1-10．Anonymous．ⅩⅢ-ⅩⅣ Century 1
11．Robert Mannyng of Brunne．b．1288,d．1338 13
12．William Langland．b．?1332,d．?1400 13
13．John Barbour．b．?1316,d．1395 14
14-16．Geoffrey Chaucer．b．?1340,d．1400 15
17．Thoma Hoccleve．b．?1368/9,d．?1450 18
18．John Lydgate．b．?1370,d．?1450 19
19．King James I of Scotland．b．1394,d．1437 19
20．Robert Henryson．b．1425,d．1500 20
21-24．William Dunbar．b．1465,d．?1520 25
25-36．Anonymous．ⅩⅤ-ⅩⅥ Century 34
37-39．John Skelton．b．?1460,d．1529 61
40-41．Stephen Hawes．d．1523 64
42-46．Sir Thomas Wyatt．b．1503,d．1542 64
47-49．Henry Howard,Earl of Surrey．b．1516,d．1547 70
50．Nicholas Grimald．b．1519,d．1562 73
51-52．Alexander Scott．b．?1525,d．?1584 73
53．Robert Wever．c．1550 76
54．Richard Edwardes．b．1523,d．1566 76
55．George Gascoigne．b．?1525,d．1577 78
56．Alexander Montgomerie．b．?1540,d．?1610 80
57．William Stevenson．b．?1530,d．1575 82
58-81．Anonymous．ⅩⅥ-ⅩⅦ Century 83
82-83．Nicholas Breton．b．1542,d．1626 106
84-87．Sir Walter Raleigh．b．1552,d．1618 109
88-94．Edmund Spenser．b．1552,d．1599 111
95-96．John Lyly．b．1553,d．1606 137
97．Anthony Munday．b．1553,d．1633 138
98-105．Sir Philip Sidney．b．1554,d．1586 139
106．Fulke Greville,Lord Brooke．b．1554,d．1628 145
107-110．Thomas Lodge．b．?1556,d．1625 146
111-113．George Peele．b．?1558,d．1597 150
114-116．Robert Greene．b．1560,d．1592 152
117．George Chapman．b．1560,d．1634 155
118-119．Robert Southwell．b．?1561,d．1595 155
120．Henry Constable．b．?1562,d．?1613 158
121-123．Samuel Daniel．b．1562,d．1619 158
124．Mark Alexander Boyd．b．1563,d．1601 165
125．Joshua Sylvester．b．1561,d．1618 166
126-130．Michael Drayton．b．1563,d．1631 166
131-132．Christopher Marlowe．b．1564,d．1593 179
133-174．William Shakespeare．b．1564,d．1616 181
175．Richard Rowlands．b．1565,d．?1630 206
176-177．Thomas Nashe．b．1567,d．1601 207
178-186．Thomas Campion．b．1567,d．1619 209
187．John Reynolds．16th Cent． 215
188-190．Sir Henry Wotton．b．1568,d．1639 216
191．Sir John Davies．b．1569,d．1626 218
192-193．Sir Robert Ayton．b．1570,d．1638 218
194-204．Ben Jonson．b．1573,d．1637 220
205-211．John Donne．b．1573,d．1631 231
212．Richard Barnefield．b．1574,d．1627 238
213．Thomas Dekker．b．1575,d．1641 239
214．Thomas Heywood．b．?1575,d．1650 240
215-224．John Fletcher．b．1579,d．1625 241
225-227．John Webster．b．?1580,d．?1630 247
228．William Alexander,Earl of Stirling．b．?1580,d．1640 248
229．Phineas Fletcher．b．1580,d．1650 249
230．LOrd Herbert of Cherbury．b．1583,d．1648 250
231．Sir John Beaumont．b．1583,d．1627 251
232-240．William Drummond,of Hawthornden,b．1585,d．1649 251
241．Giles Fletcher．b．?1588,d．1623 257
242．Francis Beaumont．b．1586,d．1616 259
243．John Ford．b．1586,d．1639 260
244-247．George Wither．b．1588,d．1667 260
248-254．William Browne,of Tavistock．b．1588,d．1643 267
255-283．Robert Herrick．b．1591,d．1674 271
284-285．Francis Quarles．b．1592,d．1644 293
286-288．Henry King,Bishop of Chichester．b．1592,d．1669 294
289-294．George Herbert．b．1593,d．1632 299
295-296．James Shirley．b．1596,d．1666 303
297-303．Thomas Carew．b．?1595,d．?1639 305
304．Jasper Mayne．b．1604,d．1672 309
305-306．William Habington．b．1605,d．1654 311
307-308．Thomas Randolph．b．1605,d．1635 313
309-311．Sir William Davenant．b．1606,d．1668 316
312-314．Edmund Waller,b．1606,d．1687 318
315-333．John Milton．b．1608,d．1674 320
334-337．Sir John Suckling．b．1609,d．1642 357
338．Sir Richard Fanshawe．b．1608,d．1666 360
339-342．William Cartwright．b．1611,d．1643 361
343．James Graham,Marquis of Montrose．b．1612,d．1650 363
344．Thomas Jordan．b．?1612,d．1685 365
345-351．Richard Crashaw．b．?1613,d．1649 366
352-357．Richard Lovelace．b．1618,d．1658 381
358-362．Abraham Cowley．b．1618,d．1667 385
363．Alexander Brome．b．1620,d．1666 391
364-371．Andrew Marvell．b．1621,d．1678 392
372-377．Henry Vaughan．b．1621,d．1695 406
378．John Bunyan．b．1628,d．1688 414
379-403．Anonymous Ballads and Songs 415
404-405．William Strode．b．1602,d．1645 467
406．Thomas Stanley．b．1625,d．1678 469
407．Thomas D＇Urfey．b．1653,d．1723 470
408．Charles Cotton．b．1630,d．1687 470
409．Katherine Philips (＇Orinda＇)．b．1631,d．1664 471
410．Thomas Traherne．b．?1637,d．1674 472
411-415．John Dryden．b．1631,d．1700 474
416．Charles Webbe．c．1678 483
417．Sir George Etherege．b．1635,d．1691 484
418．Thomas Flatman．b．1637,d．1688 484
419-420．Charles Sackville,Earl of Dorset．b．1638,d．1706 485
421-422．Sir Charles Sedley．b．1639,d．1701 488
423．Aphra Behn．b．1640,d．1689 490
424-427．John Wilmot,Earl of Rochester．b．1647,d．1680 490
428-429．John Sheffield,Duke of Buckinghamshire．b．1648,d．1721 494
430．Thomas Otway．b．1652,d．1685 495
431．John Oldham．b．1653,d．1683 496
432-439．Matthew Prior．b．1664,d．1721 496
440．William Walsh．b．1663,d．1708 506
441．Lady Grisel Baillie．b．1665,d．1746 506
442-443．William Congreve．b．1670,d．1729 508
444．Joseph Addison．b．1672,d．1719 509
445-446．Isaac Watts．b．1674,d．1748 510
447．Thomas Parnell．b．1679,d．1718 513
448．Allan Ramsay．b．1686,d．1758 514
449．William Oldys．b．1687,d．1761 515
450．John Gay．b．1685,d．1732 516
451-453．Alexander Pope．b．1688,d．1744 517
454．Anonymous 521
455-456．Henry Carey．b．?1693,d．1743 521
457．William Broome．b．1689,d．1745 524
458．James Thomson．b．1700,d．1748 524
459．Charles Wesley．b．1707,d．1788 525
460-461．Samuel Johnson．b．1709,d．1784 527
462．Richard Jago．b．1715,d．1781 529
463．Anonymous 530
464．William Shenstone．b．1714,d．1763 530
465-468．Thomas Gray．b．1716,d．1771 531
469-472．William Collins．b．1721,d．1759 543
473-475．Mark Akenside．b．1721,d．1770 548
476．Thomas Osbert Mordaunt．b．1730,d．1809 552
477．John Scott of Amwell．b．1730,d．1783 553
478．Tobias George Smollett．b．1721,d．1771 553
479．Christopher Smart．b．1722,d．1770 554
480．Jane Elliot．b．1727,d．1805 558
481-482．Oliver Goldsmith．b．1728,d．1774 559
483．Robert Cunninghame-Graham of Gartmore．b．1735,d．1797 559
484-485．William Cowper．b．1731,d．1800 561
486．James Beattie．b．1735,d．1803 563
487．Isobel Pagan．b．1740,d．1821 563
488．Anna Laetitia Barbauld．b．1743,d．1825 565
489．Fanny Greville．18th century 566
490．Michael Bruce．b．1740,d．1767 566
491．Lady Anne Lindsay．b．1750,d．1825 567
492．Sir William Jones．b．1746,d．1794 569
493．Thomas Chatterton．b．1752,d．1770 569
494-496．George Crabbe．b．1754,d．1832 571
497-506．William Blake．b．1757,d．1827 573
507-520．Robert Burns．b．1759,d．1796 581
521-522．Henry Rowe．b．1754,d．1819 593
523．William Lisle Bowles．b．1762,d．1850 595
524．Joanna Baillie．b．1762,d．1851 595
525．Mary Lamb．b．1765,d．1847 596
526．Carolina,Lady Nairne．b．1766,d．1845 597
527-528．James Hogg．b．1770,d．1835 598
529-555．William Wordsworth．b．1770,d．1850 611
556-561．Sir Walter Scott．b．1771,d．1832 636
562-568．Samuel Taylor Coleridge．b．1772,d．1834 645
569．Robert Southey．b．1774,d．1843 676
570-584．Walter Savage Landor．b．1775,d．1864 677
585．Joseph Blanco White．b．1775,d．1841 685
586．Samuel Rogers．b．1763,d．1855 686
587-589．Charles Lamb．b．1775,d．1834 686
590-591．Thomas Campbell．b．1774,d．1844 690
592-594．Thomas Moore．b．1779,d．1852 694
595．Edward Thurlow,Lord Thurlow．b．1781,d．1829 696
596．Ebenezer Elliott．b．1781,d．1849 697
597．Allan Cunningham．b．1784,d．1842 698
598-600．Leigh Hunt．b．1784,d．1859 699
601．John Kenyon．b．1784,d．1856 701
602-603．Thomas Love Peacock．b．1785,d．1866 702
604．Bryan Waller Procter．b．1787,d．1874 705
605-608．George Gordon Byron,Lord Byron．b．1788,d．1824 705
609．Sir Aubrey de Vere．b．1788,d．1846 711
610-611．Charles Wolfe．b．1791,d．1823 712
612-625．Percy Bysshe Shelley．b．1792,d．1822 714
626．John Keble．b．1792,d．1866 734
627．John Clare．b．1793,d．1864 735
628．Felicia Dorothea Hemans．b．1793,d．1835 735
629．John Gibson Lockhart．b．1794,d．1854 736
630-644．John Keats．b．1795,d．1821 737
645．William Cullen Bryant．b．1794,d．1878 761
646．Jeremiah Joseph Callanan．b．1795,d．1829 764
647．William Sidney Walker．b．1795,d．1846 764
648-651．George Darley．b．1795,d．1846 765
652-654．Hartley Coleridge．b．1796,d．1849 768
655-662．Thomas Hood．b．1798,d．1845 769
663．Anonymous 780
664．William Thom．b．1798,d．1848 781
665．Sir Henry Taylor．b．1800,d．1886 783
666．Thomas Babington Macaulay,Lord Macaulay．b．1800,d．1859 784
667-669．William Barnes．b．1801,d．1886 784
670．Winthrop Mackworth Praed．b．1802,d．1839 788
671．Gerald Griffin．b．1803,d．1840 791
672-674．James Clarence Mangan．b．1803,d．1849 792
675-676．Thomas Lovell Beddoes．b．1803,d．1849 797
677-680．Ralph Waldo Emerson．b．1803,d．1882 799
681．Richard Henry Horne．b．1803,d．1884 805
682．Charles Whitehead．b．1804,d．1862 806
683．Robert Stephen Hawker．b．1804,d．1875 806
684．Francis Mahony．b．1805,d．1866 807
685-692．Elizabeth Barrett Browning．b．1806,d．1861 810
693．Frederick Tennyson．b．1807,d．1898 816
694-697．Henry Wadsworth Longfellow．b．1807,d．1882 817
698．John Greenleaf Whittier．b．1807,d．1892 822
699．Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton．b．1808,d．1876 823
700．Charles Tennyson Turner．b．1808,d．1879 824
701-703．Edgar Allan Poe．b．1809,d．1849 825
704-705．Edward Fitzgerald．b．1809,d．1883 830
706．Richard Monckton Milnes,Lord Houghton．b．1809,d．1885 834
707-719．Alfred Tennyson,Lord Tennyson．b．1809,d．1892 836
720-721．Sir Samuel Ferguson．b．1810,d．1886 858
722．Sir Francis Hastings Doyle．b．1810,d．1888 860
723-724．William Makepeace Thackeray．b．1811,d．1863 861
725-740．Robert Browning．b．1812,d．1889 865
741．William Bell Scott．b．1812,d．1890 885
742．Aubrey de Vere．b．1814,d．1902 891
743．George Fox．b．1809,d．1880 892
744-747．Emily Bronte．b．1818,d．1848 893
748．Charles Kingsley．b．1819,d．1875 896
749-750．Arthur Hugh Clough．b．1819,d．1861 896
751-752．Walt Whitman．b．1819,d．1892 898
753．John Ruskin．b．1819,d．1900 900
754．Ebenezer Jones．b．1820,d．1860 900
755．Anonymous 901
756-764．Matthew Arnold．b．1822,d．1888 902
765．William Brighty Rands．b．1823,d．1880 930
766．William Philpot．b．1823,d．1889 931
767-768．William (Johnson) Cory．b．1823,d．1892 933
769-773．Coventry Patmore．b．1823,d．1896 934
774-775．Sydney Dobell．b．1824,d．1874 939
776．William Allingham．b．1824,d．1889 942
777．George Macdonald．b．1824,d．1905 944
778．Walter Chalmers Smith．b．1824,d．1908 944
779-782．Dante Gabriel Rossetti．b．1828,d．1882 946
783-787．George Meredith．b．1828,d．1909 953
788．Emily Dickinson．b．1830,d．1886 961
789-796．Christina Georgina Rossetti．b．1830,d．1894 961
797．Jean Ingelow．b．1820,d．1897 969
798-800．Thomas Edward Brown．b．1830,d．1897 969
801．Richard Watson Dixon．b．1833,d．1900 971
802-804．James Thomson．b．1834,d．1882 971
805．George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier．b．1834,d．1896 973
806-809．William Morris．b．1834,d．1896 973
810-811．John Leicester Warren,Lord de Tabley．b．1835,d．1895 977
812-815．Algernon Charles Swinburne．b．1837,d．1909 978
816．Bret Harte．b．1836,d．1902 990
817．William Dean Howells．b．1837,d．1920 991
818-822．Thomas Hardy．b．1840,d．1928 991
823-826．Wilfrid Scawen Blunt．b．1840,d．1922 997
827-830．Henry Austin Dobson．b．1840,d．1921 1004
831．Henry Clarence Kendall．b．1841,d．1882 1006
832-833．Arthur William Edgar O＇Shaughnessy．b．1844,d．1881 1008
834-837．Gerard Manley Hopkins．b．1844,d．1889 1010
838．John Boyle O＇Reilly．b．1844,d．1890 1013
839．Andrew Lang．b．1844,d．1912 1014
840-849．Robert Bridges．b．1844,d．1930 1014
850-851．Alice Meynell．b．1847,d．1922 1025
852．Hon．Emily Lawless．b．1845,d．1913 1026
853-855．William Ernest Henley．b．1849,d．1903 1027
856．Sir Edmund Gosse．b．1849,d．1928 1030
857．Selwyn Image．b．1849,d．1930 1032
858-862．Robert Louis Stevenson．b．1850,d．1894 1033
863．Francis William Bourdillon．b．1852,d．1921 1036
864．Dora Sigerson．b．1866,d．1918 1036
865．Margaret L．Woods．b．1856,d．1945 1037
866．Thomas William Rolleston．b．1857,d．1920 1038
867．Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux．b．1856,d．1944 1039
868-869．John Davidson．b．1857,d．1909 1040
870-871．Sir William Watson．b．1858,d．1935 1044
872-873．Francis Thompson．b．1859,d．1907 1046
874．Ernest Rhys．b．1859,d．1946 1050
875-876．Henry Charles Beeching．b．1859,d．1919 1050
877-879．Alfred Edward Housman．b．1859,d．1936 1052
880．Bliss Carman．b．1861,d．1929 1054
881．Douglas Hyde．b．1860,d．1949 1058
882-886．Mary Elizabeth Coleridge．b．1861,d．1907 1059
887．May Probyn 1062
888．Sir Gilbert Parker．b．1862,d．1932 1063
889．Henry Cust．b．1861,d．1917 1063
890-891．Sir Henry Newbolt．b．1862,d．1938 1064
892．Eden Phillpotts．b．1862 1067
893．Katharine Tynan Hinkson．b．1861,d．1931 1068
894．Arthur Christopher Benson．b．1862,d．1925 1069
895．Norman Gale．b．1862,d．1942 1069
896．Frances Bannerman 1070
897．Stephen Phillips．b．1864,d．1915 1071
898-900．Rudyard Kipling．b．1865,d．1936 1071
901-905．William Butler Yeats．b．1865,d．1939 1077
906-907．Herbert Trench．b．1865,d．1923 1079
908．Richard Le Gallienne．b．1866,d．1947 1080
909．Lionel Johnson．b．1867,d．1902 1081
910-912．George William Russell (＇AE＇)．b．1867,d．1935 1083
913-914．Ernest Dowson．b．1867,d．1900 1086
915-918．Laurence Binyon．b．1869,d．1943 1087
919-921．Lord Alfred Douglas．b．1870,d．1945 1091
922-923．Thomas Sturge Moore．b．1870,d．1944 1093
924-925．Hilaire Belloc．b．1870,d．1953 1099
926-928．William Henry Davies．b．1871,d．1940 1100
929．John Swinnerton Phillimore．b．1873,d．1926 1102
930-931．Gilbert Keith Chesterton．b．1872,d．1936 1104
932．Ralph Hodgson．b．1871,d．1962 1106
933-935．Walter De La Mare．b．1873,d．1956 1106
936．Gordon Bottomley．b．1874,d．1948 1109
937．John Alexander Chapman．b．1875 1110
938-940．John Masefield．b．1878,d．1967 1111
941-942．Oliver St．John Gogarty．b．1878,d．1957 1116
943．Wilfrid Thorley．b．1878,d．1963 1118
944-945．Edward Thomas．b．1878,d．1917 1119
946．Alfred Noyes．b．1880,d．1958 1120
947-948．Herbert EDward Palmer．b．1880,d．1961 1122
949．Lascelles Abercrombie．b．1881,d．1938 1124
950．Padraci Colum．b．1881 1126
951．James Joyce．b．1882,d．1941 1127
952-953．James Stephens．b．1882,d．1950 1127
954-955．James Elroy Flecker．b．1884,d．1915 1129
956-957．Charles Williams．b．1886,d．1945 1130
958-959．Siegfried Sassoon．b．1886,d．1967 1133
960-961．Rupert Brooke．b．1887,d．1915 1134
962．Julian Grenfell．b．1888,d．1915 1135
963．Wilfrid Owen．b．1893,d．1918 1137
964．Charles Hamilton Sorley．b．1895,d．1915 1137
965-6．Edmund Blunden b．1896 1138
967．Richard Doddridge Blackmore．b．1825,d．1900 1141