Writers · #Poetry

Top 100 Writers tagged #Poetry

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The most famous writers associated with Poetry right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	—	Writers	93.9	6.5
#2	new	William Shakespeare	United Kingdom	Writers	93.1	3.4
#3	new	Miguel de Cervantes	Spain	Writers	91.7	10.0
#4	new	Rabindranath Tagore	India	Writers	91.3	10.0
#5	new	Hans Christian Andersen	—	Writers	91.3	10.0
#6	new	Fyodor Dostoevsky	—	Writers	90.4	2.1
#7	new	Leo Tolstoy	—	Writers	90.3	1.2
#8	new	Edgar Allan Poe	United States	Writers	89.9	12.5
#9	new	Homer	—	Writers	89.6	0.0
#10	new	Victor Hugo	France	Writers	89.6	0.8
#11	new	Franz Kafka	—	Writers	89.6	0.5
#12	new	Oscar Wilde	United Kingdom	Writers	89.3	10.0
#13	new	Dante Alighieri	—	Writers	89.2	0.0
#14	new	Voltaire	France	Writers	88.8	0.0
#15	new	Alexander Pushkin	—	Writers	88.6	0.7
#16	new	Virgil	Italy	Writers	88.1	0.0
#17	new	J. R. R. Tolkien	United Kingdom	Writers	87.7	14.0
#18	new	Jules Verne	France	Writers	87.5	13.2
#19	new	Matsuo Bashō	Japan	Writers	86.9	15.0
#20	new	Agatha Christie	United Kingdom	Writers	86.9	11.6
#21	new	Li Bai	—	Writers	86.7	16.0
#22	new	Molière	France	Writers	86.4	0.0
#23	new	Jorge Luis Borges	Argentina	Writers	86.2	16.7
#24	new	Lord Byron	United Kingdom	Writers	85.7	0.0
#25	new	George Orwell	United Kingdom	Writers	85.0	0.0
#26	new	Ernest Hemingway	United States	Writers	84.9	0.2
#27	new	Friedrich Schiller	Germany	Writers	84.8	12.0
#28	new	James Joyce	—	Writers	84.0	0.0
#29	new	Charles Baudelaire	France	Writers	84.0	8.0
#30	new	Ovid	Italy	Writers	83.4	0.0
#31	new	Geoffrey Chaucer	—	Writers	82.5	2.8
#32	new	Marcel Proust	France	Writers	82.5	0.4
#33	new	Rudyard Kipling	United Kingdom	Writers	82.2	0.0
#34	new	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	—	Writers	81.9	15.0
#35	new	Abu Nuwas	—	Writers	81.6	21.9
#36	new	Thomas Mann	Germany	Writers	81.5	4.1
#37	new	Maxim Gorky	—	Writers	81.3	0.0
#38	new	Euripides	—	Writers	81.1	10.7
#39	new	Hafez	—	Writers	81.0	4.1
#40	new	John Milton	United Kingdom	Writers	80.9	11.2
#41	new	Guy de Maupassant	France	Writers	80.6	7.3
#42	new	Heinrich Heine	Germany	Writers	80.5	1.6
#43	new	Walt Whitman	United States	Writers	80.1	10.9
#44	new	Ivan Turgenev	—	Writers	80.0	23.9
#45	new	William Faulkner	United States	Writers	80.0	10.0
#46	new	Kālidāsa	—	Writers	79.8	0.0
#47	new	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	France	Writers	79.7	0.0
#48	new	Rumi	—	Writers	79.6	1.7
#49	new	Nikolai Gogol	—	Writers	79.5	2.4
#50	new	Robert Louis Stevenson	United Kingdom	Writers	79.4	2.9
#51	new	Henrik Ibsen	Norway	Writers	79.3	0.0
#52	new	Pablo Neruda	—	Writers	79.2	0.1
#53	new	Khalil Gibran	Turkey	Writers	79.2	1.7
#54	new	Émile Zola	France	Writers	79.2	0.0
#55	new	Tacitus	—	Writers	79.2	10.0
#56	new	W. B. Yeats	—	Writers	79.0	2.2
#57	new	Horace	Italy	Writers	78.8	0.0
#58	new	John Keats	United Kingdom	Writers	78.7	10.0
#59	new	William Blake	United Kingdom	Writers	78.6	0.0
#60	new	Sappho	—	Writers	78.5	1.5
#61	new	Walter Scott	United Kingdom	Writers	78.5	14.5
#62	new	Jonathan Swift	—	Writers	78.4	0.0
#63	new	Hermann Hesse	Germany	Writers	78.4	0.0
#64	new	T. S. Eliot	United States	Writers	78.1	0.0
#65	new	Murasaki Shikibu	Japan	Writers	78.1	0.6
#66	new	George Eliot	United Kingdom	Writers	78.0	5.9
#67	new	Arthur Rimbaud	France	Writers	78.0	3.5
#68	new	Taras Shevchenko	—	Writers	78.0	10.0
#69	new	Anatole France	France	Writers	77.9	0.0
#70	new	Mary Shelley	United Kingdom	Writers	77.9	10.4
#71	new	Du Fu	China	Writers	77.9	10.0
#72	new	Federico García Lorca	Spain	Writers	77.8	2.7
#73	new	Aristophanes	—	Writers	77.6	2.0
#74	new	Lewis Carroll	United Kingdom	Writers	77.6	0.0
#75	new	Bertolt Brecht	Germany	Writers	77.5	0.0
#76	new	Knut Hamsun	Norway	Writers	77.2	6.2
#77	new	Selma Lagerlöf	Sweden	Writers	77.0	0.0
#78	new	Samuel Beckett	—	Writers	77.0	2.5
#79	new	Doris Lessing	United Kingdom	Writers	76.9	4.7
#80	new	Giovanni Boccaccio	Italy	Writers	76.9	0.0
#81	new	Michel de Montaigne	France	Writers	76.8	2.2
#82	new	Vladimir Nabokov	—	Writers	76.8	0.0
#83	new	Stefan Zweig	Austria	Writers	76.7	16.3
#84	new	Maurice Maeterlinck	—	Writers	76.7	16.7
#85	new	Lu Xun	China	Writers	76.6	17.3
#86	new	Emily Dickinson	United States	Writers	76.5	0.0
#87	new	Jean de La Fontaine	France	Writers	76.4	0.9
#88	new	Nero	Italy	Writers	76.2	1.4
#89	new	Jack London	United States	Writers	76.2	0.0
#90	new	Boris Pasternak	—	Writers	76.0	1.2
#91	new	Aldous Huxley	United Kingdom	Writers	76.0	0.0
#92	new	Henry David Thoreau	United States	Writers	75.9	0.0
#93	new	Zoroaster	—	Writers	75.7	0.0
#94	new	Daniel Defoe	United Kingdom	Writers	75.7	0.0
#95	new	Francis of Assisi	Italy	Writers	75.6	0.0
#96	new	Emily Brontë	United Kingdom	Writers	75.4	0.0
#97	new	Sima Qian	China	Writers	75.3	0.3
#98	new	Percy Bysshe Shelley	United Kingdom	Writers	75.3	0.0
#99	new	Luigi Pirandello	Italy	Writers	75.1	1.5
#100	new	Gerhart Hauptmann	—	Writers	75.1	12.5