Rank| Dante Alighieri | 1265-1321 | ITA | Christian, Classicism, Epic, Medieval, National, Sonnet, Vernacular | 21 | 32 |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1340-1400 | ENG | Children, Didactism, Fantasy, Laureate, Medieval, Slavery, Vernacular | 61 | 38 |
| John Milton | 1608-1674 | ENG | Blank verse, Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Epic, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet, Vernacular | 88 | 28 |
| Andrew Marvell | 1621-1678 | ENG | Enlightenment, Metaphysical poets, Vernacular | 62 | 42 |
| Robert Burns | 1759-1796 | SCO | Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Freemasons, Laureate, National, Romanticism, Slavery, Song, Vernacular | 119 | 31 |
| Victor Hugo | 1802-1885 | FRA | Bipolar disorder, Deism, Didactism, Fantasy, National, Romanticism, Slavery, Vernacular | 281 | 141 |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1807-1882 | USA | Didactism, Fireside poets, Romanticism, Spasmodic, Vernacular, Victorian | 463 | 29 |
| James Russell Lowell | 1819-1891 | USA | Bipolar disorder, Fireside poets, Romanticism, Slavery, Vernacular | 313 | 278 |
| Mark Twain | 1835-1910 | USA | Children, Deism, Didactism, Humour, Realism, Satire, Vernacular, Victorian | 7 | 212 |
| James Whitcomb Riley | 1849-1916 | USA | Humour, Sentimentalism, Vernacular, Victorian | 470 | 72 |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1872-1906 | AFR/USA | Fantasy, Realism, Slavery, Vernacular | 430 | 19 |
| Robert Frost | 1874-1963 | USA | Blank verse, Didactism, Dymock poets, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism, National, Optimism, Realism, Sonnet, Vernacular | 144 | 1 |
| Vachel Lindsay | 1879-1931 | USA | Bipolar disorder, Committed suicide, Fantasy, Jazz, Slavery, Song, Vernacular | 204 | 156 |
| William Carlos Williams | 1883-1963 | USA | Beat, Imagism, Modernism, Others, Sentimentalism, Vernacular | 111 | 78 |
| Jorge Luis Borges | 1899-1986 | ARG | Agnosticism, Fantasy, Haiku, National, Philosophy, Postmodernism, Symbolism, Vernacular | 17 | 149 |
| A.S.J. Tessimond | 1902-1962 | ENG | Vernacular, Bipolar disorder | 44 | 233 |
| Yehuda Amichai | 1924-2000 | ISR | Vernacular, Laureate, Philosophy | 43 | 193 |
| Adrienne Rich | 1929-2012 | USA | Fantasy, Feminism, Social, Vernacular | 33 | 142 |
