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A

Harold Acton (1904-1994)

Gilbert Adair (born 1944)

Arthur Henry Adams (1872-1936)

Robert Adamson (1852-1902)

Fleur Adcock (born 1934)

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Mark Akenside (1721-1770)

James Alexander Allan (1889-1956)

Leslie Holdsworthy Allen (1879-1964)

Ethel Anderson (1883-1958)

Bruce Andrews (born 1948)

Maya Angelou (born 1928)

Rae Armantrout (born 1947)

Simon Armitage (born 1963)

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

John Ashbery (born 1927)

Thomas Ashe (1836-1889)

Thea Astley (1925-2004)

Edwin Atherstone (1788-1872)

Margaret Atwood (born 1939)

Dorothy Auchterlonie (1915-1991)

W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

Albert Gordon Austin (1918-1990)

Pam Ayres (born 1947)

Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638)

William Edmonstone Aytoun (1813-1865)

B

Ba

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)

Kevin Bailey (born 1953}

David Ball (born 1959)

Jesse Ball (born 1978)

Lex Banning (born 1921)

Amiri Baraka (born 1934)

David Baratier (born 1970)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)

John Barbour (died 1395)

Les Barker (born 1947)

Richard Barnefield (1574-1627)

Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)

William Barnes (1801-1886)

Ken Barratt

Bernard Barton (1784-1849)

Todd Bash (born 1965)

David Bates (1809-1870)

H.E. Bates (1905-1974)

James K. Baxter (1926-1972)

Arthur Bayldon (1865-1958)

William Baylebridge (1883-1942)

Be-Bo

Francis Beaumont (1586-1616)

Bruce Beaver (1928-2004)

Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981)

Bill Berkson (born 1939)

Charles Bernstein (born 1950)

Anselm Berrigan (born 1972)

Ted Berrigan (1934-1983)

Wendell Berry (born 1934)

John Berryman (1914-1972)

Joop Bersee (born 1958)

John Betjeman (1906-1984)

Maurice Biggs (born 1915)

Gary Bills (born 1964)

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

Samuel Bishop (1731-1795)

Thomas Blacklock (1721-1791)

Peter Bladen (1922-2001)

William Blake (1757-1827)

Susanna Blamire (1747-1794)

John Blight (1913-1995)

Mathilde Blind (1841-1896)

Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922)

Barcroft Boake (1866-1892)

George Henry Boker (1823-1890)

Eavan Boland (born 1944)

Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)

Arna Wendell Bontemps (1902-1973)

Mark Alexander Boyd (1563-1601)

Br-By

Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672)

E. J. Brady (1869-1952)

Christopher Brennan (1870-1932)

John Le Gay Brereton (1871-1933)

Nicholas Breton (1542-1626)

Ken Brewer (1941-2006)

Robert Bridges (1844-1930)

Emily Brontë (1818-1848)

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989)

Dr. Stewart Brown

Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)

Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705-1760)

William Browne (1588-1643)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

Vincent Buckley (1925-1988)

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

Basil Bunting (1900–1985)

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)

Jim Burns

Richard Burns (1943)

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824)

C

Ca-Ci

Richard Caddel

Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884)

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)

Alice Cary

Phoebe Cary

Charles Causley (1917-2003)

Constantine Cavafy

Joseph Ceravolo

John Chalkhill

William Ellery Channing (1818-1901)

George Chapman (1560-1634)

Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400)

Maxine Chernoff

Billy Childish

Sandra Cisneros

Cl

John Clare (1793-1864)

Thomas A. Clark

Tom Clark

Jack Clarke

Austin Clarke (1886-1974)

John Cleveland (1613-1658)

Michelle Cliff

Lucille Clifton

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)

Co

Bob Cobbing

Brian Coffey (1905-1995)

Norma Cole

Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Billy Collins

William Collins (1721-1759)

William Congreve (1670-1729)

Henry Constable (1562-1613)

Clark Coolidge

Thomas Cooper (poet) (1805-1892)

Wendy Cope (born 1945)

Richard Corbet (1582-1635)

Corinna

Jayne Cortez

William Johnson Cory (1823-1892)

Louisa Stuart Costello (1799-1877)

Anne Ross Cousin (1824-1906)

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

William Cowper (1731-1800)

Cr-Cu

George Crabbe (1754-1832)

Hart Crane , (1899-1932)

Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)

Thomas Creech (1659-1700)

George Croly (1780-1860)

William Crowe (1745-1829)

Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)

Andrew Crozier

Countee Cullen , (1903-1946)

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)

Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)

Allen Curnow (1911-2001)

D

Da-Do

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

George Darley (1795-1846)

Tina Darragh

Robert Von Dassanowsky (aka Robert Dassanowsky)

William Davenant (1606-1668)

John Davidson (1837-1909)

Michael Davidson

John Davies (1569-1626)

Thomas Osborne Davis (1814-1845)

Thomas Dekker (1575-1641)

John Denham (1615-1669)

Thomas Dermody (1775-1802)

William F. DeVault

Denis Devlin (1908-1959)

James Dickey (1923-1997)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Ray DiPalma

Diane Di Prima

John Donne (1572-1631)

Keith Douglas (1920-1944)

Rita Dove

Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)

Francis Hastings Doyle (1810-1888)

Dr-Dy

Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

William Drummond Of Hawthornden (1585-1649)

John Dryden (1631-1700)

W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963)

Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955)

Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903)

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

William Dunbar (1465-1520)

Robert Duncan (1919-1988)

Douglas Dunn (born 1942)

Alan Dunnett

John Dyer

Bob Dylan (born 1941)

E

Richard Eberhart (1904-2005) (died at the three digit age of 101)

Richard Edwards (1523?-1566)

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Ebenezer Elliot (1781-1849)

Jean Elliot (1727-1805)

Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

William Empson (1906-1984)

Theodore Enslin (born 1925)

Sir George Etherege (1635-1691)

Mari Evans

F

Edward Fairfax (1580?-1635)

William Falconer (1732-1769)

Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765-1834)

Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666)

Francis Fawkes (1721-1777)

Jonathan FeBland (born 1960)

Elaine Feinstein

Elijah Fenton (1683-1730)

James Fenton (born 1949)

Deanna Ferguson

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919)

Peter Finch

Ian Hamilton Finlay (born 1925)

Allen Fisher

Roy Fisher (born 1930)

Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)

Penelope Fitzgerald

John Fletcher (1579-1625)

Douglas Florian

John Ford (1586-1639)

Janet Frame (1924-2004)

Ulli Freer

Philip Freneau (1752-1832)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Stephen Fry

Heather Fuller

William Fuller

Alice Fulton (born 1952)

Richard Furness (1791-1857)

G

Ga-Go

Samuel Garth

George Gascoigne (1525-1577)

David Gascoyne (1916-2001)

John Gay (1685-1732)

Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991)

Dame Mary Gilmour

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)

Nikki Giovanni (born 1943)

Denis Glover (1912-1980)

Louise Gluck

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

Gr-Gy

W. S. Graham

Richard Graves (1715-1804)

Robert Graves (1895-1985)

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Robert Greene (1560-1592)

Fulke Greville , Lord Brooke (1554-1628)

Bill Griffiths (born 1948)

Nicholas Grimald (1519-1562)

Angelina Weld Grimke

Charlotte Forten Grimke

Barbara Guest

Edgar Guest , (1881-1959)

Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)

Thom Gunn (1929-2004)

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)

Brion Gysin (1916-1986)

H

Ha-He

William Habington (1605-1654)

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Joy Harjo

William Harmon

Frances E. W. Harper

Michael S. Harper

Tony Harrison (born 1937)

Carla Harryman

Lee Harwood (born 1939)

Alamgir Hashmi

Stephen Hawes (died 1523)

Robert Hayden

Seamus Heaney (born 1939)

Anthony Hecht (1923-2004)

John Hegley

Lyn Hejinian

Piero Heliczer

Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)

Essex Hemphill

William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)

George Herbert (1593-1632)

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Phoebe Hesketh (1909-2005)

Dorothy Hewett (1923-2002)

Thomas Heywood (157?-1650)

Hi-Hu

Geoffrey Hill (born 1932)

James Hogg (1770-1835)

Jane Holland (born 1966)

Anselm Hollo

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)

Thomas Hood (1798-1845)

A. D. Hope

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Frances Horovitz (1938-1983)

Michael Horovitz (Born 1935)

George Moses Horton

A. E. Housman , (1859-1936)

Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517-1547)

Fanny Howe

Susan Howe

Ada Verdun Howell

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Ted Hughes (1930-1998)

Richard Hugo (1923-1982)

Alexander Hume (1560-1609)

Leigh Hunt , (1784-1859)

Cynthia Huntington , (Born 1952)

I-J

P.Inman

Richard Jago , (1715-1781)

John James

Lisa Jarnot (born 1967)

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)

Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)

Fenton Johnson

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Helene Johnson (1906-1995)

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

David Jones

Erica Jong (born 1942)

Ben Jonson (1573-1637)

June Jordan (born 1936)

Anthony Joseph

Jenny Joseph (born 1932)

James Joyce (1882-1941)

Trevor Joyce (born 1947)

Donald Justice (1925-2004)

K

Ilya Kaminsky

Bobbi Katz

Bob Kaufman

Jayne Fenton Keane

John Keats (1795-1821)

W.B. Keckler (born 1966)

Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy ('Woodbine Willy'; 1883-1929)

Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

Sidney Keyes (1922-1943)

Keorapetse Kgositsile (born 1938)

Jack Kimball

Amy King

Henry King (1592-1669)

William King (1663-1712)

Galway Kinnell (born 1927)

John Kinsella

Thomas Kinsella (1927-)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Etheridge Knight

Kenneth Koch (1925-2002)

Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1948)

Karla Kuskin

Joanne Kyger

L

La-Le

Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

Tim Lander (1938- )

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

Emilia Lanier (1569-1645)

Philip Larkin (1922-1985)

Evelyn Lau

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Henry Lawson (1867-1922)

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Francis Ledwidge , (1887-1917)

Tom Leonard

Philip Levine

Larry Levis

D. A. Levy , (1942-1968)

Alun Lewis

Lo-Ly

Thomas Lodge (1556-1625)

Christopher Logue

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

Michael Longley

Luis A. López

Audre Lorde , (born 1934)

Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

Robert Lowell

Mina Loy

Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)

John Lydgate (1370-1450)

John Lyly (1553-1606)

George Lyttelton , Lord Lyttelton (1709-1773)

M

Ma

Máire Mac An TSaoi (Born 1922)

Norman MacCaig (1910-1996)

Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)

Seán Mac Falls

Thomas MacGreevy (1893-1967)

Nathaniel Mackey

Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)

Jackson Mac Low

Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)

Barry MacSweeney

Haki R. Madhubuti

Clarence Major

Taylor Mali

David Mallet

Tom Mandel

Bill Manhire (Born 1946)

Robert Mannyng Of Brunne (1269-1340)

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

John Masefield , (1878-1967)

Cleopatra Mathis , (Born 1947)

Mc-Mi

Jeffrey McDaniel (born 1967 )

Colleen McElroy

Mighty Mike McGee (born 1976 )

Bryant H. McGill

Karyna McGlynn

William Topaz McGonagall , (1825-1902)

Roger McGough , (born 1937)

Campbell McGrath

Claude McKay

David Melnick

George Meredith (1828-1909)

James Merrill (1926-1995)

Thomas Merton (1915-1968)

W. S. Merwin

Edna St. Vincent Millay , (1892-1950)

Grazyna Miller , (born 1957)

Joaquin Miller , (1837-1913)

Spike Milligan (1918-2002)

Ralph Mills

John Milton (1608-1674)

Adrian Mitchell

Mo-Mu

Charles Montagu, 1st Earl Of Halifax , (1661-1715)

Marianne Moore , (1887-1972)

Robin Moore , (1954- )

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

Barbara Moraff

Edythe Morahan De Lauzon

Edwin Morgan

Mervyn Morris

Tony Morris (1938- )

William Morris (1834-1896)

James Douglas Morrison (1943-1971)

Andrew Motion

Eric Mottram

Paul Muldoon (born 1951)

Laura Mullen

Harryette Mullen

Anthony Munday (1553-1633)

Les Murray (born 1938)

N-O

Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)

Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson

Howard Nemerov

Kenn Nesbitt (1962- )

Aimee Nezhukumatathil (1974- )

Henry Newbolt , (1862-1938)

John Henry Newman , (1801-1890)

Norman Nicholson (1914-1987)

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)

Alice Notley

Jeff Nuttall (1933-2004)

Naomi Shihab Nye (1952-)

Frank O'Hara

Theodore O'Hara (1820-1867)

Mary Oliver (1935-)

Charles Olson (1910-1970)

Mary Devenport O'Neill (1879-1976)

George Oppen (1908-1984)

Maggie O'Sullivan

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

P

Ruth Padel (born 1947)

Ron Padgett

Nettie Palmer

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Thomas Parnell (1670-1718)

Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)

Brian Patten (born 1946)

Ian Patterson

Andrew Barton "Banjo' Paterson (1864-1941)

Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)

Ted Pearson

George Peel (1558-1597)

Simon Perchik (born 1923)

Sam Pereira

Ambrose Philips

Tom Pickard (born 1946)

Robert Pinsky (born 1940)

Ruth Pitter (1897-1992)

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

Jack Prelutsky

Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

J. H. Prynne

Q

Francis Quarles (1592-1644)

R

Ra-Ri

Craig Raine (born 1944)

Kathleen Raine (1908-2003)

Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)

Dudley Randall (1914-2000)

Julia Randall (1924-2005)

Elaine Randell

Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)

John Crowe Ransome (1888-1974)

Tom Raworth (born 1938)

Henry Reed (1914-1986)

Ishmael Reed

Joan Retallack

Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982)

Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)

Adrienne Rich (born 1929)

Lola Ridge (1873-1941)

Denise Riley

John Riley

Peter Riley

Ro

Kit Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson , (1869-1935)

Mary Robinson (1758-1800)

Carolyn M. Rodgers

Theodore Roethke , (1908-1963)

Patrick Rosal

Franklin Rosemont , (born 1943)

Penelope Rosemont

Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

Nicholas Rowe

Richard Rowlands (1565-1630)

S

Sa-Si

Blanaid Salkeld (1880-1959)

Sonia Sanchez

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

May Sarton (1912-1995)

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Maurice Scully

Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701)

Nina Serrano , (born 1934)

Robert W. Service

Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Tupac Shakur (1971-1996)

Ntozake Shange , (born 1948)

Jo Shapcott

Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

William Shenstone

James Shirley (1596-1666)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

Eli Siegel (1902-1978)

Ron Silliman (born 1946)

Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)

Colin Simms

Iain Sinclair

Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

Sk-Sq

Beau Sia (born 1976 )

John Skelton (1460-1529)

Myra Sklarew

Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)

Marc Smith

Rod Smith

Stevie Smith (1902-1971)

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)

Gary Snyder

William Somerville

Charles Sorley (1895-1915)

Caroline Southey (1787-1854)

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

Robert Southwell (1561-1595)

Wole Soyinka (born 1934)

A. B. Spellman

Anne Spencer

Stephen Spender

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

Geoffrey Squires

St-Sy

William Stafford

C.K. Stead (born 1932)

Brian Kim Stefans

Gertrude Stein

Gerald Stern

Wallace Stevens (1880-1955)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Mark Strand

Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)

Keston Sutherland

May Swenson

Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909)

Bobbi Sykes (born 1945)

Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618)

Arthur Symons (1865-1945)

Arthur Sze (born 1950)

T-V

F.W. Tancred

Dorothea Tanning (born 1910)

Allen Tate (1899-1979)

Edward Taylor (1645-1729)

Sara Teasdale

Alfred Tennyson , Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

Lucy Terry

Celia Thaxter , (1824-1894)

Ernest Thayer , (1863-1940)

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

R.S. Thomas (1913-2000)

Francis Thompson (1859-1907)

James Thomson (B.V.) (1834-1882)

James Thomson (Seasons)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Chidiock Tichborne (1558-1586)

Thomas Tickell

Melvin B. Tolson

Jean Toomer

Rodrigo Toscano

Thomas Traherne

Quincy Troupe

Gael Turnbull

Hone Tuwhare (born 1922)

Allen Upward , Imagist

Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)

Janine Pommy Vega

W

Wa-We

Ugonna Wachuku (born 1971)

Catherine Wagner

Diane Wakoski

Derek Walcott (born 1930)

Anne Waldman

Rosmarie Waldrop

Keith Waldrop

Alice Walker , (born 1944)

Margaret Walker

Mark Wallace

Christopher Wallace-Crabbe

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

Diane Ward

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)

Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

John Webster (died 1630)

Ian Wedde (born 1946)

Hannah Weiner

Marjorie Welish

Gilbert West

Wh-Wy

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)

James M. Whitfield

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

Richard Wilbur

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

John Wilkinson

William Of Shoreham (14th century)

Hugo Williams

Oscar Williams

Saul Williams

Sherley Anne Williams

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

Elizabeth Willis

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl Of Rochester (1647-1680)

Terence Winch

George Wither (1588-1667)

Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)

Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)

C. D. Wright

Judith Wright

Robert Wrigley (born 1951)

Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

Y-Z

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Edward Young , (1683-1765)

Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958)

Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)

SEE ALSO

List Of Poets

List Of English People

List Of People By Occupation

List Of People By Nationality

List Of Women Poets

List Of Australian Poets

List Of Irish Poets

List Of English Poets

List Of Canadian Poets

List Of Chicano Poets

List Of Poets From The United States