Top 50 Poets in United Kingdom

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest poets in United Kingdom, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 86 poets tracked in United Kingdom, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. John Cooper Clarke, Sylvia Plath and Ada Lovelace lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1,320,347 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 119,144, and the largest, John Cooper Clarke, reaches around 474,023 people in United Kingdom. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United Kingdom who actively engage with each poet, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United Kingdom and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	John Cooper Clarke	474,023	79.0%	Poet	Literature
2	Sylvia Plath	429,262	8.1%	Poet	Literature
3	Ada Lovelace	417,062	14.3%	Poet	Politics & Society
4	Richard I of England	355,468	30.9%	Poet	Politics & Society
5	Michael Morpurgo	334,406	84.4%	Poet	Literature
6	Wilfred Owen	322,591	61.0%	Poet	Literature
7	Antler	298,366	9.9%	Poet	Pets & Animals
8	Emily Brontë	268,323	13.6%	Poet	Literature
9	Lord Byron	249,496	11.8%	Poet	Literature
10	H. P. Lovecraft	218,899	6.8%	Poet	Literature
11	Robert Louis Stevenson	184,785	16.8%	Poet	Literature
12	Percy Bysshe Shelley	150,858	16.8%	Poet	Literature
13	T. S. Eliot	138,893	5.8%	Poet	Literature
14	Bertolt Brecht	131,961	5.7%	Poet	Literature
15	Seamus Heaney	129,403	46.0%	Poet	Literature
16	Tennessee Williams	125,115	11.3%	Poet	Literature
17	Hafez	112,430	15.7%	Poet	Literature
18	Aldous Huxley	107,781	9.1%	Poet	Literature
19	Rumi	102,233	7.2%	Poet	Politics & Society
20	Charlotte Brontë	78,239	14.0%	Poet	Literature
21	Alexander Pushkin	76,404	6.8%	Poet	Literature
22	John Keats	74,547	10.0%	Poet	Literature
23	Robert Graves	74,069	23.9%	Poet	Literature
24	Ray Bradbury	68,477	5.4%	Poet	Literature
25	Iris Murdoch	61,490	31.4%	Poet	Literature
26	Allen Ginsberg	61,321	8.2%	Poet	Literature
27	Ralph Waldo Emerson	60,290	5.3%	Poet	Literature
28	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	56,497	28.1%	Poet	Literature
29	John Milton	55,907	5.9%	Poet	Literature
30	Husayn ibn Ali	53,319	9.9%	Poet	Politics & Society
31	Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum	50,203	5.7%	Poet	Politics & Society
32	Lucan	45,674	4.5%	Poet	Literature
33	Anne Brontë	45,495	22.2%	Poet	Literature
34	Henry David Thoreau	45,038	3.7%	Poet	Literature
35	dean koontz	42,129	6.7%	Poet	Literature
36	Joyce Carol Oates	42,102	5.8%	Poet	Literature
37	Wole Soyinka	41,578	13.1%	Poet	Literature
38	Shel Silverstein	38,989	2.9%	Poet	Literature
39	Mahmoud Darwish	36,801	4.4%	Poet	Literature
40	Amanda Gorman	36,325	5.3%	Poet	Literature
41	Cyrano de Bergerac	34,511	3.5%	Poet	Literature
42	Augustine of Hippo	34,074	2.3%	Poet	Politics & Society
43	John Henry Newman	27,746	11.6%	Poet	Politics & Society
44	Audre Lorde	26,860	4.8%	Poet	Literature
45	Nikolai Gogol	26,584	3.2%	Poet	Literature
46	Charles Baudelaire	25,866	1.9%	Poet	Literature
47	Muhammad al-Bukhari	25,349	6.0%	Poet	Politics & Society
48	E. E. Cummings	22,735	10.9%	Poet	Literature
49	Michel Houellebecq	19,241	3.1%	Poet	Literature
50	John Updike	17,992	8.9%	Poet	Literature