Poets
- Abraham Cowley
- Adrienne Rich
- A. E. Housman
- Aemilia Lanyer
- Alan Seeger
- Alexander Pope
- Alexander Pushkin
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Alfred Noyes
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Allen Ginsberg
- Amiri Baraka
- Amy Lowell
- Andrew Barton Paterson
- Andrew Marvell
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- Anne Bradstreet
- Anne Sexton
- Anthony Hecht
- Archibald Lampman
- Archibald MacLeish