Poets

c. 1600-1830· 10 works

Donne to Wordsworth. Non-epic poets - lyric, metaphysical, devotional, satirical, and narrative - carved out of the chronological eras and grouped together by author.

Poets, Ranked

According to Groblé

  1. Shakespeare's Sonnets1609William ShakespeareGrueling·Quick·121 pagesInfluence—Popularity—PoetsLyricEnglish
  2. The Complete Poems1616Ben Jonson—·Epic·634 pagesInfluence—Popularity—PoetsLyricEnglish
  3. The Temple1633George Herbert—·Medium·336 pagesInfluence—Popularity—PoetsLyricEnglish
  4. The Complete English Poems1633John Donne—·Epic·679 pagesInfluence—Popularity—PoetsLyricEnglish
  5. The Complete Poems1681Andrew Marvell—·Medium·336 pagesInfluence—Popularity—PoetsLyricEnglish
  6. Selected Poems1697John Dryden—·Long·500 pagesInfluence—Popularity—PoetsSatireEnglish
  7. The Rape of the Lock1714Alexander Pope—·Quick·42 pagesInfluence—Popularity—PoetsSatireEnglish
  8. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner1798Samuel Taylor Coleridge—·Quick·76 pagesInfluence—Popularity—PoetsEpicEnglish
  9. William Wordsworth, Selected Poems1815William Wordsworth—·Medium·352 pagesInfluence—Popularity—PoetsLyricEnglish
  10. The Complete Poems1827William Blake—·Epic·1,071 pagesInfluence—Popularity—PoetsLyricEnglish
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