| 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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51
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Aldington,
Richard
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52
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Brooks,
Gwendolyn
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53
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Giovanni,
Nikki
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54
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Amichai,
Yehuda
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55
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Clifton,
Lucille
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56
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Stevens,
Wallace
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57
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Paz,
Octavio
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58
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Ginsberg,
Allen
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59
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Shelley,
Percy Bysshe
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60
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Ashbery,
John
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61
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Whittier,
John Greenleaf
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62
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Apollinaire,
Guillaume
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63
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Holmes,
Oliver Wendell
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64
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Ammons,
A R
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65
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Browning,
Robert
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66
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Swift,
Jonathan
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67
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Herrick,
Robert
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68
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Rumi,
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad
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69
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Zaran,
Lisa
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70
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Amis,
Kingsley
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71
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Thoreau,
Henry David
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72
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Williams,
William Carlos (WCW)
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73
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Lewis,
C S
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74
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Noonuccal,
Oodgeroo
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75
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Vallejo,
Cesar
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76
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Wyatt,
Sir Thomas
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77
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Austin,
Alfred
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78
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Sandburg,
Carl
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79
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Douglas,
Keith
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80
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Allingham,
William
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81
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Bronte,
Anne
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82
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Stevenson,
Robert Louis
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83
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Viorst,
Judith
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84
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Wright,
James
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85
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Bai ,
Li
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86
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Warren,
Mercy Otis
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87
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Fu,
Du
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88
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Prelutsky,
Jack
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89
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Pushkin,
Alexander
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90
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Arp,
Jean
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91
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Basho,
Matsuo
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92
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Chaucer,
Geoffrey
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93
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Wei,
Wang
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94
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Bishop ,
Elizabeth
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95
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Thomas,
Dylan
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96
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de la Mare,
Walter
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97
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Wilmot,
John
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98
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Cavafy,
Constantine P
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99
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Baraka,
Imamu Amiri
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100
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Borges,
Jorge Luis
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