English poets

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#	Topic	Description	Page Views
1.	Russell Brand	English, Comic	165,523
2.	Pete Doherty	English singer and songwriter	40,151
3.	William Shakespeare	English poet and playwright	5,781
4.	Lewis Carroll	Author, mathematician, and clergyman	4,709
5.	T.S. Eliot	Poet, dramatist, literary critic	3,956
6.	Bernie Taupin	British songwriter	3,872
7.	Ted Hughes	Poet	3,748
8.	Aldous Huxley	Writer; author	1,869
9.	George Barker	American politician	1,701
10.	Thomas Hardy	British, Writer	1,229
11.	Beatrice Hastings	English, Journalist	1,200
12.	Anne Clark	British, Singer	1,181
13.	Heathcote Williams	British actor and writer	1,150
14.	Benjamin Zephaniah	British poet	969
15.	Lord Douglas	British poet, translator and prose writer	773
16.	Mina Loy	British, Artist	762
17.	Craig Charles	British, Actor	656
18.	W.H. Auden	20th century Anglo-American poet	612
19.	A.A. Milne	Novelist, playwright, poet	600
20.	Vita Sackville-West	British writer and gardener	585
21.	George Orwell	British author and journalist, promoter of democratic socialism and critic of totalitarianism	531
22.	Emily Brontë	English novelist and poetess	494
23.	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	English poet, author	493
24.	Michael Morpurgo	British children's writer	400
25.	Thomas Ford	American, Actor	343
26.	Iris Murdoch	English, Writer	307
27.	Olive Custance	British, Activist	304
28.	Rudyard Kipling	British novelist and poet	267
29.	Anno Birkin	English, Musician	181
30.	Anthony Burgess	Novelist, critic, composer, librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist, educationalist	165
31.	G.K. Chesterton	English writer	155
32.	Steve Kilbey	British artist	154
33.	John Fletcher	British, Religion	140
34.	Christina Rossetti	Poet	139
35.	Alfred Lord Tennyson	English poet, Poet Laureate of the UK	105
36.	Berlie Doherty	English children's writer	105
37.	A.E. Housman	British, Writer	82
38.	Kingsley Amis	English novelist, poet, critic, teacher	79
39.	Doris Lessing	British writer	78
40.	Stella Gibbons		73
41.	Thom Gunn	English poet	66
42.	Alan Sillitoe	BRitish writer	56
43.	Charlotte Brontë	English novelist, poet and governess	54
44.	Jonathan Swift	Anglo-Irish writer	54
45.	Nicholas Blake	Writer	49
46.	Frieda Hughes	British artist	48
47.	Dante Gabriel Rossetti	Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet	48
48.	Anne Brontë	English novelist and poet	43
49.	Robert Graves	English novelist, poet	43
50.	Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne	English, Poet	41
51.	Eva Dobell		41
52.	William Arthur Dunkerley	English journalist, Novelist, Poet	39
53.	John Donne	British, Poet	39
54.	Thomas Scott	Ohio Jurist and Methodist Minister	39
55.	Lawrence Durrell	Biographer; poet; playwright; novelist	37
56.	George Chapman	Professional footballer	36
57.	Henry Treece	English writer	36
58.	Kevin Crossley-Holland		36
59.	William Blake	Poet, Painter, Printmaker	35
60.	John Collier		34
61.	Amy Levy		33
62.	Thomas Edwards	Welsh, Writer	33
63.	Thomas Miller (poet)		32
64.	John Gay	English Poet	31
65.	Alexander Pope	English poet	31
66.	John Rowles		28
67.	Edward Perronet		28
68.	Lord Byron	English poet and politician	27
69.	John Cooper Clarke	English performance poet	26
70.	A C Benson		26
71.	Geoffrey Chaucer	British, Poet	26
72.	Alice Oswald		25
73.	Al Alvarez		25
74.	Labi Siffre	British musician	25
75.	Alfred Hayes		24
76.	Radclyffe Hall	Poet and author	24
77.	Iris Tree	Artists' model, poet	24
78.	Phanuel Bacon		24
79.	Edmund Cooper	American politician	24
80.	Richard Francis Burton	English explorer, translator, orientalist	23
81.	Nicholas Moore	Poet	23
82.	Arthur Waley	British academic	23
83.	Eleanor Farjeon	Writer	23
84.	Gez Walsh		23
85.	Mervyn Peake		23
86.	John Betjeman	Poet	22
87.	Jane Taylor (poet)	English poet	22
88.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	English poet	22
89.	William Morris	English artist, writer, socialist, publisher	22
90.	Walter de La Mare		22
91.	Barry Pain		22
92.	Billy Childish		22
93.	Edward de Vere		22
94.	William S. Gilbert	playwright, poet	22
95.	Christopher Marlowe	English playwright and poet	21
96.	Jessie Pope		21
97.	Andrew Marvell		21
98.	Iris	Irish, Philosopher	21
99.	Victor Benjamin Neuburg		21
100.	Matthew Arnold		21