Poets
- 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
- Ted Hughes
- Theodore Roethke
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Thomas Campbell
- Thomas Carew
- Thomas Gray
- Thomas Hardy
- Thomas Merton
- Thomas Moore
- Thomas Watson
- Thomas Wyatt
- Thom Gunn
- Tom Clark
- Tony Harrison
- T. S. Eliot
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Virgil
- Wallace Stevens
- Walt Whitman
- W. B. Yeats
- W. E. Henley
- Wendell Berry
- W. H. Auden
- Wilfred Owen
- William Blake
- William Carlos Williams
- William Cowper
- William Cullen Bryant
- William Empson
- William Ernest Henley
- William Morris
- William Shakespeare