Poets who wrote or write much of their
poetry in the
English language.
- Fleur Adcock (born 1934)
- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
- Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
- Maya Angelou, (born 1928)
- Simon Armitage (born 1963)
- Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
- John Ashbery, (born 1927)
- Thomas Ashe (1836-1889)
- W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
- Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
- Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
- Amiri Baraka
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld, (1743-1825)
- John Barbour (died 1395)
- Richard Barnefield (1574-1627)
- William Barnes (1801-1886)
- James K. Baxter (1926-1972)
- Francis Beaumont (1586-1616)
- Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
- Gwendolyn B. Bennett
- John Berryman
- John Betjeman (1906-1984)
- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- Edmund Blunden
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-?)
- Eavan Boland (born 1944)
- Arna Wendell Bontemps
- Marx Alexander Boyd (1563-1601)
- Allison Boyer, (born 1974)
- Daniel C. Boyer (born 1971)
- Nicholas Breton (1542-1626)
- Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
- Emily Brontė (1818-1848)
- Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
- Gwendolyn Brooks, (born 1917)
- Sterling A. Brown
- Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
- William Browne (1588-1643)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
- Robert Browning (1812-1889)
- Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
- George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
- Thomas Campbell (1774-1844)
- Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
- Mary Wedderburn Cannan (1893-1973)
- Thomas Carew (1595-1639)
- Henry Carey (1693-1743)
- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
- William Cartwright (1611-1643)
- George Chapman (1560-1634)
- Geoffrey Chaucer (ca.1343-1400)
- John Clare (1793-1864)
- Michelle Cliff
- Lucille Clifton
- Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
- Wanda Coleman
- Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- William Collins (1721-1759)
- William Congreve (1670-1729)
- Henry Constable (1562-1613)
- Wendy Cope
- James D. Corrothers
- Jayne Cortez
- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
- William Cowper (1731-1800)
- George Crabbe (1754-1832)
- Hart Crane, (1899-1932)
- Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
- Countee Cullen, (died 1946)
- E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
- Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)
- Allen Curnow (1911-2001)
- Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
- William Davenant (1606-1668)
- John Davies (1569-1626)
- Thomas Dekker (1575-1641)
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
- John Donne (1572-1631)
- Maura Dooley
- Keith Douglas (1920-1944)
- Rita Dove
- Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
- Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
- William Drummond (1585-1649)
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
- William Dunbar (1465-1520)
- Douglas Dunn (born 1942)
- John Dryden (1631-1700)
- Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955)
- John Dyer
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- William Empson (1906-1984)
- Sir George Etherege (1635-1691)
- Mari Evans
- Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666)
- Elaine Feinstein
- James Fenton (born 1949)
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, (born 1919)
- Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)
- John Fletcher (1579-1625)
- John Ford (1586-1639)
- Janet Frame (born 1924)
- Robert Frost (1874-1963)
- Samuel Garth
- George Gascoigne (1525-1577)
- John Gay (1685-1732)
- Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
- Nikki Giovanni, (born 1943)
- Denis Glover (1912-1980)
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
- Robert Graves (1895-1985)
- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
- Robert Greene (1560-1592)
- Fulk Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628)
- Nicholas Grimald (1519-1562)
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimke
- Edgar Guest, (born 1881)
- Thom Gunn (born 1929)
- Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
- Brion Gysin (1916-1986)
- William Habington (1605-1654)
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
- Frances E. W. Harper
- Michael S. Harper
- Tony Harrison (born 1937)
- Stephen Hawes (died 1523)
- Robert Hayden
- Seamus Heaney (born 1939)
- John Hegley
- Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)
- Essex Hemphill
- William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
- George Herbert (1593-1632)
- Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
- Thomas Heywood (157?-1650)
- Geoffrey Hill (born 1932)
- James Hogg (1770-1835)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)
- Thomas Hood (1798-1845)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
- A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
- Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
- Richard Hugo
- Alexander Hume (1560-1609)
- Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859)
- Randall Jarrell
- Robinson Jeffers, (died 1962)
- Fenton Johnson
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Helene Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
- Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
- June Jordan
- Jenny Joseph
- James Joyce (1882-1941)
- Bob Kaufman
- Yusef Komunyakaa, (born 1948)
- John Keats (1795-1821)
- Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)
- Henry King (1592-1669)
- William King (1663-1712)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
- Etheridge Knight
- Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)
- Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
- D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
- Edward Lear (1812-1888)
- Francis Ledwidge, (1887-1917)
- Thomas Lodge (1556-1625)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
- Audre Lorde, (born 1934)
- Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
- Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
- Robert Lowell
- John Lydgate (1370-1450)
- John Lyly (1553-1606)
- George Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton (1709-1773)
- Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)
- Nathaniel Mackey
- Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
- Haki R. Madhubuti
- Clarence Major
- David Mallet
- Bill Mannhire (born 1946)
- Robert Mannyng of Brunne (1269-1340)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
- John Masefield, (1878-1967)
- Colleen McElroy
- Roger McGough, (born 1937)
- Claude McKay
- Thomas Merton, (1915-1968)
- George Meredith (1828-1909)
- W. S. Merwin
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, (1892-1950)
- Joaquin Miller, (1837-1913)
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1661-1715)
- Marianne Moore, (1887-1972)
- Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
- Edythe Morahan de Lauzon
- William Morris (1834-1896)
- Andrew Motion
- Paul Muldoon (born 1951)
- Anthony Munday (1553-1633)
- Les Murray (born 1938)
- Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
- Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
- Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson
- Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938)
- John Henry Newman, (1801-1890)
- Frank O'Hara
- Terry A. O'Neal
- George Moses Horton
- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
- Ruth Padel
- Dorothy Parker, (1893-1967)
- Thomas Parnell (1670-1718)
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
- George Peel (1558-1597)
- Ambrose Philips
- Robert Pinsky
- Ruth Pitter
- Sylvia Plath, (1932-1963)
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
- Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
- J.H. Prynne
- Francis Quarles (1592-1644)
- Craig Raine (born 1944)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
- Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
- Tom Raworth
- Henry Reed (1914-1986)
- Ishmael Reed
- Adrienne Rich
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869-1935)
- Mary Robinson (1758-1800)
- Carolyn M. Rodgers
- Theodore Roethke, (1908-1963)
- Franklin Rosemont, (born 1943)
- Penelope Rosemont
- Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918)
- Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
- Nicholas Rowe
- Richard Rowlands (1565-1630)
- Sonia Sanchez
- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
- Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
- Robert Service
- Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
- Jo Shapcott
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- William Shenstone
- James Shirley (1596-1666)
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
- Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
- John Skelton (1460-1529)
- Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
- Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
- Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
- William Somerville
- Charles Sorley (1895-1915)
- Caroline Southey (1787-1854)
- Robert Southey (1774-1843)
- Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
- A. B. Spellman
- Anne Spencer
- Stephen Spender
- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
- William Stafford
- C.K. Stead (born 1932)
- Wallace Stevens (1880-1955)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
- Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
- Keston Sutherland
- Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909)
- Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618)
- Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
- Lucy Terry
- Ernest Thayer, (1863-1940)
- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
- Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
- R.S. Thomas (1913-2000)
- Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
- James Thomson (1834-1882)
- Thomas Tickell
- Melvin B. Tolson
- Jean Toomer
- Thomas Traherne
- Quincy Troupe
- Hone Tuwhare (born 1922)
- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
- Derek Walcott (born 1930)
- Alice Walker, (born 1944)
- Margaret Walker
- Edmund Waller (1606-1687)
- Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
- John Webster (died 1630)
- Ian Wedde (born 1946)
- Gilbert West
- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
- James M. Whitfield
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
- John Wilkinson
- Sherley Anne Williams
- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
- George Wither (1588-1667)
- Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
- Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
- Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
- Edward Young, (1683-1765)
- Benjamin Zephaniah
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