| JUVENAL | Roman poet known for his 2nd century AD collection Satires (7) |
| STATIUS | Roman poet known for his Silvae collection and Thebaid (7) |
| VIRGIL | 1st century BC Roman poet known for his Eclogues (6) |
| SILAS | St Paul's companion on his 2nd missionary journey (5) |
| BIGAMIST | Larger veil announced, for his second bride? |
| BRAHANSEER | 17th c. Scot famous for his second sight and predictions (6,4) |
| KHAYYAM | Poet known for his 6 (4,7) |
| WHITMAN | Walt ---, American poet known for the verse collection Leaves Of Grass (7) |
| SPENSER | Edmund ___ (c. 1552-99), English poet known for the epic poem The Faerie Queene (7) |
| HERRICK | Robert -, lyric poet known for 1648 volume Hesperides (7) |
| PTOLEMY | 2nd-century AD Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer whose Geography was the standard geographical textbook until the 15th century (7) |
| OGDEN | _ Nash, 20th-century American poet known for his pithy and funny light verse (5) |
| OMAR | Poet known for his 6 (4,7) |
| CHAUCER | Poet known as the father of English literature, d. 1400 (7) |
| PINDAR | Greek lyric poet known for his odes |
| ANACREON | Ancient Greek lyric poet known for his drinking songs (8) |
| TOMPAULIN | Northern Irish poet known for his appearances on BBC review shows |
| RIMBAUD | Poet known as the father of French Symbolism |
| TSELIOT | Poet known by initials (W. C.) going back over introduction to sonnet (1,1,5) |
| IRONIES | Satires in press videos, regularly getting censored (7) |
