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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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AuthorPeriod# 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






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