| CAEDMON | Earliest English poet whose name survives (7) |
| BRITANNIA | The invasion in 43CE added this province to the Roman Empire - its name survives to this day |
| RIMBAUD | "A Season in Hell" poet, whose name is pronounced like "Rambo" |
| SASSOON | Siegfried, English poet whose collections include Counter Attack (7) |
| SPENSER | English poet whose epic allegory The Faerie Queene celebrates the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I (7) |
| ABBA | Band whose female members learned their earliest English lyrics phonetically |
| NOYES | Poet whose name consists of side-by-side opposites |
| RUMI | Persian poet whose name sounds like "roomy" |
| YEATS | Poet whose name doesn't rhyme with Keats, confusingly |
| POE | Poet whose name is hidden in this clue |
| RALPH | ___ Roister Doister, one of the earliest English comedy plays (5) |
| JAGO | Richard ___, 18th-century English poet whose works include The Blackbirds (4) |
| JOHNMILTON | English poet whose works include the 1634 masque Comus (4,6) |
| DELAMARE | Walter, English poet whose volumes include Peacock Pie (2,2,4) |
| SWINBURNE | Algernon, English poet whose works include Hymn to Proserpine (9) |
| WORDSWORTH | English poet whose only play is entitled The Borderers (10) |
| CLARE | John, English poet whose works include The Rural Muse (5) |
| KEATS | John, English poet whose works include Hyperion (5) |
| DONNE | John ?, English poet whose works include The Storm and The Calm |
| BROOKE | Rupert ?, English poet whose works include Tiare Tahiti and Fafaia |
