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Author (poems / stories)

Addison, Joseph - (19)
Aiken, Conrad Potter - (100/2)
Akenside, Mark - (73)
Akhmatova, Anna - (32)
Alcott, Louisa May - (75/25)
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey - (36/17)
Alger, Horatio - (66/52)
Alighieri, Dante - (100/1)
Allingham, William - (48)
Amichai, Yehuda - (44)
Ammons, A. R. - (31)
Amott, Lennox - (16)
Anderson, Elizabeth - (2)
Archer, Jean C. - (2)
Arnold, Matthew - (151/3)
Balestier, Wolcott - (0/21)
Barham, Richard Harris - (23)
Barnes, William - (29)
Bates, Clara Doty - (32)
Bates, Katharine Lee - (18)
Baudelaire, Charles - (236/2)
Behn, Aphra - (14)
Belloc, Hilaire - (61/3)
Benet, Stephen Vincent - (33/1)
Bennett, Charles Henry - (2/2)
Bierce, Ambrose - (16)
Blake, William - (140)
Boake, Barcroft - (36/3)
Boldrewood, Rolf - (0/1)
Bowles, William Lisle - (143)
Bradstreet, Anne - (40)
Brecht, Bertolt - (32)
Brereton, John Le Gay - (67)
Bronte, Anne - (69/2)
Bronte, Charlotte - (25/4)
Bronte, Emily - (52/1)
Bronte, Patrick - (12)
Brooke, Rupert - (97/1)
Brown, Thomas Edward - (24)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - (115)
Browning, Robert - (214/6)
Bryant, William Cullen - (132/3)
Burns, Robert - (503/1)
Burrows, Joseph - (1)
Butler, Ellis Parker - (74/9)
Byron, George Gordon - (189/12)
Campbell, John - (48)
Campbell, Thomas - (34)
Campion, Thomas - (13)
Carew, Thomas - (37)
Carleton, Will - (22)
Carman, Bliss (William) - (122)
Carmichael, Jennings (Grace) - (2)
Carr, John (Sir) - (112/1)
Carroll, Lewis - (74/3)
Carryl, Guy Wetmore - (41)
Cassels, Walter R. - (49)
Castleman, Virginia Carter - (1)
Cawein, Madison Julius - (960)
Chant, Joseph Horatio - (86)
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - (69/34)
Churchill, Charles - (24)
Clare, John - (384)
Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop - (1/18)
Clough, Arthur Hugh - (132/2)
Clough, Arthur Hugh - (18)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - (53)
Collier, Ada Langworthy - (6)
Collins, William - (11)
Colman, George - (8)
Coolidge, Susan (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) - (68)
Cowper, William - (308)
Crane, Walter - (150/1)
Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson - (13/1)
Cuthbertson, James Lister - (10)
Daley, Victor James - (93)
Darwin, Erasmus - (8)
Davis, Thomas Osborne - (4)
Davis, Thomas Osborne - (35)
Derham, Enid - (8)
Dickinson, Emily - (448)
Dix, William Chatterton - (1)
Dobson, Henry Austin - (101/2)
Doneghy, George W. - (64)
Dowson, Ernest Christopher - (76/5)
Doyle, Arthur Conan - (60/103)
Drake, Joseph Rodman - (19)
Drayton, Michael - (228)
Drummond, William Henry - (72)
Dryden, John - (126)
Duff, J. L. - (1)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence - (422)
Dutt, Toru - (20)
Dyson, Edward - (95/98)
Earls, Michael - (45)
Edgar, Marriott - (35)
Edwards, George Wharton - (26)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - (226)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty - (51)
Fairless, Michael - (14)
Field, Eugene - (324/67)
Fire-Fly, Fanny - (1)
Flecker, James Elroy - (43)
Foott, Mary Hannay - (30)
Forrest, M. - (2)
Freeman, John - (197)
Frost, Robert Lee - (168)
Garrison, Theodosia - (61)
Gent, Thomas - (118)
Gilbert, William Schwenck - (172/1)
Gladden, Washington - (3)
Glass, Nancy Rebecca Campbell - (35)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - (347)
Goldsmith, Oliver - (40)
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold - (38/1)
Gordon, Adam Lindsay - (71)
Gordon, Hanford Lennox - (75)
Gower, John - (9)
Greenaway, Kate - (40)
Gregory, Lady (Isabella Augusta) - (36)
Gurney, Eliza Paul Kirkbride - (43)
H. H. C. C. - (1)
Hardy, Arthur Sherburne - (12)
Hardy, Thomas - (663/43)
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins - (46/2)
Harte, (Francis) Bret - (120/62)
Hartley, John - (299/60)
Hay, John - (76/3)
Hayes, John Milton - (7)
Hayley, William - (36/1)
Hebblethwaite, James - (4)
Heney, Thomas William - (4)
Henley, William Ernest - (154/5)
Hensley (Almon), Sophia Margaret - (51)
Herford, Oliver - (129)
Herrick, Robert - (1467)
Hewlett, Maurice - (35/14)
Hoatson, A. - (2)
Hoffmann, Heinrich - (21)
Holley, Marietta - (68/2)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell - (331/6)
Hood, Thomas - (177)
Hooper, Lucy Hamilton - (0/1)
Hope, James Barron - (59)
Hope, Laurence (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson) - (132)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley - (71)
Horsford, Mary Gardiner - (32)
Housman, Alfred Edward - (105)
Howard, Hattie - (87)
Hugo, Victor-Marie - (63)
Hunt, James Henry Leigh - (24)
Ide, Abijah M. - (3)
Irving, Washington - (52/27)
Jennings, Elizabeth - (11)
Jonson, Ben - (92)
Joyce, James - (51/19)
Keats, John - (147)
Kendall, Henry - (215)
Kenna, Francis - (1)
Kipling, Rudyard - (641/528)
Landor, Walter Savage - (103)
Lawson, Henry - (475/164)
Leland, Charles G. - (53)
Lowell, Robert - (16)
Masefield, John - (40)
McCrae, John - (29)
Miller, Joaquin - (19)
Milton, John - (131/1)
Orwell, George - (8/64)
Osborne, Louis Shreve - (1)
Paterson, Banjo - (227/58)
Poe, Edgar Allan - (84/100)
Pope, Alexander - (82)
Prior, Matthew - (189)
Qabbani, Nizar - (38)
Scott, (Sir) Walter - (157/7)
Shakespeare, William - (159/24)
Swinburne, Algernon Charles - (464/7)
Teasdale, Sara - (324)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord - (327)
Thomson, James - (10)
Thomson, James (Bysshe Vanolis) - (46)
Wells, H. G. - (0/57)
Whitman, Walt - (338)
Whittier, John Greenleaf - (483)
Willis, Nathaniel Parker - (12/1)
Wilmot, John - (39)
Wordsworth, William - (969)
Yeats, William Butler - (384)

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Author	Period	# Reads
1: Joseph Addison	May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719	12255
2: William Butler Yeats	June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939	11072
3: A. R. Ammons	February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001	10502
4: Thomas Campbell	July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844	10262
5: Jennings Carmichael	24 February 1868 – 9 February 1904	10227
6: Walter Scott (Sir)	15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832	10205
7: Elizabeth Barrett Browning	March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861	10010
8: John Le Gay Brereton	2 September 1871 - 2 February 1933	9996
9: Henry Lawson	17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922	9847
10: Robert Lee Frost	March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963	9346
11: Mark Akenside	November 9, 1721 – June 23, 1770	9191
12: Edward Dyson	1865-1931	9053
13: Anna Akhmatova	June 23, 1889 — March 5, 1966	8999
14: Matthew Arnold	24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888	8947
15: Alfred Lord Tennyson	August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892	8938
16: Aphra Behn	July 10, 1640 – April 16, 1689	8879
17: Yehuda Amichai	1924 - September 22, 2000	8825
18: Walt Whitman	May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892	8772
19: William Collins	25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759	8755
20: Sara Teasdale	August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933	8729
21: Lewis Carroll	January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898	8626
22: William Barnes	22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886	8616
23: William Allingham	March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889	8588
24: Rudyard Kipling	December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936	8585
25: Elizabeth Jennings	July 18, 1926 – October 26, 2001	8475
26: Bertolt Brecht	February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956	8465
27: James Henry Leigh Hunt	October 19, 1784 – August 28, 1859	8424
28: Robert Browning	May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889	8357
29: Nizar Qabbani	21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998	8354
30: Edgar Allan Poe	January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849	8319
31: Richard Harris Barham	December 6, 1788–June 17, 1845	8253
32: John McCrae	November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918	8251
33: Ambrose Bierce	June 24, 1842 – 1914	8248
34: Alexander Pope	21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744	8243
35: John Masefield	1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967	8231
36: H. H. C. C.		8119
37: William Henry Drummond	April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907	8095
38: Ben Jonson	c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637	8091
39: Matthew Prior	July 21, 1664 – September 18, 1721	8081
40: Robert Lowell	March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977	8070
41: John Greenleaf Whittier	December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892	8044
42: John Keats	31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821	7975
43: Conrad Potter Aiken	August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973	7972
44: Marriott Edgar	October 5th, 1880 - May 5th, 1951	7857
45: Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	February 17, 1864 - February 5, 1941	7849
46: Robert Herrick	Baptized - August 24, 1591- October 1674	7839
47: Joaquin Miller	September 8, 1837, - February 17, 1913	7796
48: Walter Savage Landor	January 30, 1775 – September 17, 1864	7757
49: John Wilmot	April 1, 1647 - July 26, 1680	7757
50: Nathaniel Parker Willis	January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867	7757
51: Joseph Burrows		7692
52: Wolcott Balestier	December 13, 1861 - 1891	7670
53: Thomas Osborne Davis	October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845	7562
54: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950	7501
55: William Wordsworth	April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850	7425
56: Barcroft Boake	March 26, 1866 – ? May 10, 1892	7356
57: Louis Shreve Osborne		7354
58: Francis Kenna	1865 - 1932	7323
59: Abijah M. Ide	1825 – 1873	7234
60: Adam Lindsay Gordon	October 19, 1833 – 24 June 1870	7230
61: James Joyce	2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941	7213
62: Washington Irving	April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859	7171
63: Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne)	6 August 1826 – 11 March 1915	7168
64: H. G. Wells	September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946	6742
65: Mary Hannay Foott	26 September 1846 – 12 October 1918	6624
66: M. Forrest	1872 - 1935	6550
67: Arthur Hugh Clough	January 1, 1819 – November 13, 1861	6518
68: James Lister Cuthbertson	8 May 1851 - 18 January 1910	6514
69: Samuel Taylor Coleridge	October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834	6391
70: Victor James Daley	5 September 1858 – 29 December 1905	6377
71: William Chatterton Dix	June 14, 1837 - September 9, 1898	6364
72: Enid Derham	March 24, 1882 – November 13, 1941	6242
73: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke	24 April 1846—2 August 1881	6238
74: Algernon Charles Swinburne	April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909	6208
75: William Shakespeare	baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616	5939
76: James Thomson	11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748	5880
77: James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis)	November 23, 1834 - June 3, 1882	5829
78: Thomas William Heney	5 November 1862 – 19 August 192	5751
79: John Milton	December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674	5668
80: Henry Kendall	April 18, 1839 - August 1, 1882	5571
81: Bret Harte (Francis)	August 25, 1837 – May 6, 1902	5486
82: John Milton Hayes	1884 - 1940	5439
83: James Hebblethwaite	22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921	5328
84: Charles G. Leland	August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903	5269
85: William Blake	November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827	2030
86: Charles Baudelaire	April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867	1935
87: Hilaire Belloc	27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953	1840
88: William Lisle Bowles	September 24, 1762 - April 7, 1850	1832
89: Anne Bradstreet	1612 – September 16, 1672	1830
90: William Cullen Bryant	November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878	1789
91: Katharine Lee Bates	August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929	1754
92: Emily Bronte	July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848	1750
93: Rupert Brooke	August 3, 1887 - 23 April 1915	1745
94: Charlotte Bronte	April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855	1737
95: Anne Bronte	January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849	1727
96: Patrick Bronte	17 March 1777 - 7 June 1861	1674
97: Thomas Edward Brown	May 5, 1830 - October 29, 1897	1643
98: Louisa May Alcott	November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888	1624
99: John Campbell	6 August 1845 – 2 May 1914	1512
100: Thomas Bailey Aldrich	11 November 1836 – 19 March 1907	1502