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. Robert Burns (1759-1796)
6. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
7. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
8. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
9. John Donne (1572-1631)
10. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
11. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
12. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
13. Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
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. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
20. Robert Southey (1774-1843)
21. Charlotte Bront¸ (1816-1855)
22. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
23. Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848)
24. William Allingham (1828-1889)
25. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
26. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
27. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
28. Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
29. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
30. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
31. William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
32. Robert Browning (1812-1889)
33. Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
34. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
35. John Armstrong (1709-1779)
36. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
37. Edward Lear (1812-1888)
38. Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
39. Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915)
40. William Barnes (1801-1886)
41. William Cowper (1731-1800)
42. John Milton (1608-1674)
43. William Morris (1834-1896)
44. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)
45. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
46. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
47. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
48. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
49. George Herbert (1593-1633)
50. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
51. Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
52. Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
53. David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
54. Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938)
55. John Gay (1685-1732)
56. John Dryden (1631-1700)
57. Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
58. Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)
59. Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
60. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
61. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
62. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
63. Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)
64. Arthur William Symons (1865-1945)
65. Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867-1900)
66. James Thomson (1700-1748)
67. Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
68. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
69. Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)
70. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
71. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
72. Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
73. Robert Anderson (1770-1833)
74. Jean Ingelow (1820-1897)
75. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
76. Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
77. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
78. Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
79. Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774)
80. William Topaz McGonagall (1825-1902)
81. Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
82. Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
83. Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
84. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
85. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
86. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
87. Henry James Byron (1834-1884)
88. George MacDonald (1824-1905)
89. Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930)
90. Bernard Barton (1784-1849)
91. Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805-1848)
92. Robert William Service (1874-1958)
93. George Meredith (1828-1909)
94. John Newton (1725-1807)
95. Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
96. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
97. Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
98. Eliza Cook (1818-1889)
99. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
100. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
101. George William Russell (1867-1935)
102. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
103. James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)
104. Thomas Aird (1802-1876)
105. James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
106. Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)
107. John Davidson (1857-1909)
108. Lewis Morris (1833-1907)
109. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
110. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
111. Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928)
112. John Bunyan (1628-1688)
113. Branwell Brontë (1817-1848)
114. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
115. Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
116. Alexander Brome (1620-1666)
117. Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824-1874)
118. Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
119. William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
120. Walter Raleigh (1552 èëè 1554-1618)
121. Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)
122. Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
123. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
124. William Collins (1721-1759)
125. Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
126. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
127. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
128. William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850)
129. Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)
130. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
131. Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547)
132. Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
133. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
134. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
135. Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
136. Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (1592-1669)
137. William Davenant (1606-1668)
138. Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
139. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902)
140. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872-1898)
141. Thomas Cooper (1805-1892)
142. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)
143. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
144. Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
145. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
146. Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
147. Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
148. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
149. George Etherege (1635-1691)
150. Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
151. Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874)
152. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886)
153. Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
154. Dinah Maria Craik (1826-1887)
155. Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
156. Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884)
157. Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
158. Edward Young (1683-1765)
159. Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
160. Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
161. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915)
162. Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900)
163. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
164. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901)
165. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
166. Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)
167. Thomas Traherne (1636 èëè 1637-1674)
168. Gerald Massey (1828-1907)
169. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
170. Marion Angus (1865-1946)
171. Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
172. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829-1862)
173. Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
174. Janet Hamilton (1795-1873)
175. John Keble (1792-1866)
176. John Suckling (1609-1641)
177. Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
178. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864)
179. Henry Kirke White (1785-1806)
180. Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921)
181. Francis Beaumont (1584?-1616)
182. Edward Herbert (1583-1648)
183. William Watson (1858-1935)
184. George Crabbe (1754-1832)
185. Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672)
186. Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
187. Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
188. Richard Lovelace (1618-1656)
189. George Canning (1770-1827)
190. Janet Little (1759-1813)
191. Alexander Montgomerie (1545?-1598)
192. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)
193. William Cartwright (1611-1643)
194. Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
195. John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
196. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
197. James Shirley (1596-1666)
198. John Skelton (1460-1529)
199. Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
200. Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
201. William Dunbar (1460?-1520?)
202. Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
203. Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
204. Henry Thoreau (1817-1862)
205. William Browne (1590-1645)
206. Nicholas Breton (1545-1626)
207. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
208. Thomas Urquhart (1611-1660?)
209. Giles Fletcher the Elder (1546-1611)
210. Alexander Wilson (1766-1813)
211. George Eliot (1819-1880)
212. Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)
213. Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
214. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
215. George Peele (1556-1596)
216. Thomas Gent (1693-1778)
217. John Payne (1842-1916)
218. John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-1796/7)
219. Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
220. Stephen Phillips (1864-1915)
221. William Shenstone (1714-1763)
222. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
223. John Dowland (1563-1626)
224. Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)
225. William Langland (1330?-1400?)
226. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
227. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
228. Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
229. Alfred Bruce Douglas (1870-1945)
230. Thomas Warton (1728-1790)
231. Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
232. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1913/14)
233. Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
234. Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896)
235. Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)
236. John Webster (1578-1634)
237. Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902)
238. Ann Taylor (1782-1866)
239. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
240. Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692)
241. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
242. John Cleveland (1613-1658)
243. Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871)
244. Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
245. Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
246. Menella Bute Smedley (1820–1877)
247. Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
248. William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
249. Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915)
250. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
251. Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
252. William Brighty Rands (1823-1882)
253. Henry Kendall (1839-1882)
254. Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
255. James Beattie (1735-1803)
256. Richard Gall (1776-1801)
257. Amy Levy (1861-1889)
258. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
259. Anne Bannerman (1765-1829)
260. Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)
261. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
262. Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
263. Henry James Pye (1744-1813)
264. Fulke Greville Brooke (1554–1628)
265. William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865)
266. Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
267. George Sterling (1869-1926)
268. Robert Henryson (1425?-1500?)
269. John Lapraik (1727-1807)
270. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
271. William Kennish (1799-1862)
272. Katherine Philips (1632-1664)
273. James Joyce (1882-1941)
274. Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963)
275. Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
276. William Drummond (1585-1649)
277. Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908)
278. Robert Wilson ()
279. James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
280. Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)
281. John Heywood (1497?-1580?)
282. William Whitehead (1715-1785)
283. James Milne (1737-1788)
284. George Essex Evans (1863-1909)
285. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
286. James Hogg (1770-1835)
287. James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
288. James Tytler (1745-1804)
289. Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948)
290. Herman Melville (1819-1891)
291. Anne Hunter (1742-1821)
292. Philip Morin Freneau (1752-1832)
293. Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
294. Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
295. Norman Rowland Gale (1862-1942)
296. Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
297. Margaret Chalmers (1758-1827)
298. Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)
299. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
300. Jones Very (1813-1880)
301. William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
302. Edward Dyer (1543-1607)
303. Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918)
304. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
305. Mary Hobson (1926-2020)
306. John Ford (1586-1639)
307. Thomas Blacklock (1721-1791)
308. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
309. Clarence James Dennis (1876-1938)
310. James Gates Percival (1795-1856)
311. Eugene Field (1850-1895)
312. William Wilfred Campbell (1860-1918)
313. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
314. Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
315. Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897)
316. Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
317. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870)
318. Robert Hetrick (1769-1849)
319. William Hamilton Reid (1760?-1826)
320. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
321. Nahum Tate (1652-1715)
322. John Lydgate (1370?-1451?)
323. Robert Greene (1558-1592)
324. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)
325. William Herbert Carruth (1859-1924)
326. George Gascoigne (1535-1577)
327. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
328. Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937)
329. Henry Farley (15… - 1633?)
330. George Wither (1588-1667)
331. King James V of Scotland (1512-1542)
332. Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)
333. Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-1885)
334. William Habington (1605-1654)
335. Anne Grant (1755-1838)
336. John Milton Hay (1838-1905)
337. Robert Sidney (1563-1626)
338. Richard Savage (1698-1743)
339. Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)
340. John Mayne (1759-1836)
341. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975)
342. Robert Burton (1577-1640)
343. John Davies (1569-1626)
344. Gabriel Harvey (1545?(1550)-1630)
345. John Beugo (1759-1841)
346. Washington Allston (1779-1843)
347. John Marston (1576-1634)
348. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
349. Henry Newbolt (1862-1938)
350. Edith Matilda Thomas (1854-1925)
351. Andrew Barton Paterson (1864-1941)
352. Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)
353. Richard Corbet (1582-1635)
354. Mary Sidney (1561-1621)
355. Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)
356. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
357. Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
358. Mary Robinson (1757-1800)
359. Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881)
360. Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)
361. Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
362. Violet Jacob (1863-1946)
363. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
364. William Broome (1689-1745)
365. Henry Lawson (1867-1922)
366. Stephen Duck (1705?-1756)
367. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
368. John Fletcher (1579-1625)
369. Charles Tennyson Turner (1808-1879)
370. Isabel Pagan (1740-1821)
371. Kate Greenaway (1846-1901)
372. John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916)
373. Isaac Bickerstaffe (1735?-1812?)
374. Clinton Scollard (1860-1932)
375. Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909)
376. John Skinner (1721-1807)
377. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
378. Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
379. Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
380. Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
381. John Harington (1561-1612)
382. Thomas Tusser (1528?-1580)
383. James Graham, 1st Marquise of Montrose (1612-1650)
384. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
385. Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
386. Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887)
387. Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
388. Richard Garnett (1835-1906)
389. Jane Austen (1775-1817)
390. John White Chadwick (1840-1904)
391. Claude McKay (1889-1948)
392. Owen Seaman (1861-1936)
393. Patric Tomas Dickinson (1914-1994)
394. John Wolcot (1738-1819)
395. Elinor Wylie (1885-1928)
396. Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)
397. Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
398. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
399. Christian Milne (1773-1816)
400. John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
401. John Dun (1723-1792)
402. Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
403. James MacIntyre (1727-1799)
404. John Pierpont (1785-1866)
405. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
406. Martin Parker (1600?-1656?)
407. Edward Dowden (1843-1913)
408. John Vance Cheney (1848-1922)
409. Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)
410. George Darley (1795-1846)
411. John Lyly (1554-1606)
412. Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
413. David Garrick (1717-1779)
414. Isabella Valancy Crawford (1846-1887)
415. Charles Heavysege (1816-1876)
416. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
417. Horace Smith (1779-1849)
418. King James I of Scotland (1394-1437)
419. Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778)
420. Richard Hovey (1864-1900)
421. Francis Grose (1731?-1791)
422. David Sillar (1760-1830)
423. Margaret Deland (1857-1945)
424. John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871)
425. James Fisher (1759?-?)
426. Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (1883-1922)
427. Keith Douglas (1920-1944)
428. James Maxwell (1719-1800)
429. John McCrae (1872-1918)
430. George Arnold (1834-1865)
431. Henry Timrod (1829-1867)
432. Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)
433. Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)
434. Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
435. Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922)
436. W. A. Foster (1801-1862)
437. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
438. John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
439. Christopher Pearse Cranch (1815-1892)
440. Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914)
441. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
442. Alexander Smith (1829/30-1867)
443. Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)
444. William Creech (1745-1815)
445. Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1931)
446. Nathaniel Cotton (1707-1788)
447. Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)
448. Harold Hart Crane (1899-1932)
449. George Moses Horton (1798-1884)
450. Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903)
451. Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947)
452. Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)
453. Patrick Brontë (1777-1861)
454. Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927)
455. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
456. George Chapman (1559?-1634)
457. Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
458. Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922)
459. John Philips (1676-1709)
460. Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873)
461. Marriott Edgar (1880-1951)
462. Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886)
463. James Kenneth Stephen (1859-1892)
464. David Crawford (XVIII-XIX)
465. James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)
466. Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827-1890)
467. Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895)
468. Charles Cotton (1630-1687)
469. Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878-1962)
470. Thomas Lodge (1558?-1625)
471. Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
472. John Drinkwater (1882-1937)
473. Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908)
474. George Pope Morris (1802-1864)
475. John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815)
476. William Somerville (1675-1742)
477. Henry Livingston (1748-1828)
478. Thomas Walker (?-1812?)
479. Elizabeth Scott (1729-1789)
480. James McIntyre (1828-1906)
481. Ian Serrailier (1912-1994)
482. Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)
483. Hazel Hall (1886-1924)
484. Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847)
485. Helen Craik (1750?-1825)
486. George Lyttelton (1709-1773)
487. Adam Skirving (1719-1803)
488. Philip Bourke Marston (1850-1887)
489. Katharine Tynan (1859-1931)
490. John Russell (1792-1878)
491. Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)
492. Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839)
493. Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
494. John Bannister Tabb (1845-1909)
495. Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618)
496. Benjamin Franklin King (1857-1894)
497. Alexander Smart (1798-1866)
498. Ebenezer Jones (1820-1860)
499. William Simson (1758-1815)
500. Alice Cary (1820-1871)
501. Kathleen Raine (1908-2003)
502. William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)
503. Samuel Wesley (1691-1739)
504. David Mallet (1705?-1765)
505. Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718)
506. James Macaulay (1754-1817)
507. Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872)
508. James Thomas Fields (1817-1881)
509. Alexander («Saunders») Tait (1750?-1800?)
510. James Smith (1775-1839)
511. James Thomson (1834-1882)
512. Henry Constable (1562-1613)
513. Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
514. Thomas Heywood (1575?-1650)
515. James Ruickbie (1757-1829)
516. Helen Gray Cone (1859-1934)
517. Rose Fyleman (1877–1957)
518. Robert Craggs, Earl Nugent (?-1788)
519. Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
520. Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947)
521. Charles Sackville (1638-1706)
522. Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837-1883)
523. Philip Doddridge (1702-1751)
524. Jane Taylor (1783-1824)
525. George Granville, Lord Lansdowne (1667-1735)
526. Royall Tyler (1757-1826)
527. John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton (1893-1979)
528. Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)
529. John Oldham (1653-1683)
530. Lloyd Mifflin (1846-1921)
531. Emile Victor Rieu (1887-1972)
532. Walter Learned (1847-1915)
533. William M’Vitie (XVIII–XIX)
534. John Cannell ()
535. Charles Lockhart (XVIII - XIX)
536. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice Lansdowne (1780-1863)
537. Henry Aldrich (1647-1710)
538. Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
539. William Oldys (1696-1761)
540. Richard Rowlands (1565-1630?)
541. Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818)
542. Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
543. Robert Heath (1620?-1650)
544. Richard Leveridge (1670-1758)
545. John Struthers (1776-1853)
546. Alexander Pennecuik (1690?-1730)

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