RankGeoffrey Chaucer | 1340-1400 | ENG | Children, Didactism, Fantasy, Laureate, Medieval, Slavery, Vernacular | 61 | 38 |
William Shakespeare | 1564-1616 | ENG | Blank verse, Classicism, Renaissance, Elizabethan, Didactism, Sonnet, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Homoerotism | 198 | 3 |
John Milton | 1608-1674 | ENG | Blank verse, Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Epic, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet, Vernacular | 88 | 28 |
Isaac Watts | 1674-1748 | ENG | Devotional, Pantheism, Slavery | 481 | 101 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1749-1831 | DEU | Epic, Freemasons, National, Pantheism, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Sturm und Drang | 364 | 47 |
Charlotte Smith | 1749-1806 | ENG | Gothic, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet | 129 | 138 |
William Blake | 1757-1827 | ENG | Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Mysticism, Romanticism, Slavery | 127 | 12 |
Mary Darby Robinson | 1758-1800 | ENG | Della Cruscans, Romanticism, Didactism, Slavery | 143 | 288 |
Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | SCO | Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Freemasons, Laureate, National, Romanticism, Slavery, Song, Vernacular | 119 | 31 |
Friedrich Schiller | 1759-1805 | DEU | Deism, Freemasons, Gothic, National, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Sturm und Drang | 165 | 222 |
William Wordsworth | 1770-1850 | ENG | Blank verse, Lake Poets, Laureate, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet | 357 | 10 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772-1834 | ENG | Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Dark romanticism, Gothic, Lake Poets, Philosophy, Romanticism, Slavery, Transcendentalism | 176 | 22 |
Robert Southey | 1774-1843 | ENG | Lake Poets, Laureate, Romanticism, Slavery | 96 | 216 |
Thomas Moore | 1779-1852 | IRL | National, Romanticism, Slavery, Song | 158 | 228 |
George Gordon Byron | 1788-1824 | ENG | Bipolar disorder, Dark romanticism, Libertine, Romanticism, Slavery | 292 | 26 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792-1822 | ENG | Aestheticism, Anarchism, Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Didactism, Epic, Fantasy, Gothic, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet | 325 | 18 |
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 |
Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865 | USA | Didactism, Deism, Slavery | 9 | 210 |
Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862 | USA | Anarchism, Didactism, Pantheism, Philosophy, Sage writers, Slavery, Transcendentalism | 35 | 39 |
Walt Whitman | 1819-1892 | USA | Humanism, Realism, Transcendentalism, Free verse, Didactism, Deism, Pantheism, Bipolar disorder, War, Slavery, National, Fantasy, Expressionism, Homoerotism | 331 | 11 |
James Russell Lowell | 1819-1891 | USA | Bipolar disorder, Fireside poets, Romanticism, Slavery, Vernacular | 313 | 278 |
Louisa May Alcott | 1832-1888 | USA | Children, Feminism, Slavery, Transcendentalism | 97 | 205 |
Sidney Lanier | 1842-1881 | USA | Slavery, Free verse | 98 | 192 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | 1850-1894 | SCO | Atheism, Children, Gothic, Slavery, Victorian | 224 | 44 |
Henry Lawson | 1867-1922 | AUS | Realism, Slavery, National | 499 | 59 |
Edgar Lee Masters | 1869-1950 | USA | Slavery, Playwright | 272 | 115 |
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 |
Vachel Lindsay | 1879-1931 | USA | Bipolar disorder, Committed suicide, Fantasy, Jazz, Slavery, Song, Vernacular | 204 | 156 |
Khalil Gibran | 1883-1931 | LBN/USA | Christian, Classicism, Mysticism, National, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Romanticism, Slavery, Surrealism, Symbolism | 74 | 55 |
Robinson Jeffers | 1887-1962 | USA | Anti-meter, Didactism, Pantheism, Slavery | 160 | 108 |
Jean Toomer | 1894-1967 | AFR/USA | Harlem Renaissance, Slavery | 17 | 307 |
Langston Hughes | 1902-1967 | AFR/USA | Didactism, Harlem Renaissance, Jazz, Modernism, Slavery | 91 | 13 |
Anne Sexton | 1928-1974 | USA | Bipolar disorder, Committed suicide, Confessionalism, Slavery | 188 | 60 |