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This list is the Top 100 Authors by views.

Author	Period	# Reads
1: Joseph Addison	May 1, 1672 – June 17, 1719	17626
2: William Butler Yeats	June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939	16523
3: Elizabeth Barrett Browning	March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861	15398
4: John Le Gay Brereton	2 September 1871 - 2 February 1933	15298
5: Henry Lawson	17 June 1867 - 2 September 1922	15266
6: Walter Scott (Sir)	15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832	15073
7: Thomas Campbell	July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844	14881
8: Jennings Carmichael	24 February 1868 – 9 February 1904	14604
9: Rudyard Kipling	December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936	14599
10: A. R. Ammons	February 18, 1926 – February 25, 2001	14471
11: Robert Herrick	Baptized - August 24, 1591- October 1674	13609
12: Anna Akhmatova	June 23, 1889 — March 5, 1966	13339
13: Robert Lee Frost	March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963	13176
14: Edgar Allan Poe	January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849	13157
15: Mark Akenside	November 9, 1721 – June 23, 1770	13004
16: Matthew Arnold	24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888	12976
17: Walt Whitman	May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892	12959
18: Robert Browning	May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889	12757
19: Yehuda Amichai	1924 - September 22, 2000	12734
20: Sara Teasdale	August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933	12723
21: Edward Dyson	1865-1931	12699
22: Alfred Lord Tennyson	August 6, 1809 – October 6, 1892	12685
23: William Wordsworth	April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850	12639
24: William Allingham	March 19, 1824 or 1828 - November 18, 1889	12574
25: Aphra Behn	July 10, 1640 – April 16, 1689	12289
26: Conrad Potter Aiken	August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973	12238
27: Bertolt Brecht	February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956	12156
28: John Greenleaf Whittier	December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892	12010
29: William Barnes	22nd February 1801 - 7th October 1886	11996
30: Lewis Carroll	January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898	11943
31: Alexander Pope	21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744	11890
32: Banjo Paterson (Andrew Barton)	February 17, 1864 - February 5, 1941	11682
33: Ambrose Bierce	June 24, 1842 – 1914	11628
34: Richard Harris Barham	December 6, 1788–June 17, 1845	11620
35: Elizabeth Jennings	July 18, 1926 – October 26, 2001	11618
36: William Collins	25 December 1721 – 12 June 1759	11537
37: John Keats	31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821	11300
38: John Masefield	1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967	11158
39: Matthew Prior	July 21, 1664 – September 18, 1721	11118
40: William Henry Drummond	April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907	11078
41: Nizar Qabbani	21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998	11074
42: James Henry Leigh Hunt	October 19, 1784 – August 28, 1859	11035
43: John McCrae	November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918	10927
44: Wolcott Balestier	December 13, 1861 - 1891	10875
45: George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)	25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950	10832
46: H. H. C. C.		10669
47: Ben Jonson	c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637	10624
48: Barcroft Boake	March 26, 1866 – ? May 10, 1892	10624
49: Joseph Burrows		10557
50: Robert Lowell	March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977	10488
51: Washington Irving	April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859	10486
52: Marriott Edgar	October 5th, 1880 - May 5th, 1951	10432
53: Rolf Boldrewood (Thomas Alexander Browne)	6 August 1826 – 11 March 1915	10318
54: Nathaniel Parker Willis	January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867	10305
55: Walter Savage Landor	January 30, 1775 – September 17, 1864	10265
56: John Wilmot	April 1, 1647 - July 26, 1680	10243
57: James Joyce	2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941	10200
58: Algernon Charles Swinburne	April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909	10179
59: Joaquin Miller	September 8, 1837, - February 17, 1913	10149
60: Thomas Osborne Davis	October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845	10136
61: H. G. Wells	September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946	10117
62: Adam Lindsay Gordon	October 19, 1833 – 24 June 1870	10051
63: Abijah M. Ide	1825 – 1873	10045
64: Francis Kenna	1865 - 1932	9803
65: Louis Shreve Osborne		9761
66: Arthur Hugh Clough	January 1, 1819 – November 13, 1861	9618
67: Victor James Daley	5 September 1858 – 29 December 1905	9560
68: Mary Hannay Foott	26 September 1846 – 12 October 1918	9309
69: James Lister Cuthbertson	8 May 1851 - 18 January 1910	9304
70: William Shakespeare	baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616	9284
71: Samuel Taylor Coleridge	October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834	9266
72: William Chatterton Dix	June 14, 1837 - September 9, 1898	9105
73: Bret Harte (Francis)	August 25, 1837 – May 6, 1902	8949
74: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke	24 April 1846—2 August 1881	8943
75: Enid Derham	March 24, 1882 – November 13, 1941	8882
76: M. Forrest	1872 - 1935	8870
77: Henry Kendall	April 18, 1839 - August 1, 1882	8517
78: Thomas William Heney	5 November 1862 – 19 August 192	8459
79: John Milton	December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674	8406
80: James Thomson - (Bysshe Vanolis)	November 23, 1834 - June 3, 1882	8372
81: James Thomson	11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748	8286
82: John Milton Hayes	1884 - 1940	7918
83: James Hebblethwaite	22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921	7779
84: Charles G. Leland	August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903	7765
85: Madison Julius Cawein	23 March 1865 - 8 December 1914	7383
86: Louisa May Alcott	November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888	7098
87: William Blake	November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827	6724
88: Horatio Alger, Jr.	January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899	6688
89: Charles Baudelaire	April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867	6428
90: Thomas Bailey Aldrich	11 November 1836 – 19 March 1907	6039
91: John Clare	13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864	5928
92: Gilbert Keith Chesterton	May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936	5919
93: George Gordon Byron	22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824	5901
94: Anne Bradstreet	1612 – September 16, 1672	5854
95: Robert Burns	25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796	5783
96: William Cullen Bryant	November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878	5663
97: Hilaire Belloc	27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953	5651
98: Anne Bronte	January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849	5611
99: Elizabeth Anderson		5572
100: Charlotte Bronte	April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855	5566