List of English language poets

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Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the English language.

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A

Harold Acton (1904-1994)
Gilbert Adair (born 1944)
Arthur Henry Adams (1872-1936)
Robert Adamson
Fleur Adcock (born 1934)
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Mark Akenside (1721-1770)
James Alexander Allan (1889-1956)
Leslie Holdsworthy Allen (1879-1964)
Ethel Anderson (1883-1958)
Bruce Andrews (born 1948)
Maya Angelou (born 1928)
Rae Armantrout (born 1947)
Simon Armitage (born 1963)
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
John Ashbery (born 1927)
Thomas Ashe (1836-1889)
Thea Astley (1925-2004)
Edwin Atherstone (1788-1872)
Margaret Atwood (born 1939)
Dorothy Auchterlonie (1915-1991)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
Albert Gordon Austin (1918-1990)
Pam Ayres (born 1947)
Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638)
William Edmonstone Aytoun (1813-1865)

B

Ba

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
Kevin Bailey (born 1953}
David Ball
Jesse Ball (1978-)
Lex Banning (born 1921)
Amiri Baraka (born 1934)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
John Barbour (died 1395)
Les Barker (born 1947)
Richard Barnefield (1574-1627)
Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
William Barnes (1801-1886)
Ken Barratt
Bernard Barton (1784-1849)
David Bates (1809-1870)
H.E. Bates (1905-1974)
James K. Baxter (1926-1972)
Arthur Bayldon (1865-1958)
William Baylebridge (1883-1942)

Be-Bo

Br-By

Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672)
E. J. Brady (1869-1952)
Christopher Brennan (1870-1932)
John Le Gay Brereton (1871-1933)
Nicholas Breton (1542-1626)
Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
Sterling A. Brown
Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705-1760)
William Browne (1588-1643)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Robert Browning (1812-1889)
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
Vincent Buckley (1925-1988)
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
Basil Bunting (1900–1985)
Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
Jim Burns
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824)

C

Ca-Ci

Cl

Co

Cr-Cu

George Crabbe (1754-1832)
Hart Crane, (1899-1932)
Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
Thomas Creech (1659-1700)
George Croly (1780-1860)
William Crowe (1745-1829)
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947)
Andrew Crozier
Countee Cullen, (1903-1946)
E. E. Cummings (1894-1962)
Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)
Allen Curnow (1911-2001)

D

Da-Do

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
George Darley (1795-1846)
Tina Darragh
Robert von Dassanowsky (aka Robert Dassanowsky)
William Davenant (1606-1668)
John Davidson (1837-1909)
Michael Davidson
John Davies (1569-1626)
Thomas Osborne Davis (1814-1845)
Jean Day
Thomas Dekker (1575-1641)
John Denham (1615-1669)
Thomas Dermody (1775-1802)
William F. DeVault
Denis Devlin (1908-1959)
James Dickey (1923-1997)
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Ray DiPalma
Diane Di Prima
John Donne (1572-1631)
Des Donnelly (born 1955)
Maura Dooley
Edward Dorn
Keith Douglas (1920-1944)
Rita Dove
Buck Downs
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
Francis Hastings Doyle (1810-1888)

Dr-Dy

Michael Drayton (1563-1631)
William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649)
John Dryden (1631-1700)
W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963)
Carol Ann Duffy (born 1955)
Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
William Dunbar (1465-1520)
Robert Duncan (1919-1988)
Douglas Dunn (born 1942)
Alan Dunnett
G.F.Dutton
John Dyer
Bob Dylan (born 1941)

E

Richard Eberhart (born 1904)
Richard Edwards (1523?-1566)
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Ebenezer Elliot (1781-1849)
Jean Elliot (1727-1805)
Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
William Empson (1906-1984)
Theodore Enslin (born 1925)
Sir George Etherege (1635-1691)
Mari Evans

F

G

Ga-Go

Gr-Gy

W. S. Graham
Richard Graves (1715-1804)
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
Robert Greene (1560-1592)
Ted Greenwald
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628)
Bill Griffiths (born 1948)
Nicholas Grimald (1519-1562)
Nikki Grimes
Angelina Weld Grimke
Charlotte Forten Grimke
Barbara Guest
Edgar Guest, (1881-1959)
Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)
Thom Gunn (1929-2004)
Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
Brion Gysin (1916-1986)

H

Ha-He

Hi-Hu

Geoffrey Hill (born 1932)
James Hogg (1770-1835)
Anselm Hollo
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)
Thomas Hood (1798-1845)
A. D. Hope
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Frances Horovitz (1938-1983)
Michael Horovitz (Born 1935)
George Moses Horton
A. E. Housman, (1859-1936)
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)
Fanny Howe
Susan Howe
Ada Verdun Howell
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
Richard Hugo (1923-1982)
Alexander Hume (1560-1609)
Leigh Hunt, (1784-1859)

I-J

P.Inman
Richard Jago, (1715-1781)
John James
Lisa Jarnot (born 1967)
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962)
Fenton Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Helene Johnson (1906-1995)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
David Jones
Erica Jong (born 1942)
Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
June Jordan (born 1936)
Jenny Joseph (born 1932)
James Joyce (1882-1941)
Trevor Joyce (born 1947)
Donald Justice (1925-2004)

K

L

La-Le

Lo-Ly

Thomas Lodge (1556-1625)
Christopher Logue
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
Michael Longley
Tim Longville
Luis A. López
Audre Lorde, (born 1934)
Richard Lovelace (1618-1658)
Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Robert Lowell
Mina Loy
Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870)
John Lydgate (1370-1450)
John Lyly (1553-1606)
George Lyttelton, Lord Lyttelton (1709-1773)

M

Ma

Mc-Mi

Mo-Mu

Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, (1661-1715)
Marianne Moore, (1887-1972)
Robin Moore, (1954- )
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
Barbara Moraff
Edythe Morahan de Lauzon
Edwin Morgan
Mervyn Morris
Tony Morris(1938- )
William Morris (1834-1896)
James Douglas Morrison (1943-1971)
Andrew Motion
Eric Mottram
Paul Muldoon (born 1951)
Harryette Mullen
Anthony Munday (1553-1633)
Les Murray (born 1938)

N-O

P

Ruth Padel (born 1947)
Ron Padgett
Nettie Palmer
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
Thomas Parnell (1670-1718)
Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
Brian Patten (born 1946)
Ian Patterson
Andrew Barton "Banjo' Paterson (1864-1941)
Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
Ted Pearson
George Peel (1558-1597)
Sam Pereira
Ambrose Philips
Tom Pickard (born 1946)
Robert Pinsky (born 1940)
Ruth Pitter (1897-1992)
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
Jack Prelutsky
Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
J. H. Prynne

Q

Francis Quarles (1592-1644)

R

Ra-Ri

Craig Raine (born 1944)
Kathleen Raine (1908-2003)
Carl Rakosi (1903-2004)
Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
Dudley Randall (1914-2000)
Julia Randall (1924-2005)
Elaine Randell
Thomas Randolph (1605-1635)
John Crowe Ransome (1888-1974)
Tom Raworth (born 1938)
Henry Reed (1914-1986)
Ishmael Reed
Joan Retallack
Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982)
Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976)
Adrienne Rich (born 1929)
Lola Ridge (1873-1941)
Denise Riley
John Riley
Peter Riley

Ro

S

Sa-Si

Blanaid Salkeld (1880-1959)
Sonia Sanchez
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
May Sarton (1912-1995)
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Maurice Scully
Peter Seaton
Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
Nina Serrano, (born 1934)
Robert W. Service
Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Tupac Shakur (1971-1996)
Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
Jo Shapcott
Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
William Shenstone
James Shirley (1596-1666)
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
Eli Siegel (1902-1978)
Ron Silliman (born 1946)
Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)
Colin Simms
Iain Sinclair
Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

Sk-Sq

St-Sy

T-V

F.W. Tancred
Dorothea Tanning (born 1910)
Allen Tate (1899-1979)
Edward Taylor (1645-1729)
Sara Teasdale
Alfred Tennyson, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Lucy Terry
Celia Thaxter, (1824-1894)
Ernest Thayer, (1863-1940)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
R.S. Thomas (1913-2000)
Francis Thompson (1859-1907)
James Thomson (B.V.) (1834-1882)
James Thomson (Seasons)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Chidiock Tichborne (1558-1586)
Thomas Tickell
Melvin B. Tolson
Jean Toomer
Rodrigo Toscano
Thomas Traherne
Quincy Troupe
Paul H. Tubb (Born 1973)
Gael Turnbull
Hone Tuwhare (born 1922)
Allen Upward, Imagist
Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)
Janine Pommy Vega

W

Wa-We

Wh-Wy

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
James M. Whitfield
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
Richard Wilbur
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
John Wilkinson
William of Shoreham (14th century)
Hugo Williams
Oscar Williams
Saul Williams
Sherley Anne Williams
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Elizabeth Willis
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680)
Terence Winch
George Wither (1588-1667)
Charles Wolfe (1791-1823)
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
C. D. Wright
Judith Wright
Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

Y-Z

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Edward Young, (1683-1765)
Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958)
Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978)

See also: list of poets, list of English people, list of people by occupation, list of people by nationality, list of women poets, List of American poets, List of Australian poets, List of Irish poets, List of English poets, List of Canadian poets, List of Chicano poets fr:Liste de poètes de langue anglaise pl:Pisarze i poeci anglojęzyczni sv:Lista över engelskspråkiga poeter

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