| DICKINSON | Emily with the poems |
| POE | Poet with the poems Lenore and The Raven |
| TENNYSON | Alfred ___, author of the poems The Lady of Shalott and Voices in the Mist (8) |
| AUDEN | Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Letters from Iceland, For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio and of the poems published posthumously in the collection Thank You, Fog (5) |
| SITWELL | The poems set to music in William Walton's Facade were from a collection of the same name by Edith ____ |
| TOMMY | 1969 rock opera by The Who; or, one of the poems in Rudyard Kipling's collection Barrack-Room Ballads (5) |
| SOMETREES | Debut John Ashbery collection that includes the poems "The Grapevine" and "Album Leaf" |
| ELECTRIC | I Sing the Body -; one of the poems from Walt Whitman's collection Leaves of Grass (8) |
| OMARKHAYYAM | Persian author (c. 1048-1131) of the poems known as the Rubaiyat ('quatrains'), first translated into English in 1859 (4,7) |
| SHROPSHIRE | English county used as the setting of many of the poems in A. E. Housman's first book (10) |
| PASTORALS | The poems in Spenser's "The Shepheardes Calender," e.g. |
| TSELIOT | Author of the poems The Four Quartets (1,1,5) |
| ELIOT | Author of the poems on which the musical Cats is based (5) |
| NOWWEARESIX | Book including the poems "Binker" and "Pinkle Purr" |
| ODES | Some of the poems of Keats |
| COMPOSE | Write and be joint reviser of the poems (7) |
| BOULEZ | Pierre ___, French composer, conductor and pianist whose works include Pli selon pli, based on the poems of Stephane Mallarme |
| KIPLING | Who wrote the poems "Mandalay" and "Gunga Din"? (7) |
| ODE | Type of poem often used as the first word in the poem's title |
| COPE | Wendy ---, writer of the poems Loss and Bloody Men |