon Armitage John Ash John Ashbery W. H. Auden George Barker James K. Baxter Patricia Beer John Berryman John Betjeman Sujata Bhatt Elizabeth Bishop Eavan Boland Kamau Brathwaite Basil Bunting Gillian Clarke David Constantine Wendy Cope Hart Crane E. E. Cummings Allen Curnow Donald Davie H. D. Mark Doty Keith Douglas
Carol Ann Duffy Robert Duncan T. S. Eliot William Empson Elaine Feinstein James Fenton Roy Fisher Veronica Forrest-Thomson Robert Frost Allen Ginsberg Louise Glück Jorie Graham W. S. Graham Robert Graves Ivor Gurney Sophie Hannah Thomas Hardy Tony Harrison Gwen Harwood Seamus Heaney Geoffrey Hill Michael Hofmann A. D. Hope
A. E. Housman Langston Hughes Ted Hughes Randall Jarrell Robinson Jeffers Elizabeth Jennings David Jones Patrick Kavanagh Thomas Kinsella Rudyard Kipling R. F. Langley Philip Larkin D. H. Lawrence Gwyneth Lewis Robert Lowell Mina Loy Norman MacCaig Hugh MacDiarmid Sorley MacLean Louis MacNeice Derek Mahon Bill Manhire Glyn Maxwell James Merrill
Charlotte Mew Christopher Middleton Edna St. Vincent Millay Robert Minhinnick Marianne Moore Edwin Morgan Andrew Motion Edwin Muir Paul Muldoon Les Murray Lorine Niedecker Frank O'Hara Charles Olson George Oppen Wilfred Owen Michael Palmer John Peck Robert Pinsky Sylvia Plath Ezra Pound F. T. Prince John Crowe Ransom Henry Reed
Adrienne Rich Laura Riding Theodore Roethke Isaac Rosenberg E. J. Scovell Peter Scupham Burns Singer C. H. Sisson Iain Crichton Smith Stevie Smith Stephen Spender Wallace Stevens Dylan Thomas Edward Thomas R. S. Thomas Charles Tomlinson Jeffrey Wainwright Derek Walcott Richard Wilbur William Carlos Williams Yvor Winters Judith Wright W. B. Yeats
See also 2000 in poetry 2000 in literature 20th century in literature 20th century in poetry American poetry English poetry List of poetry anthologies