Rank| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1340-1400 | ENG | Children, Didactism, Fantasy, Laureate, Medieval, Slavery, Vernacular | 61 | 38 |
| Edmund Spenser | 1552-1599 | ENG | Elizabethan, Fantasy, Gothic, Laureate, Renaissance, Sonnet | 171 | 100 |
| William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | ENG | Blank verse, Classicism, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Didactism, Sonnet, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Homoerotism | 198 | 3 |
| John Donne | 1572-1631 | ENG | Christian, Didactism, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Fantasy, Metaphysical poets, Philosophy, Renaissance, Satire, Sonnet | 172 | 27 |
| Robert Herrick | 1591-1674 | ENG | Cavalier poets, Didactism, Elizabethan, Fantasy, Tribe of Ben | 276 | 40 |
| 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 |
| Victor Hugo | 1802-1885 | FRA | Bipolar disorder, Deism, Didactism, Fantasy, National, Romanticism, Slavery, Vernacular | 281 | 141 |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | 1807-1892 | USA | Christian, Fantasy, Fireside poets, Slavery, Victorian | 484 | 98 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809-1849 | USA | Bipolar disorder, Dark romanticism, Didactism, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Symbolism, Victorian | 63 | 9 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | 1809-1892 | ENG | Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Fantasy, Laureate, Romanticism, Spasmodic, Victorian, War | 180 | 16 |
| Charles Dickens | 1812-1870 | ENG | Children, Didactism, Fantasy, Gothic, Realism, Satire, Victorian | 10 | 112 |
| Walt Whitman | 1819-1892 | USA | Humanism, Realism, Transcendentalism, Free verse, Didactism, Deism, Pantheism, Bipolar disorder, War, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Expressionism, Homoerotism | 331 | 11 |
| George MacDonald | 1824-1905 | SCO | Children, Christian, Fantasy | 435 | 230 |
| Emily Dickinson | 1830-1886 | USA | Bipolar disorder, Christian, Didactism, Difficult, Fantasy, Homoerotism, Modernism, National, Spiritualism | 1063 | 2 |
| William Morris | 1834-1896 | ENG | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Freemasons, Fantasy | 97 | 159 |
| Oscar Wilde | 1854-1900 | IRL | Aestheticism, Anarchism, Children, Decadents, Didactism, Fantasy, Freemasons, Gothic, Homoerotism, Symbolism, Victorian | 105 | 37 |
| George Essex Evans | 1863-1909 | AUS | Fantasy | 62 | 355 |
| William Butler Yeats | 1865-1939 | IRL | Fantasy, Formalism, Modernism, Neoromanticism, Rhymers club, Sonnet, Spiritualism, Symbolism, Victorian | 378 | 5 |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1872-1906 | AFR/USA | Fantasy, Realism, Slavery, Vernacular | 430 | 19 |
| Robert W Service | 1874-1958 | CAN | Fantasy, Freemasons, Optimism, Slavery, War | 837 | 49 |
| Amy Lowell | 1874-1925 | USA | Fantasy, Free verse, Imagism, Modernism | 202 | 120 |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 1874-1936 | ENG | Christian, Deism, Fantasy, Modernism, Mystery, Tory | 152 | 296 |
| Vachel Lindsay | 1879-1931 | USA | Bipolar disorder, Committed suicide, Fantasy, Jazz, Slavery, Song, Vernacular | 204 | 156 |
| J R R Tolkien | 1892-1973 | ENG | Children, Fantasy, Myth | 82 | 152 |
| Vladimir Mayakovsky | 1893-1930 | RUS | Silver age, Futurism, Realism, Free verse, Fantasy | 1 | 372 |
| Stephen Vincent Benet | 1898-1943 | USA | Fantasy | 98 | 319 |
| Jorge Luis Borges | 1899-1986 | ARG | Agnosticism, Fantasy, Haiku, National, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Symbolism, Vernacular | 17 | 149 |
| Harold Hart Crane | 1899-1932 | USA | Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Committed suicide, Difficult, Fantasy, Formalism, Modernism | 33 | 174 |
| Robert Desnos | 1900-1945 | FRA | Surrealism, Fantasy | 13 | 223 |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926-1997 | USA | Beat, Confessionalism, Fantasy, Free verse, Homoerotism, Modernism, Neoromanticism, New American Poetry, Romanticism, Surrealism, Transgressive fiction | 50 | 61 |
| Adrienne Rich | 1929-2012 | USA | Fantasy, Feminism, Social, Vernacular | 33 | 142 |
