The six best-known English male authors are,^{[citation needed]} in order of birth and with an example of their work:

• William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• William Wordsworth – The Prelude
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• George Gordon, Lord Byron – Don Juan, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
• Percy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound, "Adonaïs", "Ode to the West Wind", "Ozymandias"
• John Keats – Great Odes, "Hyperion", "Endymion"

Notable female poets include:

• Felicia Dorothea Hemans
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld
• Charlotte Smith
• Mary Robinson
• Hannah More
• Joanna Baillie

• Albania: Jeronim de Rada, Naim Frashëri
• Brazil: Álvares de Azevedo, Castro Alves, Casimiro de Abreu, Gonçalves Dias, Fagundes Varela, Junqueira Freire, Gonçalves de Magalhães
• Bulgaria: Hristo Botev
• Croatia: Petar Preradović
• Czech Republic: Karel Hynek Macha
• Denmark: N. F. S. Grundtvig, Adam Oehlenschläger, Hans Christian Andersen
• France: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vigny, Victor Hugo, Aloysius Bertrand, Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Charles Baudelaire
• Georgia: Alexander Chavchavadze, Nikoloz Baratashvili, Grigol Orbeliani
• Germany: Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Novalis, Friedrich Hölderlin, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Clemens Brentano, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Achim von Arnim
• Hungary: Sándor Petőfi
• India: Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Satyendranath Dutta, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Jibanananda Das, Jaishankar Prasad, Suryakant Tripathi, Sumitranandan Pant, Mahadevi Verma
• Italy: Giacomo Leopardi, Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Manzoni, Vittorio Alfieri
• Montenegro: Petar II Petrović Njegoš
• Poland: Three Bards (Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Zygmunt Krasiński), Cyprian Kamil Norwid
• Portugal: Alexandre Herculano, Almeida Garrett, António Feliciano de Castilho
• Romania: Ion Heliade Radulescu, Dimitrie Bolintineanu, Vasile Alecsandri, Mihai Eminescu
• Russia: Golden Age of Russian Poetry – Aleksandr Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Evgeny Baratynsky, Vasily Zhukovsky, Konstantin Batyushkov
• Serbia: Branko Radičević, Đura Jakšić, Laza Kostić, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj
• Slovakia: Janko Kráľ
• Slovenia: France Prešeren
• Spain: Gustavo Adolfo Becquer, José de Espronceda, Rosalía de Castro, José Zorrilla, Jacint Verdaguer
• Ukraine: Taras Shevchenko
• United States: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe

• Brazil: Laurindo Rabelo, Sousândrade, José Bonifácio the Young, Aureliano Lessa, João Cardoso de Meneses e Sousa, Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre
• France: Gérard de Nerval, Leconte de Lisle, Aloysius Bertrand, Philothée O'Neddy (born: Théophile Dondey de Santeny)
• Georgia: Grigol Orbeliani, Vakhtang Orbeliani
• Germany: Gottfried August Bürger, Ludwig Tieck
• Hungary: Mihály Vörösmarty
• Iceland: Jónas Hallgrímsson
• Italy: Silvio Pellico
• Norway: Henrik Arnold Wergeland, Johan Sebastian Cammermeyer Welhaven
• Pakistan: Jaun Elia, Parveen Shakir, Mohsin Naqvi
• Poland: Kornel Ujejski, Antoni Malczewski, Tomasz Zan, Wincenty Pol, Seweryn Goszczyński, Władysław Syrokomla, Kazimierz Brodziński, Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, Aleksander Fredro
• Portugal: Almeida Garrett, Alexandre Herculano
• Russia: Anton Delvig, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Nikolay Gnedich
• Serbia: Sima Milutinović Sarajlija
• Slovakia: Andrej Sládkovič
• Spain: Mariano José de Larra, Ramón de Campoamor
• Sweden: Erik Johan Stagnelius
• United States: William Cullen Bryant, Joseph Rodman Drake, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., George Sterling, John Neal