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. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
6. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
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. Robert Southey (1774-1843)
20. Charlotte Bront¸ (1816-1855)
21. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
22. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
23. Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848)
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. Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
30. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
31. William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
32. Robert Browning (1812-1889)
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. Edward Lear (1812-1888)
39. Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915)
40. William Morris (1834-1896)
41. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
42. William Barnes (1801-1886)
43. John Milton (1608-1674)
44. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)
45. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
46. Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
47. David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
48. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
49. George Herbert (1593-1633)
50. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
51. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
52. John Dryden (1631-1700)
53. Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938)
54. Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
55. Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)
56. John Gay (1685-1732)
57. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
58. Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)
59. Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
60. Arthur William Symons (1865-1945)
61. James Thomson (1700-1748)
62. Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
63. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
64. Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867-1900)
65. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
66. Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
67. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
68. Robert Anderson (1770-1833)
69. Oliver Goldsmith (1730?-1774)
70. Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
71. Jean Ingelow (1820-1897)
72. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
73. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
74. Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
75. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
76. William Topaz McGonagall (1825-1902)
77. Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
78. Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
79. Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
80. Henry James Byron (1834-1884)
81. Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)
82. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
83. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
84. Bernard Barton (1784-1849)
85. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
86. Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930)
87. George MacDonald (1824-1905)
88. Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
89. Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805-1848)
90. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
91. George Meredith (1828-1909)
92. John Newton (1725-1807)
93. Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
94. Eliza Cook (1818-1889)
95. George William Russell (1867-1935)
96. Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
97. James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)
98. Thomas Aird (1802-1876)
99. Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
100. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
101. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
102. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
103. James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
104. Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)
105. Robert William Service (1874-1958)
106. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
107. John Davidson (1857-1909)
108. Lewis Morris (1833-1907)
109. Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928)
110. Branwell Bronte (1817-1848)
111. John Bunyan (1628-1688)
112. Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
113. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
114. William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
115. Walter Raleigh (1552 èëè 1554-1618)
116. Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824-1874)
117. Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
118. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
119. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
120. Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547)
121. Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
122. Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)
123. William Collins (1721-1759)
124. Alexander Brome (1620-1666)
125. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
126. Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)
127. William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850)
128. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
129. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
130. Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
131. Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
132. Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
133. Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
134. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
135. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
136. Thomas Cooper (1805-1892)
137. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
138. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
139. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
140. William Davenant (1606-1668)
141. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902)
142. Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
143. Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
144. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)
145. George Etherege (1635-1691)
146. Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
147. Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
148. Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (1592-1669)
149. Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
150. Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
151. Dinah Maria Craik (1826-1887)
152. Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
153. Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
154. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872-1898)
155. Edward Young (1683-1765)
156. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915)
157. Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884)
158. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
159. Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
160. Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874)
161. Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)
162. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
163. George Crabbe (1754-1832)
164. Janet Hamilton (1795-1873)
165. Marion Angus (1865-1946)
166. John Suckling (1609-1641)
167. Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900)
168. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864)
169. William Watson (1858-1935)
170. John Keble (1792-1866)
171. Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
172. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
173. George Canning (1770-1827)
174. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829-1862)
175. Edward Herbert (1583-1648)
176. Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921)
177. Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
178. Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
179. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901)
180. Francis Beaumont (1584?-1616)
181. Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
182. Henry Kirke White (1785-1806)
183. Janet Little (1759-1813)
184. Thomas Traherne (1636 èëè 1637-1674)
185. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
186. Gerald Massey (1828-1907)
187. John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
188. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886)
189. William Cartwright (1611-1643)
190. Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
191. Alexander Montgomerie (1545?-1598)
192. John Skelton (1460-1529)
193. Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672)
194. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)
195. James Shirley (1596-1666)
196. Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
197. Richard Lovelace (1618-1656)
198. Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
199. William Dunbar (1460?-1520?)
200. Giles Fletcher the Elder (1546-1611)
201. Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
202. George Eliot (1819-1880)
203. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
204. William Browne (1590-1645)
205. George Peele (1556-1596)
206. Alexander Wilson (1766-1813)
207. John Webster (1578-1634)
208. Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
209. Thomas Gent (1693-1778)
210. Stephen Phillips (1864-1915)
211. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
212. William Shenstone (1714-1763)
213. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
214. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
215. Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)
216. Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
217. Henry Thoreau (1817-1862)
218. John Payne (1842-1916)
219. Ann Taylor (1782-1866)
220. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
221. Thomas Warton (1728-1790)
222. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
223. Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)
224. Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
225. Alfred Bruce Douglas (1870-1945)
226. John Dowland (1563-1626)
227. Richard Gall (1776-1801)
228. John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-1796/7)
229. Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)
230. Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896)
231. Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871)
232. Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)
233. Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915)
234. Nicholas Breton (1545-1626)
235. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
236. John Cleveland (1613-1658)
237. William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
238. Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
239. Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
240. Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
241. Katherine Philips (1632-1664)
242. William Langland (1330?-1400?)
243. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
244. William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865)
245. William Brighty Rands (1823-1882)
246. Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
247. Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692)
248. Robert Henryson (1425?-1500?)
249. Anne Bannerman (1765-1829)
250. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
251. Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
252. James Beattie (1735-1803)
253. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1913/14)
254. Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
255. William Kennish (1799-1862)
256. George Sterling (1869-1926)
257. Robert Wilson ()
258. Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
259. James Tytler (1745-1804)
260. James Milne (1737-1788)
261. Henry James Pye (1744-1813)
262. Thomas Urquhart (1611-1660?)
263. Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902)
264. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
265. William Drummond (1585-1649)
266. James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
267. Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948)
268. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
269. Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
270. Edward Dyer (1543-1607)
271. Fulke Greville Brooke (1554–1628)
272. James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
273. Amy Levy (1861-1889)
274. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
275. John Ford (1586-1639)
276. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
277. George Essex Evans (1863-1909)
278. James Joyce (1882-1941)
279. Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
280. William Whitehead (1715-1785)
281. Herman Melville (1819-1891)
282. Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
283. Anne Hunter (1742-1821)
284. Margaret Chalmers (1758-1827)
285. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
286. Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
287. Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
288. Philip Morin Freneau (1752-1832)
289. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
290. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)
291. Clarence James Dennis (1876-1938)
292. Menella Bute Smedley (1820–1877)
293. Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)
294. William Wilfred Campbell (1860-1918)
295. James Gates Percival (1795-1856)
296. Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908)
297. Nahum Tate (1652-1715)
298. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
299. Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897)
300. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
301. Anne Grant (1755-1838)
302. Henry Newbolt (1862-1938)
303. John Heywood (1497?-1580?)
304. Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918)
305. Norman Rowland Gale (1862-1942)
306. Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)
307. James Hogg (1770-1835)
308. Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
309. King James V of Scotland (1512-1542)
310. Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
311. William Habington (1605-1654)
312. Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)
313. Eugene Field (1850-1895)
314. William Herbert Carruth (1859-1924)
315. Robert Greene (1558-1592)
316. Henry Farley (15… - 1633?)
317. Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)
318. George Gascoigne (1535-1577)
319. Stephen Duck (1705?-1756)
320. Mary Sidney (1561-1621)
321. Robert Hetrick (1769-1849)
322. Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)
323. Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
324. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870)
325. John Milton Hay (1838-1905)
326. William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
327. Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-1885)
328. John Lydgate (1370?-1451?)
329. John Marston (1576-1634)
330. George Wither (1588-1667)
331. Washington Allston (1779-1843)
332. Mary Hobson (1926)
333. Richard Corbet (1582-1635)
334. Richard Savage (1698-1743)
335. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
336. Edward Dowden (1843-1913)
337. Edith Matilda Thomas (1854-1925)
338. Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909)
339. John Lapraik (1727-1807)
340. John Davies (1569-1626)
341. Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
342. John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916)
343. Charles Tennyson Turner (1808-1879)
344. John Mayne (1759-1836)
345. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
346. Henry Kendall (1839-1882)
347. Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
348. George Darley (1795-1846)
349. John White Chadwick (1840-1904)
350. Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975)
351. Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778)
352. Thomas Blacklock (1721-1791)
353. Margaret Deland (1857-1945)
354. Thomas Tusser (1528?-1580)
355. James MacIntyre (1727-1799)
356. Gabriel Harvey (1545?(1550)-1630)
357. King James I of Scotland (1394-1437)
358. Violet Jacob (1863-1946)
359. John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
360. John Fletcher (1579-1625)
361. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
362. John Lyly (1554-1606)
363. Isabella Valancy Crawford (1846-1887)
364. Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887)
365. John Beugo (1759-1841)
366. Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922)
367. Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
368. John Harington (1561-1612)
369. John Vance Cheney (1848-1922)
370. Richard Hovey (1864-1900)
371. Robert Sidney (1563-1626)
372. Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881)
373. Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
374. Clinton Scollard (1860-1932)
375. Jones Very (1813-1880)
376. John Philips (1676-1709)
377. Christian Milne (1773-1816)
378. Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
379. John Skinner (1721-1807)
380. James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)
381. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
382. Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
383. Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1931)
384. Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)
385. Horace Smith (1779-1849)
386. Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)
387. Charles Heavysege (1816-1876)
388. Isabel Pagan (1740-1821)
389. Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)
390. William Broome (1689-1745)
391. James Graham, 1st Marquise of Montrose (1612-1650)
392. Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
393. Harold Hart Crane (1899-1932)
394. William Creech (1745-1815)
395. John Drinkwater (1882-1937)
396. Owen Seaman (1861-1936)
397. Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
398. Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
399. Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
400. Robert Burton (1577-1640)
401. Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914)
402. James Maxwell (1719-1800)
403. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
404. George Moses Horton (1798-1884)
405. Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927)
406. Hazel Hall (1886-1924)
407. Thomas Lodge (1558?-1625)
408. Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
409. Francis Grose (1731?-1791)
410. Patric Tomas Dickinson (1914-1994)
411. Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (1883-1922)
412. John Dun (1723-1792)
413. James Fisher (1759?-?)
414. Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873)
415. Richard Garnett (1835-1906)
416. Ebenezer Jones (1820-1860)
417. James Kenneth Stephen (1859-1892)
418. Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886)
419. James McIntyre (1828-1906)
420. Tobias George Smollett (1721-1771)
421. Charles Cotton (1630-1687)
422. Kate Greenaway (1846-1901)
423. John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871)
424. Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
425. William Hamilton Reid (1760?-1826)
426. David Garrick (1717-1779)
427. David Sillar (1760-1830)
428. Nathaniel Cotton (1707-1788)
429. William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)
430. Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827-1890)
431. Ian Serrailier (1912-1994)
432. W. A. Foster (1801-1862)
433. John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815)
434. John Russell (1792-1878)
435. Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872)
436. Isaac Bickerstaffe (1735?-1812?)
437. Alexander Smith (1829/30-1867)
438. John Wolcot (1738-1819)
439. Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618)
440. Keith Douglas (1920-1944)
441. George Lyttelton (1709-1773)
442. Samuel Wesley (1691-1739)
443. William Somerville (1675-1742)
444. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
445. Helen Gray Cone (1859-1934)
446. John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)
447. David Crawford (XVIII-XIX)
448. Martin Parker (1600?-1656?)
449. Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908)
450. Alexander Smart (1798-1866)
451. Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)
452. James Macaulay (1754-1817)
453. Christopher Pearse Cranch (1815-1892)
454. Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)
455. James Thomas Fields (1817-1881)
456. Thomas Walker (?-1812?)
457. Elizabeth Scott (1729-1789)
458. George Chapman (1559?-1634)
459. James Smith (1775-1839)
460. Henry Timrod (1829-1867)
461. Kathleen Raine (1908-2003)
462. Alice Cary (1820-1871)
463. Philip Doddridge (1702-1751)
464. Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922)
465. Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
466. James Thomson (1834-1882)
467. Thomas Heywood (1575?-1650)
468. Philip Bourke Marston (1850-1887)
469. Walter Learned (1847-1915)
470. Robert Craggs, Earl Nugent (?-1788)
471. Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878-1962)
472. Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818)
473. Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)
474. Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903)
475. Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839)
476. George Granville, Lord Lansdowne (1667-1735)
477. Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)
478. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
479. William Simson (1758-1815)
480. Adam Skirving (1719-1803)
481. John Bannister Tabb (1845-1909)
482. David Mallet (1705?-1765)
483. Richard Leveridge (1670-1758)
484. Benjamin Franklin King (1857-1894)
485. Lloyd Mifflin (1846-1921)
486. Royall Tyler (1757-1826)
487. Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
488. Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)
489. Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice Lansdowne (1780-1863)
490. Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)
491. William M’Vitie (XVIII–XIX)
492. John Oldham (1653-1683)
493. William Oldys (1696-1761)
494. Rose Fyleman (1877–1957)
495. Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
496. Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718)
497. George Pope Morris (1802-1864)
498. Helen Craik (1750?-1825)
499. Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895)
500. Alexander («Saunders») Tait (1750?-1800?)
501. John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton (1893-1979)
502. Emile Victor Rieu (1887-1972)
503. Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947)
504. Henry Constable (1562-1613)
505. Charles Sackville (1638-1706)
506. Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847)
507. John Pierpont (1785-1866)
508. Charles Lockhart (2-ÿ ïîë. XVIII - 1-ÿ ïîë. XIX ââ)
509. John Struthers (1776-1853)
510. Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837-1883)
511. John Cannell ()
512. Richard Rowlands (1565-1630?)
513. Henry Aldrich (1647-1710)
514. Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
515. James Ruickbie (1757-1829)
516. Alexander Pennecuik (1690?-1730)
517. Robert Heath (1620?-1650)

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