OK, you poeticals, you need contain your impatience no longer. Here are the results of the normblog poets poll. There were 120 entries and they have produced a top 20 (really 23 on account of a four-way tie for 20th place). There also seems to be a 'natural' top 5. If you have any grumbles about these results, blame the voters. The methods of the normblog polling organization remain as impeccable as ever.
For each of the top poets, the number of votes obtained is given in brackets after his or her place number.
The normblog favourite English-language poets
01 (29) - W. B. Yeats
02 (22) - Philip Larkin
03 (20) - William Shakespeare
04 (18) - T. S. Eliot
05 (13) - John Keats
06 (11) - W. H. Auden
06 (11) - Emily Dickinson
06 (11) - John Donne
06 (11) - Robert Frost
10 (10) - William Blake
11 (9) - George Herbert
12 (8) - Dylan Thomas
13 (7) - Thomas Hardy
13 (7) - Walt Whitman
15 (6) - A. E. Housman
15 (6) - John Milton
17 (5) - Lord Byron
17 (5) - Gerard Manley Hopkins
17 (5) - William Wordsworth
20 (4) - Ted Hughes
20 (4) - Louis MacNeice
20 (4) - Wilfred Owen
20 (4) - Wallace Stevens
Receiving 3 votes: John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Wendy Cope, Bob Dylan, Patrick Kavanagh, Andrew Marvell, Sylvia Plath, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Thanks to everyone who sent in an entry. Participant blogs:
Bare Witness, Bebere, Beyond the Sunrise, Black Triangle, Bookish Gardener, Butterflies and Wheels, A Cloud in Trousers, Disillusioned Lefty, Envirospin Watch, George Szirtes, Hak Mao, It Comes in Pints, Just Another False Alarm, Leighton Andrews, Mick Hartley, Neo-Neocon, Never Trust A Hippy, The Non-Bloggish Blog, Panchromatica, Planning Blog, Rullsenberg Rules, Saving the World, SIAW/DSTP, Simply Jews, Spiced Sass, The Virtual Stoa, Who Knew?, Winds of Change.
(Details of, and links to, all previous normblog polls can be found here.)