4 Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926
6 William Stanley Braithwaite 1878-1962
- Joyce Kilmer 1886
- Osbert Sitwell 1892
- Ira Gershwin 1896
7 Yosano Akiko 1878
Pearl Cleague 1948 AKA Pearl Cleague Lomax
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- Bjornstjerne Bjornson 1832 – 1910
- Padraic Colum 1881
- Delmore Schwartz 1913 – 1966
9 John Milton 1608
- Samuel W. Allen 1917
- Sara E. Wright 1928
10 Emily Dickinson 1830-1886
- Nelly Sachs
- Carolyn Kizer 1925 Cool, Calm & Collected: Poems 1960-2000, 2001 Copper Canyon Press
11 Kemal Bey 1840
- Grace Paley 1922 – 2007 Begin Again: Collected Poems, 2001 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Jerome Rothenberg 1931
- Jim Harrison 1937
13 Heinrich Heine 1797-1856
- Kenneth Patchen 1911
- James Wright 1927- 1980 Above the River, 1992 Farrar, Straus and Giroux
14 Carolyn M. Rodgers 1945
15 Muriel Rukeyser 1913
16 George Santayana 1863
17 John Greenleaf Whittier 1807
19 Su Tung Po 1036
21 Gustave Kahn 1859
22 Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869-1935
- Charles Stuart Calverly 1831-1884
- Kenneth Rexroth 1905 – 1982
23 Martin Opitz 1597
- Harriet Monroe 1860 – 1936
- Robert Bly 1926
- Patricia McNair * Taking Notice, 2007 Mayapple Press
24 George Crabbe 1754-1832
- Matthew Arnold 1822-1888
- Juan Ramon Jimenez 1881-1958
25 William Collins 1721-1759
26 Thomas Gray 1716-1771
Jean Toomer 1894-1967
30 Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936
31 Frank Marshall Davis 1905-1987
Clarence Major 1936