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

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