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Total 372 poets, 37225 poems.

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank	MaxR	Votes
Robert Frost	1874-1963	USA	Blank verse, Didactism, Dymock poets, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism, National, Optimism, Realism, Sonnet, Vernacular	144	1	359	82%
Emily Dickinson	1830-1886	USA	Bipolar disorder, Christian, Didactism, Difficult, Fantasy, Homoerotism, Modernism, National, Spiritualism	1063	2	125	75%
William Shakespeare	1564-1616	ENG	Blank verse, Classicism, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Didactism, Sonnet, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Homoerotism	198	3	177	78%
Thomas Stearns Eliot	1888-1965	USA/ENG	Bipolar disorder, Children, Christian, Existentialism, Expressionism, Humanism, Jazz, Metaphysical poets, Modernism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Symbolism	12	4	150	96%
William Butler Yeats	1865-1939	IRL	Fantasy, Formalism, Modernism, Neoromanticism, Rhymers club, Sonnet, Spiritualism, Symbolism, Victorian	378	5	104	83%
Pablo Neruda	1904-1973	CHL	Atheism, Modernism, National, Sonnet, Surrealism	117	6	281	70%
John Keats	1795-1821	ENG	Aestheticism, Agnosticism, Bipolar disorder, Epic, Gothic, Romanticism, Sonnet	160	7	73	82%
Maya Angelou	1928-2014	AFR/USA	Harlem Writers Guild, Black Arts Movement, National	24	8	547	40%
Edgar Allan Poe	1809-1849	USA	Bipolar disorder, Dark romanticism, Didactism, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Symbolism, Victorian	63	9	355	87%
William Wordsworth	1770-1850	ENG	Blank verse, Lake Poets, Laureate, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet	357	10	110	81%
Walt Whitman	1819-1892	USA	Humanism, Realism, Transcendentalism, Free verse, Didactism, Deism, Pantheism, Bipolar disorder, War, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Expressionism, Homoerotism	331	11	91	78%
William Blake	1757-1827	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Mysticism, Romanticism, Slavery	127	12	115	74%
Langston Hughes	1902-1967	AFR/USA	Didactism, Harlem Renaissance, Jazz, Modernism, Slavery	91	13	423	83%
Sylvia Plath	1932-1963	USA	Bipolar disorder, Committed suicide, Confessionalism, Modernism	282	14	178	89%
E.e. cummings	1894-1962	USA	Aestheticism, Dada, Didactism, Formalism, Modernism, Sonnet, Surrealism, Symbolism	190	15	142
Alfred Lord Tennyson	1809-1892	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Fantasy, Laureate, Romanticism, Spasmodic, Victorian, War	180	16	91	77%
Rabindranath Tagore	1861-1941	IND	Contextual modernism, Freemasons, Haiku, Romanticism, Spiritualism	242	17	455	90%
Percy Bysshe Shelley	1792-1822	ENG	Aestheticism, Anarchism, Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Didactism, Epic, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet	325	18	138	80%
Paul Laurence Dunbar	1872-1906	AFR/USA	Fantasy, Realism, Slavery, Vernacular	430	19	147	87%
Thomas Hardy	1840-1928	ENG	Agnosticism, Pessimism, Realism, Romanticism, The Movement, Victorian, War	250	20	178	65%
Christina Georgina Rossetti	1830-1894	ENG	Christian, Free verse, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Sonnet, Speculative, Spiritualism, Victorian	308	21	206	76%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1772-1834	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Dark romanticism, Gothic, Lake Poets, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Transcendentalism	176	22	55	75%
Robert Browning	1812-1889	ENG	Victorian, Humour, History	148	23	47	66%
Ralph Waldo Emerson	1803-1882	USA	Didactism, Fireside poets, Mysticism, Pantheism, Philosophy, Romanticism, Transcendentalism	113	24	26	84%
Matthew Arnold	1822-1888	ENG	Didactism, Pessimism, Sage writers, Victorian	63	25	62	67%
George Gordon Byron	1788-1824	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Dark romanticism, Libertine, Romanticism, Slavery	292	26	113	61%
John Donne	1572-1631	ENG	Christian, Didactism, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Fantasy, Metaphysical poets, Philosophy, Renaissance, Satire, Sonnet	172	27	100	80%
John Milton	1608-1674	ENG	Blank verse, Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Epic, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet, Vernacular	88	28	6	80%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1807-1882	USA	Didactism, Fireside poets, Romanticism, Spasmodic, Vernacular, Victorian	463	29	121	81%
Emily Jane Bronte	1818-1848	ENG	Gothic, Romanticism, Victorian	68	30	38	86%
Robert Burns	1759-1796	SCO	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Freemasons, Laureate, National, Romanticism, Slavery, Song, Vernacular	119	31	85	76%
Dante Alighieri	1265-1321	ITA	Christian, Classicism, Epic, Medieval, National, Sonnet, Vernacular	21	32	14	89%
Elizabeth Barrett Browning	1806-1861	ENG	Christian, Romanticism, Sonnet, Spasmodic, Victorian	118	33	66	76%
Alexander Pushkin	1799-1837	RUS	Agnosticism, Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Fantasy, Freemasons, Golden age, National, Realism, Romanticism	73	34	116
Wallace Stevens	1879-1955	USA	Blank verse, Cubism, Formalism, Modernism	85	35	21	85%
Rudyard Kipling	1865-1936	ENG	Children, Didactism, Freemasons, Modernism, Neoromanticism, Nonsense, Victorian, War	490	36	149	78%
Oscar Wilde	1854-1900	IRL	Aestheticism, Anarchism, Children, Decadents, Didactism, Fantasy, Freemasons, Gothic, Homoerotism, Symbolism, Victorian	105	37	22	78%
Geoffrey Chaucer	1340-1400	ENG	Children, Didactism, Fantasy, Laureate, Medieval, Slavery, Vernacular	61	38	14	64%
Henry David Thoreau	1817-1862	USA	Anarchism, Didactism, Pantheism, Philosophy, Sage writers, Slavery, Transcendentalism	35	39	31	77%
Robert Herrick	1591-1674	ENG	Cavalier poets, Didactism, Elizabethan, Fantasy, Tribe of Ben	276	40	24	68%
Sara Teasdale	1884-1933	USA	Didactism, Committed suicide, Bipolar disorder	313	41	104	89%
Andrew Marvell	1621-1678	ENG	Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Vernacular	62	42	24	30%
Shel Silverstein	1930-1999	USA	Children, Humour, Nonsense	225	43	123	91%
Robert Louis Stevenson	1850-1894	SCO	Atheism, Children, Gothic, Slavery, Victorian	224	44	58	82%
Homer	-800--700	GRC	Epic, National	2	45	0	77%
Edward Lear	1812-1888	ENG	Children, Humour, Nonsense, Victorian	159	46	9	78%
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1749-1831	DEU	Epic, Freemasons, National, Pantheism, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Sturm und Drang	364	47	5	91%
Alexander Pope	1688-1744	ENG	Classicism, Deism, Didactism, Enlightenment, Freemasons, Satire	82	48	27	74%
Robert W Service	1874-1958	CAN	Fantasy, Freemasons, Optimism, Slavery, War	837	49	73	85%
Federico Garcia Lorca	1898-1936	SPA	Freemasons, Haiku, Homoerotism, Modernism, National, Surrealism	47	50	32	79%
Li Bai	701-762	CHN	National, Medieval	98	51	56
Rainer Maria Rilke	1875-1926	BOH/DEU	Christian, Existentialism, Expressionism, Modernism, Sonnet	127	52	38	93%
Charles Bukowski	1920-1994	USA	Atheism, Dirty realism, Optimism, Transgressive fiction	164	53	337	92%
Roald Dahl	1916-1990	ENG	Children	26	54	358	87%
Khalil Gibran	1883-1931	LBN/USA	Christian, Classicism, Mysticism, National, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Romanticism, Slavery, Surrealism, Symbolism	74	55	69	73%
Kabir	1440-1518	IND	Bhakti, Islam, Medieval, Mysticism, Philosophy, Spiritualism	28	56	356	76%
Philip Larkin	1922-1985	ENG	Agnosticism, Atheism, Formalism, The Movement	100	57	105	74%
Dylan Thomas	1914-1953	WAL	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Modernism, National, New Apocalyptics, New Romantics	100	58	278	79%
Henry Lawson	1867-1922	AUS	Realism, Slavery, National	499	59	33	66%
Anne Sexton	1928-1974	USA	Bipolar disorder, Committed suicide, Confessionalism, Slavery	188	60	38	82%
Allen Ginsberg	1926-1997	USA	Beat, Confessionalism, Fantasy, Free verse, Homoerotism, Modernism, Neoromanticism, New American Poetry, Romanticism, Surrealism, Transgressive fiction	50	61	32	75%
Ogden Nash	1902-1971	USA	Humour	123	62	227	81%
Sarojini Naidu	1879-1949	IND	Spiritualism	50	63	48	86%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1850-1919	USA	Popular, Optimism	462	64	127	89%
Wilfred Owen	1893-1918	ENG	Modernism, War	73	65	139	70%
Billy Collins	1941-	USA	Beat, Humour, Laureate, Optimism	10	66	116	82%
Dorothy Parker	1893-1967	USA	Modernism, Sentimentalism, Satire	192	67	196	85%
Elizabeth Bishop	1911-1979	USA	Didactism, Feminism, Laureate, Modernism	69	68	69	84%
Edna St. Vincent Millay	1892-1950	USA	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Feminism, Formalism, Modernism, Sonnet	166	69	33	89%
Ezra Pound	1885-1972	USA	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Haiku, Imagism, Modernism, Others	253	70	102	84%
Carl Sandburg	1878-1967	USA	Children, Imagism, National, Nonsense, Others	452	71	38	54%
James Whitcomb Riley	1849-1916	USA	Humour, Sentimentalism, Vernacular, Victorian	470	72	23	86%
Rupert Brooke	1887-1915	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Dymock poets, Georgian poets, Modernism, Sonnet, War	96	73	65	73%
Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi	1207-1273	PER	Islam, Medieval, National, Philosophy	106	74	67	92%
William Ernest Henley	1849-1902	ENG	Victorian	173	75	154	90%
Harivansh Rai Bachchan	1907-2003	IND	Chhayavaad	1	76	73	90%
Spike Milligan	1918-2002	IRL	Children, Humour, Nonsense	51	77	148	88%
William Carlos Williams	1883-1963	USA	Beat, Imagism, Modernism, Others, Sentimentalism, Vernacular	111	78	95	80%
Sappho	-615--550	GRC	Homoerotism	82	79	21	80%
Muhammad Iqbal	1877-1938	IND	Islam, National	36	80	29
Charles Baudelaire	1821-1867	FRA	Romanticism, Free verse, Impressionism, Dark romanticism, Sonnet, Bipolar disorder, Parnassianism, Symbolism, Modernism, Libertine, Decadents, National	139	81	68	88%
Walter de la Mare	1873-1956	ENG	Children, Georgian poets, Gothic	89	82	128	84%
Hilaire Belloc	1870-1953	ENG	Children, Christian, Humour	102	83	33	79%
Lewis Carroll	1832-1898	ENG	Children, Deism, Neoromanticism, Nonsense, Victorian	74	84	139	79%
Phillis Wheatley	1753-1784	AFR/USA		47	85	86	85%
Matsuo Basho	1644-1694	JAP	Beat, Haiku, Imagism	110	86	24	87%
Ted Hughes	1930-1998	ENG	Children, Confessionalism, Laureate, The Movement	33	87	42	72%
Henry Van Dyke	1852-1933	USA	Christian	237	88	14	86%
John Masefield	1878-1967	ENG	Children, Laureate	46	89	176	82%
Mirabai	1498-1546	IND	Bhakti, Mysticism, Spiritualism	34	90	15	83%
Nazim Hikmet	1902-1963	TUR	Avant-garde, Free verse, Modernism	39	91	8	96%
Edgar Guest	1881-1959	USA	Freemasons, Optimism, Sentimentalism	969	92	130	89%
Anna Akhmatova	1889-1966	RUS	Acmeism, Modernism, Silver age, Symbolism	74	93	14	93%
Siegfried Sassoon	1886-1967	ENG	Georgian poets, War	160	94	152	66%
John Clare	1793-1864	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Peasant, Romanticism, Sonnet	172	95	100	73%
James Joyce	1882-1941	IRL	Agnosticism, Difficult, Expressionism, Modernism, Nonsense	51	96	10	73%
John Hamilton Reynolds	1795-1852	ENG	Romanticism	8	97	0
John Greenleaf Whittier	1807-1892	USA	Christian, Fantasy, Fireside poets, Slavery, Victorian	484	98	6	71%
Banjo Paterson	1864-1941	AUS	Bush	245	99	56	76%
Edmund Spenser	1552-1599	ENG	Elizabethan, Fantasy, Gothic, Laureate, Renaissance, Sonnet	171	100	47	76%
Isaac Watts	1674-1748	ENG	Devotional, Pantheism, Slavery	481	101	5	78%
George Herbert	1593-1633	ENG	Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Sonnet	173	102	15	85%
Arthur Rimbaud	1854-1891	FRA	Symbolism, Free verse, Impressionism, Dark romanticism, Anarchism, Surrealism, Libertine, Dada, Decadents, Homoerotism	125	103	10	94%
Octavio Paz	1914-1998	MEX	Existentialism, Haiku, National, Surrealism	17	104	6	79%
Patrick Kavanagh	1904-1967	IRL	Nature	22	105	24	89%
Derek Walcott	1930-	LCA	Confessionalism, Formalism, Gothic, Imagism, Laureate, Methodism, National, Spiritualism, Surrealism	21	106	158	86%
Claude McKay	1889-1948	JAM/USA	Harlem Renaissance	80	107	65	79%
Robinson Jeffers	1887-1962	USA	Anti-meter, Didactism, Pantheism, Slavery	160	108	14	90%
Gerard Manley Hopkins	1844-1889	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Christian, Free verse, Modernism, Parnassianism, Sonnet, Victorian	81	109	31	84%
Narsinh Mehta	1414-1481	IND	Bhakti, Medieval	1	110	43	83%
Dante Gabriel Rossetti	1828-1882	ENG	Aestheticism, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Symbolism, Victorian	289	111	7	81%
Charles Dickens	1812-1870	ENG	Children, Didactism, Fantasy, Gothic, Realism, Satire, Victorian	10	112	10	86%
Eugene Field	1850-1895	USA	New American Poetry, Children	283	113	24	87%
Jack Kerouac	1922-1969	USA	Beat, Existentialism, Neoromanticism, New American Poetry	16	114	37	87%
Edgar Lee Masters	1869-1950	USA	Slavery, Playwright	272	115	6	60%
Alfred Noyes	1880-1958	ENG	Children, Gothic, Playwright, Romanticism	107	116	111	79%
Algernon Charles Swinburne	1837-1909	ENG	Aestheticism, Decadents, Pessimism, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Symbolism, Victorian	225	117	11	82%
Ben Jonson	1572-1637	ENG	Blank verse, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Laureate, Renaissance	93	118	6	74%
Antonio Machado	1875-1939	SPA	Haiku, Social realism	13	119	25	76%
Amy Lowell	1874-1925	USA	Fantasy, Free verse, Imagism, Modernism	202	120	23	69%
Edward Thomas	1878-1917	ENG	Dymock poets, Bipolar disorder, War	92	121	23	78%
Thomas Dunn English	1819-1902	USA		5	122	2
Walter Scott	1771-1832	SCO	Didactism, Freemasons, History, Romanticism, Tory	140	123	30	74%
Ambrose Bierce	1842-1914	USA	Agnosticism, Gothic, Realism, Satire, Speculative	44	124	3	78%
Alfred Austin	1835-1913	ENG	Laureate, Victorian	244	125	3	65%
Kalidasa	353-420	IND	Spiritualism, Epic	20	126	49	83%
Czeslaw Milosz	1911-2004	POL	Haiku, Naive	39	127	12	93%
Denise Levertov	1923-1997	ENG/USA	New American Poetry, Black Mountain, Postmodernism	72	128	23	82%
Oliver Wendell Holmes	1809-1894	USA	Fireside poets, Humour, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Victorian	343	129	8	96%
Thomas Campbell	1777-1844	SCO	Romanticism, Bipolar disorder	26	130	12	85%
Edwin Arlington Robinson	1869-1935	USA	Modernism	176	131	64	82%
Jonathan Swift	1667-1745	IRL	Children, Didactism, Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, Satire	104	132	3	72%
Nizar Qabbani	1923-1998	SYR	National	38	133	73	90%
Kenneth Patchen	1911-1972	USA	Beat, Anarchism, Jazz	26	134	15	90%
Jibanananda Das	1899-1954	IND		10	135	2	94%
Anne Bronte	1820-1849	ENG	Christian, Feminism, Realism, Victorian	69	136	3	88%
Judith Wright	1915-2000	AUS	Bush	33	137	55	67%
Charlotte Smith	1749-1806	ENG	Gothic, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet	129	138	11	76%
William Topaz McGonagall	1825-1902	SCO	Victorian, Humour	211	139	10	48%
John Berryman	1914-1972	USA	Confessionalism, Committed suicide, Bipolar disorder	152	140	3	79%
Victor Hugo	1802-1885	FRA	Bipolar disorder, Deism, Didactism, Fantasy, National, Romanticism, Slavery, Vernacular	281	141	15	92%
Adrienne Rich	1929-2012	USA	Fantasy, Feminism, Social, Vernacular	33	142	17	76%
Du Fu	712-770	CHN	Spiritualism, National, Medieval	47	143	13	85%
Surdas	1478-1581	IND	Mysticism	30	144	8
Anne Bradstreet	1612-1672	ENG/USA	Christian	61	145	25	53%
William Stafford	1914-1993	USA	Laureate	38	146	49	79%
Archibald Lampman	1861-1899	CAN	Sonnet, Confederation poets, Nature	158	147	6	83%
Nissim Ezekiel	1924-2004	IND		8	148	160	82%
Jorge Luis Borges	1899-1986	ARG	Agnosticism, Fantasy, Haiku, National, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Symbolism, Vernacular	17	149	9	97%
Mary Elizabeth Frye	1905-2004	USA	Didactism	1	150	210	91%
James Weldon Johnson	1871-1938	AFR/USA	Harlem Renaissance	67	151	44	79%
J R R Tolkien	1892-1973	ENG	Children, Fantasy, Myth	82	152	77
C J Dennis	1876-1938	AUS		724	153	27
Boris Pasternak	1890-1960	RUS	Bipolar disorder, Futurism, Realism, Silver age	122	154	21	94%
Sant Tukaram	1608-1649	IND	Mysticism, Bhakti, Spiritualism	7	155	36
Vachel Lindsay	1879-1931	USA	Bipolar disorder, Committed suicide, Fantasy, Jazz, Slavery, Song, Vernacular	204	156	20	73%
Stevie Smith	1902-1971	ENG	Dark, Humour	40	157	90	47%
Ernest Hemingway	1899-1961	USA	Expressionism, Modernism	26	158	85	89%
William Morris	1834-1896	ENG	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Freemasons, Fantasy	97	159	14	78%
Robert Lowell	1917-1977	USA	Bipolar disorder, Confessionalism, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism	20	160	13	80%
William Cowper	1731-1800	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Graveyard poets, Romanticism	403	161	61	78%
James Henry Leigh Hunt	1784-1859	ENG	Romanticism	28	162	41	83%
Wallace Berman	1926-1976	USA	Beat	4	163	0
Ahmad Faraz	1931-2008	PAK		18	164	3	90%
Omar Khayyam	1048-1122	IRN	Agnosticism, Medieval, Mysticism, Philosophy, Spiritualism	4	165	12	90%
Samuel Johnson	1709-1784	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Enlightenment, Satire	46	166	4	67%
Judith Viorst	1931-	USA	Children	11	167	57	67%
Kenneth Slessor	1901-1971	AUS	Modernism	73	168	70	74%
Weldon Kees	1914-1955	USA	Formalism, Jazz	39	169	6	96%
Richard Brautigan	1935-1982	USA	Beat, Committed suicide, Postmodernism	58	170	46	91%
Christopher Marlowe	1564-1593	ENG	Atheism, Blank verse, Elizabethan, Renaissance	10	171	46	66%
Cesar Vallejo	1892-1938	PER	Difficult, National	18	172	10	87%
Gertrude Stein	1874-1946	USA	Modernism, Cubism	25	173	18	76%
Harold Hart Crane	1899-1932	USA	Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Committed suicide, Difficult, Fantasy, Formalism, Modernism	33	174	9	85%
Confucius	-551--479	CHN	Agnosticism, Spiritualism	94	175	2	73%
Tulsidas	1543-1623	IND	Mysticism, Spiritualism, Epic	10	176	9
Aleksandr Blok	1880-1921	RUS	Bipolar disorder, Christian, Silver age, Symbolism, War	22	177	3
Alan Seeger	1888-1916	USA	War	76	178	69	51%
Philip Sidney	1554-1586	ENG	Renaissance, Elizabethan, Sonnet	131	179	2	36%
Constantine P Cavafy	1863-1933	GRC	Modernism, History	89	180	6	90%
Edwin Muir	1887-1959	SCO		23	181	12	78%
Joseph Brodsky	1940-1996	RUS/USA	Akhmatova Orphans, Philosophy, Laureate	35	182	3	94%
Paul Celan	1920-1970	ROU/FRA	Bipolar disorder, Committed suicide, Difficult, Playwright, Surrealism	42	183	3	98%
John Wilmot	1647-1680	ENG	Libertine	34	184	24	89%
Heinrich Heine	1797-1856	DEU	Romanticism	55	185	3	90%
Jessie Pope	1868-1941	ENG	War	52	186	259	38%
John McCrae	1872-1918	CAN	War	29	187	55	87%
Samuel Daniel	1562-1620	ENG	Sonnet, Laureate, Elizabethan	68	188	2	59%
A.K. Ramanujan	1929-1993	IND		10	189	47
Cecil Frances Alexander	1818-1895	IRL	Christian	5	190	19	71%
Walter Raleigh	1552-1618	ENG	Didactism, Elizabethan	28	191	7	75%
Sidney Lanier	1842-1881	USA	Slavery, Free verse	98	192	6	97%
Yehuda Amichai	1924-2000	ISR	Vernacular, Laureate, Philosophy	43	193	40	51%
Waris Shah	1719-1790	PAK		1	194	24
Robert Hayden	1913-1980	AFR/USA	Didactism, Harlem Renaissance, Laureate, Modernism	14	195	88	77%
Faiz Ahmed Faiz	1911-1984	PAK		25	196	59	96%
May Swenson	1913-1989	USA	Erotic, Homoerotism	21	197	7	46%
William Matthews	1942-1997	USA		46	198	1	80%
Robert Graves	1895-1985	ENG	Atheism, Georgian poets, Modernism, Myth, War	139	199	13	81%
Marriott Edgar	1880-1951	SCO		33	200	120	88%
Richard Lovelace	1618-1657	ENG	Cavalier poets, Tribe of Ben	144	201	16	81%
Thomas Hood	1799-1845	ENG	Romanticism	102	202	63	80%
Queen Elizabeth I	1533-1603	ENG	Elizabethan	10	203	14	59%
John Newton	1725-1807	ENG		150	204	37	88%
Louisa May Alcott	1832-1888	USA	Children, Feminism, Slavery, Transcendentalism	97	205	21	79%
Archibald MacLeish	1892-1982	USA	Modernism	34	206	5	32%
Louise Bogan	1897-1970	USA	Formalism, Bipolar disorder, Laureate	27	207	7	88%
Bertolt Brecht	1898-1956	DEU	Modernism, Atheism, Expressionism	41	208	17	82%
William Henry Drummond	1854-1907	IRL/CAN	Humour	96	209	43	74%
Abraham Lincoln	1809-1865	USA	Didactism, Deism, Slavery	9	210	18	81%
W H Auden	1907-1973	ENG/USA	Auden Group, Christian, Formalism, Homoerotism, Modernism	113	211	131
Mark Twain	1835-1910	USA	Children, Deism, Didactism, Humour, Realism, Satire, Vernacular, Victorian	7	212	14
Henry Vaughan	1621-1695	WEL	Metaphysical poets, Christian	53	213	5	82%
Amy Levy	1861-1889	ENG	Symbolism, Feminism	76	214	9	62%
Francois Villon	1431-1463	FRA	Medieval	7	215	5	97%
Robert Southey	1774-1843	ENG	Lake Poets, Laureate, Romanticism, Slavery	96	216	32
Ernest Christopher Dowson	1867-1900	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Decadents, Pessimism, Rhymers club, Victorian	81	217	13	88%
Coventry Patmore	1823-1896	ENG	Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood	72	218	8	85%
Charlotte Bronte	1816-1855	ENG	Victorian, Gothic, Romanticism	25	219	59	83%
William Cullen Bryant	1794-1878	USA	Romanticism, Fireside poets	138	220	11	44%
Charles Lamb	1775-1834	ENG	Romanticism, Children, Blank verse	130	221	18	72%
Friedrich Schiller	1759-1805	DEU	Deism, Freemasons, Gothic, National, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Sturm und Drang	165	222	8	93%
Robert Desnos	1900-1945	FRA	Surrealism, Fantasy	13	223	1	78%
Gregory Corso	1930-2001	USA	New American Poetry, Beat, Free verse	17	224	3
Valmiki	301-	IND	Mysticism, Epic	1	225	1	76%
Emile Verhaeren	1855-1916	BEL/FRA	Symbolism, Decadents, National	20	226	6	93%
Yosa Buson	1716-1784	JAP	Haiku	39	227	38	87%
Thomas Moore	1779-1852	IRL	National, Romanticism, Slavery, Song	158	228	11	88%
Keith Douglas	1920-1944	ENG	War	10	229	12	85%
George MacDonald	1824-1905	SCO	Children, Christian, Fantasy	435	230	10	87%
Jacques Prevert	1900-1977	FRA	Realism, Surrealism, Symbolism	9	231	2
Guillaume Apollinaire	1880-1918	FRA	Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Symbolism	32	232	5
A.S.J. Tessimond	1902-1962	ENG	Vernacular, Bipolar disorder	44	233	6
Vasko Popa	1922-1991	SRB/ROU	Epic, Modernism	32	234	4	92%
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy	1817-1875	RUS	Gothic, Romanticism	10	235	3
Theodore Roethke	1908-1963	USA	Formalism, Bipolar disorder, Nonsense	32	236	133	70%
Christopher Brennan	1870-1921	AUS		79	237	8	72%
Alan Dugan	1923-2003	USA		26	238	7	69%
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev	1803-1873	RUS	Christian, Golden age, Philosophy, Romanticism	32	239	13	95%
Toru Dutt	1856-1877	IND/ENG		5	240	97	76%
Michael Drayton	1563-1631	ENG	Sonnet, Elizabethan	79	241	4	55%
Delmore Schwartz	1913-1966	USA	Modernism, Bipolar disorder	70	242	2
Henry Kendall	1839-1882	AUS	Bipolar disorder, Bush	196	243	39
Adelaide Crapsey	1878-1914	USA		100	244	19	81%
George Meredith	1828-1909	ENG	Victorian	244	245	13	36%
Arthur Hugh Clough	1819-1861	ENG	Spasmodic, Victorian	26	246	4	64%
Anne Kingsmill Finch	1661-1720	ENG	Formalism, Bipolar disorder, Enlightenment	98	247	3	56%
Arthur Symons	1865-1945	ENG	Rhymers club, Decadents	226	248	16	84%
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	1808-1877	ENG	Victorian	119	249	5	44%
Randall Jarrell	1914-1965	USA	Bipolar disorder, Children, Formalism, Fugitives, Laureate, Modernism, Neoromanticism, War	28	250	25
John Betjeman	1906-1984	ENG	Blank verse, Laureate	53	251	58	88%
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge	1861-1907	ENG	Victorian	30	252	11	81%
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	1840-1922	ENG	Atheism, Victorian	438	253	3
Letitia Elizabeth Landon	1802-1838	ENG	Romanticism	62	254	5	86%
James Stephens	1882-1950	IRL	National, Myth	22	255	68	76%
William Schwenck Gilbert	1836-1911	ENG	Humour	174	256	6	39%
Thomas Gray	1716-1771	ENG	Bipolar disorder, Classicism, Enlightenment, Gothic, Graveyard poets, Romanticism, Sonnet	11	257	12
Katharine Tynan	1859-1931	IRL	Victorian, Christian, Feminism	164	258	7	74%
Giorgos Seferis	1900-1971	GRC		3	259	2
Allen Tate	1899-1979	USA	Formalism, Fugitives, Laureate, Modernism, Southern Agrarians	74	260	1	60%
Felicia Dorothea Hemans	1793-1835	ENG	Romanticism	181	261	20	82%
Isaac Rosenberg	1890-1918	ENG	War	19	262	15	76%
Robert Laurence Binyon	1869-1943	ENG	War	398	263	78
Sir Henry Newbolt	1862-1938	ENG	Victorian	80	264	4
Padraic Colum	1881-1972	IRL	Children	109	265	9
Charles Kingsley	1819-1875	ENG	Children	85	266	10	89%
Alden Nowlan	1933-1983	CAN	Playwright	5	267	7	42%
Paul Eluard	1895-1952	FRA	Surrealism, Haiku, Dada	56	268	5	94%
Lizette Woodworth Reese	1856-1935	USA	Nature	10	269	19
Lord Alfred Douglas	1870-1945	ENG	Rhymers club, Homoerotism	30	270	2	93%
Anais Nin	1903-1977	CUB/USA	Erotism, Feminism	2	271	182
Thomas Traherne	1636-1674	ENG	Metaphysical poets, Christian	33	272	1
Ho Xuan Huong	1772-1822	VNM		16	273	4
Edward Fitzgerald	1809-1883	ENG	Agnosticism, Bipolar disorder, Pessimism	8	274	9
Aeschylus	-525--431	GRC		13	275	1	81%
Anna Swirszczynska	1909-1984	POL	Erotism	7	276	3	86%
Jane Taylor	1783-1824	ENG	Romanticism, Children	34	277	23	79%
James Russell Lowell	1819-1891	USA	Bipolar disorder, Fireside poets, Romanticism, Slavery, Vernacular	313	278	45	68%
Richard Crashaw	1612-1649	ENG	Metaphysical poets	33	279	6
Katharine Lee Bates	1859-1929	USA		103	280	14	70%
Frances Cornford	1886-1960	ENG		12	281	6
Georg Trakl	1887-1914	DEU	Committed suicide, Bipolar disorder, Expressionism	13	282	2	90%
Ovid	-43--17	ROM	Epic	29	283	4	87%
Harriet Monroe	1860-1936	USA		82	284	2
John Dryden	1631-1700	ENG	Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Laureate, Satire	104	285	5	80%
Giacomo Leopardi	1798-1837	ITA	Atheism, National, Pessimism, Philosophy, Romanticism	41	286	4	92%
Gabriela Mistral	1889-1957	CHL	Christian, National, Lyric, Postmodernism	14	287	10	77%
Mary Darby Robinson	1758-1800	ENG	Della Cruscans, Romanticism, Didactism, Slavery	143	288	7	49%
Larry Levis	1946-1996	USA		29	289	0	77%
Victoria Sackville West	1892-1962	ENG		17	290	6
Edward Dyson	1865-1931	AUS	Humour	94	291	6
Gwen Harwood	1920-1995	AUS	Playwright	9	292	8
Countee Cullen	1903-1946	AFR/USA	Formalism, Harlem Renaissance	34	293	112	79%
William Allingham	1824-1889	IRL	Victorian	51	294	11
Amir Khusro	1253-1325	IND	Mysticism, Medieval	29	295	67	86%
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	1874-1936	ENG	Christian, Deism, Fantasy, Modernism, Mystery, Tory	152	296	16
James McIntyre	1827-1906	CAN		17	297	1	76%
Emma Lazarus	1849-1887	USA	Victorian	104	298	12
Conrad Potter Aiken	1889-1973	USA	Laureate, Playwright	98	299	6	87%
Andrew Lang	1844-1912	SCO	Children	111	300	2
Katherine Mansfield	1888-1923	NZL/ENG	Modernism, Symbolism, National	66	301	40	83%
Joseph Addison	1672-1719	ENG		17	302	1	74%
Donald Justice	1925-2004	USA	Formalism	32	303	91
Ann Taylor	1782-1866	ENG	Children	47	304	7	82%
Kobayashi Issa	1763-1827	JAP	Haiku	54	305	21	80%
John Suckling	1609-1642	ENG	Metaphysical poets, Cavalier poets, Tribe of Ben	17	306	3
Jean Toomer	1894-1967	AFR/USA	Harlem Renaissance, Slavery	17	307	20
Tristan Tzara	1896-1963	ROU/FRA	Dada, Free verse, Nihilism, Satire, Surrealism	6	308	2
Francis Thompson	1859-1907	ENG	Rhymers club, Bipolar disorder, Victorian	90	309	9
Ada Cambridge	1844-1926	ENG/AUS		84	310	6	64%
Aphra Behn	1640-1689	ENG	Libertine	17	311	1
Charles Causley	1917-2003	ENG	Children	12	312	44
Duncan Campbell Scott	1862-1947	CAN	Confederation poets	74	313	2	72%
Hans Christian Andersen	1805-1875	DNK	Romanticism, Children	4	314	6
Herman Melville	1819-1891	USA	Dark romanticism, Philosophy	90	315	19
John Wesley	1703-1791	ENG	Methodism	2	316	3	90%
Bulleh Shah	1680-1758	PAK	Mysticism, Spiritualism	6	317	19
Edith Nesbit	1858-1924	ENG	Freemasons, Children	308	318	16	20%
Stephen Vincent Benet	1898-1943	USA	Fantasy	98	319	22
Mao Zedong	1893-1976	CHN		36	320	16	78%
Horace	-65--8	ROM	Satire	1	321	0	81%
Jupiter Hammon	1711-1800	AFR/USA		4	322	1
Andre Marie de Chenier	1762-1794	GRC/FRA	Romanticism	81	323	1
Adam Lindsay Gordon	1833-1870	AUS	Committed suicide, Bipolar disorder, National	69	324	59	69%
Marianne Moore	1887-1972	USA	Imagism, Modernism, Others, Anti-meter	20	325	15
Ruben Dario	1867-1916	NIC	National	24	326	31	64%
Etheridge Knight	1931-1991	AFR/USA	Black Arts Movement	9	327	9
Jose Asuncion Silva	1865-1896	COL	Committed suicide, Modernism	8	328	9	77%
Arthur Henry Adams	1872-1936	AUS		77	329	6
Louis MacNeice	1907-1963	IRL	Auden Group, Formalism, Bipolar disorder	17	330	34
Beatrix Potter	1866-1943	ENG	Children	8	331	15
William Brighty Rands	1823-1882	ENG	Children, Victorian	14	332	52
Andre Breton	1896-1966	FRA	Surrealism, Dada, Atheism	7	333	2	84%
Fernando Pessoa	1888-1935	POR	Agnosticism, Atheism, Avant-garde, Bipolar disorder, Homoerotism, Modernism, National, Spiritualism	49	334	10
Friedrich Holderlin	1770-1843	DEU	Romanticism, Bipolar disorder	19	335	1
Jane Austen	1775-1817	ENG	Gothic, Realism	13	336	5
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz	1651-1695	SPA	Enlightenment, Feminism	9	337	30	63%
Hermann Hesse	1877-1962	DEU/CHE	Didactism, Freemasons	13	338	3	91%
Zbigniew Herbert	1924-1998	POL	Playwright	38	339	1
Friedrich Nietzsche	1844-1900	DEU	Existentialism, Expressionism, Neoromanticism, Nihilism, Philosophy, Psychology	2	340	14
Francis Ledwidge	1887-1917	IRL		45	341	5
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan	1904-1948	IND	Children	2	342	152
France Preseren	1800-1849	SVN	Romanticism, National	24	343	0
Charlotte Mary Mew	1869-1928	ENG	Victorian, Committed suicide, Modernism	20	344	7	81%
Thomas Carew	1595-1640	ENG	Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Cavalier poets, Tribe of Ben	34	345	4
Augusta Davies Webster	1837-1894	ENG	Blank verse, Victorian	83	346	2
Henry Howard	1517-1547	ENG	Elizabethan, Renaissance	27	347	2
Henry King	1592-1669	ENG		77	348	1
Howard Nemerov	1920-1991	USA	Formalism, Laureate	38	349	2	58%
Piet Hein	1905-1996	DNK		56	350	2
Arthur St. John Adcock	1864-1930	ENG		2	351	0
Stephen Spender	1909-1995	ENG	Auden Group, Formalism, Laureate	17	352	1
James Thomson	1700-1748	SCO	Blank verse, Classicism, Pessimism	91	353	1	57%
Laurie Lee	1914-1997	ENG	New Romantics	8	354	5
George Essex Evans	1863-1909	AUS	Fantasy	62	355	13
Lucy Maud Montgomery	1874-1942	CAN	Children	98	356	2	80%
Matthew Prior	1664-1721	ENG		189	357	4
Amelia Opie	1769-1853	ENG	Romanticism	45	358	2	31%
Robert Nichols	1893-1944	ENG	War	30	359	5
Dinah Maria Mulock	1826-1887	ENG	Victorian	139	360	5
Forough Farrokhzad	1935-1967	IRN		5	361	3
George Eliot	1819-1880	ENG	Atheism, Realism, Victorian	1	362	0
Paul Verlaine	1844-1896	FRA	Christian, Decadents, Homoerotism, Libertine, Parnassianism, Symbolism	1	366	0
Theophile Gautier	1811-1872	FRA	Parnassianism, Decadents, Romanticism, Symbolism, Modernism	1	367	0
Stephane Mallarme	1842-1898	FRA	Symbolism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism	1	368	0
Virgil	-70--19	ROM		1	369	0	87%
Sergei Yesenin	1895-1925	RUS	Silver age, Peasant	1	370	0
Mikhail Lermontov	1814-1841	RUS	Golden age, Romanticism, Realism	1	371	0
Vladimir Mayakovsky	1893-1930	RUS	Silver age, Futurism, Realism, Free verse, Fantasy	1	372	0
Nikolay Nekrasov	1821-1878	RUS	Golden age, Peasant	1	373	0
Afanasy Fet	1820-1892	RUS	Golden age, Romanticism	1	374	0
Marina Tsvetaeva	1892-1941	RUS	Silver age, Christian, Committed suicide	1	375	0

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