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The Venerable Bede (673 - 735)
Bai Li (701 - 762)
Anonymous (1100 - 2010)
de France Marie (1150)
John Gower (1330 - 1408)
William Langland (1330 - 1386)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 - 1400)
Eustache Deschamps (1346 - 1406)
Thomas Hoccleve (1369 - 1426)
John Lydgate (1370 - 1449)
James I, of Scotland (1394 - 1437)
Charles d' Orléans (1394 - 1465)
Henry VI (1421 - 1471)
Robert Henryson (1424 - 1506)
François Villon (1431 - 1463)
William Dunbar (1456 - 1513)
John Skelton (1460 - 1529)
Stephen Hawes (1475 - 1511)
Gavin Douglas (1475 - 1522)
Henry VIII, king of England (1491 - 1547)
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 - 1542)
Thomas Lord Vaux (1509 - 1556)
Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (1517 - 1547)
William Cecil (1520 - 1598)
Anne Askew (1521 - 1546)
Joachim Du Bellay (1522 - 1560)
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Rémy Belleau (1528 - 1577)
George Puttenham (1529 - 1591)
William Stevenson (1530 - 1575)
Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
George Gascoigne (1534 - 1577)
Thomas Sackville, earl of Dorset (1536 - 1608)
Sir Edward Dyer (1543 - 1607)
William Byrd (1543 - 1623)
Gabriel Harvey (1550 - 1631)
Sir Walter Ralegh (1552 - 1618)
Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
Fulke Greville, Baron Brooke (1554 - 1628)
Nicholas Breton (1554 - 1625)
John Lyly (1554 - 1606)
Richard Carew of Anthony (1555 - 1620)
Thomas Morley (1556 - 1602)
George Peele (1556 - 1596)
Chidiock Tichborne (1558 - 1586)
Thomas Lodge (1558 - 1625)
William Warner (1558 - 1609)
George Chapman (1559 - 1634)
Anthony Munday (1560 - 1633)
Robert Greene (1560 - 1592)
Robert Southwell, SJ (1561 - 1595)
Samuel Daniel (1562 - 1619)
John Dowland (1563 - 1626)
Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)
Josuah Sylvester (1563 - 1618)
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593)
John Hoskyns (1566 - 1638)
Thomas Nashe (1567 - 1601)
Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
Sir Henry Wotton (1568 - 1639)
Æmilia Lanyer (1569 - 1645)
Thomas Dekker (1570 - 1632)
Thomas Bateson (1570 - 1630)
Martin Peerson (1571 - 1650)
Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
John Donne (1572 - 1631)
John Wilbye (1574 - 1638)
Richard Barnfield (1574 - 1620)
Joseph Hall (1574 - 1656)
John Marston (1575 - 1634)
Thomas Weelkes (1576 - 1623)
John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
John Webster (1580 - 1632)
Thomas Middleton (1580 - 1627)
Thomas Ford (1580 - 1648)
Richard Corbett (1582 - 1635)
Phineas Fletcher (1582 - 1650)
Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582 - 1648)
Orlando Gibbons (1583 - 1625)
Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616)
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585 - 1649)
Giles Fletcher the Younger (1585 - 1623)
George Wither (1588 - 1667)
William Browne (1590 - 1645)
Walter Porter (1590 - 1659)
Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Henry King (1592 - 1669)
Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
Saint-Amant Girard, Sieur de Saint-Amant (1594 - 1661)
Thomas Carew (1595 - 1640)
James Shirley (1596 - 1666)
Charles I, king of Great Britain (1600 - 1649)
François Tristan L'Hermite (1601 - 1655)
William Strode (1602 - 1645)
Owen Felltham (1602 - 1668)
Thomas Randolph (1605 - 1635)
William Habington (1605 - 1654)
Sir William Davenant (1606 - 1668)
Edmund Waller (1606 - 1687)
John Milton (1608 - 1674)
Sir John Suckling (1609 - 1641)
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1612 - 1650)
Anne Bradstreet (1612 - 1672)
Samuel Butler (1613 - 1680)
Richard Crashaw (1613 - 1649)
John Cleveland (1613 - 1658)
Sir John Denham (1615 - 1669)
Richard Lovelace (1617 - 1657)
Abraham Cowley (1618 - 1667)
Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678)
Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
Henry Vaughan (1622 - 1695)
John Bunyan (1628 - 1688)
Walter Pope (1628 - 1714)
John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Katherine Philips (1631 - 1664)
Thomas Sprat (1635 - 1713)
Sir George Etherege (1635 - 1691)
Thomas Traherne (1637 - 1674)
Charles Sackville, earl of Dorset (1638 - 1706)
Sir Charles Sedley (1639 - 1701)
Aphra Behn (1640 - 1689)
Edward Taylor (1642 - 1729)
John Wilmot, earl of Rochester (1647 - 1680)
Nahum Tate (1652 - 1715)
John Oldham (1653 - 1683)
Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656 - 1710)
John Dennis (1657 - 1734)
Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)
Anne Killigrew (1660 - 1685)
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661 - 1720)
Tom Brown (1663 - 1704)
Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Sarah Fyge (1670 - 1723)
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
Isaac Watts (1674 - 1748)
John Philips (1676 - 1709)
Mary Monck (1677 - 1715)
Thomas Parnell (1679 - 1718)
Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
Jane Brereton (1685 - 1740)
Thomas Tickell (1685 - 1740)
Mary Barber (1685 - 1755)
John Gay (1685 - 1732)
Allan Ramsay (1686 - 1758)
Henry Carey (1687 - 1743)
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
William Oldys (1696 - 1761)
Robert Blair (1699 - 1746)
James Thomson (1700 - 1748)
John Wesley (1703 - 1791)
Robert Dodsley (1703 - 1764)
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Charles Wesley (1707 - 1788)
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Paul Whitehead (1710 - 1774)
George Whitefield (1714 - 1770)
William Shenstone (1714 - 1763)
Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771)
Gilbert White (1720 - 1793)
Mark Akenside (1721 - 1770)
William Collins (1721 - 1759)
Christopher Smart (1722 - 1771)
Joseph Warton (1722 - 1800)
Mary Leapor (1722 - 1746)
John Newton (1725 - 1807)
Martin Madan (1726 - 1790)
Thomas Warton the younger (1728 - 1790)
Thomas Percy (1729 - 1811)
John Duncombe (1729 - 1786)
Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
Francis Grose (1731 - 1791)
William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
Charles Churchill (1731 - 1764)
William Mickle (1735 - 1788)
James Beattie (1735 - 1803)
James Macpherson (1736 - 1796)
Jonathan Odell (1737 - 1818)
Augustus Montague Toplady (1740 - 1778)
Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743 - 1825)
Henry Alline (1748 - 1784)
Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (1748 - 1828)
Charlotte Smith (1749 - 1806)
Robert Fergusson (1750 - 1774)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
Thomas Chatterton (1752 - 1770)
Philip Morin Freneau (1752 - 1832)
Phillis Wheatley (1753 - 1784)
William Roscoe (1753 - 1831)
George Crabbe (1754 - 1832)
William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Mary Robinson (1758 - 1800)
Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
William Lisle Bowles (1762 - 1850)
André-Marie Chénier (1762 - 1794)
Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765 - 1834)
John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)
Amelia Opie (1769 - 1853)
J. H. Frere (1769 - 1846)
George Canning (1770 - 1827)
William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
James Montgomery (1771 - 1854)
Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
Joseph Blanco White (1775 - 1841)
Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864)
Mary Balfour (1775 - 1818)
Thomas Campbell (1777 - 1844)
Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
John Galt (1779 - 1839)
Francis Scott Key (1779 - 1843)
Clement Clarke Moore (1779 - 1863)
Ebenezer Elliott (1781 - 1849)
Ann Taylor (1782 - 1830)
Jane Taylor (1783 - 1824)
Reginald Heber (1783 - 1826)
Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
Thomas Love Peacock (1785 - 1866)
John Pierpont (1785 - 1866)
Barron Field (1786 - 1846)
Richard Henry Dana (1787 - 1879)
Richard Harris Barham (1788 - 1845)
George Gordon Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788 - 1879)
Thomas Pringle (1789 - 1834)
William Knox (1789 - 1825)
Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790 - 1867)
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)
Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791 - 1865)
Charles Wolfe (1791 - 1823)
John Howard Payne (1792 - 1852)
John Frederick William Herschel (1792 - 1871)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
Henry Francis Lyte (1793 - 1847)
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793 - 1835)
John Clare (1793 - 1864)
Oliver Goldsmith (1794 - 1861)
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
John Keats (1795 - 1821)
Joseph Rodman Drake (1795 - 1820)
Hartley Coleridge (1796 - 1849)
Alfred de Vigny (1797 - 1863)
George Moses Horton (1797 - 1880)
Mary Howitt (1799 - 1888)
Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845)
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848)
John Henry Newman, Cardinal (1801 - 1890)
William Barnes (1801 - 1886)
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1855)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802 - 1838)
George Pope Morris (1802 - 1864)
Lydia Maria Child (1802 - 1880)
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802 - 1839)
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 - 1849)
Robert Stephen Hawker (1803 - 1875)
Susanna Moodie (1803 - 1885)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Joseph Howe (1804 - 1873)
Elizur Wright (1804 - 1885)
Sarah Flower Adams (1805 - 1848)
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806 - 1867)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 - 1892)
Gerard de Nerval (1808 - 1855)
George Washington Patten (1808 - 1882)
Charles (Tennyson) Turner (1808 - 1879)
Evan MacColl (1808 - 1898)
Thomas Holley Chivers (1809 - 1858)
Edward FitzGerald (1809 - 1883)
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
David Bates (1809 - 1870)
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809 - 1831)
Kasiprasad Ghose (1809 - 1873)
Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810 - 1876)
Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857)
William Miller (1810 - 1872)
Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1859)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863)
Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
William James Linton (1812 - 1897)
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
Charles Harpur (1813 - 1868)
Epes Sargent (1813 - 1880)
Jones Very (1813 - 1880)
William Edmonstoune Aytoun (1813 - 1865)
Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813 - 1892)
James Joseph Sylvester (1814 - 1897)
Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815 - 1904)
Josiah Dean Canning (1816 - 1892)
Shirley Brooks (1816 - 1874)
Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Cecil Frances Alexander (1818 - 1895)
Eliza Cook (1818 - 1889)
Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894)
Alexander McLachlan (1818 - 1896)
Emily Jane Brontë (1818 - 1848)
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 - 1861)
Julia Ward Howe (1819 - 1910)
James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
Thomas Dunn English (1819 - 1902)
Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Joseph Medlicott Scriven (1819 - 1886)
John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (1820 - 1891)
William J. Macquorn Rankine (1820 - 1872)
Anne Brontë (1820 - 1849)
Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (1821 - 1873)
Frederick Locker Lampson (1821 - 1895)
Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)
James Monroe Whitfield (1822 - 1871)
Coventry Patmore (1823 - 1896)
George Henry Boker (1823 - 1890)
Anna Letitia Waring (1823 - 1910)
Brewster Higley (1823 - 1911)
William Johnson Cory (1823 - 1892)
William Brighty Rands (1823 - 1882)
Elizabeth Stoddard (1823 - 1902)
Mary Electa Adams (1823 - 1898)
William Allingham (1824 - 1889)
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1824 - 1906)
Phoebe Cary (1824 - 1871)
Sabine Baring-Gould (1824 - 1924)
Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824 - 1874)
Adelaide Procter (1825 - 1864)
John Askham (1825 - 1894)
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895)
Henrietta Anne Huxley (1825 - 1914)
Frances Ellen Watkins (1825 - 1911)
Robert Lowry (1826 - 1899)
Stephen C. Foster (1826 - 1864)
Pamelia Sarah Yule (1826 - 1897)
Dinah Maria Craik (1826 - 1887)
Septimus Winner (1827 - 1902)
James McIntyre (1827 - 1906)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
George Meredith (1828 - 1909)
Jeremiah Eames Rankin (1828 - 1903)
Rosanna Eleanor (Mullins) Leprohon (1829 - 1879)
Elizabeth Siddall (1829 - 1862)
Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
William McGonagall (1830 - 1902)
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830 - 1885)
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Thomas Edward Brown (1830 - 1897)
James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879)
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831 - 1884)
David Mills (1831 - 1903)
Isa Craig Knox (1831 - 1903)
Henry Clay Work (1832 - 1884)
Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
Joseph Skipsey (1832 - 1903)
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 - 1870)
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833 - 1908)
William Morris (1834 - 1896)
James Thomson (1834 - 1882)
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (1835 - 1911)
James Brunton Stephens (1835 - 1902)
John Byrne Leicester Warren (1835 - 1895)
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Celia Thaxter (1835 - 1894)
Richard Garnett (1835 - 1906)
John Luckey McCreery (1835 - 1906)
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836 - 1919)
Annie Louisa Walker (1836 - 1907)
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909)
Augusta (Davies) Webster (1837 - 1894)
Margaret E. Sangster (1838 - 1912)
Edward Robeson Taylor (1838 - 1923)
John Milton Hay (1838 - 1905)
John Todhunter (1839 - 1916)
James Anderson (1839 - 1922)
Thomas Henry Kendall (1839 - 1882)
Walter Pater (1839 - 1894)
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840 - 1922)
William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840 - 1901)
Henry Austin Dobson (1840 - 1921)
Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
Charles Edward Carryl (1841 - 1920)
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)
Sidney Lanier (1842 - 1881)
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)
José-Maria de Heredia (1842 - 1905)
John Arthur Phillips (1842 - 1907)
John Payne (1842 - 1916)
Ernest Myers (1844 - 1921)
Arabella Eugenia Smith (1844 - 1916)
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844 - 1890)
Ada Cambridge (1844 - 1926)
Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844 - 1881)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
Robert Bridges (1844 - 1930)
John Banister Tabb (1845 - 1909)
Alexander MacGregor Rose (1846 - 1898)
George Thomas Lanigan (1846 - 1886)
Alfred Perceval Graves (1846 - 1931)
William John Robertson (1846 - 1894)
Alice Meynell (1847 - 1922)
Julia Moore (1847 - 1920)
Frederick Edward Weatherly (1848 - 1929)
Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848 - 1909)
Digby (Mackworth) Dolben (1848 - 1867)
William Ernest Henley (1849 - 1903)
James Whitcomb Riley (1849 - 1916)
Emma Lazarus (1849 - 1887)
Eugene Field (1850 - 1895)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850 - 1887)
Arthur Clement Hilton (1851 - 1877)
Johnny Burke (1851 - 1930)
Edwin Markham (1852 - 1940)
Henry Van Dyke (1852 - 1933)
Francis Burdett Money-Coutts (1852 - 1923)
Francis William Bourdillon (1852 - 1921)
Mary Frances Leslie Ames (1853 - 1929)
William Henry Drummond (1854 - 1907)
James A. Bland (1854 - 1911)
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Percy French (1854 - 1920)
Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)
Thomas O'Hagan (1855 - 1939)
Thomas Thornely (1855 - 1949)
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
Ernest Howard Crosby (1856 - 1907)
Toru Dutt (1856 - 1877)
Robert Stanley Weir (1856 - 1926)
John Davidson (1857 - 1909)
Ethelwyn Wetherald (1857 - 1940)
Benjamin Franklin King (1857 - 1894)
Dollie Radford (1858 - 1920)
Edith Nesbit (1858 - 1924)
William Wilfred Campbell (1858 - 1918)
Susan Frances Harrison (1859 - 1935)
William Herbert Carruth (1859 - 1924)
Albert Durrant Watson (1859 - 1926)
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
James Kenneth Stephen (1859 - 1892)
Katharine Lee Bates (1859 - 1929)
Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
Harry Dacre (1860 - 1922)
Jules Laforgue (1860 - 1887)
Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935)
Charles G. D. Roberts (1860 - 1943)
Helena Jane Coleman (1860 - 1953)
Amy Levy (1861 - 1889)
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861 - 1907)
Katharine Hinkson (1861 - 1931)
Owen Seaman (1861 - 1936)
Bliss Carman (1861 - 1929)
Archibald Lampman (1861 - 1899)
Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861 - 1922)
Frederick George Scott (1861 - 1944)
E. Pauline Johnson (1861 - 1913)
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Henry Cust (1861 - 1917)
Louise Imogen Guiney (1861 - 1920)
Jack Judge (1862 - 1938)
Duncan Campbell Scott (1862 - 1947)
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862 - 1925)
Henry John Newbolt (1862 - 1938)
George Essex Evans (1863 - 1909)
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Robert Fuller Murray (1863 - 1894)
Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1863 - 1940)
Gamaliel Bradford (1863 - 1932)
Henri de Régnier (1864 - 1936)
Richard Hovey (1864 - 1900)
Marie Joussaye (1864 - 1949)
William Gay (1865 - 1897)
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1865 - 1924)
Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
Arthur Symons (1865 - 1945)
Adela Florence Nicolson Cory (1865 - 1904)
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Edmund Vance Cooke (1866 - 1932)
Gelett Burgess (1866 - 1951)
Barcroft Boake (1866 - 1892)

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