In chronological order, Chaucer (the father of English poetry), Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Pope, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Tennyson, Browning, Hardy, Owen, Sassoon, Auden, Larkin.

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. [1] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard").

In English literature, the key figures of the Romantic Movement are considered to be the group of poets which is known as “Big Six”. In this group the poets are William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Blake.

Poets include: Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak, D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin Young.