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Addison, Joseph - (19)
Aiken, Conrad Potter - (100/2)
Akenside, Mark - (73)
Akhmatova, Anna - (32)
Allingham, William - (48)
Amichai, Yehuda - (44)
Ammons, A. R. - (31)
Arnold, Matthew - (151/3)
Balestier, Wolcott - (0/21)
Barham, Richard Harris - (23)
Barnes, William - (29)
Bates, Katharine Lee - (18)
Baudelaire, Charles - (236/2)
Behn, Aphra - (14)
Belloc, Hilaire - (61/3)
Bierce, Ambrose - (16)
Blake, William - (140)
Boake, Barcroft - (36/3)
Boldrewood, Rolf - (0/1)
Bowles, William Lisle - (143)
Bradstreet, Anne - (40)
Brecht, Bertolt - (32)
Brereton, John Le Gay - (67)
Bronte, Anne - (69/2)
Bronte, Charlotte - (25/4)
Bronte, Emily - (52/1)
Bronte, Patrick - (12)
Brooke, Rupert - (97/1)
Brown, Thomas Edward - (24)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - (115)
Browning, Robert - (214/6)
Bryant, William Cullen - (132/3)
Burns, Robert - (503/1)
Burrows, Joseph - (1)
Butler, Ellis Parker - (74/9)
Byron, George Gordon - (189/12)
Campbell, John - (48)
Campbell, Thomas - (34)
Campion, Thomas - (13)
Carew, Thomas - (37)
Carleton, Will - (22)
Carman, Bliss (William) - (122)
Carmichael, Jennings (Grace) - (2)
Carr, John (Sir) - (112/1)
Carroll, Lewis - (74/3)
Cassels, Walter R. - (49)
Castleman, Virginia Carter - (1)
Cawein, Madison Julius - (960)
Chant, Joseph Horatio - (86)
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - (0)
Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop - (1/18)
Clough, Arthur Hugh - (132/2)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - (53)
Collins, William - (11)
Cuthbertson, James Lister - (10)
Daley, Victor James - (93)
Davis, Thomas Osborne - (4)
Derham, Enid - (8)
Dix, William Chatterton - (1)
Drummond, William Henry - (72)
Dyson, Edward - (95/98)
Edgar, Marriott - (35)
Foott, Mary Hannay - (30)
Forrest, M. - (2)
Frost, Robert Lee - (168)
Gordon, Adam Lindsay - (71)
H. H. C. C. - (1)
Harte, (Francis) Bret - (120/62)
Hayes, John Milton - (7)
Hebblethwaite, James - (4)
Heney, Thomas William - (4)
Herrick, Robert - (299)
Hunt, James Henry Leigh - (24)
Ide, Abijah M. - (3)
Irving, Washington - (52/27)
Jennings, Elizabeth - (11)
Jonson, Ben - (92)
Joyce, James - (51/19)
Keats, John - (147)
Kendall, Henry - (215)
Kenna, Francis - (1)
Kipling, Rudyard - (641/528)
Landor, Walter Savage - (103)
Lawson, Henry - (475/164)
Leland, Charles G. - (53)
Lowell, Robert - (16)
Masefield, John - (40)
McCrae, John - (29)
Miller, Joaquin - (19)
Milton, John - (131/1)
Orwell, George - (8/64)
Osborne, Louis Shreve - (1)
Paterson, Banjo - (227/58)
Poe, Edgar Allan - (84/100)
Pope, Alexander - (82)
Prior, Matthew - (189)
Qabbani, Nizar - (38)
Scott, (Sir) Walter - (157/7)
Shakespeare, William - (159/24)
Swinburne, Algernon Charles - (464/7)
Teasdale, Sara - (324)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord - (327)
Thomson, James - (10)
Thomson, James (Bysshe Vanolis) - (46)
Wells, H. G. - (0/57)
Whitman, Walt - (338)
Whittier, John Greenleaf - (483)
Willis, Nathaniel Parker - (12/1)
Wilmot, John - (39)
Wordsworth, William - (969)
Yeats, William Butler - (384)

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Author	Period	# Reads
1: Joseph Addison	May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719	9944
2: William Butler Yeats	June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939	9436
3: A. R. Ammons	February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001	8880
4: Thomas Campbell	July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844	8399
5: Henry Lawson	17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922	8330
6: Jennings Carmichael	24 February 1868 – 9 February 1904	8323
7: Walter Scott (Sir)	15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832	8231
8: John Le Gay Brereton	2 September 1871 - 2 February 1933	7972
9: Elizabeth Barrett Browning	March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861	7914
10: Robert Lee Frost	March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963	7841
11: Alfred Lord Tennyson	August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892	7745
12: Anna Akhmatova	June 23, 1889 — March 5, 1966	7561
13: William Collins	25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759	7538
14: Aphra Behn	July 10, 1640 – April 16, 1689	7498
15: Walt Whitman	May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892	7486
16: Rudyard Kipling	December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936	7451
17: Edward Dyson	1865-1931	7443
18: Sara Teasdale	August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933	7386
19: Mark Akenside	November 9, 1721 – June 23, 1770	7378
20: Yehuda Amichai	1924 - September 22, 2000	7310
21: Lewis Carroll	January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898	7278
22: Elizabeth Jennings	July 18, 1926 – October 26, 2001	7266
23: Matthew Arnold	24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888	7240
24: William Barnes	22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886	7237
25: James Henry Leigh Hunt	October 19, 1784 – August 28, 1859	7229
26: Nizar Qabbani	21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998	7130
27: William Allingham	March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889	7126
28: Edgar Allan Poe	January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849	7076
29: John Masefield	1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967	7053
30: Alexander Pope	21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744	7037
31: John McCrae	November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918	6999
32: Bertolt Brecht	February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956	6974
33: Matthew Prior	July 21, 1664 – September 18, 1721	6971
34: Ambrose Bierce	June 24, 1842 – 1914	6947
35: Robert Lowell	March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977	6931
36: H. H. C. C.		6881
37: Ben Jonson	c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637	6836
38: Richard Harris Barham	December 6, 1788–June 17, 1845	6831
39: William Henry Drummond	April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907	6815
40: Robert Browning	May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889	6770
41: Robert Herrick	Baptized - August 24, 1591- October 1674	6737
42: John Greenleaf Whittier	December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892	6731
43: Marriott Edgar	October 5th, 1880 - May 5th, 1951	6692
44: Joaquin Miller	September 8, 1837, - February 17, 1913	6677
45: Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	February 17, 1864 - February 5, 1941	6671
46: John Wilmot	April 1, 1647 - July 26, 1680	6609
47: John Keats	31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821	6601
48: Walter Savage Landor	January 30, 1775 – September 17, 1864	6546
49: Nathaniel Parker Willis	January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867	6540
50: Joseph Burrows		6365
51: Thomas Osborne Davis	October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845	6325
52: Wolcott Balestier	December 13, 1861 - 1891	6319
53: William Wordsworth	April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850	6290
54: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950	6245
55: Francis Kenna	1865 - 1932	6189
56: Louis Shreve Osborne		6078
57: Abijah M. Ide	1825 – 1873	5979
58: Conrad Potter Aiken	August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973	5968
59: Adam Lindsay Gordon	October 19, 1833 – 24 June 1870	5955
60: James Joyce	2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941	5945
61: Barcroft Boake	March 26, 1866 – ? May 10, 1892	5903
62: Washington Irving	April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859	5837
63: Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne)	6 August 1826 – 11 March 1915	5694
64: H. G. Wells	September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946	5397
65: Mary Hannay Foott	26 September 1846 – 12 October 1918	5239
66: M. Forrest	1872 - 1935	5217
67: James Lister Cuthbertson	8 May 1851 - 18 January 1910	5121
68: Samuel Taylor Coleridge	October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834	5019
69: William Chatterton Dix	June 14, 1837 - September 9, 1898	5012
70: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke	24 April 1846—2 August 1881	4943
71: Victor James Daley	5 September 1858 – 29 December 1905	4939
72: Arthur Hugh Clough	January 1, 1819 – November 13, 1861	4938
73: Enid Derham	March 24, 1882 – November 13, 1941	4931
74: Algernon Charles Swinburne	April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909	4787
75: William Shakespeare	baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616	4686
76: James Thomson	11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748	4635
77: James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis)	November 23, 1834 - June 3, 1882	4491
78: Thomas William Heney	5 November 1862 – 19 August 192	4443
79: Henry Kendall	April 18, 1839 - August 1, 1882	4275
80: John Milton Hayes	1884 - 1940	4167
81: John Milton	December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674	4105
82: James Hebblethwaite	22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921	4051
83: Bret Harte (Francis)	August 25, 1837 – May 6, 1902	4031
84: Charles G. Leland	August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903	3983
85: Charles Baudelaire	April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867	363
86: William Blake	November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827	362
87: Katharine Lee Bates	August 12, 1859 – March 28, 1929	349
88: William Lisle Bowles	September 24, 1762 - April 7, 1850	298
89: Hilaire Belloc	27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953	285
90: Patrick Bronte	17 March 1777 - 7 June 1861	277
91: Anne Bronte	January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849	261
92: Charlotte Bronte	April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855	257
93: Emily Bronte	July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848	249
94: Anne Bradstreet	1612 – September 16, 1672	246
95: Thomas Edward Brown	May 5, 1830 - October 29, 1897	234
96: William Cullen Bryant	November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878	232
97: Rupert Brooke	August 3, 1887 - 23 April 1915	222
98: Robert Burns	25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796	219
99: Ellis Parker Butler	December 5, 1869 - September 13, 1937	186
100: George Gordon Byron	22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824	141