| RUMI | 13th-century poet who wrote the "Masnavi" |
| SPENSER | 16th-century poet who wrote the epic The Faerie Queene |
| JOHNMILTON | 17th-century poet who wrote Paradise Lost (4,6) |
| TRAHERNE | Thomas, 17th century poet who wrote Roman Forgeries (8) |
| COWPER | 18th-century poet who wrote Epitaph on a Hare |
| CHAUCER | 14th century poet who also wrote "A Treatise on the Astrolabe" |
| PLEIADE | Group of 16th-century poets who advocated the enrichment of the French language with classical influences (7) |
| THOMASCHATTERTON | Precocious 18th-century poet who committed suicide aged 17 |
| MARVELL | Andrew, 17th Century poet who authored Upon Appleton House (7) |
| OSCAR | _ Wilde, 19th-century poet and playwright who wrote the tragedy Salome (5) |
| PIERREJEANDEBERANGER | Referred to as the most popular French songwriter of all time, which 19th century poet wrote Le Vieu |
| MILTON | John ---, 17th-Century poet and civil servant who wrote Paradise Lost (6) |
| CHARLESBAUDELAIRE | French 19th Century poet and essayist who wrote Les Fleurs du Mal |
| URDU | Language of the 18th-century poet Mir Taqi Mir |
| SEWARD | Anna ___, 18th-/19th-century poet called the Swan of Lichfield |
| POE | 19th-century poet of The Bells |
| LARKIN | Philip ___, 20th Century poet whose verse collections included The Whitsun Weddings (6) |
| LANGLAND | Piers Plowman, a great example of English literature, is said to have been written by the 14th-century poet, William ___ (8) |
| SAKE | "Thirteen Poems in Praise of ___," tanka by the eighth-century poet Atomo no Tabito |
| HAIKU | Epigrammatic Japanese verse form chiefly pioneered by the 17th century poet Matsuo Basho (5) |
