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Author	Period	# Reads
1: William Butler Yeats	June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939	18889
2: Joseph Addison	May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719	18716
3: Henry Lawson	17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922	17475
4: Rudyard Kipling	December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936	16829
5: Elizabeth Barrett Browning	March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861	16369
6: Walter Scott (Sir)	15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832	16256
7: John Le Gay Brereton	2 September 1871 - 2 February 1933	15964
8: Thomas Campbell	July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844	15593
9: A. R. Ammons	February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001	15434
10: Jennings Carmichael	24 February 1868 – 9 February 1904	15224
11: Robert Herrick	Baptized - August 24, 1591- October 1674	15062
12: Edgar Allan Poe	January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849	14919
13: Walt Whitman	May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892	14859
14: Robert Lee Frost	March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963	14672
15: Anna Akhmatova	June 23, 1889 — March 5, 1966	14584
16: Alfred Lord Tennyson	August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892	14470
17: Sara Teasdale	August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933	14367
18: William Wordsworth	April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850	14344
19: Matthew Arnold	24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888	14110
20: Edward Dyson	1865-1931	14108
21: Robert Browning	May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889	14031
22: Mark Akenside	November 9, 1721 – June 23, 1770	13944
23: Yehuda Amichai	1924 - September 22, 2000	13907
24: William Allingham	March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889	13572
25: Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	February 17, 1864 - February 5, 1941	13430
26: Conrad Potter Aiken	August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973	13183
27: Aphra Behn	July 10, 1640 – April 16, 1689	13097
28: Alexander Pope	21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744	13076
29: Lewis Carroll	January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898	12986
30: Bertolt Brecht	February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956	12962
31: John Greenleaf Whittier	December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892	12745
32: William Barnes	22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886	12500
33: John Keats	31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821	12480
34: Elizabeth Jennings	July 18, 1926 – October 26, 2001	12453
35: Ambrose Bierce	June 24, 1842 – 1914	12369
36: Richard Harris Barham	December 6, 1788–June 17, 1845	12121
37: James Henry Leigh Hunt	October 19, 1784 – August 28, 1859	12067
38: William Collins	25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759	12008
39: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950	11938
40: Matthew Prior	July 21, 1664 – September 18, 1721	11906
41: John Masefield	1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967	11906
42: Nizar Qabbani	21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998	11894
43: William Henry Drummond	April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907	11813
44: Washington Irving	April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859	11782
45: Wolcott Balestier	December 13, 1861 - 1891	11533
46: Algernon Charles Swinburne	April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909	11526
47: John McCrae	November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918	11506
48: H. G. Wells	September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946	11471
49: Ben Jonson	c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637	11394
50: Barcroft Boake	March 26, 1866 – ? May 10, 1892	11230
51: Abijah M. Ide	1825 – 1873	11207
52: Robert Lowell	March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977	11167
53: H. H. C. C.		11129
54: Marriott Edgar	October 5th, 1880 - May 5th, 1951	11128
55: James Joyce	2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941	11068
56: Walter Savage Landor	January 30, 1775 – September 17, 1864	11016
57: Joseph Burrows		11016
58: Nathaniel Parker Willis	January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867	10953
59: John Wilmot	April 1, 1647 - July 26, 1680	10924
60: Adam Lindsay Gordon	October 19, 1833 – 24 June 1870	10802
61: Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne)	6 August 1826 – 11 March 1915	10780
62: Arthur Hugh Clough	January 1, 1819 – November 13, 1861	10763
63: Joaquin Miller	September 8, 1837, - February 17, 1913	10683
64: Thomas Osborne Davis	October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845	10650
65: William Shakespeare	baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616	10365
66: Francis Kenna	1865 - 1932	10231
67: Victor James Daley	5 September 1858 – 29 December 1905	10209
68: Louis Shreve Osborne		10184
69: Bret Harte (Francis)	August 25, 1837 – May 6, 1902	10048
70: James Lister Cuthbertson	8 May 1851 - 18 January 1910	9837
71: Mary Hannay Foott	26 September 1846 – 12 October 1918	9792
72: Samuel Taylor Coleridge	October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834	9781
73: William Chatterton Dix	June 14, 1837 - September 9, 1898	9552
74: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke	24 April 1846—2 August 1881	9509
75: Enid Derham	March 24, 1882 – November 13, 1941	9321
76: M. Forrest	1872 - 1935	9255
77: Henry Kendall	April 18, 1839 - August 1, 1882	9134
78: John Milton	December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674	9088
79: Thomas William Heney	5 November 1862 – 19 August 192	8878
80: Louisa May Alcott	November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888	8855
81: Madison Julius Cawein	23 March 1865 - 8 December 1914	8851
82: James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis)	November 23, 1834 - June 3, 1882	8848
83: James Thomson	11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748	8735
84: John Milton Hayes	1884 - 1940	8349
85: James Hebblethwaite	22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921	8289
86: Charles G. Leland	August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903	8280
87: Horatio Alger, Jr.	January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899	8002
88: William Blake	November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827	7857
89: Charles Baudelaire	April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867	7821
90: John Clare	13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864	7076
91: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886	7064
92: Gilbert Keith Chesterton	May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936	7056
93: Thomas Bailey Aldrich	11 November 1836 – 19 March 1907	7043
94: Thomas Hardy	2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928	7042
95: George Gordon Byron	22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824	7037
96: Anne Bradstreet	1612 – September 16, 1672	6834
97: Robert Burns	25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796	6783
98: Arthur Conan Doyle	22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930	6606
99: Anne Bronte	January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849	6564
100: William Cullen Bryant	November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878	6550