Born before 1900 |
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William Alabaster | | William Allingham | | Matthew Arnold | | Philip Ayres | | William Edmonstone Aytoun | | John Bampfylde | | Maurice Baring | | Barnaby Barnes | | William Barnes | | Richard Barnfield | | Thomas Lovell Beddoes | | Aphra Behn | | Charles Best | | Louisa Sarah Bevington | | William Blake | | Edmund Blunden | | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | | Louise Bogan | | William Lisle Bowles | | Mark Alexander Boyd | | Katherine Bradley (aka Michael Field) | | Robert Bridges | | Rupert Brooke | | William Browne | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | Robert Browning | | Robert Buchanan | | Robert Burns | | Samuel Butler | | Ada Cambridge | | Thomas Campion | | Thomas Carew | | George Chapman | | John Clare | | Arthur Hugh Clough | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Hartley Coleridge | | Henry Constable | | Edith Cooper (aka Michael Field) | | William Cory | | Charles Cotton | | William Cowper | | Hart Crane | | e.e. cummings | | Samuel Daniel | | George Darley | | Elizabeth Daryrush | | Sir John Davies | | John Davies of Hereford | | Sidney Dobell | | Digby Mackworth Dolben | | John Donne | | Edward Dowden | | Ernest Dowson | | Michael Drayton | | William Drummond | | Alice Dunbar-Nelson | | Lord Dunsany | | Thomas Edwards | | George Eliot | | Ebenezer Elliott | | Giles Fletcher | | Robert Frost | | George Gascoigne | | Wilfrid Gibson | | Sir Arthur Gorges | | Robert Graves | | Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke | | Thomas Grey | | William Habington | | Thomas Hardy | | William Ernest Henley | | George Herbert | | Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury | | Robert Herrick | | Thomas Hood | | Laurence Hope (aka Adela Nicolson) | | Gerard Manley Hopkins | | Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey | | James Leigh Hunt | | Aldous Huxley | | Robinson Jeffers | | Mary F. Johnson | | Ben Jonson | | John Keats | | John Keble | | Rudyard Kipling | | Walter Savage Landor | | Emma Lazarus | | Kenneth Leslie | | Anne Locke | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Archibald Macleish | | Philip Bourke Marston | | John Masefield | | Claude McKay | | George Meredith | | Alice Meynell | | Edna St Vincent Millay | | John Milton | | Marianne Moore | | Edwin Muir | | Wilfrid Owen | | Robert Palmer | | Dorothy Parker | | Edgar Allan Poe | | Ezra Pound | | Sir Walter Ralegh | | John Crowe Ransom | | Edgell Rickword | | Mary Robinson | | Agnes Mary Frances Robinson | | Edwin Arlington Robinson | | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | | Christina Rossetti | | Thomas Russell | | Siegfried Sassoon | | William Bell Scott | | Anna Seward | | William Shakespeare | | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Sir Philip Sidney | | Charlotte Smith | | Charles Hamilton Sorley | | E.H. Sorley | | Robert Southey | | Edmund Spenser | | James Kenneth Stephen | | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Trumbull Stickney | | Algernon Charles Swinburne | | Joshua Sylvester | | Arthur Symons | | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | | Edward Thomas | | Francis Thompson | | Mary Tighe | | Jean Toomer | | Frederick Goddard Tuckerman | | Charles Tennyson Turner | | Aubrey Thomas de Vere | | Edmund Waller | | Sylvia Townsend Warner | | John Leicester Warren, Baron de Tabley | | Thomas Warton | | Augusta Webster | | John Greenleaf Whittier | | Oscar Wilde | | Helen Williams | | William Wordsworth | | Lady Mary Wroth | | Sir Thomas Wyatt | | Elinor Wylie | | William Butler Yeats | | Frances Brett Young | |
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Born after 1900 |
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Fleur Adcock | | Julia Alvarez | | Simon Armitage | | John Ashbery | | Wynstan Hugh Auden | | David Baker | | George Barker | | James K. Baxter | | John Bayliss | | John Berryman | | Frank Bidart | | Elizabeth Bishop | | Star Black | | Eavan Boland | | Joe Bolton | | Gwendolyn Brooks | | Alan Brownjohn | | John Burnside | | Norman Cameron | | Roy Campbell | | Rafael Campo | | Hayden Carruth | | Ciaran Carson | | Charles Causley | | Amy Clampitt | | Billy Collins | | Jane Cooper | | Herbert Corby | | Countee Cullen | | R.N. Currey | | Donald Davie | | Rita Dove | | Jane Draycott | | Carol Ann Duffy | | Douglas Dunn | | Thomas Stearns Eliot | | Alistair Elliott | | William Empson | | Paul Engle | | Gavin Ewart | | Paul Farley | | Beth Ann Fennelly | | Roy Fuller | | John Fuller | | Dana Gioia | | Louise Gluck | | Thom Gunn | | Daniel Gutstein | | Marilyn Hacker | | Rachel Hadas | | Donald Hall | | Tony Harrison | | Christopher Hassall | | Robert Hayden | | Seamus Heaney | | John Heath-Stubbs | | Anthony Hecht | | Geoffrey Hill | | John Hollander | | Alec Derwent Hope | | David Huddle | | Mark Jarman | | Alan Jenkins | | Denis Johnson | | June Jordan | | Donald Justice | | Patrick Kavanagh | | Weldon Kees | | Karl Kirchwey | | Stephen Knight | | Philip Larkin | | James Lasdun | | Deborah Laser | | Phillis Levin | | Kate Light | | Michael Longley | | Robert Lowell | | Malcolm Lowry | | George Macbeth | | Elizabeth Macklin | | Derek Mahon | | Charles Martin | | William Matthews | | J.D. McClatchy | | Medbh McGuckian | | Jamie McKendrick | | William Meredith | | James Merrill | | W.S. Merwin | | Robert Mezey | | Merrill Moore | | Edwin Morgan | | Andrew Motion | | Paul Muldoon | | Richard Murphy | | Les Murray | | Marilyn Nelson | | Mike Nelson | | Howard Nemerov | | Jacqueline Osherow | | Alice Oswald | | Molly Peacock | | Sylvia Plath | | Stanley Plumly | | Marie Ponsot | | Peter Porter | | Christopher Reid | | Adrienne Rich | | Robin Robertson | | Judith Rodriguez | | Sherod Santos | | Jason Schneiderman | | Grace Schulman | | Frederick Goddard Seidel | | Hugh Seidman | | Vikram Seth | | Charles Simic | | Louis Simpson | | Tom Sleigh | | Kenneth Slessor | | Bruce Smith | | Stephen Spender | | Leon Stokesbury | | Dylan Thomas | | Anthony Thwaite | | John Updike | | Jean Valentine | | Ellen Bryant Voigt | | Derek Walcott | | Margaret Walker | | Rosanna Warren | | Susan Wicks | | Richard Wilbur | | James Wright | | Charles Wright | |
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