| 100% | CUMMINGS | 8 | E E —, US poet whose volumes include 1923's Tulips and Chimneys |
| 64% | FROST | 5 | Robert —, US poet whose volumes include 1923's New Hampshire |
| 63% | GINSBERG | 8 | Allen —, US poet whose volumes include 1956's Howl and Other Poems |
| 59% | LOWELL | 6 | Robert —, US poet whose volumes include For the Union Dead and Lord Weary's Castle |
| 59% | JARRELL | 7 | Randall —, US poet whose volumes include The Lost World and Losses |
| 57% | PLATH | 5 | Sylvia —, US poet whose volumes include The Colossus and Ariel |
| 56% | STEVENS | 7 | Wallace —, US poet whose volumes include The Auroras of Autumn and Harmonium |
| 52% | FERLINGHETTI | 12 | Lawrence —, US poet whose volumes include 1958’s A Coney Island of the Mind |
| 49% | HARTE | 5 | Bret —, US writer whose volumes include 1870's The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches |
| 48% | WHITMAN | 7 | Walt —, 19th-century US poet whose volumes include Leaves of Grass |
| 48% | LARKIN | 6 | Philip —, poet whose volumes include The Less Deceived and The North Ship |
| 47% | MITCHELL | 8 | Adrian —, poet whose volumes include All Shook Up and Heart on the Left |
| 47% | CLARE | 5 | John —, English poet whose volumes include The Rural Muse and The Village Minstrel |
| 47% | TONYHARRISON | 12 | English poet whose volumes include V and The Loiners |
| 47% | OROURKE | 7 | P J —, US satirist whose volumes include Holidays in Hell and Holidays in Heck |
| 46% | TONY | 4 | & 13D English poet whose volumes include V and The Loiners |
| 46% | CUTLER | 6 | Ivor —, Scottish poet whose volumes include Private Habits and Fresh Carpet |
| 45% | RILKE | 5 | Rainer Maria —, Prague-born poet whose works include 1923 volume Duino Elegies |
| 45% | COPE | 4 | Wendy —, poet whose volumes include If I Don't Know and Serious Concerns |
| 45% | MCGOUGH | 7 | Roger —, poet whose volumes include Sky in the Pie and That Awkward Age |
| 45% | OGDENNASH | 9 | US humourist whose volumes include 1931's Hard Lines |
| 45% | OGDENNASH | 9 | US humorist whose volumes include 1931's Hard Lines |
| 44% | AYRES | 5 | Pam —, poet whose volumes include Thoughts of a Late-Night Knitter and Surgically Enhanced |
| 43% | BYRON | 5 | George Gordon —, poet whose works include When We Two Parted and Beppo |
| 43% | NASH | 4 | Ogden —, US humorist whose volumes include 1931's Hard Lines |