List of English language poets

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

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Sa-Si

• Blanaid Salkeld (1880-1959)
• Sonia Sanchez
• Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)
• May Sarton (1912-1995)
• Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
• Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
• Maurice Scully
• Peter Seaton
• Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701)
• Nina Serrano, (born 1934)
• Robert W. Service
• Anne Sexton (1928-1974)
• William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
• Ntozake Shange, (born 1948)
• Jo Shapcott
• Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
• William Shenstone
• James Shirley (1596-1666)
• Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
• Eli Siegel (1902-1978)
• Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)
• Colin Simms
• Iain Sinclair
• Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)

Sk-Sq

• Beau Sia
• John Skelton (1460-1529)
• Myra Sklarew
• Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
• Marc Smith
• Rod Smith
• Stevie Smith (1902-1971)
• Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
• Gary Snyder
• William Somerville
• Charles Sorley (1895-1915)
• Caroline Southey (1787-1854)
• Robert Southey (1774-1843)
• Robert Southwell (1561-1595)
• Wole Soyinka (born 1934)
• A. B. Spellman
• Anne Spencer
• Stephen Spender
• Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
• Geoffrey Squires

St-Sy

• William Stafford
• C.K. Stead (born 1932)
• Gertrude Stein
• Brian Kim Stefans
• Gerald Stern
• Wallace Stevens (1880-1955)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
• Mark Strand
• Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
• Maggie O'Sullivan
• Keston Sutherland
• May Swenson
• Algernon Swinburne (1837-1909)
• Bobbi Sykes (born 1945)
• Joshua Sylvester (1563-1618)