| 100% | LARKIN | 6 | Philip —, poet whose volumes include The Less Deceived and The North Ship |
| 52% | CLARE | 5 | John —, English poet whose volumes include The Rural Muse and The Village Minstrel |
| 51% | JARRELL | 7 | Randall —, US poet whose volumes include The Lost World and Losses |
| 50% | PLATH | 5 | Sylvia —, US poet whose volumes include The Colossus and Ariel |
| 49% | STEVENS | 7 | Wallace —, US poet whose volumes include The Auroras of Autumn and Harmonium |
| 49% | MITCHELL | 8 | Adrian —, poet whose volumes include All Shook Up and Heart on the Left |
| 48% | TONYHARRISON | 12 | English poet whose volumes include V and The Loiners |
| 48% | TONY | 4 | & 13D English poet whose volumes include V and The Loiners |
| 47% | MCGOUGH | 7 | Roger —, poet whose volumes include Sky in the Pie and That Awkward Age |
| 46% | LOWELL | 6 | Robert —, US poet whose volumes include For the Union Dead and Lord Weary's Castle |
| 42% | GINSBERG | 8 | Allen —, US poet whose volumes include 1956's Howl and Other Poems |
| 42% | CUMMINGS | 8 | E E —, US poet whose volumes include 1923's Tulips and Chimneys |
| 40% | CUTLER | 6 | Ivor —, Scottish poet whose volumes include Private Habits and Fresh Carpet |
| 40% | DONNE | 5 | John —, English poet whose works include The Storm and The Calm |
| 39% | COPE | 4 | Wendy —, poet whose volumes include If I Don't Know and Serious Concerns |
| 39% | SHELLEY | 7 | Percy Bysshe —, poet whose works include The Masque of Anarchy and Queen Mab |
| 39% | AYRES | 5 | Pam —, poet whose volumes include Thoughts of a Late-Night Knitter and Surgically Enhanced |
| 39% | FERLINGHETTI | 12 | Lawrence —, US poet whose volumes include 1958’s A Coney Island of the Mind |
| 39% | HORACE | 6 | Roman poet and satirist whose works include the Ars Poetica |
| 38% | COHEN | 5 | Leonard —, late poet and songwriter whose novels include The Favourite Game |
| 37% | POE | 3 | Poet whose works include "Annabel Lee" and "The Bells" |
| 37% | ROSSETTI | 8 | Christina —, 19th-century English poet whose works include Remember and The Lambs of Grasmere |
| 36% | DAVENANT | 8 | William —, poet and playwright whose stage works include The Platonick Lovers |
| 36% | HARTE | 5 | Bret —, US writer whose volumes include 1870's The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches |
| 36% | COHEN | 5 | Leonard —, poet and songwriter whose novels include 1963's The Favourite Game |
| 36% | EDWARD | 6 | & 9D US writer and artist whose works include 1963 volume The Gashlycrumb Tinies |
| 35% | THOMASDEKKER | 12 | English poet and dramatist whose works include the plays Match Me in London and The Shoemaker's Holiday |