Poets.org's Top 25 Historical Poets [Fall 2009]

Historical Poetry

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21

1

Langston Hughes

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

22

2

Robert Frost

Poet

0% (0 of 3 votes)

23

3

Emily Dickinson

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

24

4

Walt Whitman

Poet

0% (0 of 3 votes)

25

5

EE Cummings

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

2

6

William Carlos Williams

Poet

100% (1 of 1 votes)

5

7

Edgar Allan Poe

Poet

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

3

8

Sylvia Plath

Poet

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

1

9

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poet

100% (1 of 1 votes)

16

10

T.S. Eliot

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

17

11

Gwendolyn Brooks

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

18

12

W.H. Auden

Poet

0% (0 of 2 votes)

19

13

W.B. Yeats

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

4

14

William Shakespeare

Playwright

36.00% (18 of 50 votes)

6

15

William Wordsworth

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

7

16

Pablo Neruda

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

8

17

Robert Browning

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

9

18

Elizabeth Bishop

Poet

0% (0 of 2 votes)

10

19

Dylan Thomas

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

11

20

Wallace Stevens

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

12

21

Federico Garcia Lorca

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

13

22

John Keats

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

14

23

Carl Sandburg

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

20

24

Claude McKay

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

15

25

John Milton

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)