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. Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
11. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
12. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
13. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
14. Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956)
15. Walter Scott (1771-1832)
16. Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
17. John Clare (1793-1864)
18. Charlotte Bront¸ (1816-1855)
19. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
20. Emily Jane Brontë (1818-1848)
21. Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
22. William Allingham (1828-1889)
23. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
24. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
25. Robert Southey (1774-1843)
26. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
27. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
28. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
29. Robert Browning (1812-1889)
30. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
31. John Armstrong (1709-1779)
32. William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
33. Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
34. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
35. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
36. William Cowper (1731-1800)
37. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
38. Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
39. Rupert Chawner Brooke (1887-1915)
40. William Morris (1834-1896)
41. William Barnes (1801-1886)
42. Edward Lear (1812-1888)
43. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
44. John Milton (1608-1674)
45. David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)
46. Anne Brontë (1820-1849)
47. Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806)
48. George Herbert (1593-1633)
49. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)
50. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
51. Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
52. Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
53. Edwin Arnold (1832-1904)
54. John Dryden (1631-1700)
55. John Gay (1685-1732)
56. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
57. Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
58. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
59. Robert Anderson (1770-1833)
60. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
61. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
62. Arthur William Symons (1865-1945)
63. Alfred Austin (1835-1913)
64. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
65. Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)
66. Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867-1900)
67. Jean Ingelow (1820-1897)
68. James Thomson (1700-1748)
69. Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
70. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
71. Lascelles Abercrombie (1881-1938)
72. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
73. William Topaz McGonagall (1825-1902)
74. Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
75. Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
76. Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
77. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
78. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
79. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)
80. Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
81. Bernard Barton (1784-1849)
82. Robert Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)
83. Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930)
84. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
85. Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965)
86. Henry James Byron (1834-1884)
87. George MacDonald (1824-1905)
88. Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
89. John Newton (1725-1807)
90. Thomas Aird (1802-1876)
91. George Meredith (1828-1909)
92. Eliza Cook (1818-1889)
93. James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)
94. Coventry Patmore (1823-1896)
95. Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
96. George William Russell (1867-1935)
97. Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
98. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849)
99. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
100. Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (1805-1848)
101. Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673)
102. James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
103. Lewis Morris (1833-1907)
104. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
105. Edmund William Gosse (1849-1928)
106. Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
107. John Davidson (1857-1909)
108. Branwell Bronte (1817-1848)
109. John Bunyan (1628-1688)
110. Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824-1874)
111. William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911)
112. Walter Raleigh (1552 èëè 1554-1618)
113. Henry VIII, King of England (1491-1547)
114. Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
115. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
116. Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
117. Alexander Brome (1620-1666)
118. Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)
119. William Collins (1721-1759)
120. Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
121. William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850)
122. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
123. Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823)
124. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
125. Philip James Bailey (1816-1902)
126. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
127. Thomas Cooper (1805-1892)
128. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
129. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
130. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
131. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
132. William Davenant (1606-1668)
133. Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835)
134. Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
135. Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
136. Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
137. Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917)
138. Robert William Service (1874-1958)
139. Henry King, Bishop of Chichester (1592-1669)
140. George Etherege (1635-1691)
141. Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
142. Dinah Maria Craik (1826-1887)
143. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)
144. Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
145. Lionel Johnson (1867-1902)
146. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
147. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
148. Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)
149. Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)
150. Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
151. Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
152. Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915)
153. Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-1884)
154. Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
155. Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874)
156. George Crabbe (1754-1832)
157. Edith Nesbit (1858-1924)
158. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
159. John Suckling (1609-1641)
160. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829-1862)
161. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872-1898)
162. Edward Herbert (1583-1648)
163. Adelaide Anne Procter (1825-1864)
164. Edward Young (1683-1765)
165. John Keble (1792-1866)
166. Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
167. Janet Hamilton (1795-1873)
168. Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
169. William Watson (1858-1935)
170. Thomas MacDonagh (1878-1916)
171. Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825-1900)
172. Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
173. George Canning (1770-1827)
174. Marion Angus (1865-1946)
175. Janet Little (1759-1813)
176. Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
177. Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921)
178. John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
179. Francis Beaumont (îêîëî 1584-1616)
180. Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
181. Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
182. Thomas Traherne (1636 èëè 1637-1674)
183. Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)
184. Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901)
185. Gerald Massey (1828-1907)
186. Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
187. John Skelton (1460-1529)
188. Alexander Montgomerie (îêîëî 1545 - 1598)
189. Henry Kirke White (1785-1806)
190. Richard Lovelace (1618-1656)
191. William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882)
192. Alexander Wilson (1766-1813)
193. James Shirley (1596-1666)
194. Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
195. William Cartwright (1611-1643)
196. Giles Fletcher the Elder (1546-1611)
197. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
198. Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
199. William Dunbar (îêîëî 1460 - îêîëî 1520)
200. Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603)
201. George Peele (1556-1596)
202. Thomas Gent (1693-1778)
203. William Shenstone (1714-1763)
204. John Webster (1578-1634)
205. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
206. Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
207. William Browne (1590-1645)
208. George Eliot (1819-1880)
209. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
210. Richard Gall (1776-1801)
211. Ann Taylor (1782-1866)
212. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
213. Anne Bradstreet (îêîëî 1612-1672)
214. Stephen Phillips (1864-1915)
215. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886)
216. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
217. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
218. Charlotte Elliott (1789-1871)
219. Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)
220. Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)
221. Thomas Warton (1728-1790)
222. William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865)
223. John Cleveland (1613-1658)
224. John Dowland (1563-1626)
225. Katherine Philips (1632-1664)
226. Alfred Bruce Douglas (1870-1945)
227. James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
228. John Codrington Bampfylde (1754-1796/7)
229. William Kennish (1799-1862)
230. Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896)
231. Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895-1915)
232. William Langland (îêîëî 1330 - îêîëî 1400)
233. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
234. Allan Ramsay (1686-1758)
235. John Payne (1842-1916)
236. William Brighty Rands (1823-1882)
237. Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
238. Charles Churchill (1732-1764)
239. Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)
240. Anne Bannerman (1765-1829)
241. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
242. Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
243. Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
244. Henry James Pye (1744-1813)
245. William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
246. Edward Dyer (1543-1607)
247. Henry Thoreau (1817-1862)
248. Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
249. Theodore Roethke (1908-1963)
250. James Beattie (1735-1803)
251. Thomas Shadwell (1642-1692)
252. Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902)
253. Nicholas Breton (1545-1626)
254. William Drummond (1585-1649)
255. Robert Henryson (îêîëî 1425 - îêîëî 1500)
256. Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
257. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
258. Alan Seeger (1888-1916)
259. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1913/14)
260. Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948)
261. Fulke Greville Brooke (1554–1628)
262. George Essex Evans (1863-1909)
263. John Ford (1586-1639)
264. James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
265. Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
266. Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)
267. Herman Melville (1819-1891)
268. Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
269. Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
270. James Joyce (1882-1941)
271. Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
272. Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)
273. Amy Levy (1861-1889)
274. Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
275. Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)
276. James Gates Percival (1795-1856)
277. George Sterling (1869-1926)
278. Clarence James Dennis (1876-1938)
279. James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
280. Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)
281. Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)
282. Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897)
283. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
284. Anne Hunter (1742-1821)
285. Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933)
286. Nahum Tate (1652-1715)
287. William Whitehead (1715-1785)
288. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
289. Richard Savage (1698-1743)
290. Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914)
291. Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
292. Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920)
293. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
294. William Wilfred Campbell (1860-1918)
295. Henry Farley (15… - ïîñëå 1633)
296. Stephen Duck (1705?-1756)
297. King James I of Scotland (1394-1437)
298. King James V of Scotland (1512-1542)
299. Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
300. William Habington (1605-1654)
301. George Gascoigne (1535-1577)
302. John Lydgate (îêîëî 1370 - îêîëî 1451)
303. Mary Sidney (1561-1621)
304. Robert Greene (1558-1592)
305. Richard Corbet (1582-1635)
306. Norman Rowland Gale (1862-1942)
307. Henry Newbolt (1862-1938)
308. Eugene Field (1850-1895)
309. Philip Morin Freneau (1752-1832)
310. Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)
311. John Marston (1576-1634)
312. Josephine Preston Peabody (1874-1922)
313. Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
314. Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)
315. James MacIntyre (1727-1799)
316. Richard Watson Gilder (1844-1909)
317. Dora Sigerson Shorter (1866-1918)
318. Alexander Lawrence Posey (1873-1908)
319. Anne Grant (1755-1838)
320. Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
321. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
322. Henry Kendall (1839-1882)
323. Washington Allston (1779-1843)
324. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
325. Isabella Valancy Crawford (1846-1887)
326. Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
327. Colley Cibber (1671-1757)
328. Margaret Chalmers (1758-1827)
329. Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)
330. John Mayne (1759-1836)
331. Margaret Deland (1857-1945)
332. John Davies (1569-1626)
333. William Herbert Carruth (1859-1924)
334. John Townsend Trowbridge (1827-1916)
335. William Creech (1745-1815)
336. John Milton Hay (1838-1905)
337. James Hogg (1770-1835)
338. Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-1885)
339. John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
340. James Milne (1737-1788)
341. Thomas Lodge (îêîëî 1558-1625)
342. John Lyly (1554-1606)
343. John Philips (1676-1709)
344. Christian Milne (1773-1816)
345. Gabriel Harvey (îêîëî 1545 èëè 1550-1630)
346. Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)
347. Horace Smith (1779-1849)
348. William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
349. Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887)
350. Menella Bute Smedley (1820–1877)
351. Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)
352. James Tytler (1745-1804)
353. Christopher Morley (1890-1957)
354. Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661-1720)
355. John Vance Cheney (1848-1922)
356. Thomas Tusser (îêîëî 1528-1580)
357. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870)
358. Edward Dowden (1843-1913)
359. Augustus Montague Toplady (1740-1778)
360. Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)
361. George Darley (1795-1846)
362. Robert Underwood Johnson (1853-1931)
363. Charles Tennyson Turner (1808-1879)
364. Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
365. Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914)
366. Alexander Smith (1829/30-1867)
367. Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
368. Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
369. James Kenneth Stephen (1859-1892)
370. John Drinkwater (1882-1937)
371. Edith Matilda Thomas (1854-1925)
372. James McIntyre (1828-1906)
373. Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)
374. John White Chadwick (1840-1904)
375. Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881)
376. Richard Hovey (1864-1900)
377. Charles Cotton (1630-1687)
378. George Wither (1588-1667)
379. William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910)
380. Charles Dibdin (1745-1814)
381. John Fletcher (1579-1625)
382. Violet Jacob (1863-1946)
383. Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)
384. Edith Wharton (1862-1937)
385. Helen Gray Cone (1859-1934)
386. Royall Tyler (1757-1826)
387. Joseph Rodman Drake (1795-1820)
388. James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849)
389. Louise Chandler Moulton (1835-1908)
390. Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (1883-1922)
391. John Harington (1561-1612)
392. Thomas Buchanan Read (1822-1872)
393. Alice Cary (1820-1871)
394. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
395. Walter Learned (1847-1915)
396. Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911)
397. Archibald Lampman (1861-1899)
398. Owen Seaman (1861-1936)
399. Harold Hart Crane (1899-1932)
400. George Moses Horton (1798-1884)
401. Charles Heavysege (1816-1876)
402. Clinton Scollard (1860-1932)
403. Henry Timrod (1829-1867)
404. Jones Very (1813-1880)
405. Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886)
406. Emily Jane Pfeiffer (1827-1890)
407. Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
408. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908)
409. Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618)
410. Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821-1873)
411. Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-1839)
412. Hazel Hall (1886-1924)
413. Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903)
414. Robert Hetrick (1769-1849)
415. Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927)
416. James Thomson (1834-1882)
417. Ebenezer Jones (1820-1860)
418. Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837-1883)
419. John Skinner (1721-1807)
420. John Bannister Tabb (1845-1909)
421. Sidney Lanier (1842-1881)
422. Henry Constable (1562-1613)
423. Martin Parker (1600?-1656?)
424. Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
425. Henry Francis Lyte (1793-1847)
426. Samuel Wesley (1691-1739)
427. Christopher Pearse Cranch (1815-1892)
428. James Thomas Fields (1817-1881)
429. Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)
430. Lloyd Mifflin (1846-1921)
431. Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718)
432. Charles Sackville (1638-1706)
433. George Pope Morris (1802-1864)
434. Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)
435. Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947)
436. Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895)
437. John Pierpont (1785-1866)
438. Helen Craik (îêîëî 1750-1825)

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