| 100% | MILTON | 6 | John ___, English poet who wrote the epic poem "Paradise Lost" |
| 56% | MILTON | 6 | John —, author of the epic poem Paradise Lost |
| 54% | CHAUCER | 7 | English poet who wrote The Canterbury Tales |
| 50% | ALEXANDERPOPE | 13 | English poet who wrote "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" |
| 49% | ALFREDNOYES | 11 | English poet who wrote "The Highwayman" |
| 46% | CIARDI | 6 | John who wrote the textbook "How Does a Poem Mean?" |
| 45% | WILLIAMBUTLER | 13 | ___ Yeats, Irish poet who wrote the poem "The Second Coming" and helped found the Abbey Theatre: 2 wds. |
| 45% | PATMORE | 7 | English poet Coventry ___, who wrote "The Angel in the House" |
| 45% | EMMALAZARUS | 11 | Female US poet who wrote "The New Colossus" (the poem on the Statue of Liberty): 2 wds. |
| 44% | TENNYSON | 8 | English poet Alfred who wrote The Lady of Shalott |
| 44% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 43% | ROWE | 4 | English poet who wrote "Lady Jane Grey" |
| 43% | TATE | 4 | Poet who wrote the novel "The Fathers" |
| 42% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote the "Metamorphoses" |
| 42% | RUMI | 4 | Persian poet who wrote the “Masnavi” |
| 42% | HOUSMAN | 7 | English poet who wrote A Shropshire Lad: A.E. __ |
| 42% | LORDBYRON | 9 | English poet who wrote Don Juan and Irish Avatar |
| 42% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" |
| 42% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| 42% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| 42% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore'" |
| 42% | ARNOLD | 6 | Matthew ___, English poet who wrote "Dover Beach" |
| 42% | DANTE | 5 | Italian poet who wrote The Divine Comedy |
| 42% | RUMI | 4 | 13th-century poet who wrote the "Masnavi" |
| 42% | RUMI | 4 | Persian poet who wrote the "Spiritual Couplets" |
| 41% | MAYAANGELOU | 11 | Poet who wrote the memoir "Mom & Me & Mom" (2 wds.) |
| 41% | TSELIOT | 7 | American-British poet who wrote The Waste Land |
| 41% | TSELIOT | 7 | British American poet who wrote The Waste Land |
| 41% | ADRIENNERICH | 12 | Poet and feminist who wrote “The moment of change is the only poem” |
| 41% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the opening line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |