Poets
- Samuel Beckett
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Sandra Cisneros
- Sappho
- Sara Teasdale
- Seamus Heaney
- Sharon Olds
- Sidney Lanier
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Sir Walter Scott
- Sophocles
- Sri Aurobindo
- Stanley Kunitz
- Stephen Crane
- Stephen Foster
- Stephen Spender
- Stevie Smith
- Syd Barrett
- Sylvia Plath