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