Rank| Matsuo Basho | 1644-1694 | JAP | Beat, Haiku, Imagism | 110 | 86 |
| William Carlos Williams | 1883-1963 | USA | Beat, Imagism, Modernism, Others, Sentimentalism, Vernacular | 111 | 78 |
| Kenneth Patchen | 1911-1972 | USA | Beat, Anarchism, Jazz | 26 | 134 |
| Jack Kerouac | 1922-1969 | USA | Beat, Existentialism, Neoromanticism, New American Poetry | 16 | 114 |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926-1997 | USA | Beat, Confessionalism, Fantasy, Free verse, Homoerotism, Modernism, Neoromanticism, New American Poetry, Romanticism, Surrealism, Transgressive fiction | 50 | 61 |
| Wallace Berman | 1926-1976 | USA | Beat | 4 | 163 |
| Gregory Corso | 1930-2001 | USA | New American Poetry, Beat, Free verse | 17 | 224 |
| Richard Brautigan | 1935-1982 | USA | Beat, Committed suicide, Postmodernism | 58 | 170 |
| Billy Collins | 1941- | USA | Beat, Humour, Laureate, Optimism | 10 | 66 |