Out of 150 poets, 0 are not white, for 0% (*"white" is pretty arbitrary, but honestly, you couldn't have found anything by Langston Hughes?). 1 is Australian, for 0.67% of the total and 2.94% of non-American non-British 5 are Scottish, for 3.33% of the total and 14.70% of non-American non-British
4 are Welsh, for 2.67% of the total and 11.76% of non-American non-British Of those 34 poets, 7 are Irish, for 4.67% of the total and 20.59% of non-American non-British Out of 150 poets, 34 are neither American nor British, for 22.67% (despite the claims on the cover)
Out of 150 poets, 88 are British, for 58.67% (*I am including poets who primarily lived and worked in Britain, regardless of where they were born) Out of 150 poets, 42 are American, for 28% (*I am including poets who primarily lived and worked in the United States, regardless of where they were born) Out of 150 poets, 12 are female (3 American - 2%, 9 British - 6%), for 8% (*I am including "Anonymous" as male, given the context of the poems attributed to "Anonymous" assuming "Anonymous" is female, that results in 13 women poets, for 8.67%) Since there are 150 poets, a nice even number, it's pretty simple for me to do some calculations. It takes until the 19th century until the first female poet appears (Elizabeth Barrett Browning), which makes sense, because everybody knows that women didn't figure out how to write until 1826. The poems are in chronological order, beginning in the 14th century (with Geoffrey Chaucer) and ending in the 20th century (with Dylan Thomas), which is nice. Included are only British and American poets, apparently, because those are the only countries in the core anglosphere.
The front cover proclaims that this book contains 447 poems (well, it says "masterpieces") by 150 poets.
The most recent edition of this anthology is from the 1980s, so perhaps I should be nicer on account of the four decades between now and then.
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