Poets

The Penguin Poets series has undergone plenty of face lifts in its long history. The first Poets book, on Tennyson, was published in 1941; it and the next two featured a gray cover with a white nail on the front. When Tschichold arrived in 1948, he revamped the series by creating a bordered design that began as light green; Schmoller in 1954 then shifted the covers to more colorful, wallpaper-inspired backgrounds. In 1963, the design was altered subtly again to create much more vivid patterns. In 1966, Facetti changed the look again, this time to embrace the Helvetica that had become mainstream in most of the other series, while maintaining the patterns.

Housed within the Poets section are three subseries: Modern European Poets, Penguin Modern Poets, and the Poet to Poet line. While accorded their own subtitle, they also maintained the “D” prefix of the Poets series, and so are included here.

The Poets series crossed the dividing line of 1970, when Penguin abandoned its numbering system, instead printing the ISBN along the spine. D116, Children of Albion, was the last to be numbered. The rest of the books in this list have been calculated by using the pattern of ISBN numbers that followed (117X, 118X, etc.) I have ended the collection at D198 because the next ISBN, 199X, belongs to the Penguin Classics line and will be found there.

1	Tennyson	W.E. Williams, ed.	1941
2	Wordsworth	W.E. Williams, ed.	1943
3	Robert Burns	Henry Meikle, ed.	1946
4	T.S. Eliot		1948
5	A Book of English Poetry	G.B. Harrison, ed.	1950
6	Century’s Poetry 1: Chaucer to Shakespeare	D.K. Roberts, ed.	1953
7	Century’s Poetry 2: Donne to Dryden	D.K. Roberts, ed.	1949
8	Centuries’ Poetry 3: Pope to Keats	D.K. Roberts, ed.	1942
9	Centuries’ Poetry 4: Hood to Hardy	D.K. Roberts, ed.	1950
10	Centuries’ Poetry 5: Bridges to Present Day	D.K. Roberts, ed.	1949
11	D.H. Lawrence		1950
12	Contemporary Verse	Kenneth Allott, ed.	1950
13	John Donne	John Hayward, ed.	1950
14	Pope	Douglas Grant, ed.	1950
15	Gerard Manley Hopkins	W.H. Gardner, ed.	1953
16	Edith Sitwell		1952
17	C. Day Lewis		1951
18	Poems, 1951	John Hayward, ed.	1951
19	Comic and Curious Verse	J.M. Cohen, ed.	1952
20	Border Ballads	William Beattie, ed.	1952
21	John Milton	L.D. Lerner, ed.	1953
22	Modern American Verse	Geoffrey Moore, ed.	1954
23	John Keats	J.E. Morpurgo, ed.	1953
24	Browning	W.E. Williams, ed.	1954
25	Matthew Arnold	Kenneth Allott, ed.	1954
26	Byron	A.S.B. Glover, ed.	1954
27	Robert Frost		1955
28	Dryden	Douglas Grant, ed.	1955
29	Shelley	Isabel Quigley, ed.	1956
30	Spanish Verse	J.M. Cohen, ed.	1956
31	More Comic & Curious Verse	J.M. Cohen, ed.	1956
32	English Verse	John Hayward, ed.	1956
33	French Verse 3	Anthony Hartley, ed.	1957
34	A.E. Houseman	John Sparrow, ed.	1956
35	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Kathleen Raine, ed.	1956
36	German Verse	Leonard Forster, ed.	1957
37	Italian Verse	George Kay, ed.	1958
38	The Metaphysical Poets	Helen Gardner, ed.	1959
39	Robert Graves		1957
40	Australian Verse	John Thompson, ed.	1958
41	W.H. Auden		1958
42	William Blake	J. Bronowski, ed.	1958
43	French Verse 2	Geoffrey Brereton, ed.	1958
44	Hilaire Belloc	Ronald Knox, ed.	1958
45	New Zealand Verse	Allen Cunrow, ed.	1960
46	Canadian Verse	Ralph Gustafson, ed.	1958
47	French Verse 4	Anthony Hartley, ed.	1959
48	Yet More Comic & Curious Verse	J.M. Cohen, ed.	1959
49	Narrative Verse	David Herbert, ed.	1960
50	French Verse 1	Brian Woledge, ed.	1961
51	Lorca	J.L. Gill, ed.	1960
52	Other Men’s Flowers	A.P. Wavell, ed.	1960
53	Thomas Hardy	W.E. Williams, ed.	1960
54	Holderlin	Michael Hamburger, ed.	1961
55	Swinburne	Bonamy Dobree, ed.	1961
56	Baudelaire	Francis Scarfe, ed.	1961
57	Russian Verse	Dmitri Obolensky, ed.	1962
58	Robert Herrick	John Hayward, ed.	1961
59	Georgian Poetry	James Reeves, ed.	1962
60	Latin Verse	Frederick Brittain, ed.	1962
61	Modern Poets 1	Durrell/Jennings/Thomas	1962
62	Modern Poets 2	Amis/Moraes/Porter	1962
63	The New Poetry	A. Alvarez, ed.	1962
64	Rimbaud	Stephen Russ, ed.	1962
65	Chinese Verse	A.R. Davis, ed.	1962
66	Religious Verse	R.S. Thomas, ed.	1963
67	Contemporary American Poetry	Donald Hall, ed.	1963
68	Twentieth-Century German Verse	Patrick Bridgewater, ed.	1963
69	European Poets: Yevtushenko	Robin Milner-Gulland, ed.	1962
70	Modern Poets 3	Barker/Bell/Causley	1962
71	Pushkin	John Fennell, ed.	1964
72	e.e. cummings		1963
73	Poetry of the Thirties	Robin Skelton, ed.	1964
74	Goethe	David Luke, ed.	1964
75	Sick Verse	George MacBeth	1963
76	Modern Poets 4	Holbrook/Middleton/Wevill	1963
77	Japanese Verse	Geoffrey Bownas, ed.	1964
78	Modern Poets 5	Corso/Ferlinghetti/Ginsberg	1963
79	European Poets: Rilke	J.B. Leishman, ed.	1964
80	Modern Poets 6	Clemo/Lucie-Smith/MacBeth	1964
81	Midcentury English Poetry	David Wright, ed.	1964
82	European Poets: Apollonaire	Oliver Bernard, ed.	1965
83	Elizabethan Verse	Edward Lucie-Smith, ed.	1965
84	European Poets: Prevert Ferlinghetti	Larence Ferlinghetti, ed.	1965
85	Mallarme	Anthony Hartley, ed.	1965
86	European Poets: Quasimodo	Jack Bevan, ed.	1965
87	Longer Contemporary Poems	David Wright, ed.	1966
88	Animal Verse	George MacBeth, ed.	1965
89	The Common Muse	Vivian de Sola Pinto, ed.	1965
90	Modern Poets 7	Murphy/Silkin/Tarn	1966
91	European Poets: Four Greek Poets	Edmund Keeley, ed.	1966
92	Modern Poets 8	Brock/Hill/Smith	1966
93	Greek Verse	Constantine Trypanis, ed.	1971
94	Modern Verse Translation	George Steiner, ed.	1966
95	European Poets: Miroslav Holub	Ian Milner, ed.	1967
96	Welsh Verse	Anthony Conan, ed.	1967
97	Modern Poets 9	Levertov/Rexroth/Williams	1967
98	Heine	Peter Branscombe, ed.	1967
99	European Poets: Eugenio Montale	George Kay, ed.	1969
100	Poetry of the Forties	Robin Skelton, ed.	1968
101	Satirical Verse	Edward Lucie-Smith, ed.	1967
102	English Romantic Verse	David Wright, ed.	1968
103	Penguin Modern Poets 10	The Mersey Sound	1968
104	European Poets: Zbigniew Herbert	Czeslaw Milosz, ed.	1968
105	Modern Poets 11	Black/Redgrove/Thomas	1968
106	European Poets: Gunter Grass	Michael Hamburger, ed.	1969
107	Modern Poets 12	Jackson/Nuttall/Wantling	1968
108	Restoration Verse	Harold Love, ed.	1968
109	South African Verse	Jack Cope, ed.	1968
110	Victorian Verse	George MacBeth, ed.	1969
111	Modern Poets 13	Bukowski/Lamantia/Norse	1969
112	European Poets: Hans Magnus	Michael Hamburger, ed.	1968
113	Modern Poets 14	Brownjohn/Hamburger/Tomlinson	1969
114	European Poets: Vasko Popa	Anne Pennington, ed.	1969
115	European Poets: Anna Akhmatova	Richard McKane, ed.	1969
116	Children of Albion	Michael Horvitz, ed.	1969
117	Return to My Native Land	Mazisi Kunene, ed.	0140421173
118	Modern Poets 15	Bold/Brathwaite/Morgan	1969
119	European Poets: Post-War Polish Poetry	Czeslaw Milosz, ed.	1970
120	Scottish Verse	Tom Scott, ed.	0140421200
121	Irish Verse	Brendan Kennelly, ed.	0140421217
122	British Poets Since 1945	Edward Lucie-Smith, ed.	014042122X
123	Hugh MacDiarmid	David Craig, ed.	0140421238
124	Modern Poets 16	Beeching/Guest/Mead	0140421248
125	Socialist Verse	Alan Bold, ed.	0140421459
126	Modern Poets 17	Gascoyne/Graham/Raine	0140421262
127	European Poets: Sandor Weores/Ferenc Juhasz	Sanor Weores, ed.	0140421279
128	Poetry of the Nineties	R.K.R. Thornton, ed.	0140421286
129	Modern Poets 18	Alvarez/Fuller/Thwaite	0140421293
130	European Poets: Three Czech Poets	E. Osers, ed.	0140421309
131	Poem into Poem: World Poetry in Modern Verse	George Steiner, ed.	0140421316
132	Modern Poets 19	Ashberry/Harwood/Raworth	0140421323
133	European Poets: Johannes Bobrowski/Horst Bienek	Ruth Mead, ed.	0140421330
134	European Poets: Vladimir Holan	Ian Milner, ed.	014042134?
135	European Poets: Cesare Pavese	Margaret Crossland, ed.	0140421354
136	Latin American Verse	E. Caraccilo-Trejo, ed.	0140421361
137	European Poets: Abba Kovner/Nelly Sachs	Stephen Spender, ed.	0140421378
138	European Poets: Gunnar Ekelof	W.H. Auden, ed.	0140421385
139	European Poets: Giuseppe Ungaretti	Patrick Geogh, ed.	0140421392
140	Modern Poets 20	Heath-Stubbs/Prince/Spender	0140421408
141	European Poets: Yehuda Amichai	T. Hughes, ed.	0140421415
142	Unrespectable Verse	Geoffery Grigson	0140421422
143	Modern Poets 21	Smith/MacCaig/Brown	0140421439
144	D.H. Lawrence	Keith Sagar, ed.	0140421446
145	Post-War Japanese Verse	Kajima Shozo, ed.	0140421453
146	European Poets: Paul Celan	Michael Hamburger, ed.	0140421460
147	Imagist Poetry	Peter Jones, ed.	0140421477
148	Love Poetry	John Stallworthy, ed.	0140421484
149	?
150	Poet to Poet: George Crabbe	C. Day Lewis	0140421507
151	Poet to Poet: George Herbert	W.H. Auden	0140421514
152	Poet to Poet: Robert Henryson	Hugh MacDirmid	0140421521
153	Poet to Poet: Alfred Tennyson	Kingsley Amis	0140421538
154	?		?
155	?		?
156	European Poets: T. Carmi/Dan Pagis	Stephen Mitchell, ed.	0140421569
157	European Poets: Haavikko/Paavo/Transtromer/Tomas	Anselm Hollo, ed.	0140421576
158	European Poets: Guillevic/Savory	T.H. Savory, ed.	0140421583
159	Poetry of the Committed Individual	John Silkin, ed.	0140421590
160	European Poets: Alexander Blok	John Stallworthy, ed.	0140421606
161	Fernando Pessoa	J. Griffin, ed.	0140421613
162	Australian Verse	Harry Heseltine, ed.	0140421620
163	You Better Believe It	Paul Breman, ed.	0140421637
164	European Poets: Joseph Brodsky	George Kline, ed.	0140421644
165	Modern Poets 22	Fuller/Levi/Mitchell	0140421651
166	Marina Tsvataeva	E. Feinstein, ed.	0140421668
167	Poet to Poet: Wordsworth	Lawrence Durrell	0140421675
168	Poet to Poet: Whitman	Robert Creeley	0140421682
169	Eighteenth-Century Verse	Dennis Davison, ed.	0140421699
170	Modern Poets 23	Grigson/Muir/Stokes	014042170X
171	European Poets: Juan Ramon Jimenez	J.B. Trend, ed.	0140421712
172	Robert Frost	Ian Hamilton, ed.	0140421729
173	European Poets: Three Painter Poets	Harriett Ann Watts, ed.	0140421736
174	Poet to Poet: Pope	Peter Levi	0140421743
175	Poet to Poet: Ben Jonson	Thom Gunn	0140421750
176	Poet to Poet: Shelley	Kathleen Raine	0140421767
177	Modern Poets 24	Elmslie/Koch/Schuyler	0140421774
178	English Pastoral Verse	John Barrell, ed.	0140421781
179	Verlaine	Joanna Richardson, ed.	0140421798
180	Charles Cotton	Geoffrey Grigson, ed.	0140421804
181	Modern Poets 25	Ewart/Cghose/Johnson	0140421815
182	French Verse	Brian Woledge, ed.	0140421828
183	Post-War Russian Poetry	Daniel Weissbort, ed.	0140421835
184	European Poets: Yannis Ritsos		0140421842
185	Pablo Neruda	Nathaniel Tarn, ed.	0140421859
186	Choice of Comic and Curious Verse	J.M. Cohen, ed.	0140421866
187	Modern Poets 26	Abse/Longley/Enright	0140421873
	(188 was published as a Penguin Classic)
189	Cesar Vallejo		0140421897
190	William Carlos Williams	Charles Tomlinson, ed.	0140421903
191	European Poets: Osip Mandelstam	James Greene, ed.	0140421910
192	Modern Poets 27	Ormond/Humphreys/Tripp	0140421927
193	Ballads	Geoffrey Grigson	0140421934
194	Oral Poetry		0140421941
195	Tadeusz Rozewicz	Adam Czerniawski, ed.	0140421958
196	Scottish Love Poems		0140421956
197	Hebrew Verse		0140421972
198	American Verse	Geoffrey Moore, ed.	0140421989