Greatest English Language Poets

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Vote for Shakespeare 1) Shakespeare


Vote for Robert Burns 2) Robert Burns


Vote for Chaucer 3) Chaucer


Vote for Rudyard Kipling 4) Rudyard Kipling


Vote for Keats 5) Keats


Vote for John McCrae 6) John McCrae

“A great Canadian war time poet.
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Vote for T. S. Eliot 7) T. S. Eliot


Vote for W. H. Auden 8) W. H. Auden


Vote for Gerard Manley Hopkins 9) Gerard Manley Hopkins


Vote for Banjo Paterson 10) Banjo Paterson


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Vote for Milton 11) Milton

Vote for Tennyson 12) Tennyson

Vote for Yeats 13) Yeats

Vote for Blake 14) Blake

Vote for Coleridge 15) Coleridge

Vote for Donne 16) Donne

Vote for Wordsworth 17) Wordsworth

Vote for Christopher Marlowe 18) Christopher Marlowe

Vote for Shelley 19) Shelley

Vote for Ezra Pound 20) Ezra Pound

Vote for Wallace Stevens 21) Wallace Stevens

Vote for Edgar Allan Poe 22) Edgar Allan Poe

Vote for Andrew Marvell 23) Andrew Marvell

Vote for Edward Thomas 24) Edward Thomas

Vote for Philip Larkin 25) Philip Larkin

Vote for Thomas Gray 26) Thomas Gray

Vote for George Herbert 27) George Herbert

Vote for E.E. Cummings 28) E.E. Cummings

Vote for Lord Byron 29) Lord Byron

Vote for Alexander Pope 30) Alexander Pope

Vote for Ted Hughes 31) Ted Hughes

Vote for Robert Browning 32) Robert Browning

Vote for John Dryden 33) John Dryden

Vote for John Clare 34) John Clare

Vote for Wilfred Owen 35) Wilfred Owen

Vote for Seamus Heaney 36) Seamus Heaney

Vote for William Cowper 37) William Cowper

Vote for Robert Frost 38) Robert Frost

Vote for William McGonagall 39) William McGonagall

Vote for Oscar Wilde 40) Oscar Wilde

Vote for Sir Walter Scott 41) Sir Walter Scott

Vote for Mary Sydney 42) Mary Sydney

Vote for William Dunbar 43) William Dunbar

Vote for Thomas Hardy 44) Thomas Hardy

Vote for Isaac Rosenberg 45) Isaac Rosenberg

Vote for Edmund Spenser 46) Edmund Spenser

Vote for Dylan Thomas 47) Dylan Thomas

Vote for John Massey "Gawain Poet" 48) John Massey "Gawain Poet"

Vote for William Langland 49) William Langland

Vote for Ben Jonson 50) Ben Jonson

Vote for George Crabbe 51) George Crabbe

Vote for Matthew Arnold 52) Matthew Arnold

Vote for Christina Rossetti 53) Christina Rossetti

Vote for Stevie Smith 54) Stevie Smith

Vote for Thomas Wyatt 55) Thomas Wyatt

Vote for Sylvia Plath 56) Sylvia Plath

Vote for John Skelton 57) John Skelton

Vote for Walt Whitman 58) Walt Whitman

Vote for John Gower 59) John Gower

Vote for Emily Dickinson 60) Emily Dickinson

Vote for Derek Walcott 61) Derek Walcott

Vote for Carol Ann Duffy 62) Carol Ann Duffy

Vote for Howard Nemerov 63) Howard Nemerov

Vote for Siegfried Sassoon 64) Siegfried Sassoon

Vote for William Barnes 65) William Barnes

Vote for John Betjeman 66) John Betjeman

Vote for Laurence Binyon 67) Laurence Binyon

Vote for Rupert Brooke 68) Rupert Brooke

Vote for William Collins 69) William Collins

Vote for Cecil Day-Lewis 70) Cecil Day-Lewis

Vote for U. A. Fanthorpe 71) U. A. Fanthorpe

Vote for Oliver Goldsmith 72) Oliver Goldsmith

Vote for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 73) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Vote for Robert Lowell 74) Robert Lowell

Vote for Louis MacNiece 75) Louis MacNiece

Vote for John Masefield 76) John Masefield

Vote for William Carlos Williams 77) William Carlos Williams

Vote for Caedmon 78) Caedmon

Vote for Elizabeth Bishop 79) Elizabeth Bishop

Vote for A. E. Housman 80) A. E. Housman


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