| PETRARCH | Francesco -, 14th-century Italian poet known for the Rime Sparse (8) |
| ANACREON | Ancient Greek lyric poet known for his drinking songs (8) |
| TIMOCLES | Athenian comic poet known for ridiculing public figures (8) |
| TRECENTO | Turned to centre of 14th century Italian art (8) |
| BASHO | Matsuo ?, 17th-century Japanese poet known for The Narrow Road To The Deep North |
| SPENSER | Edmund ___ (c. 1552-99), English poet known for the epic poem The Faerie Queene (7) |
| BOCCACCIO | Giovanni -, 14th-century Italian poet who authored short story collection The Decameron (9) |
| DANTE | Which 13th-14th-century Italian poet wrote The Divine Comedy? (5) |
| WHITMAN | Walt ---, American poet known for the verse collection Leaves Of Grass (7) |
| SAMUELTAYLORCOLERIDGE | English poet best known for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan |
| PETRARCHAN | Type of sonnet named after a 14th-century Italian poet |
| JUVENAL | Roman poet known for his 2nd century AD collection Satires (7) |
| OGDEN | _ Nash, 20th-century American poet known for his pithy and funny light verse (5) |
| DICKINSON | Emily ---, 19th Century American poet known for her unconventional use of metre and capitalisation (9) |
| VIRGIL | 1st century BC Roman poet known for his Eclogues (6) |
| ROCHESTER | John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of _, 17th-century poet known for his rakish lifestyle (9) |
| TORQUATOTASSO | Sixteenth century Italian poet who wrote Jerusalem Delivered and the pastoral idyll Aminta (8,5) |
| TASSO | Torquato ___, 16th-century Italian poet noted for the 1581 epic Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) (5) |
| PINDAR | Greek lyric poet known for his odes |
| MACKELLAR | Australian poet known for My Country (9) |
