| PHILIPLARKIN | English poet whose collections include The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (194) (6,6) |
| LARKIN | Philip, English poet whose collections include The Whitsun Weddings (6) |
| PHILIP | English poet whose collections included 1964's The Whitsun Weddings, _ Larkin (6) |
| HUGHES | Ted, poet whose collections include The Hawk in the Rain (6) |
| BELLOC | Hilaire, poet whose collections include The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (6) |
| LOWELL | Robert, U.S. poet whose collections include The Dolphin (6) |
| RAINE | Craig ___, English poet whose collections include A Martian Sends a Postcard Home |
| SASSOON | Siegfried, English poet whose collections include Counter Attack (7) |
| LARDNER | Ring ?, short story writer whose collections include The Real Dope and What of It? (7) |
| ADRIANHENRI | Poet whose collections include Wish You Were Here and Penny Arcade (6,5) |
| FLEUR | Poet whose collections include Tigers (1967) and Dragon Talk (2010) (5,6) |
| PLATH | Sylvia _, poet whose collections include Ariel and Winter Trees (5) |
| AUDEN | W.H., English-born poet whose collections include Look, Stranger (5) |
| YEATS | W.B. ---, Irish poet and dramatist whose verse collections include The Tower (5) |
| CHANDLER | Raymond -; author whose novels including The Big Sleep and The High Window feature private eye Philip Marlowe (8) |
| ADCOCK | Poet whose collections include Tigers (1967) |
| BAUDELAIRE | Charles _, French writer whose poetry collections include The Flowers of Evil (10) |
| HOUSMAN | Classical scholar and poet whose collection A Shropshire Lad includes March, Bredon Hill, The Lent Lily and Hughley Steeple (7) |
| HEANEY | Seamus -; poet whose collection Field Work includes Oysters, The Otter and sequence Glanmore Sonnets (6) |
| BROWNING | Poet whose collection Dramatic Lyrics includes The Pied Piper of Hamelin and My Last Duchess (8) |
