A list of Famous 19th Century American Poets. The authors listed on this page include some of the greatest poets of 19th Century. See also: Poets by Nationality | Contemporary American Poets | American Women Poets | All American Poets American Poets Born: Before 1400 | 1601-1700 | 1701-1800 | 1801-1900 | 1901-1950 | After 1951

A
Louisa May Alcott (16) (1832 - 1888)	Conrad Aiken (64) (1889 - 1973)
B
Stephen Vincent Benet (32) (1898 - 1943)	Louise Bogan (22) (1897 - 1970)	Ambrose Bierce (12) (1842 - 1914)
Gelett Burgess (10) (1866 - 1951)	Ellis Parker Butler (72) (1869 - 1937)	William Rose Benet (2) (1886 - 1950)
C
E. E. Cummings (153) (1894 - 1962)	Stephen Crane (95) (1871 - 1900)	Hart Crane (13) (1899 - 1932)
Willa Cather (6) (1873 - 1947)
D
Emily Dickinson (1779) (1830 - 1886)	Paul Laurence Dunbar (38) (1872 - 1906)	Hilda Doolittle (20) (1886 - 1961)
Henry Van Dyke (114) (1852 - 1933)	Mark van Doren (10) (1894 - 1972)
E
T. S. Eliot (45) (1888 - 1965)	Ralph Waldo Emerson (65) (1803 - 1882)
F
Robert Frost (180) (1874 - 1963)	Eugene Field (148) (1850 - 1895)	John Gould Fletcher (2) (1886 - 1950)
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1) (1882 - 1961)
H
Oliver Wendell Holmes (36) (1809 - 1894)	Bret Harte (1) (1836 - 1902)	Julia Ward Howe (5) (1819 - 1910)
William Dean Howells (1) (1837 - 1920)
J
Robinson Jeffers (58) (1887 - 1962)	Helen Hunt Jackson (39) (1831 - 1885)
K
Joyce Kilmer (59) (1886 - 1918)
L
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (136) (1807 - 1882)	Amy Lowell (152) (1874 - 1925)	Vachel Lindsay (168) (1879 - 1931)
Emma Lazarus (24) (1849 - 1887)	Sidney Lanier (75) (1842 - 1881)
M
Claude McKay (76) (1889 - 1948)	Marianne Moore (18) (1887 - 1972)	Edna St. Vincent Millay (165) (1892 - 1950)
Edgar Lee Masters (251) (1868 - 1950)	Archibald MacLeish (10) (1892 - 1982)	Herman Melville (16) (1819 - 1891)
Alice Duer Miller (1) (1874 - 1942)	Christopher Morley (6) (1890 - 1957)	William Vaughn Moody (6) (1869 - 1910)
Edwin Markham (5) (1852 - 1940)	Joaquin Miller (3) (1841 - 1913)
P
Edgar Allan Poe (50) (1809 - 1849)	Dorothy Parker (181) (1893 - 1967)	Ezra Pound (71) (1885 - 1972)
Katherine Anne Porter (1) (1890 - 1980)
R
Edwin Arlington Robinson (176) (1869 - 1935)	Lizette Woodworth Reese (6) (1856 - 1935)	Lola Ridge (1) (1873 - 1941)
John Crowe Ransom (11) (1888 - 1974)
S
Carl Sandburg (440) (1878 - 1967)	Wallace Stevens (33) (1879 - 1955)	Gertrude Stein (3) (1874 - 1946)
Alan Seeger (75) (1886 - 1916)
T
Sara Teasdale (49) (1884 - 1933)	Mark Twain (6) (1835 - 1910)	Henry David Thoreau (22) (1817 - 1862)
Jean Toomer (17) (1894 - 1967)	Ernest Lawrence Thayer (1) (1863 - 1940)
W
Walt Whitman (329) (1819 - 1892)	William Carlos Williams (59) (1883 - 1963)	Ella Wheeler Wilcox (164) (1850 - 1919)
John Greenleaf Whittier (35) (1807 - 1892)	James Weldon Johnson (4) (1871 - 1938)	James Whitcomb Riley (38) (1849 - 1916)
Edith Wharton (2) (1862 - 1937)	John Wheelwright (1) (1897 - 1940)	Margaret Widdemer (4) (1884 - 1978)
Elinor Wylie (52) (1885 - 1928)

19th Century American Poets and Poems

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