Most Famous British Poets

United Kingdom has produced 252 notable poets throughout history, led by Oscar Wilde. Rankings are drawn from a cross-verified academic dataset of 152,953 people.

Top Ranked

  1. Oscar Wilde — British Poet (1854–1900) , ranked #89
  2. Aldous Huxley — British Poet (1894–1963) , ranked #597
  3. John Keats — British Poet (1795–1821) , ranked #605
  4. Percy Bysshe Shelley — British Poet (1792–1822) , ranked #697
  5. William Wordsworth — British Poet (1770–1850) , ranked #1012
  6. Thomas Hardy — British Poet (1840–1928) , ranked #1122
  7. William Morris — British Poet (1834–1896) , ranked #1311
  8. Alfred (Lord Tennyson) — British Poet (1809–1892) , ranked #1466
  9. Samuel Taylor Coleridge — British Poet (1772–1834) , ranked #1526
  10. Walter Raleigh — British Poet (1554–1618) , ranked #2196
  11. Alexander Pope — British Poet (1688–1744) , ranked #3006
  12. Robert Graves — British Poet (1895–1985) , ranked #3841
  13. Derek Walcott — British Poet (1930–2017) , ranked #3917
  14. Edmund Spenser — British Poet (1552–1599) , ranked #4551
  15. Matthew Arnold — British Poet (1822–1888) , ranked #5595
  16. Siegfried Sassoon — British Poet (1886–1967) , ranked #6304
  17. Sarojini Naidu — British Poet (1879–1949) , ranked #6419
  18. Ted Hughes — British Poet (1930–1998) , ranked #7025
  19. Vita Sackville-West — British Poet (1892–1998) , ranked #7236
  20. Bernie Taupin — British Poet (Born 1950) , ranked #7431