RankGeoffrey Chaucer | 1340-1400 | ENG | Children, Didactism, Fantasy, Laureate, Medieval, Slavery, Vernacular | 61 | 38 |
Jonathan Swift | 1667-1745 | IRL | Children, Didactism, Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, Satire | 104 | 132 |
Charles Lamb | 1775-1834 | ENG | Romanticism, Children, Blank verse | 130 | 221 |
Ann Taylor | 1782-1866 | ENG | Children | 47 | 304 |
Jane Taylor | 1783-1824 | ENG | Romanticism, Children | 34 | 277 |
Hans Christian Andersen | 1805-1875 | DNK | Romanticism, Children | 4 | 314 |
Edward Lear | 1812-1888 | ENG | Children, Humour, Nonsense, Victorian | 159 | 46 |
Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | ENG | Children, Didactism, Fantasy, Gothic, Realism, Satire, Victorian | 10 | 112 |
Charles Kingsley | 1819-1875 | ENG | Children | 85 | 266 |
William Brighty Rands | 1823-1882 | ENG | Children, Victorian | 14 | 332 |
George MacDonald | 1824-1905 | SCO | Children, Christian, Fantasy | 435 | 230 |
Lewis Carroll | 1832-1898 | ENG | Children, Deism, Neoromanticism, Nonsense, Victorian | 74 | 84 |
Louisa May Alcott | 1832-1888 | USA | Children, Feminism, Slavery, Transcendentalism | 97 | 205 |
Mark Twain | 1835-1910 | USA | Children, Deism, Didactism, Humour, Realism, Satire, Vernacular, Victorian | 7 | 212 |
Andrew Lang | 1844-1912 | SCO | Children | 111 | 300 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1894 | SCO | Atheism, Children, Gothic, Slavery, Victorian | 224 | 44 |
Eugene Field | 1850-1895 | USA | New American Poetry, Children | 283 | 113 |
Oscar Wilde | 1854-1900 | IRL | Aestheticism, Anarchism, Children, Decadents, Didactism, Fantasy, Freemasons, Gothic, Homoerotism, Symbolism, Victorian | 105 | 37 |
Edith Nesbit | 1858-1924 | ENG | Freemasons, Children | 308 | 318 |
Rudyard Kipling | 1865-1936 | ENG | Children, Didactism, Freemasons, Modernism, Neoromanticism, Nonsense, Victorian, War | 490 | 36 |
Beatrix Potter | 1866-1943 | ENG | Children | 8 | 331 |
Hilaire Belloc | 1870-1953 | ENG | Children, Christian, Humour | 102 | 83 |
Walter de la Mare | 1873-1956 | ENG | Children, Georgian poets, Gothic | 89 | 82 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1874-1942 | CAN | Children | 98 | 356 |
Carl Sandburg | 1878-1967 | USA | Children, Imagism, National, Nonsense, Others | 452 | 71 |
John Masefield | 1878-1967 | ENG | Children, Laureate | 46 | 89 |
Alfred Noyes | 1880-1958 | ENG | Children, Gothic, Playwright, Romanticism | 107 | 116 |
Padraic Colum | 1881-1972 | IRL | Children | 109 | 265 |
Thomas Stearns Eliot | 1888-1965 | USA/ENG | Bipolar disorder, Children, Christian, Existentialism, Expressionism, Humanism, Jazz, Metaphysical poets, Modernism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Symbolism | 12 | 4 |
J R R Tolkien | 1892-1973 | ENG | Children, Fantasy, Myth | 82 | 152 |
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan | 1904-1948 | IND | Children | 2 | 342 |
Randall Jarrell | 1914-1965 | USA | Bipolar disorder, Children, Formalism, Fugitives, Laureate, Modernism, Neoromanticism, War | 28 | 250 |
Roald Dahl | 1916-1990 | ENG | Children | 26 | 54 |
Charles Causley | 1917-2003 | ENG | Children | 12 | 312 |
Spike Milligan | 1918-2002 | IRL | Children, Humour, Nonsense | 51 | 77 |
Shel Silverstein | 1930-1999 | USA | Children, Humour, Nonsense | 225 | 43 |
Ted Hughes | 1930-1998 | ENG | Children, Confessionalism, Laureate, The Movement | 33 | 87 |
Judith Viorst | 1931- | USA | Children | 11 | 167 |