Old-poets in English, by popularity

1. Watson, Sir William   English. Born: 1858, Died: 1935, 102 poems.
2. Crowley, Aleister   English. Born: 1875, Died: 1947, 52 poems.
   His allure seems to have consisted of two main qualities: he inherited a fortune and he worked hard at being strange.
3. Drayton, Michael   English. Born: 1563, Died: 1631, 81 poems.
4. Henley, William Ernest   English. Born: 1849, Died: 1902, 169 poems.
   The paper found utterance for the growing imperialism of its day, and among other services to literature gave to the world Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads.
5. Douglas, Lord Alfred   English. Born: 1870, Died: 1945, 30 poems.
   Lord Alfred Douglas is remembered today for his tumultuous association with Oscar Wilde and as a minor poet.
6. Sidney, Sir Philip   English. Born: 1554, Died: 1586, 131 poems.
   Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 – October 17, 1586) became one of the Elizabethan Age's most prominent figures.
7. Barrington, Patrick   English. Born: 1908, Died: 1990 (modern), 7 poems.
   his nonsense poems were featured in the Punch Magezine through the 1930's
8. Daryush, Elizabeth   English. Born: 1887, Died: 1976 (modern), 10 poems.
   the themes of her work are often critical of the upper classes and the social injustice their privilege levied upon others.
9. Lee, Laurie   English. Born: 1914, Died: 1997 (modern), 8 poems.
   A twentieth century English writer who volumes of poetry include The Sun My Monument and The Bloom of Candles and whose autobiographies include Cider with Rosie.
10. Anderson, Alexander   English. Born: 1845, Died: 1909, 402 poems.
    Alexander Anderson, who generally wrote under the psuedonym "Surfaceman", was born in Kirkconnel, Dumfriesshire, Scotland and became a surfaceman on the railway. He spent all his leisure in self-culture, he mastered the languages German, French, and
11. Swift, Jonathan   English. Born: 1667, Died: 1745, 103 poems.
    Irish author and journalist, dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral (Dublin) from 1713, the foremost prose satirist in English language. Swift became insane in his last years, but until his death he was known as Dublin's foremost citizen.
12. Rogers, Samuel   English. Born: 1763, Died: 1855, 98 poems.
    An English socialite who dabbled in art and poetry, in a very refined classic style.
13. Hardy, Thomas   English. Born: 1840, Died: 1928, 249 poems.
14. Rosenberg, Isaac   English. Born: 1890, Died: 1918, 19 poems.
15. Herbert, Sir A P   English. Born: 1890, Died: 1971 (modern), 136 poems.
16. Inchfawn, Fay   English. Born: 1880, Died: 1978 (modern), 46 poems.
17. Newbolt, Sir Henry   English. Born: 1862, Died: 1938, 80 poems.
    Higly respected, Newbolt was a lawyer, novelist, playwright and magazine editor.  Above all, he was a poet who championed the virtues of chivalry and sportsmanship.
18. Swinburne, Algernon Charles   English. Born: 1837, Died: 1909, 224 poems.
    This work was reviled by critics, most famously by Robert Buchanan, who attacked Swinburne and Rossetti in "The Fleshly School of Poetry," though it influenced contemporaries like Wilde and Yeats and modernists such as Joyce and T.S. Eliot.
19. Coulson, Leslie   English. Born: 1889, Died: 1916, 7 poems.
    Sergeant Frederick Coulson 12th London Regiment  
    
    A few weeks before he died, Coulson wrote to his father: "If I should fall do not grieve for me. I shall be one with the wind and the sun and the flowers."  
    Died of wounds 8th Octob
20. Dryden, John Henry   English. Born: 1631, Died: 1700, 106 poems.
    Poet, dramatist, critic, and translator
21. Dobell, Sydney Thompson   English. Born: 1824, Died: 1874, 125 poems.
22. Stephen, James Kenneth   English. Born: 1859, Died: 1892, 21 poems.
    James went into residence at King's, and speedily became one of the best-known undergraduates of his time. He read at Cambridge in much the same way as he had done his lessons at Eton.
23. Ellis, George   English. Born: 1753, Died: 1815, 1 poems.
24. Alexander, Cecil Frances   English. Born: 1818, Died: 1895, 4 poems.
    Cecil was an English Romantic Poetess most commonly known for her piece " Maker of Heaven and Earth" .
25. Stuart, Muriel   English. Born: 1889, Died: 1967 (modern), 50 poems.
    Writing in the 1920s on sexual politics, love and nature with immense courage and profundity.
26. Clare, John   English. Born: 1793, Died: 1864, 175 poems.
    this child of the 'unwearying eye' had a thirst for knowledge and became a model example of the self-taught man. As a poet of rural England he has few rivals.
27. Symons, Arthur   English. Born: 1865, Died: 1945, 36 poems.
    English poet and critic, considered a leader of the symbolists in England. He reflects French tendencies both in the subject-matter and style of his poems, in their eroticism and their vividness of description.
28. Coleridge, Sara   English. Born: 1802, Died: 1852, 5 poems.
    Sara was the fourth child and only daughter of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
29. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel   English. Born: 1828, Died: 1882, 287 poems.
    Dante Rossetti was a very fastidious writer, and, I might add, a very fastidious painter. He did not indeed “cudgel his brains” for the idea of a poem or the structure or diction of a stanza.
30. Warton, Joseph   English. Born: 1722, Died: 1800, 5 poems.
    he criticized the classical tendencies of 18th-century poetry and longed for a revival of imagination and passion. He edited a nine-volume edition of Pope in 1797.
31. Herschel-Clarke, May   English. Born: 1850, Died: 1950, 3 poems.
    Dates are circa dates
32. Nashe, Thomas   English. Born: 1567, Died: 1601, 13 poems.
    A versatile writer of controversial pamphlets, satires, plays, a novel, and lyric verse. One of the "University Wits" writing for stage and press.
33. Landon, Letitia Elizabeth   English. Born: 1802, Died: 1838, 62 poems.
    A nineteenth century English writer of whom little is known about her private life and much of her work remains uncollected, misrepresented, and undervalued.
34. Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen   English. Born: 1840, Died: 1922, 441 poems.
    Second son of Francis Blunt and born into an old Sussex family. When he was eighteen he entered the British diplomatic corps and he worked in Athens, Constantinople, Frankfort, Lisbon, Madrid, Paris and Argentina.
35. Costello, Louisa Stuart   English. Born: 1799, Died: 1870, 42 poems.
36. Tessimond, A.S.J.   English. Born: 1902, Died: 1962 (modern), 44 poems.
    He wrote about the ordinary and about city stereotypes. Some of his poems are conversation-poems and these often capture his tendency towards melancholy.
37. Smedley, Menella Bute   English. Born: 1820, Died: 1877, 154 poems.
38. Bronte, Charlotte   English. Born: 1816, Died: 1855, 23 poems.
    Charlotte began Jane Eyre, which came out in October 1847, and became an immediate success. Charlotte dedicated the book to William Makepeace Thackeray, who described it as 'the masterwork of a great genius'.
39. Cowper, William   English. Born: 1731, Died: 1800, 407 poems.
    Cowper who's fa­ther was cha­plain to King George Ii, went through the mo­tions of be­com­ing an at­tor­ney, but ne­ver prac­ticed law. He lived near Olney, Buck­ing­ham­shire, the name­sake town of the Olney Hymns, which he co-wrote with John Newton
40. Gale, Norman Rowland   English. Born: 1862, Died: 1942, 30 poems.
41. Milton, John   English. Born: 1608, Died: 1674, 80 poems.
    One of the greatest poets of the English language, best-known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Milton's powerful, rhetoric prose and the eloquence of his poetry had an immense influence especially on the 18th-century verse.
42. Percy, Thomas   English. Born: 1729, Died: 1811, 10 poems.
    An author/poet in the romantic period, well known for his excellent translations of Chinese and Icelandic verse, among other works. A great influence on the romantic poets of Germany, as well as England.
43. Carew, Thomas   English. Born: 1595, Died: 1640, 34 poems.
44. Hayes, J Milton   English. Born: 1884, Died: 1940, 7 poems.
    A North Country actor best known for the much performed poem 'The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God,' J Milton Hayes is associated with a tradition of comedic yarn-telling.
45. Aldington, Edward   English. Born: 1892, Died: 1962 (modern), 29 poems.
    Even though in later years, most historians came to agree with Aldington's account of the facts of Lawrence's life, the general public in 1955 was not ready to accept it. The abuse aimed at Aldington from his critics was overwhelming and resulted in
46. Morris, William   English. Born: 1834, Died: 1896, 97 poems.
    He died at the age of 62, at home, his doctor giving his cause of death as "simply being William Morris and having done more work that most ten men."
47. Allott, Kenneth   English. Born: 1912, Died: 1973 (modern), 4 poems.
    The 1930s was a decade characterized both by intense anxiety and by a highly charged idealism, and much of the poetry of the period owes its energies to the fruitful conjunction of the two.
48. Greenwell, Dora   English. Born: 1821, Died: 1888, 7 poems.
49. Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock   English. Born: 1826, Died: 1887, 138 poems.
    Her first work to be published was a poem on the birth of the Princess Royal which appeared in the Staffordshire Advertiser in 1841
50. Patmore, Coventry   English. Born: 1823, Died: 1896, 68 poems.
    Coventry Patmore's early poems were published by the zeal of his father, and gained prophecies of future greatness from Leigh Hunt and others. In 1853 was published his first mature work, "Tamerton Church Tower and other Poems",

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