| Rank | | Famous Poet |
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1
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Angelou
,
Maya
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2
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Dickinson
,
Emily
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3
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Silverstein
,
Shel
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4
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Jonson
,
Ben
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5
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Poe
,
Edgar Allan
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6
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Abercrombie
,
Lascelles
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7
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Frost
,
Robert
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8
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Adams
,
Sarah Fuller Flower
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9
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Shakespeare
,
William
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10
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Neruda
,
Pablo
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11
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Cummings
,
Edward Estlin (E E)
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12
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Agustini
,
Delmira
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13
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Hughes
,
Langston
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14
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Austen
,
Jane
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15
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Whitman
,
Walt
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16
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Akhmatova
,
Anna
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17
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Burns
,
Robert
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18
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Alger
,
Julie Hill
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19
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Hardy
,
Thomas
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20
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Kipling
,
Rudyard
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21
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Wilde
,
Oscar
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22
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Keats
,
John
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23
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Browning
,
Elizabeth Barrett
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24
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Collins
,
Billy
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25
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Blake
,
William
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26
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Plath
,
Sylvia
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27
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Longfellow
,
Henry Wadsworth
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28
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Soto
,
Gary
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29
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Wordsworth
,
William
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30
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Duffy
,
Carol Ann
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31
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Wheatley
,
Phillis
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32
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Cisneros
,
Sandra
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33
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Tagore
,
Rabindranath
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34
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Arnold
,
Matthew
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35
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Twain
,
Mark
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36
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Alcott
,
Louisa May
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37
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Emerson
,
Ralph Waldo
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38
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Teasdale
,
Sara
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39
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Aiken
,
Conrad
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40
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Donne
,
John
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41
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Yeats
,
William Butler
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42
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Raleigh
,
Sir Walter
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43
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Byron
,
George (Lord)
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44
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Homer
,
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45
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Carroll
,
Lewis
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46
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Tennyson
,
Alfred Lord
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47
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Alighieri
,
Dante
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48
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Walker
,
Alice
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49
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Auden
,
Wystan Hugh (W H)
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50
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Sappho
,
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