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.
Category All
Citizenship All
OW
Oscar Wilde British Poet 1854 – 1900
#
89
AH
Aldous Huxley British Poet 1894 – 1963
#
597
JK
John Keats British Poet 1795 – 1821
#
605
PB
Percy Bysshe Shelley British Poet 1792 – 1822
#
697
WW
William Wordsworth British Poet 1770 – 1850
#
1,012
TH
Thomas Hardy British Poet 1840 – 1928
#
1,122
WM
William Morris British Poet 1834 – 1896
#
1,311
A(
Alfred (Lord Tennyson) British Poet 1809 – 1892
#
1,466
ST
Samuel Taylor Coleridge British Poet 1772 – 1834
#
1,526
WR
Walter Raleigh British Poet 1554 – 1618
#
2,196
AP
Alexander Pope British Poet 1688 – 1744
#
3,006
RG
Robert Graves British Poet 1895 – 1985
#
3,841
DW
Derek Walcott British Poet 1930 – 2017
#
3,917
ES
Edmund Spenser British Poet 1552 – 1599
#
4,551
MA
Matthew Arnold British Poet 1822 – 1888
#
5,595
SS
Siegfried Sassoon British Poet 1886 – 1967
#
6,304
SN
Sarojini Naidu British Poet 1879 – 1949
#
6,419
TH
Ted Hughes British Poet 1930 – 1998
#
7,025
VS
Vita Sackville-West British Poet 1892 – 1998
#
7,236
BT
Bernie Taupin British Poet Born 1950
#
7,431