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. Robert Burns (1759-1796)
8. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
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. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
17. John Clare (1793-1864)
18. Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
19. Charlotte Bront¸ (1816-1855)
20. Robert Southey (1774-1843)
21. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
22. Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848)
23. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
24. William Allingham (1828-1889)
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. Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
31. Robert Browning (1812-1889)
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. Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915)
40. Edward Lear (1812-1888)
41. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
42. William Barnes (1801-1886)
43. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
44. John Milton (1608-1674)
45. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)
46. David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
47. Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
48. George Herbert (1593-1633)
49. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
50. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
51. Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)
52. John Dryden (1631-1700)
53. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
54. Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
55. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
56. John Gay (1685-1732)
57. Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938)
58. Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)
59. Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
60. Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
61. Arthur William Symons (1865-1945)
62. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
63. James Thomson (1700-1748)
64. Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867-1900)
65. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
66. Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
67. Robert Anderson (1770-1833)
68. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
69. Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
70. Jean Ingelow (1820-1897)
71. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
72. Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
73. Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
74. William Topaz McGonagall (1825-1902)
75. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
76. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
77. Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
78. Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
79. Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
80. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
81. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
82. Henry James Byron (1834-1884)
83. Bernard Barton (1784-1849)
84. Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930)
85. Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)
86. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
87. George MacDonald (1824-1905)
88. John Newton (1725-1807)
89. George Meredith (1828-1909)
90. Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805-1848)
91. Eliza Cook (1818-1889)
92. Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
93. George William Russell (1867-1935)
94. Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
95. James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)
96. Thomas Aird (1802-1876)
97. Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
98. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
99. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
100. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
101. James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
102. Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
103. Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)
104. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
105. Lewis Morris (1833-1907)
106. John Davidson (1857-1909)
107. John Bunyan (1628-1688)
108. Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928)
109. Branwell Bronte (1817-1848)
110. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
111. Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
112. William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
113. Walter Raleigh (1552 èëè 1554-1618)
114. Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824-1874)
115. Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547)
116. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
117. Robert William Service (1874-1958)
118. Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
119. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
120. Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
121. Alexander Brome (1620-1666)
122. Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)
123. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
124. William Collins (1721-1759)
125. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
126. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
127. Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)
128. Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
129. William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850)
130. Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
131. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
132. Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
133. Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
134. Thomas Cooper (1805-1892)
135. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
136. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
137. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
138. William Davenant (1606-1668)
139. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
140. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
141. Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
142. Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
143. Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
144. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902)
145. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)
146. George Etherege (1635-1691)
147. Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (1592-1669)
148. Dinah Maria Craik (1826-1887)
149. Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
150. Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
151. Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
152. Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
153. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915)
154. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
155. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872-1898)
156. Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884)
157. Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
158. Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
159. Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874)
160. Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)
161. Edward Young (1683-1765)
162. John Suckling (1609-1641)
163. George Crabbe (1754-1832)
164. Janet Hamilton (1795-1873)
165. John Keble (1792-1866)
166. William Watson (1858-1935)
167. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864)
168. Marion Angus (1865-1946)
169. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
170. George Canning (1770-1827)
171. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829-1862)
172. Edward Herbert (1583-1648)
173. Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900)
174. Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921)
175. Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
176. Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
177. Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
178. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901)
179. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
180. Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
181. Janet Little (1759-1813)
182. Francis Beaumont (1584?-1616)
183. Henry Kirke White (1785-1806)
184. Thomas Traherne (1636 èëè 1637-1674)
185. Gerald Massey (1828-1907)
186. John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
187. Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
188. William Cartwright (1611-1643)
189. Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
190. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
191. John Skelton (1460-1529)
192. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)
193. James Shirley (1596-1666)
194. Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672)
195. Alexander Montgomerie (1545?-1598)
196. Richard Lovelace (1618-1656)
197. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886)
198. George Eliot (1819-1880)
199. Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
200. Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
201. Giles Fletcher the Elder (1546-1611)
202. William Dunbar (1460?-1520?)
203. Alexander Wilson (1766-1813)
204. William Browne (1590-1645)
205. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
206. George Peele (1556-1596)
207. John Webster (1578-1634)
208. Thomas Gent (1693-1778)
209. William Shenstone (1714-1763)
210. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
211. Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)
212. Stephen Phillips (1864-1915)
213. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
214. Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
215. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
216. Ann Taylor (1782-1866)
217. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
218. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
219. Thomas Warton (1728-1790)
220. John Payne (1842-1916)
221. Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)
222. Alfred Bruce Douglas (1870-1945)
223. Henry Thoreau (1817-1862)
224. Richard Gall (1776-1801)
225. John Dowland (1563-1626)
226. John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-1796/7)
227. Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)
228. Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871)
229. Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896)
230. Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
231. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
232. John Cleveland (1613-1658)
233. Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
234. Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915)
235. Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
236. William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865)
237. William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
238. Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)
239. Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
240. William Langland (1330?-1400?)
241. Katherine Philips (1632-1664)
242. Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
243. William Brighty Rands (1823-1882)
244. Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692)
245. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
246. Anne Bannerman (1765-1829)
247. Robert Henryson (1425?-1500?)
248. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1913/14)
249. James Beattie (1735-1803)
250. Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
251. William Kennish (1799-1862)
252. Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
253. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
254. George Sterling (1869-1926)
255. James Tytler (1745-1804)
256. Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
257. James Milne (1737-1788)
258. Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902)
259. Nicholas Breton (1545-1626)
260. Robert Wilson ()
261. Henry James Pye (1744-1813)
262. Edward Dyer (1543-1607)
263. Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
264. Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948)
265. William Drummond (1585-1649)
266. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
267. Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
268. James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
269. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
270. George Essex Evans (1863-1909)
271. Amy Levy (1861-1889)
272. James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
273. Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
274. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
275. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
276. John Ford (1586-1639)
277. James Joyce (1882-1941)
278. Fulke Greville Brooke (1554–1628)
279. Herman Melville (1819-1891)
280. Thomas Urquhart (1611-1660?)
281. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)
282. William Whitehead (1715-1785)
283. Anne Hunter (1742-1821)
284. Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
285. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
286. William Wilfred Campbell (1860-1918)
287. Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
288. Philip Morin Freneau (1752-1832)
289. Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
290. Clarence James Dennis (1876-1938)
291. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
292. Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897)
293. Margaret Chalmers (1758-1827)
294. Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)
295. Henry Newbolt (1862-1938)
296. Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)
297. James Gates Percival (1795-1856)
298. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
299. Nahum Tate (1652-1715)
300. King James V of Scotland (1512-1542)
301. Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)
302. Anne Grant (1755-1838)
303. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
304. Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918)
305. Henry Farley (15… - 1633?)
306. William Habington (1605-1654)
307. Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)
308. Menella Bute Smedley (1820–1877)
309. Norman Rowland Gale (1862-1942)
310. George Gascoigne (1535-1577)
311. William Herbert Carruth (1859-1924)
312. Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
313. Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908)
314. Mary Sidney (1561-1621)
315. Eugene Field (1850-1895)
316. Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
317. James Hogg (1770-1835)
318. Robert Greene (1558-1592)
319. Stephen Duck (1705?-1756)
320. Richard Savage (1698-1743)
321. Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
322. Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-1885)
323. John Lydgate (1370?-1451?)
324. Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)
325. John Marston (1576-1634)
326. Washington Allston (1779-1843)
327. Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909)
328. William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
329. Robert Hetrick (1769-1849)
330. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870)
331. Richard Corbet (1582-1635)
332. King James I of Scotland (1394-1437)
333. John Milton Hay (1838-1905)
334. John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916)
335. John Davies (1569-1626)
336. Edith Matilda Thomas (1854-1925)
337. Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
338. Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778)
339. George Wither (1588-1667)
340. John Mayne (1759-1836)
341. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
342. Thomas Tusser (1528?-1580)
343. Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922)
344. Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
345. Margaret Deland (1857-1945)
346. Edward Dowden (1843-1913)
347. Charles Tennyson Turner (1808-1879)
348. James MacIntyre (1727-1799)
349. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
350. George Darley (1795-1846)
351. Isabella Valancy Crawford (1846-1887)
352. John White Chadwick (1840-1904)
353. John Lyly (1554-1606)
354. John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
355. Gabriel Harvey (1545?(1550)-1630)
356. Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887)
357. Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
358. Henry Kendall (1839-1882)
359. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
360. John Lapraik (1727-1807)
361. Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
362. Violet Jacob (1863-1946)
363. John Vance Cheney (1848-1922)
364. James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)
365. Christian Milne (1773-1816)
366. John Philips (1676-1709)
367. Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
368. Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
369. John Fletcher (1579-1625)
370. Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
371. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975)
372. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
373. John Drinkwater (1882-1937)
374. Horace Smith (1779-1849)
375. Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1931)
376. Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881)
377. Jones Very (1813-1880)
378. Charles Heavysege (1816-1876)
379. John Skinner (1721-1807)
380. John Harington (1561-1612)
381. Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)
382. Richard Hovey (1864-1900)
383. Thomas Lodge (1558?-1625)
384. Clinton Scollard (1860-1932)
385. Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
386. William Creech (1745-1815)
387. Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)
388. Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914)
389. Harold Hart Crane (1899-1932)
390. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
391. James Kenneth Stephen (1859-1892)
392. Isabel Pagan (1740-1821)
393. James Graham, 1st Marquise of Montrose (1612-1650)
394. Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873)
395. Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
396. Thomas Blacklock (1721-1791)
397. James McIntyre (1828-1906)
398. Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)
399. James Maxwell (1719-1800)
400. Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
401. Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886)
402. Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872)
403. Charles Cotton (1630-1687)
404. Hazel Hall (1886-1924)
405. Owen Seaman (1861-1936)
406. Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
407. Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (1883-1922)
408. George Moses Horton (1798-1884)
409. Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927)
410. Helen Gray Cone (1859-1934)
411. Alexander Smith (1829/30-1867)
412. John Beugo (1759-1841)
413. William Hamilton Reid (1760?-1826)
414. William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)
415. Samuel Wesley (1691-1739)
416. Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)
417. Francis Grose (1731?-1791)
418. Ebenezer Jones (1820-1860)
419. Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618)
420. Martin Parker (1600?-1656?)
421. James Thomas Fields (1817-1881)
422. David Sillar (1760-1830)
423. Christopher Pearse Cranch (1815-1892)
424. Thomas Walker (?-1812?)
425. Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908)
426. David Crawford (XVIII-XIX)
427. Robert Sidney (1563-1626)
428. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
429. Walter Learned (1847-1915)
430. Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903)
431. Henry Timrod (1829-1867)
432. James Macaulay (1754-1817)
433. Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827-1890)
434. Elizabeth Scott (1729-1789)
435. John Dun (1723-1792)
436. Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)
437. James Fisher (1759?-?)
438. Alice Cary (1820-1871)
439. W. A. Foster (1801-1862)
440. James Thomson (1834-1882)
441. William Simson (1758-1815)
442. Royall Tyler (1757-1826)
443. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
444. William M’Vitie (XVIII–XIX)
445. Mary Hobson (1926)
446. Ian Serrailier (1912-1994)
447. John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
448. Alexander Smart (1798-1866)
449. Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839)
450. Alexander («Saunders») Tait (1750?-1800?)
451. Lloyd Mifflin (1846-1921)
452. Charles Sackville (1638-1706)
453. Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718)
454. Charles Lockhart (2-ÿ ïîë. XVIII - 1-ÿ ïîë. XIX ââ)
455. John Struthers (1776-1853)
456. Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837-1883)
457. Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922)
458. Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
459. Adam Skirving (1719-1803)
460. James Ruickbie (1757-1829)
461. Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)
462. Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895)
463. Alexander Pennecuik (1690?-1730)
464. Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847)
465. Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947)
466. Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)
467. Helen Craik (1750?-1825)
468. George Pope Morris (1802-1864)
469. Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
470. John Pierpont (1785-1866)
471. Henry Constable (1562-1613)
472. John Bannister Tabb (1845-1909)
473. David Mallet (1705?-1765)
474. Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)

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