List of English language poets

Poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in the English language. {{listdev}}

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Ba

• Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
• David Ball
• Jesse Ball (1978-)
• Lex Banning (born 1921)
• Amiri Baraka (born 1934)
• Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
• John Barbour (died 1395)
• Les Barker (born 1947)
• Richard Barnefield (1574-1627)
• Djuna Barnes (1892-1982)
• William Barnes (1801-1886)
• Ken Barratt
• Bernard Barton (1784-1849)
• David Bates (1809-1870)
• H.E. Bates (1905-1974)
• James K. Baxter (1926-1972)
• Arthur Bayldon (1865-1958)
• William Baylebridge (1883-1942)

Be-Bo

• Francis Beaumont (1586-1616)
• Bruce Beaver (1928-2004)
• Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett
• Asa Benveniste
• Bill Berkson
• Charles Bernstein (born 1950)
• Anselm Berrigan
• Edmund Berrigan
• Ted Berrigan
• Wendell Berry (1934-)
• John Berryman (1914-1972)
• John Betjeman (1906-1984)
• Maurice Biggs (born 1915)
• Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)
• Samuel Bishop (1731-1795)
• Thomas Blacklock (1721-1791)
• Peter Bladen (1922-2001)
• William Blake (1757-1827)
• Susanna Blamire (1747-1794)
• John Blight (1913-1995)
• Mathilde Blind (1841-1896)
• Edmund Blunden (1896-1974)
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922)
• Barcroft Boake (1866-1892)
• George Henry Boker (1823-1890)
• Eavan Boland (born 1944)
• Horatius Bonar (1808-1889)
• Arna Wendell Bontemps
• Marx Alexander Boyd (1563-1601)

Br-By

• Anne Bradstreet (ca. 1612-1672)
• E. J. Brady (1869-1952)
• Christopher Brennan (1870-1932)
• John Le Gay Brereton (1871-1933)
• Nicholas Breton (1542-1626)
• Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
• Emily Brontë (1818-1848)
• Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
• Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
• Sterling A. Brown
• Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897)
• Isaac Hawkins Browne (1705-1760)
• William Browne (1588-1643)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
• Robert Browning (1812-1889)
• William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
• Vincent Buckley (1925-1988)
• Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)
• Basil Bunting (1900–1985)
• Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
• Jim Burns
• Robert Burns (1759-1796)
• William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
• George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824)