Rank| William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | ENG | Blank verse, Classicism, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Didactism, Sonnet, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Homoerotism | 198 | 3 |
| Christopher Marlowe | 1564-1593 | ENG | Atheism, Blank verse, Elizabethan, Renaissance | 10 | 171 |
| Ben Jonson | 1572-1637 | ENG | Blank verse, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Laureate, Renaissance | 93 | 118 |
| John Milton | 1608-1674 | ENG | Blank verse, Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Epic, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet, Vernacular | 88 | 28 |
| John Dryden | 1631-1700 | ENG | Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Laureate, Satire | 104 | 285 |
| James Thomson | 1700-1748 | SCO | Blank verse, Classicism, Pessimism | 91 | 353 |
| William Cowper | 1731-1800 | ENG | Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Graveyard poets, Romanticism | 403 | 161 |
| William Wordsworth | 1770-1850 | ENG | Blank verse, Lake Poets, Laureate, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet | 357 | 10 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834 | ENG | Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Dark romanticism, Gothic, Lake Poets, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Transcendentalism | 176 | 22 |
| Charles Lamb | 1775-1834 | ENG | Romanticism, Children, Blank verse | 130 | 221 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822 | ENG | Aestheticism, Anarchism, Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Didactism, Epic, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet | 325 | 18 |
| Alexander Pushkin | 1799-1837 | RUS | Agnosticism, Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Fantasy, Freemasons, Golden age, National, Realism, Romanticism | 73 | 34 |
| Augusta Davies Webster | 1837-1894 | ENG | Blank verse, Victorian | 83 | 346 |
| Robert Frost | 1874-1963 | USA | Blank verse, Didactism, Dymock poets, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism, National, Optimism, Realism, Sonnet, Vernacular | 144 | 1 |
| Wallace Stevens | 1879-1955 | USA | Blank verse, Cubism, Formalism, Modernism | 85 | 35 |
| Harold Hart Crane | 1899-1932 | USA | Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Committed suicide, Difficult, Fantasy, Formalism, Modernism | 33 | 174 |
| John Betjeman | 1906-1984 | ENG | Blank verse, Laureate | 53 | 251 |
