Rank| John Donne | 1572-1631 | ENG | Christian, Didactism, Elizabethan, Enlightenment, Fantasy, Metaphysical poets, Philosophy, Renaissance, Satire, Sonnet | 172 | 27 |
| George Herbert | 1593-1633 | ENG | Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Sonnet | 173 | 102 |
| Thomas Carew | 1595-1640 | ENG | Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Cavalier poets, Tribe of Ben | 34 | 345 |
| John Suckling | 1609-1642 | ENG | Metaphysical poets, Cavalier poets, Tribe of Ben | 17 | 306 |
| Richard Crashaw | 1612-1649 | ENG | Metaphysical poets | 33 | 279 |
| Andrew Marvell | 1621-1678 | ENG | Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Vernacular | 62 | 42 |
| Henry Vaughan | 1621-1695 | WEL | Metaphysical poets, Christian | 53 | 213 |
| Thomas Traherne | 1636-1674 | ENG | Metaphysical poets, Christian | 33 | 272 |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot | 1888-1965 | USA/ENG | Bipolar disorder, Children, Christian, Existentialism, Expressionism, Humanism, Jazz, Metaphysical poets, Modernism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Symbolism | 12 | 4 |