| 100% | OMAR | 4 | Poet who wrote of "Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp" |
| 45% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet who wrote, “Poetry makes nothing happen” in his poem about a poet, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” |
| 44% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote of Beatrice |
| 44% | OVID | 4 | Poet who wrote of Daedalus |
| 43% | ALLENGINSBERG | 13 | Poet who wrote “Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy!” in a “Footnote” to one of his poems |
| 43% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote of Beatrice in "Divine Comedy" |
| 42% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote of the nine circles of hell |
| 41% | FRANZKAFKA | 10 | German-language novelist who wrote "The Metamorphosis," most of whose work got published after his death: 2 wds. |
| 41% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "So Thomas Edison / Never drank his medicine" |
| 40% | OSCARWILDE | 10 | Irish poet and playwright who wrote only one novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" in his lifetime: 2 wds. |
| 40% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote "Divine Comedy" (anagram of "anted") |
| 40% | IRA | 3 | Gershwin who wrote over 10 Broadway musicals with his brother George |
| 40% | DONNE | 5 | Poet who wrote "To His Mistress Going to Bed" |
| 40% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity" |
| 40% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| 40% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| 40% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| 39% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" |
| 39% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| 39% | YEATS | 5 | Irish poet who wrote "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" |
| 39% | LUCRETIUS | 9 | Epicurean poet who wrote On the Nature of Things |
| 39% | DANTE | 5 | Italian poet who wrote "Divine Comedy" (anagram of "anted") |
| 38% | KEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" |
| 38% | DANTE | 5 | Italian poet who wrote "Nature is the art of God" |
| 38% | ANGELOU | 7 | Poet who wrote "You may shoot me with your words, / You may cut me with your eyes" |
| 38% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote "We loved with a love that was more than love" |
| 38% | DARWISH | 7 | Poet Mahmoud who wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence |
| 37% | LUDWIGVAN | 9 | With 49-Across, classical composer who wrote many works after becoming deaf: 2 wds. |
| 37% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" |
| 37% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote "Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass on" |