| Mark Akenside | 1721 - 1770 |
| Al Alvarez | 1929 |
| Adelaide Anne Procter | 1825 - 1864 |
| Christopher Anstey | 1724 - 1805 |
| Edwin Arnold | 1832 - 1904 |
| Matthew Arnold | 1822 - 1888 |
| W. H. Auden | 1907 - 1973 |
| Henry Austin Dobson | 1840 - 1921 |
| Alfred Austin | 1835 - 1913 |
| Barnabe Barnes | 1569 - 1609 |
| Richard Barnfield | 1574 - 1627 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | 1806 - 1861 |
| Elizabeth Barrett | 1806 - 1861 |
| Hilaire Belloc | 1870 - 1953 |
| John Betjeman | 1906 - 1984 |
| Richard Blackmore | 1654 - 1729 |
| Robert Bloomfield | 1766 - 1823 |
| Edmund Blunden | 1896 - 1974 |
| Nicholas Breton | 1545 - 1626 |
| Robert Bridges | 1844 - 1930 |
| Alexander Brome | 1620 - 1666 |
| Rupert Brooke | 1887 - 1915 |
| William Broome | 1689 - 1745 |
| Robert Browning | 1812 - 1889 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | 1792 - 1822 |
| Elizabeth Carter | |
| Sydney Carter | 1915 - 2004 |
| George Chapman | 1559 - 1634 |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | 1837 - 1909 |
| Geoffrey Chaucer | 1343 - 1400 |
| Charles Churchill | 1731 - 1764 |
| John Clare | 1793 - 1864 |
| John Cleveland | 1613 - 1658 |
| William Collins | 1721 - 1759 |
| William Congreve | 1670 - 1729 |
| Henry Constable | 1562 - 1613 |
| Eliza Cook | 1818 - 1889 |
| Wendy Cope | 1945 |
| Barry Cornwall | 1787 - 1874 |
| Charles Cotton | 1630 - 1687 |
| Abraham Cowley | 1618 - 1667 |
| William Cowper | 1731 - 1800 |
| George Crabbe | 1754 - 1832 |
| Richard Crashaw | 1612 - 1650 |
| Samuel Daniel | 1562 - 1619 |
| William Davenant | 1606 - 1668 |
| Walter de La Mare | 1873 - 1956 |
| Alfred Douglas | 1870 - 1945 |
| Ernest Dowson | 1867 - 1900 |
| Michael Drayton | 1563 - 1631 |
| John Drinkwater | 1882 - 1937 |
| John Dryden | 1631 - 1700 |
| Edward Dyer | |
| Alfred Edward Housman | 1859 - 1936 |
| T. S. Eliot | 1888 - 1965 |
| William Empson | 1906 - 1984 |
| William Ernest Henley | 1849 - 1903 |
| Janet Erskine Stuart | |
| Edward Fitzgerald | 1809 - 1883 |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | 1916 - 2000 |
| Adela Florence Nicolson | 1865 - 1904 |
| Samuel Garth | 1661 - 1719 |
| John Gay | 1685 - 1732 |
| Thomas Gray | 1716 - 1771 |
| William Henry Davies | 1871 - 1940 |
| Richard Henry Horne | 1803 - 1884 |
| Aaron Hill | 1685 - 1750 |
| Ralph Hodgson | 1871 - 1962 |
| Thomas Hood | 1799 - 1845 |
| A. E. Housman | 1859 - 1936 |
| Arthur Hugh Clough | 1819 - 1861 |
| Ted Hughes | 1930 - 1998 |
| Jean Ingelow | 1820 - 1897 |
| Philip James Bailey | 1816 - 1902 |
| Elizabeth Jennings | 1926 - 2001 |
| William Johnson Cory | 1823 - 1892 |
| Ben Jonson | 1572 - 1637 |
| Jenny Joseph | 1932 |
| John Keats | 1795 - 1821 |
| John Langhorne | 1735 - 1779 |
| Philip Larkin | 1922 - 1985 |
| Layamon | |
| Richard Le Gallienne | 1866 - 1947 |
| Laurie Lee | 1914 - 1997 |
| Anna Letitia Barbauld | 1743 - 1825 |
| C. Day Lewis | 1904 - 1972 |
| Robert Lloyd | 1733 - 1764 |
| Frederick Locker-Lampson | 1821 - 1895 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | 1809 - 1892 |
| Richard Lovelace | 1618 - 1657 |
| Thomas Lovell Beddoes | 1803 - 1849 |
| Malcolm Lowry | 1909 - 1957 |
| Thomas Macaulay | 1800 - 1859 |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | 1844 - 1889 |
| John Marston | 1576 - 1634 |
| John Masefield | 1878 - 1967 |
| Gerald Massey | 1828 - 1907 |
| Hughes Mearns | 1875 - 1965 |
| Alice Meynell | 1847 - 1922 |
| Thomas Middleton | 1580 - 1627 |
| John Milton | 1608 - 1674 |
| Andrew Motion | 1952 |
| Paul Muldoon | 1951 |
| Constance Naden | 1858 - 1889 |
| Alfred Noyes | 1880 - 1958 |
| Thomas Overbury | 1581 - 1613 |
| Coventry Patmore | 1823 - 1896 |
| Ambrose Philips | 1675 - 1749 |
| John Philips | 1676 - 1709 |
| Stephen Phillips | 1868 - 1915 |
| Alexander Pope | 1688 - 1744 |
| Matthew Prior | 1664 - 1721 |
| Francis Quarles | 1592 - 1644 |
| Thomas Randolph | 1605 - 1635 |
| Herbert Read | 1893 - 1968 |
| William Robert Spencer | 1769 - 1834 |
| Samuel Rogers | 1763 - 1855 |
| Isaac Rosenberg | 1890 - 1918 |
| Margaret Sackville | 1881 - 1963 |
| George Sandys | 1578 - 1644 |
| Siegfried Sassoon | 1886 - 1967 |
| Walter Savage Landor | 1775 - 1864 |
| Richard Savage | 1697 - 1743 |
| John Sheffield | |
| William Shenstone | 1714 - 1763 |
| John Skelton | 1460 - 1529 |
| Christopher Smart | 1722 - 1771 |
| Charlotte Smith | 1749 - 1806 |
| William Somerville | 1675 - 1742 |
| Robert Southey | 1774 - 1843 |
| Stephen Spender | 1909 - 1995 |
| Edmund Spenser | 1552 - 1599 |
| Charles Stuart Calverley | 1831 - 1884 |
| Joshua Sylvester | 1563 - 1618 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 1772 - 1834 |
| Jane Taylor | 1783 - 1824 |
| Charles Tennyson Turner | 1808 - 1879 |
| Frederick Tennyson | 1807 - 1898 |
| Edward Thomas | 1878 - 1917 |
| Francis Thompson | 1859 - 1907 |
| Thomas Tickell | 1685 - 1740 |
| Thomas Tusser | 1524 - 1580 |
| John Wain | 1925 - 1994 |
| Edmund Waller | 1606 - 1687 |
| William Whitehead | 1715 - 1785 |
| William Wordsworth | 1770 - 1850 |
| Edward Young | 1683 - 1765 |