Several anthologies of religious poetry have been published by

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''Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse'' (1921)

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edited by Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson and Arthur Hugh Evelyn Lee, and published in 1921 by the

. The compilation contains much religious verse, mainly from English Christian traditions, and some from other religions. Present are poems by A. E. Waite and the young Aleister Crowley. Lee, an Anglican clergyman, associated with Waite. Nicholson later published a work on mysticism and St. Francis of Assisi. They both joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Lee in 1908, and Nicholson in 1910;27 August 1910, taking the name Per deos ad Deum; Gilbert p.173. both were friends of Charles Williams. Eclecticism is shown by the presence of: Alfred Gurney, a clerical friend of Christina Rossetti;

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and

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; Frederic W. H. Myers, academic and

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;

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, aesthete; Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, writer on

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and Wagner;

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, better known as a novelist and

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member; George Santayana, the philosopher; Fred G. Bowles who was a

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lyricist. The poets included in ''The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse'' were:

''Oxford Book of Christian Verse'' (1940)

Edited by

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. Poets included were:

''New Oxford Book of Christian Verse'' (1981)

Edited by

Donald Davie Donald Alfred Davie, FBA (17 July 1922 – 18 September 1995) was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes. Biography Davie was born in Barnsley, ...

. Poets included were:

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