English Poetry. The Rating of Poets

1. George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
2. William Blake (1757–1827)
3. John Keats (1795-1821)
4. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
5. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
6. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
7. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
8. Robert Burns (1759-1796)
9. John Donne (1572-1631)
10. Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
11. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
12. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
13. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
14. Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956)
15. Walter Scott (1771-1832)
16. Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
17. John Clare (1793-1864)
18. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
19. Charlotte Bront¸ (1816-1855)
20. Robert Southey (1774-1843)
21. Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848)
22. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
23. William Allingham (1828-1889)
24. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
25. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
26. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
27. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
28. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
29. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
30. Robert Browning (1812-1889)
31. John Armstrong (1709-1779)
32. Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
33. William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
34. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
35. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
36. William Cowper (1731-1800)
37. Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
38. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
39. William Morris (1834-1896)
40. Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915)
41. William Barnes (1801-1886)
42. Edward Lear (1812-1888)
43. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
44. John Milton (1608-1674)
45. David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
46. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)
47. Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
48. George Herbert (1593-1633)
49. Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)
50. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
51. John Dryden (1631-1700)
52. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
53. Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
54. Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)
55. John Gay (1685-1732)
56. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
57. Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
58. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
59. Robert Anderson (1770-1833)
60. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
61. Arthur William Symons (1865-1945)
62. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
63. Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
64. Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867-1900)
65. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
66. Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
67. Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938)
68. Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
69. James Thomson (1700-1748)
70. Jean Ingelow (1820-1897)
71. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
72. Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
73. William Topaz McGonagall (1825-1902)
74. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
75. Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
76. Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
77. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
78. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
79. Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
80. Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
81. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
82. Bernard Barton (1784-1849)
83. Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930)
84. Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)
85. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
86. Henry James Byron (1834-1884)
87. George MacDonald (1824-1905)
88. Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
89. John Newton (1725-1807)
90. Thomas Aird (1802-1876)
91. George Meredith (1828-1909)
92. Eliza Cook (1818-1889)
93. James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)
94. Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
95. Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
96. George William Russell (1867-1935)
97. Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805-1848)
98. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
99. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
100. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
101. Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)
102. James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
103. Lewis Morris (1833-1907)
104. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
105. John Davidson (1857-1909)
106. John Bunyan (1628-1688)
107. Branwell Bronte (1817-1848)
108. Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928)
109. Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
110. Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824-1874)
111. William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
112. Walter Raleigh (1552 èëè 1554-1618)
113. Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547)
114. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
115. Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
116. Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
117. Alexander Brome (1620-1666)
118. Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
119. William Collins (1721-1759)
120. Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
121. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
122. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
123. Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)
124. William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850)
125. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
126. Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
127. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
128. Thomas Cooper (1805-1892)
129. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
130. Robert William Service (1874-1958)
131. Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)
132. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
133. Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
134. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
135. Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
136. William Davenant (1606-1668)
137. Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
138. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
139. Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
140. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
141. Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
142. Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (1592-1669)
143. George Etherege (1635-1691)
144. Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
145. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
146. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902)
147. Dinah Maria Craik (1826-1887)
148. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
149. Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
150. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)
151. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915)
152. Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
153. Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
154. Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
155. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
156. Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884)
157. Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)
158. Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874)
159. Edward Young (1683-1765)
160. George Crabbe (1754-1832)
161. John Suckling (1609-1641)
162. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872-1898)
163. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829-1862)
164. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864)
165. William Watson (1858-1935)
166. Edward Herbert (1583-1648)
167. John Keble (1792-1866)
168. Janet Hamilton (1795-1873)
169. Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
170. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
171. George Canning (1770-1827)
172. Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900)
173. Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
174. Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
175. Marion Angus (1865-1946)
176. Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
177. Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921)
178. Francis Beaumont (îêîëî 1584-1616)
179. Janet Little (1759-1813)
180. John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
181. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901)
182. Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
183. Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
184. Thomas Traherne (1636 èëè 1637-1674)
185. Gerald Massey (1828-1907)
186. Henry Kirke White (1785-1806)
187. John Skelton (1460-1529)
188. William Cartwright (1611-1643)
189. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
190. Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
191. James Shirley (1596-1666)
192. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)
193. Alexander Montgomerie (îêîëî 1545 - 1598)
194. Richard Lovelace (1618-1656)
195. Alexander Wilson (1766-1813)
196. Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
197. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
198. Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
199. William Dunbar (îêîëî 1460 - îêîëî 1520)
200. Giles Fletcher the Elder (1546-1611)
201. Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)
202. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
203. William Shenstone (1714-1763)
204. George Eliot (1819-1880)
205. Thomas Gent (1693-1778)
206. John Webster (1578-1634)
207. William Browne (1590-1645)
208. George Peele (1556-1596)
209. Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
210. Anne Bradstreet (îêîëî 1612-1672)
211. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
212. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886)
213. Stephen Phillips (1864-1915)
214. Ann Taylor (1782-1866)
215. Richard Gall (1776-1801)
216. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
217. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
218. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
219. Thomas Warton (1728-1790)
220. Alfred Bruce Douglas (1870-1945)
221. Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871)
222. Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)
223. Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)
224. John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-1796/7)
225. John Dowland (1563-1626)
226. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
227. Katherine Philips (1632-1664)
228. John Cleveland (1613-1658)
229. John Payne (1842-1916)
230. William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865)
231. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
232. Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896)
233. Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915)
234. William Langland (îêîëî 1330 - îêîëî 1400)
235. Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
236. William Brighty Rands (1823-1882)
237. William Kennish (1799-1862)
238. Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
239. Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
240. William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
241. Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
242. Anne Bannerman (1765-1829)
243. Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692)
244. Henry Thoreau (1817-1862)
245. Henry James Pye (1744-1813)
246. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
247. Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
248. James Beattie (1735-1803)
249. Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
250. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1913/14)
251. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
252. Edward Dyer (1543-1607)
253. Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
254. Nicholas Breton (1545-1626)
255. Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948)
256. Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902)
257. Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)
258. William Drummond (1585-1649)
259. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
260. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
261. Robert Henryson (îêîëî 1425 - îêîëî 1500)
262. James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
263. Fulke Greville Brooke (1554–1628)
264. John Ford (1586-1639)
265. Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
266. James Joyce (1882-1941)
267. George Essex Evans (1863-1909)
268. James Milne (1737-1788)
269. James Tytler (1745-1804)
270. Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
271. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
272. Herman Melville (1819-1891)
273. Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
274. Anne Hunter (1742-1821)
275. Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
276. Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
277. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)
278. Amy Levy (1861-1889)
279. Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
280. Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)
281. Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
282. Clarence James Dennis (1876-1938)
283. William Wilfred Campbell (1860-1918)
284. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
285. William Habington (1605-1654)
286. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
287. James Gates Percival (1795-1856)
288. William Whitehead (1715-1785)
289. Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)
290. Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
291. James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
292. Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897)
293. George Sterling (1869-1926)
294. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
295. Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)
296. King James V of Scotland (1512-1542)
297. Nahum Tate (1652-1715)
298. Philip Morin Freneau (1752-1832)
299. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
300. Eugene Field (1850-1895)
301. George Gascoigne (1535-1577)
302. Richard Savage (1698-1743)
303. John Lydgate (îêîëî 1370 - îêîëî 1451)
304. Mary Sidney (1561-1621)
305. Henry Farley (15… - ïîñëå 1633)
306. Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
307. Henry Newbolt (1862-1938)
308. Stephen Duck (1705?-1756)
309. Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918)
310. King James I of Scotland (1394-1437)
311. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
312. Robert Greene (1558-1592)
313. Anne Grant (1755-1838)
314. Norman Rowland Gale (1862-1942)
315. Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)
316. Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922)
317. Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908)
318. Richard Corbet (1582-1635)
319. Margaret Chalmers (1758-1827)
320. John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916)
321. John Marston (1576-1634)
322. Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909)
323. Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
324. John Mayne (1759-1836)
325. James MacIntyre (1727-1799)
326. Robert Wilson ()
327. Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
328. Isabella Valancy Crawford (1846-1887)
329. Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
330. Edith Matilda Thomas (1854-1925)
331. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
332. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
333. Margaret Deland (1857-1945)
334. Washington Allston (1779-1843)
335. Menella Bute Smedley (1820–1877)
336. William Herbert Carruth (1859-1924)
337. George Darley (1795-1846)
338. William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
339. John Lyly (1554-1606)
340. Thomas Lodge (îêîëî 1558-1625)
341. John Davies (1569-1626)
342. John Milton Hay (1838-1905)
343. Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)
344. James Hogg (1770-1835)
345. Edward Dowden (1843-1913)
346. Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
347. Henry Kendall (1839-1882)
348. Charles Tennyson Turner (1808-1879)
349. Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-1885)
350. Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778)
351. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870)
352. Christian Milne (1773-1816)
353. Gabriel Harvey (îêîëî 1545 èëè 1550-1630)
354. Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887)
355. Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
356. Horace Smith (1779-1849)
357. Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
358. John Philips (1676-1709)
359. William Creech (1745-1815)
360. Thomas Tusser (îêîëî 1528-1580)
361. George Wither (1588-1667)
362. John Drinkwater (1882-1937)
363. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
364. James McIntyre (1828-1906)
365. Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1931)
366. John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
367. John Vance Cheney (1848-1922)
368. Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914)
369. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
370. John Fletcher (1579-1625)
371. Richard Hovey (1864-1900)
372. Robert Hetrick (1769-1849)
373. Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)
374. Violet Jacob (1863-1946)
375. Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)
376. John White Chadwick (1840-1904)
377. Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
378. Alexander Smith (1829/30-1867)
379. Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
380. Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881)
381. Charles Cotton (1630-1687)
382. Helen Gray Cone (1859-1934)
383. John Harington (1561-1612)
384. Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872)
385. James Kenneth Stephen (1859-1892)
386. Clinton Scollard (1860-1932)
387. Owen Seaman (1861-1936)
388. Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
389. William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)
390. Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)
391. James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)
392. Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
393. Walter Learned (1847-1915)
394. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
395. Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839)
396. Jones Very (1813-1880)
397. Harold Hart Crane (1899-1932)
398. Charles Heavysege (1816-1876)
399. Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
400. James Thomson (1834-1882)
401. Alice Cary (1820-1871)
402. Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)
403. Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (1883-1922)
404. Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886)
405. Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
406. Royall Tyler (1757-1826)
407. John Skinner (1721-1807)
408. Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908)
409. George Moses Horton (1798-1884)
410. Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873)
411. Ebenezer Jones (1820-1860)
412. Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927)
413. Hazel Hall (1886-1924)
414. Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837-1883)
415. Henry Timrod (1829-1867)
416. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
417. Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827-1890)
418. Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618)
419. Martin Parker (1600?-1656?)
420. Charles Sackville (1638-1706)
421. James Thomas Fields (1817-1881)
422. Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903)
423. Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
424. Samuel Wesley (1691-1739)
425. Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
426. Christopher Pearse Cranch (1815-1892)
427. Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)
428. Lloyd Mifflin (1846-1921)
429. Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)
430. John Bannister Tabb (1845-1909)
431. Ian Serrailier (1912-1994)
432. Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847)
433. Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
434. Henry Constable (1562-1613)
435. Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718)
436. Helen Craik (îêîëî 1750-1825)
437. Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947)
438. George Pope Morris (1802-1864)
439. Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895)
440. John Pierpont (1785-1866)

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