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*[[Fleur Adcock]] (born 1934) |
*[[Fleur Adcock]] (born 1934) |
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*[[Joseph Addison]] (1672-1719) |
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*[[Mark Akenside]] (1721-1770) |
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*[[Maya Angelou]] |
*[[Maya Angelou]] |
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*[[Simon Armitage]] (born 1963) |
*[[Simon Armitage]] (born 1963) |
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*[[Matthew Arnold]] (1822-1888) |
*[[Matthew Arnold]] (1822-1888) |
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*[[John Ashbery]] |
*[[John Ashbery]] |
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*[[Thomas Ashe]] (1836-1889) |
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*[[W. H. Auden]] (1907-1973) |
*[[W. H. Auden]] (1907-1973) |
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*Sir [[Robert Ayton]] (1570-1638) |
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*[[Joanna Baillie]] (1762-1851) |
*[[Joanna Baillie]] (1762-1851) |
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*[[Amiri Baraka]] |
*[[Amiri Baraka]] |
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*[[Anna Letitia Barbauld]] (1743-1825) |
*[[Anna Letitia Barbauld]] (1743-1825) |
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*[[John Barbour]] (died 1395) |
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*[[Richard Barnefield]] (1574-1627) |
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*[[William Barnes]] (1801-1886) |
*[[William Barnes]] (1801-1886) |
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*[[Francis Beaumont]] (1586-1616) |
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*[[Aphra Behn]] (1640-1689) |
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*[[Gwendolyn B. Bennett]] |
*[[Gwendolyn B. Bennett]] |
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*[[John Berryman]] |
*[[John Berryman]] |
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*[[William Blake]] (1757-1827) |
*[[William Blake]] (1757-1827) |
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*[[Edmund Blunden]] |
*[[Edmund Blunden]] |
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*[[Wilfrid Scawen Blunt]] (1840-?) |
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*[[Eavan Boland]] (born 1944) |
*[[Eavan Boland]] (born 1944) |
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*[[Arna Wendell Bontemps]] |
*[[Arna Wendell Bontemps]] |
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*[[Marx Alexander Boyd]] (1563-1601) |
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*[[Allison Boyer]] |
*[[Allison Boyer]] |
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*[[Daniel C. Boyer]] (born 1971) |
*[[Daniel C. Boyer]] (born 1971) |
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*[[Nicholas Breton]] (1542-1626) |
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*[[Robert Bridges]] (1844-1930) |
*[[Robert Bridges]] (1844-1930) |
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*[[Emily Brontë]] (1818-1848) |
*[[Emily Brontë]] (1818-1848) |
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*[[Gwendolyn Brooks]] |
*[[Gwendolyn Brooks]] |
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*[[Sterling A. Brown]] |
*[[Sterling A. Brown]] |
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*[[Thomas Edward Brown]] (1830-1897) |
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*[[William Browne]] (1588-1643) |
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*[[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] (1806-1861) |
*[[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] (1806-1861) |
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*[[Robert Browning]] (1812-1889) |
*[[Robert Browning]] (1812-1889) |
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*[[William S. Burroughs]] (1914-1997) |
*[[William S. Burroughs]] (1914-1997) |
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*[[George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron]] (1788-1824) |
*[[George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron]] (1788-1824) |
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*[[Thomas Campbell]] (1774-1844) |
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*[[Thomas Campion]] (1567-1620) |
*[[Thomas Campion]] (1567-1620) |
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*[[Mary Wedderburn Cannan]] (1893-1973) |
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*[[Thomas Carew]] (1595-1639) |
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*[[Henry Carey]] (1693-1743) |
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*[[Lewis Carroll]] (1832-1898) |
*[[Lewis Carroll]] (1832-1898) |
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*[[William Cartwright]] (1611-1643) |
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*[[George Chapman]] (1560-1634) |
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*[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] (ca.1343-1400) |
*[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] (ca.1343-1400) |
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*[[John Clare]] (1793-1864) |
*[[John Clare]] (1793-1864) |
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*[[Arthur Hugh Clough]] (1819-1861) |
*[[Arthur Hugh Clough]] (1819-1861) |
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*[[Wanda Coleman]] |
*[[Wanda Coleman]] |
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*[[Hartley Coleridge]] (1796-1849) |
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*[[Mary Elizabeth Coleridge]] (1861-1907) |
*[[Mary Elizabeth Coleridge]] (1861-1907) |
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*[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] (1772-1834) |
*[[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] (1772-1834) |
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*[[William Collins (poet)|William Collins]] (1721-1759) |
*[[William Collins (poet)|William Collins]] (1721-1759) |
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*[[William Congreve]] (1670-1729) |
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*[[Henry Constable]] (1562-1613) |
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*[[Wendy Cope]] |
*[[Wendy Cope]] |
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*[[James D. Corrothers]] |
*[[James D. Corrothers]] |
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*[[Jayne Cortez]] |
*[[Jayne Cortez]] |
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*[[Abraham Cowley]] (1618-1667) |
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*[[William Cowper]] (1731-1800) |
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*[[George Crabbe]] (1754-1832) |
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*[[Hart Crane]] |
*[[Hart Crane]] |
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*[[Richard Crashaw]] (1613-1649) |
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*[[Countee Cullen]] |
*[[Countee Cullen]] |
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*[[E. E. Cummings]] (1894-1962) |
*[[E. E. Cummings]] (1894-1962) |
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*[[Allan Cunningham]] (1784-1842) |
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*[[Samuel Daniel]] (1562-1619) |
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*Sir [[William Davenant]] (1606-1668) |
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*Sir [[John Davies]] (1569-1626) |
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*[[Thomas Dekker]] (1575-1641) |
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*[[Emily Dickinson]] (1830-1886) |
*[[Emily Dickinson]] (1830-1886) |
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*[[John Donne]] (1572-1631) |
*[[John Donne]] (1572-1631) |
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*[[Rita Dove]] |
*[[Rita Dove]] |
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*[[Ernest Dowson]] (1867-1900) |
*[[Ernest Dowson]] (1867-1900) |
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*[[Michael Drayton]] (1563-1631) |
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*[[William Drummond]] (1585-1649) |
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*[[Paul Laurence Dunbar]] (1872-1906) |
*[[Paul Laurence Dunbar]] (1872-1906) |
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*[[William Dunbar]] (1465-1520) |
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*[[Douglas Dunn]] (born 1942) |
*[[Douglas Dunn]] (born 1942) |
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*[[John Dryden]] (1631-1700) |
*[[John Dryden]] (1631-1700) |
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*[[John Dyer]] |
*[[John Dyer]] |
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*[[T. S. Eliot]] (1888-1965) |
*[[T. S. Eliot]] (1888-1965) |
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*[[Ebenezer Elliott]] (1781-1849) |
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*[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] (1803-1882) |
*[[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] (1803-1882) |
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*[[William Empson]] (1906-1984) |
*[[William Empson]] (1906-1984) |
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*Sir [[George Etherege]] (1635-1691) |
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*[[Mari Evans]] |
*[[Mari Evans]] |
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*Sir [[Richard Fanshawe]] (1608-1666) |
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*[[Elaine Feinstein]] |
*[[Elaine Feinstein]] |
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*[[James Fenton]] (born 1949) |
*[[James Fenton]] (born 1949) |
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*[[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]] |
*[[Lawrence Ferlinghetti]] |
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*[[Edward Fitzgerald]] (1809-1883) |
*[[Edward Fitzgerald]] (1809-1883) |
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*[[John Fletcher]] (1579-1625) |
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*[[John Ford]] (1586-1639) |
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*[[Robert Frost]] (1874-1963) |
*[[Robert Frost]] (1874-1963) |
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*[[Samuel Garth]] |
*[[Samuel Garth]] |
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*[[George Gascoigne]] (1525-1577) |
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*[[John Gay]] (1685-1732) |
*[[John Gay]] (1685-1732) |
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*[[Allen Ginsberg]] (1926-1997) |
*[[Allen Ginsberg]] (1926-1997) |
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*[[Nikki Giovanni]] |
*[[Nikki Giovanni]] |
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*[[Oliver Goldsmith]] (1728-1774) |
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*[[Robert Graves]] (1895-1985) |
*[[Robert Graves]] (1895-1985) |
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*[[Thomas Gray]] (1716-1771) |
*[[Thomas Gray]] (1716-1771) |
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*[[Robert Greene]] (1560-1592) |
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*[[Fulk Greville]], Lord Brooke (1554-1628) |
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*[[Nicholas Grimald]] (1519-1562) |
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*[[Angelina Weld Grimke]] |
*[[Angelina Weld Grimke]] |
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*[[Charlotte Forten Grimke]] |
*[[Charlotte Forten Grimke]] |
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*[[Ivor Gurney]] (1890-1937) |
*[[Ivor Gurney]] (1890-1937) |
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*[[Brion Gysin]] (1916-1986) |
*[[Brion Gysin]] (1916-1986) |
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*[[William Habington]] (1605-1654) |
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*[[Thomas Hardy]] (1840-1928) |
*[[Thomas Hardy]] (1840-1928) |
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*[[Frances E. W. Harper]] |
*[[Frances E. W. Harper]] |
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*[[Michael S. Harper]] |
*[[Michael S. Harper]] |
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*[[Tony Harrison]] (born 1937) |
*[[Tony Harrison]] (born 1937) |
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*[[Stephen Hawes]] (died 1523) |
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*[[Robert Hayden]] |
*[[Robert Hayden]] |
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*[[Seamus Heaney]] (born 1939) |
*[[Seamus Heaney]] (born 1939) |
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*[[Essex Hemphill]] |
*[[Essex Hemphill]] |
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*[[William Ernest Henley]] (1849-1903) |
*[[William Ernest Henley]] (1849-1903) |
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*[[George Herbert]] (1593- |
*[[George Herbert]] (1593-1632) |
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*[[Robert Herrick]] (1591-1674) |
*[[Robert Herrick]] (1591-1674) |
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*[[Thomas Heywood]] (157?-1650) |
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*[[Geoffrey Hill]] (born 1932) |
*[[Geoffrey Hill]] (born 1932) |
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*[[James Hogg]] (1770-1835) |
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*[[Oliver Wendell Holmes]], Sr. (1809-1894) |
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*[[Thomas Hood]] (1798-1845) |
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*[[Gerard Manley Hopkins]] (1844-1889) |
*[[Gerard Manley Hopkins]] (1844-1889) |
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*[[A. E. Housman]] (1859-1936) |
*[[A. E. Housman]] (1859-1936) |
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*[[Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey]] (1517-1547) |
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*[[Langston Hughes]] (1902-1967) |
*[[Langston Hughes]] (1902-1967) |
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*[[Ted Hughes]] (1930-1998) |
*[[Ted Hughes]] (1930-1998) |
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*[[Richard Hugo]] |
*[[Richard Hugo]] |
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*[[Alexander Hume]] (1560-1609) |
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*[[Leigh Hunt]] (1784-1859) |
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*[[Randall Jarrell]] |
*[[Randall Jarrell]] |
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*[[Robinson Jeffers]] |
*[[Robinson Jeffers]] |
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*[[Helene Johnson]] |
*[[Helene Johnson]] |
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*[[James Weldon Johnson]] (1871-1938) |
*[[James Weldon Johnson]] (1871-1938) |
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*[[Samuel Johnson]] |
*[[Samuel Johnson]] (1709-1784) |
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*[[Ben Jonson]] (1573-1637) |
*[[Ben Jonson]] (1573-1637) |
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*[[June Jordan]] |
*[[June Jordan]] |
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*[[John Keats]] (1795-1821) |
*[[John Keats]] (1795-1821) |
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*[[Jack Kerouac]] (1922-1969) |
*[[Jack Kerouac]] (1922-1969) |
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*[[Henry King]] (1592-1669) |
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*[[William King]] (1663-1712) |
*[[William King]] (1663-1712) |
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*[[Rudyard Kipling]] |
*[[Rudyard Kipling]] (1865-1936) |
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*[[Etheridge Knight]] |
*[[Etheridge Knight]] |
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*[[Charles Lamb]] (1775-1834) |
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*[[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] |
*[[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]] |
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*[[Walter Savage Landor]] (1775-1864) |
*[[Walter Savage Landor]] (1775-1864) |
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*[[Edward Lear]] (1812-1888) |
*[[Edward Lear]] (1812-1888) |
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*[[Francis Ledwidge]] |
*[[Francis Ledwidge]] |
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*[[Thomas Lodge]] (1556-1625) |
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*[[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] (1807-1882) |
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*[[Audre Lorde]] |
*[[Audre Lorde]] |
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*[[Richard Lovelace]] (1618-1658) |
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*[[Amy Lowell]] |
*[[Amy Lowell]] (1874-1925) |
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*[[Robert Lowell]] |
*[[Robert Lowell]] |
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*[[John Lydgate]] (1370-1450) |
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*[[John Lyly]] (1553-1606) |
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*[[Hugh MacDiarmid]] (1892-1978) |
*[[Hugh MacDiarmid]] (1892-1978) |
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*[[Nathaniel Mackey]] |
*[[Nathaniel Mackey]] |
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*[[Clarence Major]] |
*[[Clarence Major]] |
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*[[David Mallet]] |
*[[David Mallet]] |
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*[[Robert Mannyng of Brunne]] (1269-1340) |
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*[[Christopher Marlowe]] (1564-1593) |
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*[[John Masefield]] |
*[[John Masefield]] |
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*[[Colleen McElroy]] |
*[[Colleen McElroy]] |
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*[[Andrew Motion]] |
*[[Andrew Motion]] |
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*[[Paul Muldoon]] (born 1951) |
*[[Paul Muldoon]] (born 1951) |
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*[[Anthony Munday]] (1553-1633) |
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*[[Les Murray]] (born 1938) |
*[[Les Murray]] (born 1938) |
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*[[Ogden Nash]] (1902-1971) |
*[[Ogden Nash]] (1902-1971) |
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*[[Thomas Nashe]] (1567-1601) |
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*[[Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson]] |
*[[Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson]] |
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*[[Henry John Newbolt|Henry Newbolt]] |
*[[Henry John Newbolt|Henry Newbolt]] |
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*[[Ruth Padel]] |
*[[Ruth Padel]] |
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*[[Dorothy Parker]] |
*[[Dorothy Parker]] |
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*[[Thomas Parnell]] |
*[[Thomas Parnell]] (1670-1718) |
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*[[Thomas Love Peacock]] (1785-1866) |
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*[[George Peel]] (1558-1597) |
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*[[Ambrose Philips]] |
*[[Ambrose Philips]] |
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*[[Robert Pinsky]] |
*[[Robert Pinsky]] |
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*[[Alexander Pope]] (1688-1744) |
*[[Alexander Pope]] (1688-1744) |
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*[[Ezra Pound]] (1885-1972) |
*[[Ezra Pound]] (1885-1972) |
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*[[Matthew Prior]] (1664-1721) |
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*[[J.H. Prynne]] |
*[[J.H. Prynne]] |
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*[[Francis Quarles]] (1592-1644) |
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*[[Craig Raine]] (born 1944) |
*[[Craig Raine]] (born 1944) |
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*Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] (1552-1618) |
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*[[Thomas Randolph]] (1605-1635) |
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*[[Tom Raworth]] |
*[[Tom Raworth]] |
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*[[Henry Reed]] (1914-1986) |
*[[Henry Reed]] (1914-1986) |
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*[[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]] (1828-1882) |
*[[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]] (1828-1882) |
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*[[Nicholas Rowe]] |
*[[Nicholas Rowe]] |
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*[[Richard Rowlands]] (1565-1630) |
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*[[Sonia Sanchez]] |
*[[Sonia Sanchez]] |
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*[[Carl Sandburg]] |
*[[Carl Sandburg]] (1878-1967) |
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*[[Siegfried Sassoon]] (1886-1967) |
*[[Siegfried Sassoon]] (1886-1967) |
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*Sir [[Walter Scott]] (1771-1832) |
*Sir [[Walter Scott]] (1771-1832) |
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*Sir [[Charles Sedley]] (1639-1701) |
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*[[Robert Service]] |
*[[Robert Service]] |
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*[[Anne Sexton]] |
*[[Anne Sexton]] (1928-1974) |
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*[[William Shakespeare]] ( |
*[[William Shakespeare]] (1564-1616) |
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*[[Ntozake Shange]] |
*[[Ntozake Shange]] |
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*[[Jo Shapcott]] |
*[[Jo Shapcott]] |
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*[[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] (1792-1822) |
*[[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] (1792-1822) |
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*[[William Shenstone]] |
*[[William Shenstone]] |
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*[[James Shirley]] (1596-1666) |
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*Sir [[Philip Sidney]] (1554-1586) |
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*[[Edith Sitwell]] (1887-1964) |
*[[Edith Sitwell]] (1887-1964) |
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*[[John Skelton]] (1460-1529) |
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*[[Charlotte Smith]] (1749-1806) |
*[[Charlotte Smith]] (1749-1806) |
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*[[Stevie Smith]] (1902-1971) |
*[[Stevie Smith]] (1902-1971) |
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*[[Tobias Smollett]] (1721-1771) |
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*[[William Somerville]] |
*[[William Somerville]] |
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*[[Charles Sorley]] (1895-1915) |
*[[Charles Sorley]] (1895-1915) |
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*[[Caroline Southey]] (1787-1854) |
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*[[Robert Southey]] (1774-1843) |
*[[Robert Southey]] (1774-1843) |
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*[[Robert Southwell]] (1561-1595) |
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*[[A. B. Spellman]] |
*[[A. B. Spellman]] |
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*[[Anne Spencer]] |
*[[Anne Spencer]] |
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*[[Stephen Spender]] |
*[[Stephen Spender]] |
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*[[Edmund Spenser]] |
*[[Edmund Spenser]] (1552-1599) |
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*[[William Stafford]] |
*[[William Stafford]] |
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*[[Wallace Stevens]] |
*[[Wallace Stevens]] (1880-1955) |
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*[[Robert Louis Stevenson]] (1850-1894) |
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*Sir [[John Suckling]] (1609-1642) |
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*[[Keston Sutherland]] |
*[[Keston Sutherland]] |
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*[[Algernon Swinburne]] (1837-1909) |
*[[Algernon Swinburne]] (1837-1909) |
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*[[Joshua Sylvester]] (1563-1618) |
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*[[Alfred Tennyson]], Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
*[[Alfred Tennyson]], Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
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*[[Lucy Terry]] |
*[[Lucy Terry]] |
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*[[Ronald Stuart Thomas|R.S. Thomas]] (1913-2000) |
*[[Ronald Stuart Thomas|R.S. Thomas]] (1913-2000) |
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*[[Francis Thompson]] (1859-1907) |
*[[Francis Thompson]] (1859-1907) |
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*[[James Thomson]] |
*[[James Thomson]] (1834-1882) |
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*[[Thomas Tickell]] |
*[[Thomas Tickell]] |
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*[[Melvin B. Tolson]] |
*[[Melvin B. Tolson]] |
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*[[Alice Walker]] |
*[[Alice Walker]] |
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*[[Margaret Walker]] |
*[[Margaret Walker]] |
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*[[Edmund Waller]] (1606-1687) |
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*[[Isaac Watts]] |
*[[Isaac Watts]] (1674-1748) |
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*[[John Webster]] (died 1630) |
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*[[Gilbert West]] |
*[[Gilbert West]] |
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*[[Phillis Wheatley]] (1753-1784) |
*[[Phillis Wheatley]] (1753-1784) |
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*[[James M. Whitfield]] |
*[[James M. Whitfield]] |
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*[[Walt Whitman]] |
*[[Walt Whitman]] (1819-1892) |
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*[[John Greenleaf Whittier]] |
*[[John Greenleaf Whittier]] (1807-1892) |
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*[[Oscar Wilde]] (1854-1900) |
*[[Oscar Wilde]] (1854-1900) |
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*[[John Wilkinson]] |
*[[John Wilkinson]] |
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*[[Sherley Anne Williams]] |
*[[Sherley Anne Williams]] |
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*[[William Carlos Williams]] |
*[[William Carlos Williams]] (1883-1963) |
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*[[John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester]] (1647-1680) |
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*[[George Wither]] (1588-1667) |
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*[[Charles Wolfe]] (1791-1823) |
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*[[Dorothy Wordsworth]] (1771-1855) |
*[[Dorothy Wordsworth]] (1771-1855) |
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*[[William Wordsworth]] (1770-1850) |
*[[William Wordsworth]] (1770-1850) |
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*Sir [[Henry Wotton]] (1568-1639) |
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*[[Thomas Wyatt]] (1503-1542) |
*[[Thomas Wyatt]] (1503-1542) |
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*[[William Butler Yeats]] (1865-1939) |
*[[William Butler Yeats]] (1865-1939) |
Revision as of 05:18, 4 June 2003
Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the English language.
- Fleur Adcock (born 1934)
- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
- Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
- Maya Angelou
- Simon Armitage (born 1963)
- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
- John Ashbery
- Thomas Ashe (1836-1889)
- W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
- Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
- Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
- Amiri Baraka
- Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
- John Barbour (died 1395)
- Richard Barnefield (1574-1627)
- William Barnes (1801-1886)
- Francis Beaumont (1586-1616)
- Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- John Berryman
- John Betjeman (1906-1984)
- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- Edmund Blunden
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-?)
- Eavan Boland (born 1944)
- Arna Wendell Bontemps
- Marx Alexander Boyd (1563-1601)
- Allison Boyer
- Daniel C. Boyer (born 1971)
- Nicholas Breton (1542-1626)
- Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
- Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
- Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Sterling A. Brown
- Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
- William Browne (1588-1643)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
- Robert Browning (1812-1889)
- Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
- Thomas Campbell (1774-1844)
- Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
- Mary Wedderburn Cannan (1893-1973)
- Thomas Carew (1595-1639)
- Henry Carey (1693-1743)
- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
- William Cartwright (1611-1643)
- George Chapman (1560-1634)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400)
- John Clare (1793-1864)
- Michelle Cliff
- Lucille Clifton
- Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
- Wanda Coleman
- Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- William Collins (1721-1759)
- William Congreve (1670-1729)
- Henry Constable (1562-1613)
- Wendy Cope
- James D. Corrothers
- Jayne Cortez
- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
- William Cowper (1731-1800)
- George Crabbe (1754-1832)
- Hart Crane
- Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
- Countee Cullen
- E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
- Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)
- Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
- Sir William Davenant (1606-1668)
- Sir John Davies (1569-1626)
- Thomas Dekker (1575-1641)
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- John Donne (1572-1631)
- Maura Dooley
- Keith Douglas (1920-1944)
- Rita Dove
- Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
- Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
- William Drummond (1585-1649)
- W.E.N. Du Bois
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
- William Dunbar (1465-1520)
- Douglas Dunn (born 1942)
- John Dryden (1631-1700)
- Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955)
- John Dyer
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- William Empson (1906-1984)
- Sir George Etherege (1635-1691)
- Mari Evans
- Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666)
- Elaine Feinstein
- James Fenton (born 1949)
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)
- John Fletcher (1579-1625)
- John Ford (1586-1639)
- Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- Samuel Garth
- George Gascoigne (1525-1577)
- John Gay (1685-1732)
- Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
- Nikki Giovanni
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
- Robert Graves (1895-1985)
- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
- Robert Greene (1560-1592)
- Fulk Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628)
- Nicholas Grimald (1519-1562)
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
- Edgar Guest
- Thom Gunn (born 1929)
- Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
- Brion Gysin (1916-1986)
- William Habington (1605-1654)
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
- Frances E. W. Harper
- Michael S. Harper
- Tony Harrison (born 1937)
- Stephen Hawes (died 1523)
- Robert Hayden
- Seamus Heaney (born 1939)
- John Hegley
- Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)
- Essex Hemphill
- William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
- George Herbert (1593-1632)
- Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
- Thomas Heywood (157?-1650)
- Geoffrey Hill (born 1932)
- James Hogg (1770-1835)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)
- Thomas Hood (1798-1845)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
- A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
- Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
- Richard Hugo
- Alexander Hume (1560-1609)
- Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
- Randall Jarrell
- Robinson Jeffers
- Fenton Johnson
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Helene Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
- Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
- June Jordan
- Jenny Joseph
- James Joyce (1882-1941)
- Bob Kaufman
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- John Keats (1795-1821)
- Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
- Henry King (1592-1669)
- William King (1663-1712)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
- Etheridge Knight
- Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
- Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
- D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
- Edward Lear (1812-1888)
- Francis Ledwidge
- Thomas Lodge (1556-1625)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- Audre Lorde
- Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
- Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
- Robert Lowell
- John Lydgate (1370-1450)
- John Lyly (1553-1606)
- George Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton (1709-1773)
- Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)
- Nathaniel Mackey
- Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
- Haki R. Madhubuti
- Clarence Major
- David Mallet
- Robert Mannyng of Brunne (1269-1340)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
- John Masefield
- Colleen McElroy
- Roger McGough
- Claude McKay
- Thomas Merton
- George Meredith (1828-1909)
- W. S. Merwin
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Joaquin Miller
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax
- Marianne Moore
- Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
- Edythe Morahan de Lauzon
- William Morris (1834-1896)
- Andrew Motion
- Paul Muldoon (born 1951)
- Anthony Munday (1553-1633)
- Les Murray (born 1938)
- Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
- Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
- Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson
- Henry Newbolt
- John Henry Newman
- Frank O'Hara
- Terry A. O'Neal
- George Moses Horton
- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
- Ruth Padel
- Dorothy Parker
- Thomas Parnell (1670-1718)
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
- George Peel (1558-1597)
- Ambrose Philips
- Robert Pinsky
- Ruth Pitter
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
- Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
- J.H. Prynne
- Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
- Craig Raine (born 1944)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
- Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
- Tom Raworth
- Henry Reed (1914-1986)
- Ishmael Reed
- Adrienne Rich
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Mary Robinson (1758-1800)
- Carolyn M. Rodgers
- Theodore Roethke
- Franklin Rosemont
- Penelope Rosemont
- Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
- Nicholas Rowe
- Richard Rowlands (1565-1630)
- Sonia Sanchez
- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
- Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
- Robert Service
- Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Ntozake Shange
- Jo Shapcott
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- William Shenstone
- James Shirley (1596-1666)
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
- Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
- John Skelton (1460-1529)
- Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
- Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
- Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
- William Somerville
- Charles Sorley (1895-1915)
- Caroline Southey (1787-1854)
- Robert Southey (1774-1843)
- Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
- A. B. Spellman
- Anne Spencer
- Stephen Spender
- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
- William Stafford
- Wallace Stevens (1880-1955)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
- Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
- Keston Sutherland
- Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909)
- Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618)
- Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
- Lucy Terry
- Ernest Thayer
- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
- Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
- R.S. Thomas (1913-2000)
- Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
- James Thomson (1834-1882)
- Thomas Tickell
- Melvin B. Tolson
- Jean Toomer
- Thomas Traherne
- Quincy Troupe
- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
- Derek Walcott (born 1930)
- Alice Walker
- Margaret Walker
- Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
- Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
- John Webster (died 1630)
- Gilbert West
- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
- James M. Whitfield
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
- John Wilkinson
- Sherley Anne Williams
- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
- George Wither (1588-1667)
- Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
- Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
- Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
- Edward Young
- Benjamin Zephaniah
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