| 100% | YEATS | 5 | Poet whose work inspired the title of Achebe's Things Fall Apart |
| 43% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet T. S. whose work inspired the musical Cats |
| 40% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet T.S. whose work inspired the musical "Cats" |
| 39% | PHILIPSIDNEY | 12 | 16th-century English poet whose works include prose work The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia |
| 38% | MARC | 4 | Chagall whose work inspired the original production of Fiddler on the Roof |
| 38% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet T.S. ___, whose work inspired the musical "Cats" |
| 38% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet T.S. ___, whose work inspired the musical 5-Across |
| 37% | EYSENCK | 7 | Hans —, psychologist whose works include 1985's Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire |
| 36% | EYSENCK | 7 | Hans —, Berlin-born British psychologist whose works include 1985's Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire |
| 36% | HISTORIAN | 9 | Scholar whose work is a thing of the past? |
| 36% | ROSSETTI | 8 | Christina —, 19th-century English poet whose works include Remember and The Lambs of Grasmere |
| 35% | ANHEIRANDASPARE | 15 | Phrase that inspired the title of Prince Harry's memoir |
| 35% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet whose work inspired "Cats" |
| 35% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet whose work inspired "Cats" |
| 35% | ESCHER | 6 | Artist M.C. whose work inspired the art of the game Monument Valley |
| 34% | RUMI | 4 | Poet whose work was set to music by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson in the chamber opera “Monsters of Grace” |
| 33% | SHELLEY | 7 | Percy Bysshe —, poet whose works include The Masque of Anarchy and Queen Mab |
| 33% | OGDENNASH | 9 | Poet whose "The Tale of Custard the Dragon" inspired the poem that inspired the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" |
| 33% | SWINBURNE | 9 | Algernon —, English lyric poet whose works include 1882's Tristram of Lyonesse |
| 32% | PROMETHEUSBOUND | 15 | Ancient Greek work whose title character gives humans the power to burn things |
| 31% | POE | 3 | Author whose work inspired the 1969 gothic-horror film The Oblong Box |
| 31% | IBSEN | 5 | Playwright whose work inspired the Peer Gynt Sculpture Park in 56-Down |
| 31% | JEMMY | 5 | ___ Button (Fuegian who inspired the title of the documentary "The Pearl Button") |
| 31% | PIET | 4 | Mondrian whose paintings inspired the design of the Partridge Family’s bus |
| 31% | JOHNLYDGATE | 11 | English poet born circa 1370 whose works include The Floure of Curtesye |
| 31% | MIRO | 4 | Joan —, Spanish painter whose works include 1967's The Gold of Azure |
| 31% | ERNST | 5 | Max —, German artist whose works include 1940's Attirement of the Bride |
| 31% | RODIN | 5 | Auguste —, French sculptor whose works include 1889's The Burghers of Calais |
| 31% | NORMAND | 7 | Ernest —, English painter whose works include 1885's The Bitter Draught of Slavery |
| 31% | KLIMT | 5 | Gustav —, Austrian painter whose works include 1905's The Three Ages of Woman |