English Poets

Created by halcyonxo on 19 Jan 2021 | Last edited by halcyonxo on 26 Jan 2021
English Poets

The earliest surviving English poetry was composed as early as the 7th century. It was written in Old English or Anglo-Saxon, the direct predecessor of modern English. Most Old English poems are recorded without authors, and very few names are known with any certainty. Geoffrey Chaucer is the most highly regarded English poet of the Middle Ages (5th to 15th century). The 16th century marked the beginning of the English Renaissance whose towering figure was undoubtedly William Shakespeare. The early 17th century saw the emergence of a group of writers known as the Metaphysical poets, who were led by John Donne. The last quarter of the 18th century saw the emergence of the influential movement Romanticism. Some of the best known English poets, including Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron and Shelley, belong to the Romantic period. Romanticism was followed by the Victorian era, which was dominated by Alfred Tennyson. W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden are generally ranked as the three greatest 20th century British and Irish poets. (learnodo)

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1. Geoffrey Chaucer Artist

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet and author. He has been called "the father of English literature" or "the father of English poetry". Widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, he is best known for The Canterbury Tales.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Languages:  English (Middle English), English

William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 37 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English (Early Modern English)

3. John Keats Artist

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

4. William Wordsworth Artist

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Also, Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

5. John Milton Artist

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Classical

Languages:  English, Italian, Latin

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political and social views, Shelley did not achieve fame during his lifetime, but recognition of his achievements in poetry grew steadily following his death and he became an important influence on subsequent generations of poets including Browning, Swinburne, Hardy and Yeats.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Languages:  English, Russian, Italian

Popular songs:  OzymandiasLove's PhilosophyA Dirge

7. William Blake Artist

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Popular songs:  A Poison TreeThe TygerJerusalem

8. John Donne Artist

John Donne (22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons.

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English

9. T. S. Eliot Artist

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an American-born British poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Languages:  English, French

Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including "suspension of disbelief". He had a major influence on Ralph Waldo Emerson and American transcendentalism.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

12. Crywank - Pope Alexander English 

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) is seen as one of the greatest English poets and the foremost poet of the early 18th century. He is best known for satirical and discursive poetry, including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism, and for his translation of Homer. After Shakespeare, Pope is the second-most quoted writer in English, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. He is considered a master of the heroic couplet.

13. W. H. Auden Artist

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

14. Thomas Hardy Artist

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. He was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain, such as those from his native South West England.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody – particularly his concept of sprung rhythm and use of imagery – established him as an innovative writer of verse. Two of his major themes were nature and religion.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

16. Edmund Spenser Artist

Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

17. Robert Browning Artist

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax. Browning's early career began promisingly, but collapsed.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

18. Wilfred Owen Artist

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

19. Oscar Wilde Artist

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and early death at age 46.

Country:  Ireland

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

20. Rudyard Kipling Artist

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work. He was seen as an innovator in the art of the short story.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

21. Dylan Thomas Artist

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet. He is famous for his acutely lyrical and emotional poetry, as well as his turbulent personal life. The originality of his work makes categorization difficult. In his life he avoided becoming involved with literary groups or movements, and unlike other prominent writers of the 1930s such as W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

22. Christina Rossetti Artist

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. Although Rossetti's popularity in her lifetime did not approach that of the contemporaneous Elizabeth Barrett Browning, her standing remained strong after her death.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest extant collections of juvenilia by any English writer. At 15 she became ill, suffering intense head and spinal pain for the rest of her life.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

24. Andrew Marvell Artist

Andrew Marvell (31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton. His poems range from the love-song "To His Coy Mistress", to evocations of an aristocratic country house and garden in "Upon Appleton House" and "The Garden", the political address "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland".

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

25. A. E. Housman Artist

Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet. His cycle of poems, A Shropshire Lad wistfully evoke the dooms and disappointments of youth in the English countryside. Their simplicity and distinctive imagery appealed strongly to Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th-century English composers both before and after the First World War.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

26. Robert Burns Artist

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, the National Bard, Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet and various other names and epithets, was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a light Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Languages:  English (Scots), English

Popular songs:  Auld Lang SyneRed, Red RoseTo A Mouse

27. John Dryden Artist

John Dryden (19 August 1631 – 12 May 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Walter Scott called him "Glorious John".

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

28. Ted Hughes Artist

Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet, translator, and children's writer. Critics frequently rank him as one of the best poets of his generation, and one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He served as Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death. In 2008 The Times ranked Hughes fourth on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath from 1956 until her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

29. D. H. Lawrence Artist

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Lawrence's writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. His works include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Popular songs:  Self-PityLove StormFidelity

30. Matthew Arnold Artist

Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

31. John Clare Artist

John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet. The son of a farm labourer, he became known for his celebrations of the English countryside and sorrows at its disruption.His poetry underwent major re-evaluation in the late 20th century: he is now often seen as a major 19th-century poet. His biographer Jonathan Bate called Clare "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self."

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Popular songs:  I AmWhat Is Life?First Love

32. Charlotte Brontë Artist

Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. Although her first novel, The Professor, was rejected by publishers, her second novel, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Popular songs:  LifeRegretEvening Solace

33. Emily Brontë Artist

Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)[3] was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily Brontë remains a mysterious figure and a challenge to biographers because there is limited information about her, due to her solitary and reclusive nature.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

34. Anne Brontë Artist

Anne Brontë (17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. . In 1846 she published a book of poems with her sisters and later two novels, initially under the pen name Acton Bell. Her first novel, Agnes Grey, was published in 1847 with Wuthering Heights. Her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was published in 1848. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is thought to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. Anne died at 29, probably of pulmonary tuberculosis. After Anne's death her sister Charlotte edited Agnes Grey to fix issues with its first edition, but prevented republication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. This is one reason why Anne is not as well known as her sisters. Nonetheless both of Anne's novels are considered classics of English literature.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

35. Siegfried Sassoon Artist

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the "Sherston trilogy".

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

36. Sir Philip Sidney Artist

Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poesy (also known as The Defence of Poetry or An Apology for Poetry) and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

37. Walter de la Mare Artist

Walter John de la Mare (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was a British poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for a highly acclaimed selection of subtle psychological horror stories, amongst them "Seaton's Aunt" and "All Hallows".

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Popular songs:  The ListenersWinterSilver

38. Rupert Brooke Artist

Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 – 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, especially "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man in England".

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Languages:  English, German, Greek

39. Robert Herrick Artist

Robert Herrick (24 August 1591 – 15 October 1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

40. William Morris Artist

William Morris was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Popular song:  Love Fulfilled

41. Edward Thomas Artist

Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist. He is commonly considered a war poet, although few of his poems deal directly with his war experiences, and his career in poetry only came after he had already been a successful writer and literary critic. In 1915, he enlisted in the British Army to fight in the First World War and was killed in action during the Battle of Arras in 1917, soon after he arrived in France.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Popular songs:  AdelstropThe OwlSwedes

Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (), was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator, and a member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Popular songs:  Silent NoonSudden LightAutumn Song

43. Sir Thomas Wyatt Artist

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 11 October 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature. He was born at Allington Castle near Maidstone in Kent, though the family was originally from Yorkshire. His mother was Anne Skinner, and his father Henry had been a Privy Councillor of Henry VII and remained a trusted adviser when Henry VIII ascended the throne in 1509.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Languages:  English, English (Middle English)

44. Sir Walter Raleigh Artist

Sir Walter Raleigh (1552/1554) – 29 October 1618), also spelled Ralegh, was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer. He was cousin to Sir Richard Grenville and younger half-brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England. Raleigh was one of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan Era.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

45. T. E. Hulme Artist

Thomas Ernest Hulme (16 September 1883 – 28 September 1917) was an English critic and poet who, through his writings on art, literature and politics, had a notable influence upon modernism. He was an aesthetic philosopher and the 'father of imagism'.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Popular songs:  AutumnThe EmbankmentAbove the Dock

46. Thomas Campion Artist

Thomas Campion (12 February 1567 – 1 March 1620) was an English composer, poet, and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

47. John McCrae Artist

Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields".

Country:  Canada

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Popular songs:  In Flanders FieldsAnarchy

48. Anne Finch Artist

Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea ( April 1661 – 5 August 1720), was an English poet and courtier. Finch's works often express a desire for respect as a female poet, lamenting her difficult position as a woman in the literary establishment and the court, while writing of "political ideology, religious orientation, and aesthetic sensibility". Her works also allude to other female authors of the time.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Popular song:  There's No To-morrow

49. Christopher Marlowe Artist

Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan Era. Modern scholars count Marlowe among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights; based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, they consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright. Marlowe was the first to achieve critical notoriety for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. His plays are distinguished by their overreaching protagonists. Themes found within Marlowe's literary works have been noted as humanistic with realistic emotions, which some scholars find difficult to reconcile with Marlowe's "anti-intellectualism" and his catering to the taste of his Elizabethan audiences for generous displays of extreme physical violence, cruelty, and bloodshed.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

William Butler Yeats[a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was a poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.

Country:  Ireland

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

51. Philip Larkin Artist

Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947). Larkin's public persona was that of the no-nonsense, solitary Englishman who disliked fame and had no patience for the trappings of the public literary life.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

52. Lewis Carroll Artist

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of children's fiction, notably Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility with word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor and Anglican deacon.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

53. Lord Alfred Douglas Artist

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945) was a British poet and journalist best known as the lover of Oscar Wilde. Douglas wrote several books of verse, some of it classified in the homoerotic Uranian genre. The phrase "The love that dare not speak its name" came from one of Douglas' poems, though it is widely misattributed to Wilde.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Popular songs:  The Dead PoetA Winter SunsetTo Sleep

54. Lord Byron Artist

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English peer, who was a poet and politician. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement and is regarded as one of the greatest English poets. He remains widely read and influential. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Languages:  English, Greek, French, German

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for writing Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Stevenson was soon active in London literary life, becoming acquainted with many of the writers of the time, including Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse and Leslie Stephen, the editor of The Cornhill Magazine who took an interest in Stevenson's work. Stephen took Stevenson to visit a patient at the Edinburgh Infirmary named William Ernest Henley, an energetic and talkative poet with a wooden leg. Henley became a close friend and occasional literary collaborator, until a quarrel broke up the friendship in 1888, and he is often considered to be the inspiration for Long John Silver in Treasure Island.

Country:  United Kingdom

Genre:  Poetry

Language:  English

Comments
SaintMarkSaintMark    Wed, 20/01/2021 - 07:59

without a doubt. William was a man who knew how to shake his spear.

SaintMarkSaintMark    Wed, 20/01/2021 - 08:32

this is an awesome list. can you make poets lists for other countries as well ?

halcyonxohalcyonxo
   Wed, 20/01/2021 - 08:59

Thanks a lot.
I had actually two countries in my mind to make a list like that but now I can think of other countries, too ☺️.

SaintMarkSaintMark    Wed, 20/01/2021 - 09:06

how long did it take to make the list ?

halcyonxohalcyonxo
   Wed, 20/01/2021 - 09:16

I guess it took more than an hour because I had connection problems while making the list and also I searched many sites to add more poets.

SaintMarkSaintMark    Wed, 20/01/2021 - 09:44

i think an hour is not too much. the list will be very useful, you even have a big picture and some text for each artist. much better than on most blogs. with ad banners bombarding the viewer.

OceanaFrangOceanaFrang    Wed, 20/01/2021 - 10:28

two poets you sent the link are not english poets, they're american and the title says that "english"

halcyonxohalcyonxo
   Wed, 20/01/2021 - 16:40

Thanks for correcting.
William Wordsworth is already on the list and I added the other poets to my new collection (American Poets).

SchnurrbratSchnurrbrat    Tue, 26/01/2021 - 00:13

Thank you, great collection.

SchnurrbratSchnurrbrat    Tue, 26/01/2021 - 02:02

I noticed Lord Byron failed to make a selection.
I would add CS Lewis and RL Stevenson as well.

halcyonxohalcyonxo
   Tue, 26/01/2021 - 16:14

Added Lord Byron and RL Stevenson but can't find CS Lewis's page on the site, so I will add him as soon as possible.