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This is a list of English-language poets, who have written much of their poetry in English. [1] Main country of residence as a poet (not place of birth): A = Australia, Ag = Antigua, B = Barbados, Bo = Bosnia, C = Canada, Ch = Chile, Cu = Cuba, D = Dominica, De = Denmark, E = England, F = France, G = Germany, Ga = Gambia, Gd = Grenada, Gh = Ghana/Gold Coast, Gr = Greece, Gu = Guyana/British ...
List of Brontë poems; List of poems by Ivan Bunin; List of poems by Catullus; List of Emily Dickinson poems; List of poems by Robert Frost; List of poems by John Keats; List of poems by Philip Larkin; List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; List of poems by Walt Whitman; List of poems by William Wordsworth; List of works by Andrew Marvell
Emma Roberts (1794–1840), English travel writer and poet; Michael Roberts (1902–1948), English poet, writer and editor; Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935), US poet; Mary Robinson (1757–1800), English poet and novelist; Peter Robinson (born 1953), English poet; Roland Robinson (1912–1992), Australian poet and writer
The Martian poets were English poets of the 1970s and early 1980s, including Craig Raine and Christopher Reid. Through the heavy use of curious, exotic, and humorous metaphors, Martian poetry aimed to break the grip of "the familiar" in English poetry, by describing ordinary things as if through the eyes of a Martian.
The poem Beowulf, which often begins the traditional canon of English literature, is the most famous work of Old English literature. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has also proven significant for historical study, preserving a chronology of early English history.
This is a subsidiary to the List of English people. There are or should be similar lists of Irish, Scots, Welsh, Manx, Jersey, and Guernsey writers. This list is split into four pages due to its size: List of English writers (A–C) List of English writers (D–J) List of English writers (K–Q) List of English writers (R–Z)
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
The six best-known English male authors are, [citation needed] in order of birth and with an example of their work: William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; William Wordsworth – The Prelude; Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; George Gordon, Lord Byron – Don Juan, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"