"100 Best Recommended English Language Poets for You"

 "100 Best Recommended English Language Poets for You"

1 John Milton 1608-1674

2 William Shakespeare 1564-1616

3 Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-1400

4 WB Yeats 1865-1939

5 William Wordsworth 1770-1850

6 John Keats 1795-1821

7 William Blake 1757-1827

8 TS Eliot 1888-1965

9 Carl Sandburg 1878-1967

10 Emily Dickinson 1830-1886

11 Geoffrey Hill 1932-

12 Alexander Pope 1688-1744

13 Robert Browning 1812-1899

14 Wallace Stevens 1879-1955

15 Percy Blysse Shelley 1792-1822

16  John Berryman 1914-1972

17 Alfred Lord Tennysson 1809-1892

18 Edmund Spenser 1552-1599

19 Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849

20 WH Auden 1907-1973

21 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1934

22 John Dryden 1631-1700

23 Ezra Pound 1885-1972

24 George Herbert 1593-1633

25 Robert Burns 1759-1796

26 Andrew Marvell 1621-1678

27 Thomas Hardy 1840-1928

28 John Ashbery 1927-

29 William Langland 1332-1386

30 Elizabeth Bishop 1911-1979

31 Pearl Poet ?

32 Philip Sidney 1554-1586

33 Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844-1889

34 Robert Frost 1874-1963

35 Matthew Arnold 1822-1888

36 John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 1647-1680

37 Beowulf Poet ?

38 Robert Lowell 1917-1977

39 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861

40 Christina Rossetti  1830-1894

41 James Merrill 1926-1995

42 Thomas Wyatt 1503-1542

43 Sylvia Plath 1932-1963

44 John Clare 1793-1864

45 Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837-1809

46 Philip Larkin 1922-1985

47 John Gower 1330-1408

48 Ben Johnson 1572-1637

49 Hart Crane 1899-1932

50 William Dunbar 1460-?

51  Walt Whitman 1819-1892

52 Seamus Heaney 1939-

53 William Cowper 1731-1800

54 William Carlos Williams 1832-1963

55 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882

56 Thomas Traherne 1636-1674

57 Adrienne Rich 1929-2012

58 Wilfred Owen 1893-1918

59 AE Housman 1859-1936

60 Thomas Moore 1779-1852

61 Dylan Thomas 1914-1953

62 Derek Walcott 1930-

63 EE Cummings 1896-1962

64 Marianne Moore 1887-1972

65 Lord Byron 1788-1824

66 Henry Vaughan 1622-1695

67 AR Ammons 1926-2001

68 Anne Finch 1661-1720

69 WS Merwin 1927-

70 Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882

71 Robert Penn Warren 1905-1989

72 Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997

73 Louise Gluck 1943-

74 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 1516-1547

75 Theodore Roethke  1908-1963

76 Felicia Hemans 1793-1835

77 Thomas Gray 1716-1771

78 Paul Muldoon 1951-

79 Thomas Lovell Beddoes 1803-1849

80 Abraham Cowley 1618-1667

81 Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862

82 Jonathan Swift 1667-1745

83 Ted Hughes 1930-1998

84 HD 1886-1961

85 Robinson Jeffers 1887-1962

86 Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593

87 Robert Herrick 1592-1674

88 Edward Arlington Robinson 1860-1935

89 Richard Crashaw 1613-1649

90 John Donne 1572-1631 

91 Langston Hughes 1902-1967

92 Robert Henryson 1460-1500

93 Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906

94 Stephen Crane 1871-1900

95 Anne Carson 1950-

96 Louis MacNeice 1907-1963

97 Anne Bradstreet 1612-1672

98 John Skelton 1460-1529

99 Bob Dylan 1941-

100 Emily Bronte 1818-1848

• Read at least one poem of each poet once in life.

1 to 100 is a random pick, not a ranking.

• Add more poets if I missed any notable personality.