| JUVENAL | Roman poet noted for his satires (7) |
| OVID | Roman poet noted for works including the Ars Amatoria (4) |
| HORACE | Roman poet famous for his Satires, Odes, Epodes, and Epistles (6) |
| 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) |
| ORPHEUS | Legendary Greek musician and poet noted for his lyre playing (7) |
| SASSOON | Siegfried, war poet noted for his autobiographical Sherston trilogy (7) |
| MARVELL | Andrew ___, poet noted for his poem To His Coy Mistress |
| PEACOCK | Thomas Love --, English novelist and poet noted for his satirical romances (7) |
| THOREAU | Henry David, U.S. poet noted for his book Walden about simple living in nature (7) |
| SPENSER | Poet noted for his portrayal of virtues through knights' quests in The Faerie Queene and a series of 12 eclogues named after months in The Shepheardes Calender (7) |
| ORPHEAN | Relating to a Greek poet noted for melodious playing on his lyre (7) |
| ARIOSTO | Poet noted for Orlando Furioso (7) |
| BINYON | Laurence, English poet noted for his poem For The Fallen (6) |
| ANACREON | Greek lyric poet noted for his drinking songs |
| TASSO | Italian poet, noted for his pastoral idyll Aminta. (5) |
| BAUDELAIRE | Charles --, French poet noted for his macabre imagery (10) |
| PINDAR | Greek lyric poet noted for his victory odes (6) |
| EDMUND | ____ Spenser, poet noted for his epic work The Faerie Queene (6) |
