Rank| Dante Alighieri | 1265-1321 | ITA | Christian, Classicism, Epic, Medieval, National, Sonnet, Vernacular | 21 | 32 |
| William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | ENG | Blank verse, Classicism, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Didactism, Sonnet, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Homoerotism | 198 | 3 |
| John Dryden | 1631-1700 | ENG | Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Laureate, Satire | 104 | 285 |
| Alexander Pope | 1688-1744 | ENG | Classicism, Deism, Didactism, Enlightenment, Freemasons, Satire | 82 | 48 |
| James Thomson | 1700-1748 | SCO | Blank verse, Classicism, Pessimism | 91 | 353 |
| Thomas Gray | 1716-1771 | ENG | Bipolar disorder, Classicism, Enlightenment, Gothic, Graveyard poets, Romanticism, Sonnet | 11 | 257 |
| William Cowper | 1731-1800 | ENG | Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Classicism, Enlightenment, Graveyard poets, Romanticism | 403 | 161 |
| Khalil Gibran | 1883-1931 | LBN/USA | Christian, Classicism, Mysticism, National, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Romanticism, Slavery, Surrealism, Symbolism | 74 | 55 |
