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. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
11. Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
12. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
13. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
14. Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956)
15. Walter Scott (1771-1832)
16. John Clare (1793-1864)
17. Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
18. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
19. Charlotte Bront¸ (1816-1855)
20. Robert Southey (1774-1843)
21. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
22. Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848)
23. William Allingham (1828-1889)
24. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
25. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
26. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
27. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
28. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
29. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
30. Robert Browning (1812-1889)
31. Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
32. William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
33. John Armstrong (1709-1779)
34. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
35. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
36. Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
37. William Cowper (1731-1800)
38. William Morris (1834-1896)
39. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
40. Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915)
41. Edward Lear (1812-1888)
42. William Barnes (1801-1886)
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. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
50. Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)
51. John Dryden (1631-1700)
52. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
53. Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
54. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
55. John Gay (1685-1732)
56. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
57. Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)
58. Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
59. Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
60. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
61. Arthur William Symons (1865-1945)
62. Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938)
63. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
64. Robert Anderson (1770-1833)
65. Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867-1900)
66. Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
67. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
68. James Thomson (1700-1748)
69. Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
70. Jean Ingelow (1820-1897)
71. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
72. Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
73. William Topaz McGonagall (1825-1902)
74. Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
75. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
76. Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
77. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
78. Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
79. Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
80. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
81. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
82. Bernard Barton (1784-1849)
83. Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930)
84. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
85. Henry James Byron (1834-1884)
86. Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)
87. George MacDonald (1824-1905)
88. John Newton (1725-1807)
89. Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
90. Eliza Cook (1818-1889)
91. George Meredith (1828-1909)
92. Thomas Aird (1802-1876)
93. James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)
94. Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
95. George William Russell (1867-1935)
96. Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
97. Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805-1848)
98. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
99. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
100. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
101. James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
102. Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)
103. Lewis Morris (1833-1907)
104. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
105. John Davidson (1857-1909)
106. Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928)
107. John Bunyan (1628-1688)
108. Branwell Bronte (1817-1848)
109. Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
110. Walter Raleigh (1552 èëè 1554-1618)
111. Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824-1874)
112. William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
113. Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547)
114. Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
115. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
116. Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
117. Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
118. Alexander Brome (1620-1666)
119. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
120. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
121. Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)
122. William Collins (1721-1759)
123. Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
124. Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
125. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
126. William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850)
127. Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
128. Robert William Service (1874-1958)
129. Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)
130. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
131. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
132. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
133. Thomas Cooper (1805-1892)
134. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
135. Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
136. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
137. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
138. William Davenant (1606-1668)
139. Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
140. Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
141. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
142. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902)
143. Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
144. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
145. George Etherege (1635-1691)
146. Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (1592-1669)
147. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)
148. Dinah Maria Craik (1826-1887)
149. Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
150. Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
151. Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
152. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
153. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915)
154. Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
155. Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
156. Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884)
157. Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)
158. Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874)
159. Edward Young (1683-1765)
160. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872-1898)
161. George Crabbe (1754-1832)
162. John Suckling (1609-1641)
163. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829-1862)
164. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864)
165. Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
166. Edward Herbert (1583-1648)
167. Janet Hamilton (1795-1873)
168. William Watson (1858-1935)
169. George Canning (1770-1827)
170. John Keble (1792-1866)
171. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
172. Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
173. Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921)
174. Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900)
175. Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
176. Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
177. Marion Angus (1865-1946)
178. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901)
179. Francis Beaumont (îêîëî 1584-1616)
180. Janet Little (1759-1813)
181. Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
182. Thomas Traherne (1636 èëè 1637-1674)
183. John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
184. Henry Kirke White (1785-1806)
185. Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
186. William Cartwright (1611-1643)
187. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
188. Gerald Massey (1828-1907)
189. John Skelton (1460-1529)
190. Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
191. Richard Lovelace (1618-1656)
192. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)
193. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
194. James Shirley (1596-1666)
195. Alexander Montgomerie (îêîëî 1545 - 1598)
196. Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
197. Alexander Wilson (1766-1813)
198. Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
199. William Dunbar (îêîëî 1460 - îêîëî 1520)
200. Giles Fletcher the Elder (1546-1611)
201. George Eliot (1819-1880)
202. William Browne (1590-1645)
203. John Webster (1578-1634)
204. William Shenstone (1714-1763)
205. Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)
206. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886)
207. Thomas Gent (1693-1778)
208. Anne Bradstreet (îêîëî 1612-1672)
209. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
210. George Peele (1556-1596)
211. Stephen Phillips (1864-1915)
212. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
213. Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
214. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
215. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
216. Ann Taylor (1782-1866)
217. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
218. Thomas Warton (1728-1790)
219. Richard Gall (1776-1801)
220. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
221. Alfred Bruce Douglas (1870-1945)
222. Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871)
223. John Dowland (1563-1626)
224. John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-1796/7)
225. Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)
226. Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)
227. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
228. John Payne (1842-1916)
229. John Cleveland (1613-1658)
230. Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915)
231. William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865)
232. Katherine Philips (1632-1664)
233. Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896)
234. Henry Thoreau (1817-1862)
235. William Langland (îêîëî 1330 - îêîëî 1400)
236. William Brighty Rands (1823-1882)
237. William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
238. Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
239. Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
240. Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
241. William Kennish (1799-1862)
242. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
243. Anne Bannerman (1765-1829)
244. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
245. Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
246. Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692)
247. Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
248. Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)
249. James Beattie (1735-1803)
250. Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
251. James Tytler (1745-1804)
252. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1913/14)
253. Robert Henryson (îêîëî 1425 - îêîëî 1500)
254. Henry James Pye (1744-1813)
255. Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
256. Edward Dyer (1543-1607)
257. Nicholas Breton (1545-1626)
258. James Milne (1737-1788)
259. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
260. William Drummond (1585-1649)
261. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
262. Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948)
263. Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
264. Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902)
265. James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
266. Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
267. Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
268. James Joyce (1882-1941)
269. Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
270. Fulke Greville Brooke (1554–1628)
271. George Essex Evans (1863-1909)
272. George Sterling (1869-1926)
273. John Ford (1586-1639)
274. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)
275. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
276. James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
277. Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
278. Herman Melville (1819-1891)
279. Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
280. Amy Levy (1861-1889)
281. Anne Hunter (1742-1821)
282. William Wilfred Campbell (1860-1918)
283. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
284. Robert Wilson ()
285. Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897)
286. William Whitehead (1715-1785)
287. Clarence James Dennis (1876-1938)
288. Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
289. Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
290. Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)
291. Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)
292. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
293. Mary Sidney (1561-1621)
294. Henry Newbolt (1862-1938)
295. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
296. Philip Morin Freneau (1752-1832)
297. King James V of Scotland (1512-1542)
298. Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)
299. James Gates Percival (1795-1856)
300. George Gascoigne (1535-1577)
301. Richard Savage (1698-1743)
302. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
303. Nahum Tate (1652-1715)
304. William Habington (1605-1654)
305. Henry Farley (15… - ïîñëå 1633)
306. Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)
307. John Lydgate (îêîëî 1370 - îêîëî 1451)
308. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
309. Stephen Duck (1705?-1756)
310. Eugene Field (1850-1895)
311. Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918)
312. Norman Rowland Gale (1862-1942)
313. William Herbert Carruth (1859-1924)
314. James Hogg (1770-1835)
315. Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908)
316. Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
317. Anne Grant (1755-1838)
318. Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
319. Margaret Chalmers (1758-1827)
320. King James I of Scotland (1394-1437)
321. Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-1885)
322. Robert Greene (1558-1592)
323. Washington Allston (1779-1843)
324. Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909)
325. Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922)
326. John Marston (1576-1634)
327. John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916)
328. John Mayne (1759-1836)
329. Richard Corbet (1582-1635)
330. Menella Bute Smedley (1820–1877)
331. Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)
332. Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
333. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
334. Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
335. Edith Matilda Thomas (1854-1925)
336. James MacIntyre (1727-1799)
337. Isabella Valancy Crawford (1846-1887)
338. Margaret Deland (1857-1945)
339. William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
340. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
341. Robert Hetrick (1769-1849)
342. George Darley (1795-1846)
343. John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
344. John Lyly (1554-1606)
345. Charles Tennyson Turner (1808-1879)
346. Edward Dowden (1843-1913)
347. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870)
348. John Milton Hay (1838-1905)
349. Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
350. Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887)
351. Christian Milne (1773-1816)
352. Henry Kendall (1839-1882)
353. George Wither (1588-1667)
354. Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778)
355. Thomas Lodge (îêîëî 1558-1625)
356. John Davies (1569-1626)
357. James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)
358. Thomas Tusser (îêîëî 1528-1580)
359. Horace Smith (1779-1849)
360. Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
361. Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
362. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
363. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
364. John White Chadwick (1840-1904)
365. Gabriel Harvey (îêîëî 1545 èëè 1550-1630)
366. John Fletcher (1579-1625)
367. John Vance Cheney (1848-1922)
368. John Philips (1676-1709)
369. John Drinkwater (1882-1937)
370. Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914)
371. James McIntyre (1828-1906)
372. Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1931)
373. Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
374. Violet Jacob (1863-1946)
375. William Creech (1745-1815)
376. Charles Heavysege (1816-1876)
377. John Skinner (1721-1807)
378. Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881)
379. Jones Very (1813-1880)
380. Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
381. Clinton Scollard (1860-1932)
382. Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)
383. Richard Hovey (1864-1900)
384. Charles Cotton (1630-1687)
385. Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
386. Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)
387. Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
388. Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872)
389. Alexander Smith (1829/30-1867)
390. Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
391. John Harington (1561-1612)
392. Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)
393. Harold Hart Crane (1899-1932)
394. Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
395. Owen Seaman (1861-1936)
396. Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (1883-1922)
397. Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886)
398. Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873)
399. James Kenneth Stephen (1859-1892)
400. Walter Learned (1847-1915)
401. William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)
402. Helen Gray Cone (1859-1934)
403. Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908)
404. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
405. Martin Parker (1600?-1656?)
406. Alice Cary (1820-1871)
407. Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)
408. Hazel Hall (1886-1924)
409. Ebenezer Jones (1820-1860)
410. Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927)
411. Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839)
412. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
413. George Moses Horton (1798-1884)
414. Henry Timrod (1829-1867)
415. James Thomson (1834-1882)
416. Royall Tyler (1757-1826)
417. Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618)
418. James Thomas Fields (1817-1881)
419. Christopher Pearse Cranch (1815-1892)
420. Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827-1890)
421. Charles Sackville (1638-1706)
422. Samuel Wesley (1691-1739)
423. Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837-1883)
424. Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903)
425. Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718)
426. Lloyd Mifflin (1846-1921)
427. Ian Serrailier (1912-1994)
428. Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
429. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975)
430. Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
431. Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
432. Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)
433. Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847)
434. Helen Craik (îêîëî 1750-1825)
435. Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)
436. Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895)
437. John Bannister Tabb (1845-1909)
438. Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947)
439. John Pierpont (1785-1866)
440. Henry Constable (1562-1613)
441. George Pope Morris (1802-1864)
442. Adam Skirving (1719-1803)

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