Poets.org's Top 20 Poets [Spring 2007]

Historical Poetry

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10

1

Langston Hughes

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

11

2

Emily Dickinson

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

12

3

Robert Frost

Poet

0% (0 of 3 votes)

13

4

Walt Whitman

Poet

0% (0 of 3 votes)

14

5

EE Cummings

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

15

6

Gwendolyn Brooks

Author

0% (0 of 0 votes)

4

7

Sylvia Plath

Poet

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

6

8

Edgar Allan Poe

Poet

16.67% (1 of 6 votes)

7

9

W.H. Auden

Poet

0% (0 of 2 votes)

1

10

William Carlos Williams

Poet

100% (1 of 1 votes)

8

11

Dylan Thomas

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

9

12

T.S. Eliot

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

5

13

William Shakespeare

Playwright

36.00% (18 of 50 votes)

16

14

Pablo Neruda

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

20

15

Elizabeth Bishop

Poet

0% (0 of 2 votes)

2

16

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poet

100% (1 of 1 votes)

17

17

William Blake

Poet

0% (0 of 1 votes)

18

18

Carl Sandburg

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

19

19

Claude McKay

Poet

0% (0 of 0 votes)

3

20

Anne Sexton

Poet

100% (1 of 1 votes)