Poet.org's Top 20 Poets [Spring 2006]

Historical Poetry

Ranking is based on data from the search engine at Poets.org.

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Vote RankingList Ranking  

4

1

William Shakespeare

Playwright

36.00% (18 of 50 votes)

17

2

Langston Hughes

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

3

3

Maya Angelou

Poet

43.75% (21 of 48 votes)

19

4

Robert Frost

Poet

0% (0 of 3 votes)

8

5

Emily Dickinson

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

14

6

EE Cummings

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

18

7

Shel Silverstein

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

2

8

Sylvia Plath

Poet

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

7

9

Walt Whitman

Poet

0% (0 of 3 votes)

1

10

William Carlos Williams

Poet

100% (1 of 1 votes)

16

11

Dylan Thomas

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

20

12

W.H. Auden

Poet

0% (0 of 2 votes)

9

13

Gwendolyn Brooks

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

10

14

Elizabeth Bishop

Poet

0% (0 of 2 votes)

13

15

Pablo Neruda

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

5

16

Edgar Allan Poe

Poet

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

12

17

Billy Collins

Poet

0% (0 of 2 votes)

6

18

T.S. Eliot

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

15

19

Robert Creeley

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

11

20

Nikki Giovanni

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)