| Lascelles Abercrombie | 1881 - 1938 |
| Lucius Accius | |
| Diane Ackerman | 1948 |
| Aeschylus | 525 BC - 456 BC |
| Agathon | 448 BC - 400 BC |
| Mark Akenside | 1721 - 1770 |
| Anna Akhmatova | 1889 - 1966 |
| Alcaeus | |
| Vicente Aleixandre | 1898 - 1984 |
| Lord Alfred Douglas | 1870 - 1945 |
| Dante Alighieri | 1265 - 1321 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | 1809 - 1849 |
| William Allingham | 1821 - 1889 |
| Al Alvarez | 1929 |
| Imamu Amiri Baraka | 1934 |
| Anacreon | |
| Maya Angelou | 1928 |
| Carol Ann Duffy | 1955 |
| Adelaide Anne Procter | 1825 - 1864 |
| Christopher Anstey | 1724 - 1805 |
| David Antin | 1932 |
| Louis Aragon | 1897 - 1982 |
| Archilochus | |
| Pietro Aretino | 1492 - 1556 |
| Ludovico Ariosto | 1474 - 1533 |
| Aristophanes | 448 BC - 380 BC |
| Richard Armour | 1906 - 1989 |
| Edwin Arnold | 1832 - 1904 |
| Matthew Arnold | 1822 - 1888 |
| John Ashbery | 1927 |
| W. H. Auden | 1907 - 1973 |
| Joseph Auslander | 1897 - 1965 |
| Ausonius | 310 - 395 |
| Henry Austin Dobson | 1840 - 1921 |
| Alfred Austin | 1835 - 1913 |
| Thomas Babington | 1800 - 1859 |
| Bacchylides | |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 1836 - 1907 |
| Joanna Baillie | 1762 - 1851 |
| John Barbour | 1316 - 1395 |
| Alexander Barclay | 1476 - 1552 |
| Joel Barlow | 1754 - 1812 |
| Barnabe Barnes | 1569 - 1609 |
| Richard Barnfield | 1574 - 1627 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1806 - 1861 |
| Elizabeth Barrett | 1806 - 1861 |
| Bernard Barton | 1784 - 1849 |
| John Barton | |
| Matsuo Basho | 1644 - 1694 |
| John Beecher | 1904 - 1978 |
| Hilaire Belloc | 1870 - 1953 |
| Tahar Ben Jelloun | 1944 |
| Wendell Berry | 1934 |
| John Berryman | 1914 - 1972 |
| John Betjeman | 1906 - 1984 |
| Elizabeth Bibesco | 1897 - 1945 |
| Elizabeth Bishop | 1911 - 1979 |
| Richard Blackmore | 1654 - 1729 |
| Robert Bloomfield | 1766 - 1823 |
| Edmund Blunden | 1896 - 1974 |
| Robert Bly | 1926 |
| Maxwell Bodenheim | 1891 - 1954 |
| Louise Bogan | 1897 - 1970 |
| Nicolas Boileau | 1636 - 1711 |
| Arrigo Boito | 1842 - 1918 |
| Arna Bontemps | 1902 - 1973 |
| Karin Boye | 1900 - 1941 |
| John Boyle O'Reilly | 1844 - 1890 |
| Thomas Bracken | 1843 - 1898 |
| Anne Bradstreet | 1612 - 1672 |
| Bertolt Brecht | 1898 - 1956 |
| André Breton | 1896 - 1966 |
| Nicholas Breton | 1545 - 1626 |
| Robert Bridges | 1844 - 1930 |
| Joseph Brodsky | 1940 - 1996 |
| Alexander Brome | 1620 - 1666 |
| Rupert Brooke | 1887 - 1915 |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | 1917 - 2000 |
| William Broome | 1689 - 1745 |
| Robert Browning | 1812 - 1889 |
| William C. Bryant | 1794 - 1878 |
| Basil Bunting | 1900 - 1985 |
| Robert Burns | 1759 - 1796 |
| William Butler Yeats | 1865 - 1939 |
| Samuel Butler | 1835 - 1902 |
| Lord Byron | 1788 - 1824 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792 - 1822 |
| Callimachus | 305 BC - 240 BC |
| Thomas Campbell | 1777 - 1844 |
| Bliss Carman | 1861 - 1929 |
| Elizabeth Carter | |
| Sydney Carter | 1915 - 2004 |
| Alice Cary | 1820 - 1871 |
| Phoebe Cary | 1824 - 1871 |
| Paul Celan | 1920 - 1970 |
| Luis Cernuda | 1902 - 1963 |
| Aime Cesaire | 1913 |
| Arthur Chapman | 1873 - 1935 |
| George Chapman | 1559 - 1634 |
| Rene Char | 1907 - 1988 |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1837 - 1909 |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343 - 1400 |
| Chilon | |
| Charles Churchill | 1731 - 1764 |
| Amy Clampitt | 1920 - 1994 |
| John Clare | 1793 - 1864 |
| John Cleveland | 1613 - 1658 |
| Lucille Clifton | 1936 |
| William Collins | 1721 - 1759 |
| William Congreve | 1670 - 1729 |
| Henry Constable | 1562 - 1613 |
| Eliza Cook | 1818 - 1889 |
| Wendy Cope | 1945 |
| Françoise Coppee | 1842 - 1908 |
| Barry Cornwall | 1787 - 1874 |
| Gregory Corso | 1930 - 2001 |
| Charles Cotton | 1630 - 1687 |
| Abraham Cowley | 1618 - 1667 |
| William Cowper | 1731 - 1800 |
| George Crabbe | 1754 - 1832 |
| Hart Crane | 1899 - 1932 |
| Richard Crashaw | 1612 - 1650 |
| Robert Creeley | 1926 - 2005 |
| Charles Cros | 1842 - 1888 |
| Countee Cullen | 1903 - 1946 |
| e. e. cummings | 1894 - 1962 |
| Allan Cunningham | 1784 - 1842 |
| Gabriele d'Annunzio | 1863 - 1938 |
| Simon Dach | 1605 - 1659 |
| Samuel Daniel | 1562 - 1619 |
| Ruben Dario | 1867 - 1916 |
| William Davenant | 1606 - 1668 |
| Isaac de Benserade | 1613 - 1691 |
| Jose de Diego | 1866 - 1921 |
| Marie de France | |
| Jean de La Fontaine | 1621 - 1695 |
| Adam de la Halle | 1237 - 1288 |
| Walter de La Mare | 1873 - 1956 |
| Alphonse de Lamartine | 1790 - 1869 |
| Françoise de Malherbe | 1555 - 1628 |
| Aubrey de Vere | 1788 - 1846 |
| Alfred de Vigny | 1797 - 1863 |
| Jacques Delille | 1738 - 1813 |
| Eustache Deschamps | 1346 - 1406 |
| William F. DeVault | 1955 |
| Emily Dickinson | 1830 - 1886 |
| John Donne | 1572 - 1631 |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson | |
| Alfred Douglas | 1870 - 1945 |
| Rita Dove | 1952 |
| Ernest Dowson | 1867 - 1900 |
| Michael Drayton | 1563 - 1631 |
| John Drinkwater | 1882 - 1937 |
| John Dryden | 1631 - 1700 |
| Joachim du Bellay | 1522 - 1560 |
| Louis Dudek | 1918 - 2001 |
| Alice Duer Miller | 1874 - 1942 |
| William Dunbar | 1460 - 1520 |
| Helen Dunmore | 1952 |
| Douglas Dunn | 1942 |
| Stephen Dunn | 1939 |
| Edward Dyer | |
| John Dyer | 1699 - 1758 |
| Richard Eberhart | 1904 - 2005 |
| Thomas Edward Brown | 1830 - 1897 |
| Alfred Edward Housman | 1859 - 1936 |
| T. S. Eliot | 1888 - 1965 |
| Paul Eluard | 1895 - 1952 |
| William Empson | 1906 - 1984 |
| Yunus Emre | |
| Paul Engle | |
| Quintus Ennius | 239 BC - 169 BC |
| William Ernest Henley | 1849 - 1903 |
| Janet Erskine Stuart | |
| John Erskine | 1879 - 1951 |
| Euripides | 480 BC - 406 BC |
| Mari Evans | 1923 |
| William Falconer | 1732 - 1769 |
| Forough Farrokhzad | 1935 - 1967 |
| James Fenton | 1949 |
| Ferdowsi | 935 - 1020 |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti | 1919 |
| Eugene Field | 1850 - 1895 |
| Edward Fitzgerald | 1809 - 1883 |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | 1916 - 2000 |
| Adela Florence Nicolson | 1865 - 1904 |
| Veronica Franco | 1546 - 1591 |
| Robert Frost | 1874 - 1963 |
| Du Fu | 712 - 770 |
| Tu Fu | 712 - 770 |
| Christian Fürchtegott Gellert | 1715 - 1769 |
| Serge Gainsbourg | 1928 - 1991 |
| Antonio Gala | |
| Federico Garcia Lorca | 1898 - 1936 |
| Samuel Garth | 1661 - 1719 |
| Théophile Gautier | 1811 - 1872 |
| John Gay | 1685 - 1732 |
| Stefan George | 1868 - 1933 |
| Kahlil Gibran | 1883 - 1931 |
| Allen Ginsberg | 1926 - 1997 |
| Nikki Giovanni | 1943 |
| Giuseppe Giusti | 1809 - 1850 |
| Oliver Goldsmith | 1730 - 1774 |
| George Gordon Byron | 1788 - 1824 |
| Herman Gorter | 1864 - 1927 |
| Ian Gow | 1937 - 1990 |
| Juan Goytisolo | 1931 |
| James Grainger | 1721 - 1766 |
| Anne Grant | 1755 - 1838 |
| Thomas Gray | 1716 - 1771 |
| Matthew Green | 1696 - 1737 |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | 1807 - 1892 |
| Horace Gregory | 1898 - 1982 |
| Julian Grenfell | 1888 - 1915 |
| Edgar Guest | 1881 - 1959 |
| Thom Gunn | 1929 - 2004 |
| Marilyn Hacker | 1942 |
| John Hall Wheelock | |
| Ian Hamilton Finlay | 1925 |
| Jupiter Hammon | 1711 - 1806 |
| Robert Hass | 1941 |
| B. R. Hayden | 1913 - 1980 |
| Seamus Heaney | 1939 |
| Friedrich Hebbel | 1813 - 1863 |
| Anthony Hecht | 1923 - 2004 |
| Heinrich Heine | 1797 - 1856 |
| Felicia Hemans | 1793 - 1835 |
| William Henry Davies | 1871 - 1940 |
| Richard Henry Horne | 1803 - 1884 |
| George Herbert | 1593 - 1633 |
| Georg Herwegh | 1817 - 1875 |
| Hesiod | 800 BC - 720 BC |
| Nazim Hikmet | 1901 - 1963 |
| Aaron Hill | 1685 - 1750 |
| Ralph Hodgson | 1871 - 1962 |
| James Hogg | 1770 - 1835 |
| Homer | 0800 |
| Thomas Hood | 1799 - 1845 |
| A. E. Housman | 1859 - 1936 |
| Libby Houston | 1941 |
| Arthur Hugh Clough | 1819 - 1861 |
| Langston Hughes | 1902 - 1967 |
| Ted Hughes | 1930 - 1998 |
| Solomon Ibn Gabirol | 1021 - 1058 |
| Henrik Ibsen | 1828 - 1906 |
| Jean Ingelow | 1820 - 1897 |
| Muhammad Iqbal | 1877 - 1938 |
| Muhammed Iqbal | 1877 - 1938 |
| Silius Italicus | 25 - 101 |
| Max Jacob | 1876 - 1944 |
| Philip James Bailey | 1816 - 1902 |
| Randall Jarrell | 1914 - 1965 |
| John Jay Chapman | 1862 - 1933 |
| Robinson Jeffers | 1887 - 1962 |
| Elizabeth Jennings | 1926 - 2001 |
| William Johnson Cory | 1823 - 1892 |
| Ben Jonson | 1572 - 1637 |
| Jenny Joseph | 1932 |
| Donald Justice | 1925 - 2004 |
| Juvenal | 60 - 130 |
| Franz Kafka | 1883 - 1924 |
| Patrick Kavanagh | 1904 - 1967 |
| John Keats | 1795 - 1821 |
| Omar Khayyam | 1048 - 1131 |
| Joyce Kilmer | 1886 - 1918 |
| Galway Kinnell | 1927 |
| Kenneth Koch | 1925 - 2002 |
| Stanley Kunitz | 1905 - 2006 |
| Jules Laforgue | 1860 - 1887 |
| Andrew Lang | 1844 - 1912 |
| John Langhorne | 1735 - 1779 |
| Sidney Lanier | 1842 - 1881 |
| Lucy Larcom | 1824 |
| Philip Larkin | 1922 - 1985 |
| James Laughlin | 1914 - 1997 |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar | 1872 - 1906 |
| Layamon | |
| Irving Layton | 1912 |
| Emma Lazarus | 1849 - 1887 |
| Richard Le Gallienne | 1866 - 1947 |
| Stanislaw Lec | 1909 - 1966 |
| Edgar Lee Masters | 1868 - 1950 |
| Laurie Lee | 1914 - 1997 |
| Eino Leino | 1878 - 1926 |
| John Leonard | 1965 |
| Giacomo Leopardi | 1798 - 1837 |
| Mikhail Lermontov | 1814 - 1841 |
| Anna Letitia Barbauld | 1743 - 1825 |
| Philip Levine | 1928 |
| Amy Levy | 1861 - 1889 |
| C. Day Lewis | 1904 - 1972 |
| Saunders Lewis | |
| Vachel Lindsay | 1879 - 1931 |
| Robert Lloyd | 1733 - 1764 |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson | 1821 - 1895 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | 1809 - 1892 |
| Audre Lorde | 1934 - 1992 |
| Richard Lovelace | 1618 - 1657 |
| Thomas Lovell Beddoes | 1803 - 1849 |
| Amy Lowell | 1874 - 1925 |