| 100% | DANTEALIGHIERI | 14 | Poet who defended writing in the vernacular in "De Vulgari Eloquentia" |
| 43% | BYRON | 5 | Poet who wrote "She walks in beauty, like the night" |
| 43% | POPE | 4 | Poet who wrote "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" |
| 42% | MCKUEN | 6 | Poet/lyricist who wrote the 1974 #1 hit "Seasons in the Sun" |
| 42% | PATMORE | 7 | English poet Coventry ___, who wrote "The Angel in the House" |
| 42% | OGDEN | 5 | Poet Nash, who wrote the lines in 17-, 24-, 47- and 58-Across |
| 42% | ALEXANDERPOPE | 13 | English poet who wrote "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" |
| 41% | HORACE | 6 | Roman poet who wrote "Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!" |
| 39% | ABE | 3 | Supreme Court Justice Fortas, who wrote the majority opinion in Tinker v. Des Moines |
| 39% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "In the Vanities / No one wears panities" |
| 39% | JOANOFARC | 9 | Woman who defended France in the 1400s: 3 wds. |
| 39% | JOHNMILTON | 10 | Blind poet who often wrote in an ancient language |
| 38% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "April is the cruellest month" |
| 37% | THOMAS | 6 | Poet who wrote "A Child's Christmas in Wales" |
| 37% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity" |
| 37% | TATE | 4 | Poet who wrote the novel "The Fathers" |
| 37% | GAELS | 5 | Ones who wrote in the Ogham alphabet |
| 37% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 37% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" |
| 36% | VERNE | 5 | Jules who wrote "Around the World in 80 Days" |
| 36% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" |
| 36% | DANTE | 5 | Italian poet who wrote "Nature is the art of God" |
| 36% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote of Beatrice in "Divine Comedy" |
| 36% | SHEL | 4 | Poet Silverstein who wrote "Where the Sidewalk Ends" |
| 36% | LIPO | 4 | Poet written about in the Books of Tang |
| 36% | HORACE | 6 | Poet who originated the phrase "harmony in discord" |
| 36% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote the "Metamorphoses" |
| 36% | RUMI | 4 | Persian poet who wrote the “Masnavi” |
| 35% | BRETON | 6 | Andre —, French poet who published the first Surrealist manifesto in 1924 |