Arthur Christopher Benson

Arthur Christopher Benson (1862–1925) was an English essayist, poet and academic, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He wrote the words of the Coronation Ode of 1902, including the song "Land of Hope and Glory".

The poems here are taken from Arthur Quiller-Couch's anthology The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (Clarendon Press, 1912).