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  1. Smith, Cicely Fox   English. Born: 1882, Died: 1954, 624 poems.
  2. Keats, John   English. Born: 1795, Died: 1821, 159 poems.
    John Keats, one of the greatest English poets and a major figure in the Romantic movement, was born in 1795 in Moorfields, London.
  3. Milne, A.A.   English. Born: 1882, Died: 1956 (modern), 51 poems.
  4. Kipling, Rudyard   English. Born: 1865, Died: 1936, 490 poems.
    He had declined most of the many honours which had been offered him, including a knighthood, the Poet Laureateship, and the Order of Merit, but in 1907 he had accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature.
  5. Byron, Lord George   English. Born: 1788, Died: 1824, 290 poems.
    In 1806 Byron had his early poems privately printed in a volume entitled Fugitive Pieces, and  that same  year he formed at Trinity what was to be a  lifelong friendship with John Hobhouse, who stirred his interest in liberal Whigg
  6. Auden, W H   English. Born: 1907, Died: 1973 (modern), 114 poems.
    he has been admired for his unsurpassed technical virtuosity and an ability to write poems in nearly every imaginable verse form
  7. Shakespeare, William   English. Born: 1564, Died: 1616, 198 poems.
    William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in 1564. This was the sixth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
  8. Carroll, Lewis   English. Born: 1832, Died: 1898, 73 poems.
    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wasn't just a great writer, he was also a famous photographer, mathematician, and illustrator. When he published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, he used Lewis Carroll as a pen name. Dodgson invented his pen name by translat
  9. Pope, Alexander   English. Born: 1688, Died: 1744, 81 poems.
    modelling himself after the great poets of classical antiquity, writing highly polished verse, often in a didactic or satirical vein. In verse translations, moral and critical essays, and satires that made him the foremost poet of his age
  10. de la Mare, Sir Walter   English. Born: 1873, Died: 1958 (modern), 86 poems.
    He was quite successful as an author while he lived, but apart from a few poems and his supernatural fiction, he is not often reprinted today.
  11. Brooke, Rupert   English. Born: 1887, Died: 1915, 98 poems.
    Brooke's reputation, aside from the myth of the fallen "golden warrior" that his friends set about creating almost immediately after his death, rests on the five war sonnets of 1914. Some of his earlier poetry--"Fish," Helen and Menelaus," and "Heave
  12. Jennings, Elizabeth   English. Born: 1926, Died: 2001 (modern), 12 poems.
    Elizabeth Joan Jennings, poet, born July 18 1926; died October 26 2001.

    Throughout the 1960's, Elizabeth was one of the most popular poets in England. She never married and published a great number of works. Elizabeth once said, "I write f
  13. Edgar, Marriott   English. Born: 1880, Died: 1951, 33 poems.
    Marriott, Edgar became known for his witty dittys such as The Lion and Albert, Aggie the Elephant, and The Magna Carta, which were immortalized in popular monologues by actor Stanley Holloway.
  14. Brittain, Vera   English. Born: 1893, Died: 1970 (modern), 4 poems.
    Vera Brittain is best known for her book "Testament of Youth", in which she tells the story of her harrowing experiences in the First World War.
  15. Pope, Jessie   English. Born: 1868, Died: 1941, 7 poems.
  16. Blake, William   English. Born: 1757, Died: 1827, 126 poems.
    Williams Blakes poetry is often elaboratly symbolic, mysterious and spiritual. Upon his death in 1827, Wordsworth said, "There is no doubt that this poor man was mad, but there is something in the madness of this man which interests me more than the
  17. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor   English. Born: 1772, Died: 1834, 176 poems.
    Though he's really only known today for his poetry, though Col's contributions to the field of criticism and our language were many. For instance, he not only coined the word 'selfless,' he introduced the word 'aesthetic' to the English language
  18. Tolkien, J R R   English. Born: 1892, Died: 1973 (modern), 85 poems.
    Tolkien's epic world is populated by elves, dwarves, magicians, and evil monsters. He saw himself as a Hobbit
  19. Sassoon, Siegfried   English. Born: 1886, Died: 1967 (modern), 162 poems.
    Siegfried Sassoon was perhaps the most innocent of the war poets. John Hildebidle has called Sassoon the "accidental hero." Born into a wealthy Jewish family in 1886, Sassoon lived the pastoral life of a young squire: fox-hunting, and playing cricket
  20. Betjeman, Sir John   English. Born: 1906, Died: 1984 (modern), 50 poems.
    In 1969, he was knighted, and when Cecil Day Lewis died in 1972, Jb was made Poet Laureate.
  21. Causley, Charles   English. Born: 1917, Died: 2003 (modern), 12 poems.
    Prize-winning poet, playwright and children's author
  22. Shelley, Percy Bysshe   English. Born: 1792, Died: 1822, 326 poems.
    English Romantic poet who rebelled against English politics and conservative values. Shelley drew no essential distinction between poetry and politics, and his work reflected the radical ideas and revolutionary optimism of the era.
  23. Graves, Robert   English. Born: 1895, Died: 1985 (modern), 138 poems.
    Graves was known as a poet, lecturer and novelist.  He was also known as a classicist and a mythographer. Perhaps his first known and revered poems were the poems Groves wrote behind the lines in World War One. He later became known as one of the mos
  24. Bronte, Emily Jane   English. Born: 1818, Died: 1848, 57 poems.
    Her first novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a story-within-a-story, did not gain immediate success as Charlotte's Jane Eyre, but it has acclaimed later fame as one of the most intense novels written in the English language.
  25. Wilde, Oscar   English. Born: 1854, Died: 1900, 105 poems.
    Oscar founded the Aesthetic Movement, which advocated "art for art's sake."
  26. Taylor, Ann   English. Born: 1782, Died: 1866, 47 poems.
    Ann Talyor was born in England in 1782 and, along with her sister Jane, wrote a number of hymns and poems for children, including Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
  27. Milligan, Spike   English. Born: 1918, Died: 2002 (modern), 50 poems.
    Even at the age of 80, he was sending things up, and refusing to lie down and be conformist.
  28. Coleridge, Mary Elizabeth   English. Born: 1861, Died: 1907, 30 poems.
    She was the great granddaughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's eldest brother Col. James Coleridge.
    From 1890 she taught at the Women's Working College, London and published Fancy's Following (1896) and Fancy's Guerdon (1897) under the pseudonym
  29. Muir, Edwin   English. Born: 1887, Died: 1959 (modern), 24 poems.
  30. Gurney, Ivor   English. Born: 1890, Died: 1937, 112 poems.
    Gurney was regarded as one of the most promising men of his generation, both in music and poetry
  31. Chatterton, Thomas   English. Born: 1752, Died: 1770, 45 poems.
  32. Arnold, Matthew   English. Born: 1822, Died: 1888, 62 poems.
    Though perhaps less obvious, the tremendous influence of his poetry, which addresses the poet's most innermost feelings with complete transparency, can easily be seen in writers as different from each other as W. B. Yeats, James Wright, Sylvia Plath,
  33. Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson   English. Born: 1878, Died: 1962 (modern), 76 poems.
    author of the popular Flannan Isle
  34. Larkin, Philip   English. Born: 1922, Died: 1985 (modern), 99 poems.
    Renowned twentieth century writer. He was a leading voice of young English writers called 'The Movement',using intensity of emotion while avoiding sentiment and self-pity in his pieces.
  35. Owen, Wilfred   English. Born: 1893, Died: 1918, 73 poems.
    "I came out in order to help these boys-- directly by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can. I have done the first" (October, 1918).
  36. Wilmot, Lord John   English. Born: 1647, Died: 1680, 35 poems.
    As a poet Wilmot was a follower of Abraham Cowley and of Boileau, to both of whom’ he was considerably indebted. His love lyrics are often happy, but his real vigour and ability iS best shown in his critical poems and satires. The political satire
  37. Dobell, Eva   English. Born: 1867, Died: 1963 (modern), 4 poems.
  38. Barker, George   English. Born: 1913, Died: 1991 (modern), 11 poems.
    Eliot wrote of his "genius". Yeats thought him the most interesting poet of his generation. Dylan Thomas envied his power over women.
  39. Scott, Sir Walter   English. Born: 1771, Died: 1832, 144 poems.
    Author of the infamous Waverly Novels, including Rob Roy, and numerous poems, notably The Lady of the Lake, Marmion, etc.
  40. Webster, Augusta Davies   English. Born: 1837, Died: 1894, 84 poems.
    Augusta Webster spent her young years on the ship Griper, stationed at such places as Banff Castle and Penzance, and then in 1851, at Cambridge.
  41. Cole, Margaret   English. Born: 1893, Died: 1980 (modern), 4 poems.
    Margaret was educated at Roedean and Girton College, Cambridge, she devoted her life to politics, and working in the Fabian Research Establishment.
  42. Sitwell, Dame Edith   English. Born: 1887, Died: 1964 (modern), 19 poems.
    English poet, critic, and biographer, Sitwell was most successful as a writer of satirical verse or burlesque.
  43. Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I   English. Born: 1533, Died: 1603, 9 poems.
    *She was, as Herbert notes, the wellspring from which all creative works flowed and was, in essence, a co-creator of them.
  44. Taylor, Edward   English. Born: 1642, Died: 1729, 21 poems.
    Edward Taylor was born in Leicestershire, England in 1642. He emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1668, and studied Divinity at Harvard, becoming a minister. He became known as one of the best writers of the Puritan times.
  45. Douglas, Keith   English. Born: 1920, Died: 1944, 9 poems.
    He was killed in Normandy. His reputation rests mainly on his war poetry, particularly that depicting the desert warfare he experienced in North Africa
  46. Thomas, R S   English. Born: 1913, Died: 2000 (modern), 81 poems.
    A twentieth century Welsh writer of poetry and verse. Remembered mainly for his religious poetry, but also because of his strong republican views.
  47. Masefield, John   English. Born: 1878, Died: 1967 (modern), 45 poems.
    Masefield's literary career was rich and varied, and although his reputation waned in later years, he is again being recognized for his wide range, encompassing ballads, nature poetry and mythological narrative, and for his attempt to make poetry a p
  48. Binyon, Robert Laurence   English. Born: 1869, Died: 1943, 399 poems.
    The poems Binyon wrote during the First World War were collected in "The Four Years" and published in 1919
  49. Blunden, Edmund   English. Born: 1896, Died: 1974 (modern), 27 poems.
    In 1920 his collection of poetry The Waggoner was published after he sent a privately printed collection of verse to the then Literary Editor of The Daily Herald, Siegfried Sassoon.
  50. Marvell, Andrew   English. Born: 1621, Died: 1678, 62 poems.
    He is known chiefly for his brilliant lyrical poetry.
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