1. Elijah Fenton (1683)

British Poet

British poet, translator, and biographer known for works such as Marianne and Life of John Milton. He also served as an editor for a collection of Edmund Waller's poetry.

2. Christopher Smart (1722)

British Poet

Popular British poet whose works include "Jubilate Agno," "A Song to David," and other religious poems. He was a frequent contributor to The Student and other literary journals.

3. Samuel Rogers (1763)

British Poet

English poet, banker, and art collector who is remembered for a 1792 poem entitled "The Pleasures of Memory."

4. Robert Southey (1774)

British Poet

English Romantic poet, author, and thirty-year United Kingdom Poet Laureate. His literary works include Joan of Arc: An Epic Poem, Thalaba the Destroyer, and The Curse of Kehama.

5. Ebenezer Elliott (1781)

British Poet

British poet best known for The Corn Law Rhymes, a work published in 1831. His poem "The People's Anthem" was set to music in 1847.

6. Felicia Hemans (1793)

British Poet

English poet best known for an 1826 poem entitled "Casabianca." Her other works include "Corinne at the Capitol," "Evening Prayer at a Girls' School," and "To the New-Born."

7. Dora Greenwell (1821)

British Poet

English poet and essayist known for works with religious and political themes. Her publications include Lacordaire, The Patience of Hope, and Songs of Salvation.

8. Francis Thompson (1859)

British Poet

English poet known for his ascetic lifestyle and for his poem "The Hound of Heaven." His other literary works include Sister Songs and On Health and Holiness.

9. Charlotte Mew (1869)

British Poet

Late 19th and early 20th-century English poet whose work spans the genres of Modernism and Victorian-era poetry. Her best-known poems include "On the Asylum Road," "In Nunhead Cemetery," and "The...

10. Rupert Brooke (1887)

British Poet

Poet known for "The Soldier" and other war-themed sonnets. He was associated with several turn-of-the-century literary groups, including the Dymock poets and the Bloomsbury group.

11. Charles Sorley (1895)

British Poet

British, World War I-era poet whose Marlborough and Other Poems was published posthumously. His collected letters were also published after his death.

12. Sidney Keyes (1922)

British Poet

British, World War II-era poet who became known for The Cruel Solstice and The Iron Laurel. Both works received the prestigious Hawthornden Prize.

13. Andrew Crozier (1943)

British Poet

Key figure in the British Poetry Revival who is remembered for such works as Loved Litter of Time Spent, The Veil Poem, and Pleats (all published in the late 1960s...

14. Benjamin Zephaniah (1958)

British Poet

Rastafarian spoken-word poet who is best known for works such as Pen Rhythm, The Dread Affair: Collected Poems, and Funky Chickens. He released his internationally-acclaimed spoken-word album, Rasta, in 1982.

15. Andrew Motion (1952)

British Poet

English poet, author, creator of the Online Poetry Archive, and United Kingdom Poet Laureate from 1999-2009. His numerous poetry collections include The Pleasure Steamers, Secret Narratives, and The Cinder Path....

16. Arthur Symons (1865)

British Poet

Arthur William Symons was a British poet critic and magazine editor.

17. F. T. Prince (1912)

British Poet

Templeton Prince was a British poet and academic known generally for his best-known poem Soldiers Bathing written during the Second World War in 1942 which has been frequently included in...

18. Rosamund Stanhope (Unknow)

British Poet

Rosamund Stanhope is a British poet and teacher known for her exuberant use of esoteric and unusual words. Born 4 March 1919 in Northampton the daughter of a Latvian leather...

19. Scott Hastie (1954)

British Poet

20. Angela Topping (1954)

British Poet

Angela Topping is a British poet literary critic and author. She has published six solo poetry collections Dandelions for Mothers' Day The Fiddle The Way We Came The New Generation...

21. Gwyn Morgan (writer) (1954)

British Poet

Gwyn Morgan is a Welsh-language author.

22. Colin Mackay (writer) (1951)

British Poet

Colin Mackay was a poet and novelist. His final work was an autobiography entitled Jacob's Ladder which included talking about his planned suicide.

23. Debjani Chatterjee (1952)

British Poet

Debjani Chatterjee MBE is an Indian-born British poet. She was born in Delhi but now lives in Sheffield England. She had lived in India Japan Bangladesh Hong Kong Egypt and...

24. Harry Smart (Unknow)

British Poet

Harry Smart is a British poet. He was born in Yorkshire and lives in Montrose Scotland. He has had three poetry collections published by Faber and Faber:Shoah Pierrot Fool's Pardon...

25. Rab Wilson (1960)

British Poet

Rab Wilson is a Scottish poet who writes mainly in the Scots language. His works include a Scots translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and the poetry books Accent...

26. George Messo (1969)

British Poet

George Messo is an expatriate English poet and translator who was born in rural Lincolnshire near the town of Barton-Upon-Humber. He moved to Trabzon Turkey in 1998 and has since...

27. Alison Brackenbury (Unknow)

British Poet

Alison Brackenbury is a British poet.

28. D. M. Thomas (1935)

British Poet

Donald Michael Thomas known as D. M. Thomas is a Cornish novelist poet playwright and translator. Thomas was born in Redruth Cornwall UK. He attended Trewirgie Primary School and Redruth...

29. Brian Moses (Unknow)

British Poet

Brian Moses is an English poet. He mainly writes for children has over 200 published works and is a well known as a children's poet. His poetry books and anthologies...

30. Adelle Stripe (1976)

British Poet

Adelle Stripe is a poet from Tadcaster North Yorkshire.

31. Peter Riley (Unknow)

British Poet

Peter Riley is a contemporary English poet essayist and editor. Riley is known as a Cambridge poet part of the group vaguely associated with J. H. Prynne which today is...

32. Francis Edwin Murray (Unknow)

British Poet

s Edwin Murray was a Uranian poet and publisher of the late 19th and early 20th century. Almost totally forgotten today his books of verse include Rondeaux of Boyhood limited...

33. Bernard Gutteridge (Unknow)

British Poet

Bernard Gutteridge was an English poet known for poems about the Spanish Civil War or from his World War II experiences in Madagascar India and with the 36th Division of...

34. Charles Kains Jackson (Unknow)

British Poet

Charles Philip Castle Kains Jackson was an English poet closely associated with the Uranian school.

35. Alexander Bald (1783)

British Poet

Alexander Bald was a poet. Bald was a poet and frequent contributor to The Scots Magazine. As the ‘father’ of the ‘Shakespeare Club of Alloa’ he became a friend and...

36. Frances Leviston (1982)

British Poet

s Leviston is a British poet. Born in Edinburgh Frances Leviston later moved to Sheffield. She studied at St Hilda's College in Oxford University where she read English. Leviston then...

37. Frank Kuppner (Unknow)

British Poet

Kuppner is a Scottish poet and novelist.

38. Charles Fitzgeoffrey (1576)

British Poet

Charles Fitzgeoffrey was an Elizabethan poet and clergyman.

39. Clive Wilmer (1945)

British Poet

Clive Wilmer is a British poet who has published eight volumes of poetry. Wilmer was born in Harrogate Yorkshire and attended Emanuel School and King's College Cambridge. Wilmer argues that...

40. Terence Tiller (Unknow)

British Poet

Terence Rogers Tiller was an English poet and radio producer.

41. Francis Hastings Doyle (1810)

British Poet

Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle 2nd Baronet was a British poet.

42. Bernard Spencer (Unknow)

British Poet

Charles Bernard Spencer was an English poet translator and editor. He was born in Madras India and educated at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College Oxford. At Marlborough he knew...

43. Alexander Barclay (1475)

British Poet

Dr Alexander Barclay was an English/Scottish poet.

44. David Rees Griffiths (1882)

British Poet

David Rees Griffiths also known by his bardic name of Amanwy was a Welsh poet and an older brother of politician Jim Griffiths. Griffiths was born in Betws Carmarthenshire where...

45. William Kean Seymour (1887)

British Poet

Kean Seymour was a British writer by profession a bank manager. He was a poet and critic novelist journalist and literary editor. He was married to the novelist and short...

46. Keston Sutherland (1976)

British Poet

Keston M. Sutherland is a British poet and Professor of Poetics at the University of Sussex. He is currently the Holloway Poetry Fellow at the University of California Berkeley.

47. Alan Llwyd (Unknow)

British Poet

Alan Llwyd original name Alan Lloyd Roberts is a Welsh poet literary critic and editor one of the most prolific Welsh-language poets in the last quarter of the 20th century....

48. George Brisbane Scott Douglas (Unknow)

British Poet

George Brisbane Scott Douglas was a Scottish poet and writer as well as a Baronet. He was born on 22 December 1856 in Gibraltar. His mother Dona Sanchez de Pina...

49. Aeronwy Thomas (1943)

British Poet

Aeronwy Bryn Thomas-Ellis translator of Italian poetry was the second child and only daughter of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin Macnamara.

50. Francis Fawkes (Unknow)

British Poet

s Fawkes was an English poet and translator. Fawkes translated Anacreon Sappho and other classics modernised parts of the poems of Gavin Douglas and was the author of the well-known...