A
B
- Francis Bacon
- George Linnaeus Banks
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- Wilton Agnew Barrett
- Arlo Bates
- Charles Baudelaire
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Ambrose Bierce
- Elizabeth Bishop
- William Blake
- Samuel Laman Blanchard
- Edith (Nesbit) Bland
- Harold Bloom
- Maxwell Bodenheim
- Sarah Knowles Bolton
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Nicholas Breton
- LeBaron Russell Briggs
- Rollo Britten
- Emily Brontë
- Rupert Brooke
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Robert Browning
- William Cullen Bryant
- Charles Bukowski
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Witter Bynner
- Lord Byron
C
- Joseph Campbell
- Thomas Campbell
- Thomas Campion
- Gerolamo Cardano
- Thomas Carew
- Thomas Carlyle
- Phoebe Cary
- Willa Cather
- C.P. Cavafy
- John White Chadwick
- William Ellery Channing
- Colley Cibber
- John Clare
- John Cleveland
- Robert Barry Coffin
- Leonard Cohen
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- William Congreve
- Alice Corbin
- William Cory
- Abraham Cowley
- William Cowper
- Christopher Pearse Cranch
- Hart Crane
- Stephen Crane
- Adelaide Crapsey
- Isabella Valancy Crawford
- Countee Cullen
- E. E. Cummings
- Dom Hélder Câmara
D
E
F
G
H
- Hermann Hagedorn
- Hazel Hall
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- Dag Hammarskjöld
- Thomas Hardy
- William Henry Harrison
- William Drummond of Hawthornden
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Martin Heidegger
- Heinrich Heine
- Felicia Dorothea Hemans
- Ernest Hemingway
- William Ernest Henley
- George Herbert
- Robert Herrick
- Hermann Hesse
- Thomas Heywood
- Katharine Tynan Hinkson
- Ralph Hodgson
- Thomas Hood
- Ellen Sturgis Hooper
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Richard Henry Horne
- Albert Hosteen
- A. E. Housman
- Richard Hovey
- Ellen Clementine Howarth
- Elizabeth (Lloyd) Howell
- Helen Hoyt
- Langston Hughes
- Victor Hugo
J
K
L
M
- Niccolo Machiavelli
- Charles Mackay
- Frederic Manning
- Walter de la Mare
- Andrew Marvell
- John Masefield
- Edgar Lee Masters
- Annie Matheson
- Somerset Maugham
- John McCrae
- Grenville Mellen
- Herman Melville
- Samuel Menashe
- Pietro Metastasio
- Alice Meynell
- Max Michelson
- Richard Middleton
- Anaiis Milan
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Joaquin Miller
- Richard Monckton Milnes
- John Milton
- Harold Monro
- Harriet Monroe
- James Montgomery
- Thomas Moore
- William Morris
- Prophet Muhammad
- Edwin Muir
N
P
R
S
- Charles Sackville
- Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis
- Carl Sandburg
- Epes Sargent
- John Godfrey Saxe
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
- Friedrich von Schiller
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- George Philip Schmidt
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Frithjof Schuon
- Alan Seeger
- Anne Sexton
- William Shakespeare
- Clara Shanafelt
- Frances Shaw
- Percy Shelley
- Paul Shepard
- Lev Shestov
- James Shirley
- Angelus Silesius
- Edward Rowland Sill
- May Riley Smith
- Socrates
- Robert Southey
- Robert Southwell
- Caroline S. Spencer
- Edmund Spenser
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Thomas Stanley
- Edmund Clarence Stedman
- Sir Richard Steele
- George Steiner
- James Stephens
- George Sterling
- Wallace Stevens
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- William Wetmore Story
- Joshua Sylvester
- John Addington Symonds
T
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Bayard Taylor
- Sara Teasdale
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Dylan Thomas
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Graham R. Thomson
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry Timrod
- Leo Tolstoy
- Jean Toomer
- Ridgely Torrence
- Charles Hanson Towne
- Thomas Traherne
- Richard Chenevix Trench
- Mark Twain
W
- Richard Wagner
- Isaac Watts
- Max Weber
- Cornel West
- John Hall Wheelock
- Hervey White
- Walt Whitman
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Richard Wilbur
- Oscar Wilde
- Marguerite Wilkinson
- William Carlos Williams
- John Wilson
- Winckelmann
- George Wither
- John Witherspoon
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Charles Wolfe
- Charles Erskine Scott Wood
- Margaret L. Woods
- William Wordsworth
- Sir Henry Wotton
- Lieutenant Harold Verschoyle Wrong
- Edith Wyatt
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Elinor Wylie