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Old-poets in English, by popularity

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  1. Tudor, Henry   English. Born: 1491, Died: 1547, 18 poems.
    considered to be a very well educated man, he spoke 4 languages, wrote poetry, and knew a lot about religion studying also latin, maths, music, astronomy and cosmology.
  2. Dickens, Charles   English. Born: 1812, Died: 1870, 10 poems.
  3. Patmore, Coventry   English. Born: 1823, Died: 1896, 68 poems.
    Coventry Patmore's early poems were published by the zeal of his father, and gained prophecies of future greatness from Leigh Hunt and others. In 1853 was published his first mature work, "Tamerton Church Tower and other Poems",
  4. Strong, Patience   English. Born: 1907, Died: 1990 (modern), 24 poems.
  5. Asquith, Herbert Ashley   English. Born: 1881, Died: 1947, 26 poems.
    Herbert Asquith was born in 1881, he was the second son of the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Herbert Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister (1908-1916), and often times people would get them confused with one another.
  6. Nichols, Robert   English. Born: 1893, Died: 1944, 30 poems.
    A wartime author, his publication of "Ardours and Endurances" was his attempt to paint a canvas of the war on an epic scale.  He believed he was born to write poetry and for him that always came first.
  7. Collins, William Taylor   English. Born: 1720, Died: 1756, 18 poems.
  8. Adams, Sarah Flower   English. Born: 1805, Died: 1848, 6 poems.
    Her feminism and professionalism, the nature of her work, and her unconventional lifestyle were all grounded in Unitarianism, the most progressive and liberating ideology of the 19th century.
  9. Grahame, James   English. Born: 1765, Died: 1811, 38 poems.
  10. Watts, Isaac   English. Born: 1674, Died: 1748, 715 poems.
    In 1728, the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Ed­in­burgh awarded Watts a Doc­tor of Di­vin­i­ty de­gree.
  11. Lear, Edward   English. Born: 1812, Died: 1888, 160 poems.
    A nineteenth century English landscape painter who is more widely known as the writer of an original kind of nonsense verse and as the popularizer of the limerick. His true genius is apparent in his nonsense poems, which portray a world of fantastic
  12. Dunbar, William   English. Born: 1460, Died: 1522, 6 poems.
    Seven of his poems were published in 1508 by Walter Chapman, and were distinguished for the profanities he used, he is also believed to be a large part of the reason Scotish parliment being the first country to try to make swearing illegal.
  13. Le Gallienne, Richard   English. Born: 1866, Died: 1947, 278 poems.
  14. Meredith, George   English. Born: 1828, Died: 1909, 244 poems.
    His last collection of poems A Reading of Life, with Other Poems was published in 1901. In 1905 he was awarded the Order of Merit. He died on May 18, 1909.
  15. Thompson, Francis   English. Born: 1859, Died: 1907, 91 poems.
    He was sent to Ushaw College in the hope that he would become a priest, but at the age of eighteen returned home, with a letter from the headmaster
  16. Dyer, Sir Edward   English. Born: 1540, Died: 1607, 12 poems.
    Dyer brought forth possibly the first fine lyrics of the Renaissance in England...[and] amongst the swelling chorus of all Elizabeth's poets, he strikes a rich, lingering minor chord.'
  17. Potter, Beatrix   English. Born: 1866, Died: 1943, 8 poems.
    A popular children's writer, best known for her "Peter Rabbit" collection
  18. Cornford, Frances Darwin   English. Born: 1886, Died: 1960 (modern), 7 poems.
    granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin
  19. Campion, Thomas   English. Born: 1567, Died: 1620, 24 poems.
    Thomas Campion was a physician, a composer, and a poet.
  20. Sackville-West, Victoria   English. Born: 1892, Died: 1962 (modern), 17 poems.
    All Sackville-West's books reveal her wit, her vocation as a poet, and her aristocratic heritage
  21. Aytoun, William Edmondstoune   English. Born: 1813, Died: 1865, 19 poems.
    William Edmondstoune Aytoun is remembered today for his brilliant parody Firmilian; or, The Student of Badajoz. A Spasmodic Tragedy (1854), rather than for his more serious writings. Begun as an attempt to define and demolish the contemporary "Spasmo
  22. Reed, Henry   English. Born: 1914, Died: 1986 (modern), 12 poems.
    He was educated at King Edward Vi Grammar School, Birmingham, where he specialized in classics. Since Greek was not taught, he taught himself, and went on to win the Temperley Latin prize and a scholarship to Birmingham University
  23. Dobson, Henry Austin   English. Born: 1840, Died: 1921, 41 poems.
    English poet, critic and biographer
  24. Coleridge, Hartley   English. Born: 1796, Died: 1849, 16 poems.
  25. West, Arthur Graeme   English. Born: 1891, Died: 1917, 10 poems.
  26. Shirley, James   English. Born: 1596, Died: 1666, 15 poems.
    Called "the last of the Elizabethans" partly because he was actually the last of the dramatists of his age
  27. Kingsley, Charles   English. Born: 1819, Died: 1875, 84 poems.
  28. Williams, Helen Maria   English. Born: 1761, Died: 1827, 63 poems.
    Helen Maria Williams was one of three daughters born to Charles Williams and Helen Hay. Her father Charles was an army officer of Welsh descent while her mother was Scottish. While Williams gave her date of birth as late as 1769, it is probable that
  29. Beddoes, Thomas Lovell   English. Born: 1803, Died: 1849, 32 poems.
    his literary achievement; as far as the latter is concerned, he produced some wonderfully atmospheric "Gothic" poems that are quite a bit better than the usual run of such works one encounters among the creations of lesser-known 19th century authors.
  30. Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah   English. Born: 1808, Died: 1877, 120 poems.
    Norton gained more renown for her eventful life than for her writings. After her husband took her children away from her and accused her of adultry, she fought to change the laws.
  31. Addison, Joseph   English. Born: 1672, Died: 1719, 17 poems.
    In the year of his graduation he published his Account of the Greatest English Poets. Through Dryden, to whom he addressed some complimentary verses, he was introduced to Tonson, who set him to work translating Juvenal, Persius, Virgil, and Heredotus
  32. Empson, Sir William   English. Born: 1906, Died: 1984 (modern), 8 poems.
    As well as his success in the critical field, Empson also wrote poetry and exercised great technical influence over the group of poets known as 'the Movement. His detail to text and form make him a technical poet, able to stand along-side those he wr
  33. Kemble, Frances Anne   English. Born: 1809, Died: 1893, 226 poems.
  34. Flecker, James Elroy   English. Born: 1884, Died: 1919, 55 poems.
    He produced a prolific volume of poetry during his short life including The Bridge of Fire (1907), Forty-Two Poems(1911), The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913), and The Old Ships (1915).
  35. Daniel, Samuel   English. Born: 1562, Died: 1620, 68 poems.
    Daniel received the somewhat vague office of poet-laureate, which he seems, however to have shortly resigned in favour of Ben Jonson
  36. Montgomery, James   English. Born: 1771, Died: 1854, 48 poems.
    James Montgomery was a poet and composer of some 400 hymns, many of which are still widely sung in churches around the world.
  37. Gilbert, Sir William   English. Born: 1836, Died: 1911, 174 poems.
    Except for a kidnapping by Italian brigands in Italy at age two, and a ransomed release, he appears to have had a very normal upbringing
  38. Smith, Charlotte   English. Born: 1749, Died: 1806, 129 poems.
    According to some critics, Charlotte Turner Smith, "was the first poet in England whom in retrospect we would call Romantic"
  39. Sorley, Charles Hamilton   English. Born: 1895, Died: 1915, 12 poems.
    He left only 37 complete poems, including the one he wrote just before he was killed, When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead
  40. Taylor, John   English. Born: 1580, Died: 1654, 3 poems.
    Born in 1580, John Taylor was the self styled 'Water Poet' who wrose writings provide an astute observation of 17th century England.
  41. Baring-Gould, Sabine   English. Born: 1834, Died: 1924, 4 poems.
    Sabine Baring-Gould was a prolific writer. At one point there were more books listed under his name in the British Museum Library than under that of any other English writer.
  42. Browne, William   English. Born: 1591, Died: 1643, 44 poems.
    Best known for being the author of "Pastoral Verse," which inspired both Milton and Keats.
  43. Landor, Walter Savage   English. Born: 1775, Died: 1864, 116 poems.
    A nineteenth century English writer who later moved to Italy. He is best known for his Imaginary Conversations of Literary men and Statesmen (1824-1829) which had the authourities threatening him with expultion from his home in Florence.
  44. Crabbe, George   English. Born: 1754, Died: 1832, 64 poems.
    Crabbe, who, in several works of this period, describes his own feelings and condition, hereupon addressed to “the Authors of the Monthly Review” a letter in verse, in which he practically asks them to advise him whether he should persevere in poetry
  45. Waller, Edmund   English. Born: 1606, Died: 1687, 25 poems.
    His work did influence the literature of the Eighteenth Century, with his most remembered achievement being the perfection of the 'heroic couplet'.
  46. Lamb, Lady Caroline   English. Born: 1785, Died: 1828, 21 poems.
    Lamb is best known for the affair that she had with Lord George Gordon Byron, and has been quoted for referring to him as:

    '... mad bad and dangerous to know.'
  47. Vaux, Lord Thomas   English. Born: 1510, Died: 1556, 3 poems.
    English poet, eldest son of Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux, was born in 1510. In 1527 he accompanied Cardinal Wolsey on bis embassy to France; he attended Henry Viii. to Calais and Boulogne in 1532; in 1531 he took his seat in the House of Lords,
  48. Sitwell, Sir Osbert   English. Born: 1892, Died: 1969 (modern), 9 poems.
    Sitwell was the author of poems, short stories, novels and memoirs.  The majority of his poetry is light and satiric.
  49. Austen, Jane   English. Born: 1775, Died: 1817, 13 poems.
    Jane Austen wrote her Juvenilia from 1787 to 1793; they include many humorous parodies of the literature of the day, such as Love and Freindship, and are collected in three manuscript volumes.
  50. Baillie, Joanna   English. Born: 1762, Died: 1851, 196 poems.
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