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The Most Popular Poets (Q1 2022)
popularity
is the % of people who have a positive opinion of a poet.
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Popularity
1
William Shakespeare
93%
60%
2
Oscar Wilde
88%
54%
3
William Wordsworth
82%
42%
4
T. S. Eliot
75%
40%
5
John Keats
70%
36%
6
Anne Brontë
66%
34%
7
Robert Burns
68%
33%
8
Homer
70%
33%
9
Lord Byron
74%
32%
10
Dylan Thomas
62%
31%
11
William Blake
57%
30%
12
Alfred Tennyson
64%
27%
13
Wilfred Owen
44%
27%
14
Geoffrey Chaucer
62%
26%
15
Philip Larkin
50%
24%
16
Edward Lear
52%
24%
17
John Betjeman
50%
23%
18
Sylvia Plath
41%
22%
19
Maya Angelou
36%
22%
20
John Milton
49%
19%
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