RankOliver Wendell Holmes | 1809-1894 | USA | Fireside poets, Humour, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Victorian | 343 | 129 |
Robert Browning | 1812-1889 | ENG | Victorian, Humour, History | 148 | 23 |
Edward Lear | 1812-1888 | ENG | Children, Humour, Nonsense, Victorian | 159 | 46 |
William Topaz McGonagall | 1825-1902 | SCO | Victorian, Humour | 211 | 139 |
Mark Twain | 1835-1910 | USA | Children, Deism, Didactism, Humour, Realism, Satire, Vernacular, Victorian | 7 | 212 |
William Schwenck Gilbert | 1836-1911 | ENG | Humour | 174 | 256 |
James Whitcomb Riley | 1849-1916 | USA | Humour, Sentimentalism, Vernacular, Victorian | 470 | 72 |
William Henry Drummond | 1854-1907 | IRL/CAN | Humour | 96 | 209 |
Edward Dyson | 1865-1931 | AUS | Humour | 94 | 291 |
Hilaire Belloc | 1870-1953 | ENG | Children, Christian, Humour | 102 | 83 |
Ogden Nash | 1902-1971 | USA | Humour | 123 | 62 |
Stevie Smith | 1902-1971 | ENG | Dark, Humour | 40 | 157 |
Spike Milligan | 1918-2002 | IRL | Children, Humour, Nonsense | 51 | 77 |
Shel Silverstein | 1930-1999 | USA | Children, Humour, Nonsense | 225 | 43 |
Billy Collins | 1941- | USA | Beat, Humour, Laureate, Optimism | 10 | 66 |