| HORACE | Roman poet famous for his Satires, Odes, Epodes, and Epistles (6) |
| JUVENAL | Roman poet noted for his satires (7) |
| BYROM | Poet who, in his satire of 1725, applied the names "Tweedledum and Tweedledee" to the two rival composers Handel and Bononcini (5) |
| SWIFT | Anglo-Irish author and clergyman who wrote about Lilliput, Brobdingnag and the Land of the Houyhnhnms in his satire Gulliver's Travels (5) |
| WAUGH | Novelist who wrote in his satire Decline and Fall of the trials of scholar Paul Pennyfeather, wrongly sent down from Oxford after falling victim to the antics of the Bollinger Club (5) |
| JOSEPH | Essayist and poet famous for his tragedy Cato and poem The Campaign (6,7) |
| DRYDEN | British poet famous for his odes on "St. Cecilia's Day", Heroic Stanzas, All For Love, etc. (4,6) |
| GEORGE | Novelist and poet famous for Rhoda Fleming, The Egoist, etc. (6,8) |
| ADDISON | Essayist and poet famous for his tragedy Cato and poem The Campaign (6,7) |
| JOHN | British poet famous for his odes on "St. Cecilia's Day", Heroic Stanzas, All For Love, etc. (4,6) |
| JOHNMILTON | English poet famous for his epic Paradise Lost (4,6) |
| KEATS | Surname of the poet famous for his "Odes" (5) |
| HANS | _ _ Andersen, 19th-century Danish author and poet famous for his fairy tales - w 20ac (4,9) |
| CHRISTIAN | _ _ Andersen, 19th-century Danish author and poet famous for his fairy tales - w 16ac (4,9) |
| CLARE | John ---, 19th Century English poet famous for his rural subjects (5) |
| DANTE | Italian poet famous for his Divine Comedy (5) |
| OVID | Poet, famous for his 15-volume Metamorphoses, d. AD 17 or 18 (4) |
| LAFONTAINE | Jean de --- ---, 17th-Century French poet, famous for his Fables (2,8) |
| ARIOSTO | Ludovico, Italian poet famous for his epic Orlando Furioso (7) |
| SKIRTS | Avoids satires about Republican (6) |
