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A
Matthew Arnold (45) (1822 - 1888)	Jane Austen (13) (1775 - 1817)	Richard Aldington (12) (1892 - 1962)
Lascelles Abercrombie (6) (1881 - 1938)	Sarah Flower Adams (6) (1805 - 1848)	William Allingham (31) (1821 - 1889)
Kingsley Amis (1) (1922 - 1995)	Alfred Austin (4) (1835 - 1913)
B
William Blake (131) (1757 - 1827)	Elizabeth Barrett Browning (114) (1809 - 1861)	Robert Browning (110) (1812 - 1889)
Lord Byron (86) (1788 - 1824)	Andre Breton (5) (1896 - 1966)	Anne Bradstreet (34) (1612 - 1672)
Rupert Brooke (102) (1887 - 1915)	Emily Bronte (56) (1818 - 1848)	Charlotte Bronte (24) (1816 - 1855)
Thomas Edward Brown (13) (1830 - 1897)	Robert Seymour Bridges (24) (1844 - 1930)	Anne Bronte (59) (1820 - 1849)
William Barnes (12) (1801 - 1886)	Laurence Binyon (16) (1869 - 1943)	John Betjeman (48) (1906 - 1984)
Thomas Blackburn (3) (1916 - 1977)	William Lisle Bowles (28) (1762 - 1850)	George Bradley (1) (1821 - 1903)
Edwin Brock (1) (1927 - 1997)	William Browne (6) (1590 - 1645)	John Bodenham (1) (1600 - present)
Ros Barber (1) (1964 - present)	Graham Burchell (5) (1950 - present)
C
John Clare (34) (1793 - 1864)	Lewis Carroll (73) (1832 - 1898)	Samuel Coleridge (82) (1772 - 1834)
Geoffrey Chaucer (14) (1343 - 1400)	Aleister Crowley (49) (1875 - 1947)	Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (16) (1861 - 1907)
William Cowper (87) (1731 - 1800)	Richard Crashaw (20) (1613 - 1650)	Arthur Hugh Clough (17) (1819 - 1861)
Thomas Chatterton (15) (1752 - 1770)	G. K. Chesterton (59) (1874 - 1936)	Lady Mary Chudleigh (4) (1656 - 1710)
Thomas Carew (34) (1595 - 1645)	Abraham Cowley (1) (1618 - 1667)	Eliza Cook (5) (1818 - 1889)
D
John Donne (70) (1572 - 1631)	John Dryden (25) (1631 - 1700)	Keith Douglas (5) (1920 - 1944)
Michael Drayton (80) (1563 - 1631)	John Davidson (12) (1857 - 1909)	Ernest Dowson (14) (1867 - 1900)
William Drummond (6) (1585 - 1649)	Helen Dunmore (1) (1952 - present)
E
George Eliot (9) (1819 - 1880)	Gerald England (6) (1946 - present)	Ian Emberson (11) (1936 - present)
Rebecca Elson (2) (1960 - 1999)
F
Edward Fitzgerald (4) (1809 - 1883)	Anne Kingsmill Finch (67) (1661 - 1720)	Thomas Flatman (3) (1637 - 1688)
John Fletcher (14) (1579 - 1625)
G
Robert Graves (74) (1895 - 1985)	Edgar Albert Guest (9) (1881 - 1959)	Thomas Gray (11) (1716 - 1771)
Thom Gunn (3) (1929 - 2004)	Sidney Godolphin (4) (1645 - 1712)	Adrian Green (8) (1946 - present)
Rg Gregory (142) (1928 - present)
H
Ted Hughes (28) (1930 - 1998)	Thomas Hardy (217) (1840 - 1928)	Robert Herrick (282) (1591 - 1674)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (84) (1844 - 1889)	Tony Harrison (8) (1937 - present)	A. E. Housman (81) (1859 - 1936)
James Henry Leigh Hunt (24) (1784 - 1859)	William Ernest Henley (17) (1849 - 1903)	Geoffrey Hill (7) (1932 - present)
Thomas Hood (25) (1799 - 1845)	Sophie Hannah (9) (1917 - present)
J
Elizabeth Jennings (10) (1926 - 2001)	Jenny Joseph (2) (1932 - present)	Samuel Johnson (3) (1709 - 1784)
Ben Jonson (41) (1572 - 1637)	Chris Jones (4) (1969 - present)
K
John Keats (84) (1795 - 1821)	Rudyard Kipling (341) (1865 - 1936)	Charles Kingsley (12) (1819 - 1875)
Anne Killigrew (33) (1660 - 1685)	Jackie Kay (5) (1961 - present)
L
Philip Larkin (96) (1922 - 1985)	Denise Levertov (54) (1923 - 1997)	Edward Lear (18) (1812 - 1888)
David Herbert Lawrence (109) (1885 - 1930)	Richard Lovelace (7) (1618 - 1657)	Laurie Lee (6) (1914 - 1997)
Amy Levy (69) (1861 - 1889)	Walter Savage Landor (52) (1775 - 1864)	John Lindley (4) (1952 - present)
M
Roger McGough (14) (1937 - present)	Walter de la Mare (44) (1873 - 1956)	John Milton (102) (1608 - 1674)
John Masefield (25) (1878 - 1967)	Christopher Marlowe (6) (1564 - 1593)	William Morris (47) (1834 - 1896)
Andrew Marvell (60) (1621 - 1678)	George Meredith (69) (1828 - 1909)
N
Alfred Noyes (1) (1880 - 1958)	Alden Nowlan (4) (1933 - 1983)	John Frederick Nims (1) (1913 - 1999)
Sir Henry Newbolt (13) (1862 - 1938)	Edith Nesbit (8) (1858 - 1924)	Claire Nixon (5) (1973 - present)
O
Wilfred Owen (30) (1893 - 1918)
P
Alexander Pope (33) (1688 - 1744)	Katherine Philips (20) (1631 - 1647)	Harold Pinter (6) (1930 - present)
Matthew Prior (20) (1664 - 1721)	Ruth Padel (8) (1947 - present)	Coventry Patmore (13) (1823 - 1896)
R
Christina Rossetti (55) (1830 - 1894)	Adrienne Rich (31) (1929 - present)	Sir Walter Raleigh (23) (1554 - 1618)
Kathleen Raine (23) (1908 - 2003)	Mary Darby Robinson (129) (1758 - 1800)	Craig Raine (8) (1944 - present)
John Ruskin (1) (1819 - 1900)
S
William Shakespeare (400) (1564 - 1616)	Percy Bysshe Shelley (73) (1792 - 1822)	Stevie Smith (31) (1902 - 1971)
Siegfried Sassoon (146) (1886 - 1967)	Edmund Spenser (158) (1552 - 1599)	Robert Southey (67) (1774 - 1843)
Sir Philip Sidney (76) (1554 - 1586)	Dame Edith Sitwell (11) (1887 - 1964)	Sir John Suckling (13) (1606 - 1642)
Christopher Smart (19) (1722 - 1771)	Vita Sackville-West (1) (1892 - 1962)	Algernon Charles Swinburne (131) (1837 - 1909)
Vernon Scannell (16) (1922 - present)	Charlotte Smith (15) (1749 - 1806)	William Strode (81) (1602 - 1644)
T
Dylan Thomas (64) (1914 - 1953)	J. R. R. Tolkien (37) (1892 - 1973)	Lord Alfred Tennyson (153) (1809 - 1892)
Ann Taylor (18) (1782 - 1886)	Jane Taylor (14) (1783 - 1824)	Francis Thompson (15) (1859 - 1907)
Edward Taylor (23) (1642 - 1729)	A. S. J. Tessimond (42) (1902 - 1962)	Barry Tebb (117) (1942 - present)
W
William Wordsworth (7) (1770 - 1850)	Isaac Watts (458) (1674 - 1748)	Sir Thomas Wyatt (28) (1503 - 1542)
John Wilmot (31) (1647 - 1680)	Joseph Warton (1) (1722 - 1800)	Thomas Warton (7) (1728 - 1790)
Hugo Williams (8) (1942 - present)	Liam Wilkinson (14) (1981 - present)	Juliet Wilson (3) (1966 - present)

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