| CAEDMON | The earliest English poet whose name survives (7) |
| RALPH | ___ Roister Doister, one of the earliest English comedy plays (5) |
| 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" |
| SPENSER | English poet whose epic allegory The Faerie Queene celebrates the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I (7) |
| SASSOON | Siegfried, English poet whose collections include Counter Attack (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 |
| HOOD | Thomas ___, English poet whose works include 'The Song of the Shirt' (1843) and 'The Bridge of Sighs' (1844) (4) |
| ALEXANDERPOPE | English poet whose works include The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad |
| DONNE | John ___, English poet whose works include The Storm and The Calm (5) |
| POPE | Alexander _, English poet whose works include The Rape Of The Lock (4) |
| JOHNCLARE | English poet whose volumes included The Rural Muse and The Village Minstrel (4,5) |
| CLARE | John ?, English poet whose volumes include The Rural Muse and The Village Minstrel (5) |
| TENNYSON | Alfred, Victorian English poet whose poems include The Charge Of The Light Brigade (8) |
| LARKIN | English poet whose works include Deceptions and The Old Fools, in his collections The Less Deceived and High Windows respectively (6) |
| JAGO | Richard ___, 18th-century English poet whose works include The Blackbirds (4) |
