2022 in poetry Major poetry related events taking place worldwide during 2022 are outlined below under different sections. These include poetry books released during the year in different languages, major poetry awards, poetry festivals and events, besides anniv ...

2021 in poetry Major poetry related events taking place worldwide during 2021 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides ann ...

2020 in poetry Major poetry related events taking place worldwide during 2020 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides ann ...

2019 in poetry Major poetry related events which took place worldwide during 2019 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides ...

2018 in poetry Major poetry related events which took place worldwide during 2018 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides ...

2017 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *May 23 – English poet Tony Walsh reads his 2013 poem "This is the place" to the crowds gathered in Albert Square, ...

2016 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January 14 – Egyptian poet Omar Hazek, who was released from prison in September 2015, is prevented from leaving ...

2015 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * September 8 – In the 2015 edition of ''Best American Poetry'', the inclusion of a poem by Michael Derrick Hudson ...

2014 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January – Five fragments of nine poems, some previously unknown, by Greek poet Sappho are discovered on ancient ...

Madeline Gins Madeline Helen Arakawa Gins (November 7, 1941 – January 8, 2014) was an American artist, architect, and poet. Early life and education Gins was born in New York City, November 7, 1941, and raised on Long Island, in the village of Island Park. ...

Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the author of numerous bo ...

José Emilio Pacheco José Emilio Pacheco Berny (June 30, 1939 – January 26, 2014) was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century. The Berlin International Lite ...

Maya Angelou Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and ...

2013 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *June 4 – English publication of ''For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison'' by L ...

2012 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January 31 – A Chinese court sentences poet and political dissident Zhu Yufu to a seven-year prison term for "inc ...

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Da ...

persona non grata In diplomacy, a ' (Latin: "person not welcome", plural: ') is a status applied by a host country to foreign diplomats to remove their protection of diplomatic immunity from arrest and other types of prosecution. Diplomacy Under Article 9 of the ...

2011 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 19 – Liz Lochhead becomes the second Scots Makar, the official national poet of Scotland. * April 4 – ...

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The Scots Makar A makar () is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as a royal court poet. Since the 19th century, the term ''The Makars'' has been specifically used to refer to a number of poets of fifteenth and sixteenth cen ...

Josephine Hart Josephine Hart, Baroness Saatchi (1 March 1942 – 2 June 2011

2010 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 19 – For the first time since 1949, an anonymous black-clad man, known as the Poe Toaster, failed to sh ...

Peter Orlovsky Peter Anton Orlovsky (July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010) was an American poet and actor. He was the long-time partner of Allen Ginsberg. Early life and career Orlovsky was born in the Lower East Side of New York City, the son of Katherine (née ...

P. Lal Purushottama Lal (28 August 1929 – 3 November 2010), commonly known as P. Lal, was an Indian poet, essayist, translator, professor and publisher. He was the founder of publishing firm Writers Workshop in Calcutta, established in 1958. Life a ...

2009 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 5 – The Turkish government announces it will posthumously restore the citizenship it had stripped from i ...

Dennis Brutus Dennis Vincent Brutus (28 November 1924 – 26 December 2009) was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have South Africa banned from the Olympic Games due to its racial policy of apartheid. ...

Nicholas Hughes Nicholas Farrar Hughes (January 17, 1962 – March 16, 2009) was an English-American fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology.Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath) *

2008 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * June 18 – Release in the United Kingdom of a new film, ''The Edge of Love'', concerning Dylan Thomas' relationshi ...

Death of

Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanne ...

, Jonathan Williams *

2007 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 5: a car bomb was exploded on Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. More than 30 people were killed and more than 10 ...

Death of

William Morris Meredith, Jr. William Morris Meredith Jr. (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980. Biography Early years Meredith was born in New York City ...

, Emmett Williams *

2006 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January – The Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Cultural Foundation, founded by the Kyoto, Japan, Chamber of Commerce and In ...

Seamus Heaney's ''

District and Circle ''District and Circle'' is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 2006 and won the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize, the most prestigious poetry award in the UK. The collection also won ...

''; Death of Stanley Kunitz *

2005 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * October 7 — Celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the first reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" were s ...

Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanne ...

awarded the

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; Death of Philip Lamantia,

Robert Creeley Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Char ...

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2004 in poetry This article presents lists of historical events related to the writing of poetry during 2004. The historical context of events related to the writing of poetry in 2004 are addressed in articles such as ''History of Poetry'' Nationality words link ...

Seamus Heaney reads " Beacons of Bealtaine" for 25 leaders of the enlarged European Union; Edwin Morgan named as

The Scots Makar A makar () is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as a royal court poet. Since the 19th century, the term ''The Makars'' has been specifically used to refer to a number of poets of fifteenth and sixteenth cen ...

; Death of Janet Frame,

Jackson Mac Low Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004) was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, whi ...

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Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation ...

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2003 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 29 – Poet Dana Gioia, who had retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to ...

John Paul II's '' Roman Triptych (Meditation)'';

Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (1905–1982) was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Although he did not consider h ...

's ''Complete Poems'' (posthumous) *

2002 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 16 — Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrest and jail poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and dismiss a newspaper editor ...

Death of Kenneth Koch *

2001 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Immediately after the September 11 attacks in the United States, W. H. Auden's "September 1, 1939" was read (with m ...

Seamus Heaney's ''

Electric Light An electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light. It is the most common form of artificial lighting. Lamps usually have a base made of ceramic, metal, glass, or plastic, which secures the lamp in the soc ...

''; First-ever Griffin Poetry Prize in Canada; Death of Gregory Corso *

2000 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one aw ...

Death of Yehuda Amichai, Ahmad Shamlou

20th century in poetry

1990s

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1999 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * 1 May 1999 — Andrew Motion becomes Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom for 10 years * 1 July 1999 — Scotland's ...

Andrew Motion Sir Andrew Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio reco ...

succeeds Ted Hughes as the UK's Poet Laureate; Julia Donaldson's ''

The Gruffalo ''The Gruffalo'' is a British children's picture book by author Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Its tells the story of a mouse taking a walk in the woods and deceiving different predators, including the Gruffalo. ''The Gruf ...

''; Death of

Edward Dorn Edward Merton Dorn (April 2, 1929 – December 10, 1999, aged 70) was an American poet and teacher often associated with the Black Mountain poets. His most famous work is '' ''Gunslinger'. Overview Dorn was born in Villa Grove, Illinois. ...

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1998 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * May 12 — John Montague is named as first holder of The Ireland Chair of Poetry. * August — English poet and p ...

Ted Hughes's '' Birthday Letters''; Death of

Zbigniew Herbert Zbigniew Herbert (; 29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998) was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. He is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. While he was first published in the 1950s (a volume title ...

, Ted Hughes, Octavio Paz *

1997 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January 20 — Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem, "Of History and Hope," at President Clinton's inaugur ...

Death of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, James Dickey, Denise Levertov, David Ignatow, James Laughlin, William Matthews *

1996 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April – National Poetry Month established by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and ap ...

Seamus Heaney's '' The Spirit Level''; Wisława Szymborska awarded the

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; Death of

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...

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1995 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *February 16 – It is announced that 300 poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge have been discovered. *February 17 – Sot ...

Seamus Heaney awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

; Death of May Sarton, Sir Stephen Spender CBE,

David Avidan David Avidan (Hebrew: דוד אבידן) (February 21, 1934 – May 11, 1995) was an Israeli "poet, painter, filmmaker, publicist, and playwright" (as he often put it). He wrote 20 published books of Hebrew poetry. Biography and literary career ...

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1994 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * May 23 — C. P. Cavafy's poem "Ithaka" is read at the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by her longtime ...

Death of Charles Bukowski *

1993 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 20 — Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton. * Ma ...

Maya Angelou Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and ...

reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of U.S. President Bill Clinton *

1992 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *The Forward Prizes for Poetry in the U.K. are initiated and ''The Forward Book of Poetry'', an associated annual ant ...

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

awarded the

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; Death of

Eve Merriam Eve Merriam (July 19, 1916 – April 11, 1992) was an American poet and writer. Writing career Merriam's first book was the 1946 ''Family Circle'', which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Her book, ''The Inner City Mother Goose'', was described ...

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1991 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Forward Poetry Prize created * Dana Gioia, writing in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' suggests (in an article titled "Can ...

Death of Dr. Seuss, James Schuyler, Howard Nemerov *

1990 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day. * Jason Shinder, an American poet, expands a New York C ...

Octavio Paz awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

; Death of Lawrence Durrell

1980s

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1989 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April 15–June 4 – 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing (China): Poets are active in the events (se ...

Death of

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

, Robert Penn Warren, May Swenson *

1988 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * The first annual ''The Best American Poetry'' volume is published this year. * During a poetry reading in which pop ...

Death of

Máirtín Ó Direáin Máirtín Ó Direáin (; 29 November 1910 – 19 March 1988) was an Irish poet from the Aran Islands Gaeltacht. Along with Seán Ó Ríordáin and Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Ó Direáin was, in the words of Louis de Paor, "one of a trinity of poets ...

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Miguel Piñero Miguel Piñero (December 19, 1946 – June 16, 1988) was a playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café. He was a leading member of the Nuyorican literary movement. Early years Piñero was born on December 19, 1946, in Gura ...

, Robert Duncan *

1987 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April – First issue of '' o•blék: a journal of language arts'' (pronounced "oblique") is published in the Unit ...

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...

awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

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Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

and Louis Zukofsky, ''Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky'', edited by Barry Ahearn (Faber & Faber) *

1986 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *March 4 — Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, publicly recites from memory lines from Robert W. Se ...

Wole Soyinka awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

; Death of John Ciardi,

Jean Genet Jean Genet (; – ) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels ''The Thief's ...

, Jaroslav Seifert *

1985 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 16 - Canadian Poetry Association founded. * May - The term " New Formalism" is first used in the article "T ...

Death of

Robert Graves Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was a British poet, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celtic ...

, Philip Larkin *

1984 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *December 19 – Ted Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to Sir John Betjeman is ...

Jaroslav Seifert awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

; Ted Hughes succeeds John Betjeman as the UK's Poet Laureate (on the refusal of Philip Larkin); Death of

George Oppen George Oppen (April 24, 1908 – July 7, 1984) was an American poet, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and moved to Mexico in 1950 to avoid the attentions o ...

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1983 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April – Russian samizdat poet Irina Ratushinskaya is sentenced to imprisonment in a labor camp for dissident ...

Death of

Ted Berrigan Ted Berrigan (November 15, 1934 – July 4, 1983) was an American poet. Early life Berrigan was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 15, 1934. After high school, he spent a year at Providence College before joining the U.S. Army. After ...

, Edwin Denby *

1982 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 1 – Dylan Thomas posthumously honoured by a floor plaque in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey * September � ...

Death of

Kenneth Rexroth Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (1905–1982) was an American poet, translator, and critical essayist. He is regarded as a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance, and paved the groundwork for the movement. Although he did not consider h ...

, Archibald MacLeish, Djuna Barnes *

1981 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * American poet Jane Greer launches ''Plains Poetry Journal'', an advance guard of the New Formalism movement. * Fin ...

Death of Christy Brown *

1980 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Mark Jarman and Robert McDowell start the small magazine '' The Reaper'' to promote narrative and formal poetry. ...

Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation ...

awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

; Death of Muriel Rukeyser

1970s

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1979 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * ''The Kenyon Review'' is restarted by Kenyon College in the United States 10 years after the original publication w ...

Death of

Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American people, American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the N ...

; Jacqueline Osherow is awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal for an English Poem *

1978 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Bloodaxe Books is established by Neil Astley in Newcastle upon Tyne, England * ''L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E'' magazine, edit ...

Death of

Micheál Mac Liammóir Micheál Mac Liammóir (born Alfred Willmore; 25 October 1899 – 6 March 1978) was an actor, designer, dramatist, writer and impresario in 20th-century Ireland. Though born in London to an English family with no Irish connections, he emigrated ...

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1977 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January – James Dickey, composes a poem he reads at new United States President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural ga ...

Death of

Robert Lowell Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the ''Mayflower''. His family, past and present, were important subjects i ...

, Vladimir Nabokov, Seán Ó Ríordáin *

1976 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 1 – Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A ...

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1975 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Following the fall of the Greek military junta in 1974, poets, authors and intellectuals who had fled after the c ...

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1974 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April – The dictatorship in Portugal falls; in the six months prior, with increasing repression and a discouragin ...

Death of Miguel Ángel Asturias, Anne Sexton; Philip Larkin's '' High Windows'' *

1973 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * September 16 – Chilean poet Víctor Jara, having been detained four days earlier as a political prisoner in ...

Death of W. H. Auden,

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

, J. R. R. Tolkien *

1972 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * June 4 — Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union. * May 22 — Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate ...

John Betjeman Sir John Betjeman (; 28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, ...

succeeds Cecil Day-Lewis as the UK's Poet Laureate; Death of

John Berryman John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in th ...

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Kenneth Patchen Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911January 8, 1972) was an American poet and novelist. He experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting, drawing, and jazz music into his works, which have been compared with those of Will ...

, Padraic Colum, Marianne Moore,

Richard Church Richard Church may refer to: *Richard Church (general) (1784–1873), Irish military officer in the British and Greek army *Richard William Church (1815–1890), nephew of the general, Dean of St Paul's *Richard Church (poet) (1893–1972), English ...

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Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Irish-born British poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Bla ...

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Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

, Mark Van Doren, Paul Goodman *

1971 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Winter — ''This'' magazine founded in the United States by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten * March – Cuban ...

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

; Death of Jim Morrison, Ogden Nash *

1970 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * May – "La nuit de la poésie", a poetry reading in Montreal bringing together poets from French Canada to rec ...

Death of

Nelly Sachs Nelly Sachs (; 10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German-Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of he ...

, Charles Olson,

Paul Celan Paul Celan (; ; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born German-language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți (German: Czernowitz), in the then Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsi, U ...

, Leah Goldberg

1960s

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1969 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of English poet Ted Hughes (and ex-wife of Canadian poet D ...

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

; Death of

Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian a ...

,

André Salmon André Salmon (4 October 1881, Paris – 12 March 1969, Sanary-sur-Mer) was a French poet, art critic and writer. He was one of the early defenders of Cubism, with Guillaume Apollinaire and Maurice Raynal. Biography André Salmon was born in P ...

*

1968 in poetry The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – " Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Janu ...

Leonard Cohen, ''Selected Poems, 1956-1968'' *

1967 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Poetry International started by Ted Hughes and Patrick Garland * May 16 – the premiere at Taganka Theater in Mo ...

Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Irish-born British poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Bla ...

selected as the UK's new Poet Laureate (succeeding John Masefield); Death of Patrick Kavanagh, John Masefield, Carl Sandburg *

1966 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Raymond Souster founds the League of Canadian Poets * Philip Hobsbaum, who had founded The Belfast Group in Belfast ...

Seamus Heaney's ''

Death of a Naturalist ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966) is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection was Heaney's first major published volume, and includes ideas that he had presented at meetings o ...

''; Death of Anna Akhmatova,

André Breton André Robert Breton (; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') o ...

,

Frank O'Hara Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure i ...

, Basil Bunting's ''Briggflatts'' *

1965 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * June 11 – International Poetry Incarnation, a performance poetry event, is staged at the Royal Albert Hall in Lo ...

Death of

T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biogr ...

*

1964 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 23 – A surprise best-seller in the United Kingdom is John Lennon's ''In His Own Write'', a compendium of no ...

John Lennon's '' In His Own Write'', containing nonsensical poems, sketches and drawings (a best seller by the member of the Beatles);

Something Else Press Something Else Press was founded by Dick Higgins in 1963. It published many important Intermedia texts and artworks by such Fluxus artists as Higgins, Ray Johnson, Alison Knowles, Allan Kaprow, George Brecht, Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Al ...

founded by Dick Higgins in 1963 (publishes concrete poetry by several authors, starting in 1964), Philip Larkin's ''The Whitsun Weddings''; Death of Brendan Behan,

Dame Edith Sitwell Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess ...

DBE *

1963 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). —Opening lines of "Edge" by Sylvia Plath, written days before her suicide Events * January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit ...

Bob Dylan's album '' The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' released (with his most influential early songwriting); Death of Nâzım Hikmet,

Louis MacNeice Frederick Louis MacNeice (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet and playwright, and a member of the Auden Group, which also included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis. MacNeice's body of work was widely a ...

, Sylvia Plath,

Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloq ...

, William Carlos Williams, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau *

1962 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * May 30 – Composer Benjamin Britten's '' War Requiem'', incorporating settings of Wilfred Owen's poems, is pre ...

Death of

E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...

*

1961 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 20 – Robert Frost recites his poem "The Gift Outright" at the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as Pres ...

Allen Ginsberg's ''Kaddish and Other Poems''; death of

H. D. Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the ...

,Death of Rabindranath Tagore *

1960 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Spring – August Derleth launches the poetry magazine ''Hawk and Whippoorwill'' in the United States. * September ...

Dr. Seuss's '' Green Eggs and Ham''; Death of

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...

1950s

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1959 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *March – at a dinner celebrating Robert Frost's 85th birthday, the critic Lionel Trilling gives some brief remark ...

Death of Edgar Guest, Lakshmi Prasad Devkota *

1958 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April 18 — American poet Ezra Pound's indictment for treason is dismissed.Ackroyd, Peter, ''Ezra Pound'', Tha ...

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...

awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

; Death of Alfred Noyes, Robert W. Service;

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

's indictment for treason is dismissed. He is released from

St. Elizabeths Hospital St. Elizabeths Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Southeast, Washington, D.C. operated by the District of Columbia Department of Behavioral Health. It opened in 1855 under the name Government Hospital for the Insane, the first federally oper ...

, an insane asylum in Maryland, after spending 12 years there (starting in

1946 Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...

) *

1957 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 10 – T. S. Eliot marries his secretary Valerie Fletcher, almost 40 years his junior, in a private churc ...

Howl obscenity trial in San Francisco, Ted Hughes's ''The Hawk in the Rain'', Dr. Seuss's '' The Cat in the Hat'' and '' How the Grinch Stole Christmas''; Death of

Oliver St. John Gogarty Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty (17 August 1878 – 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist. He served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel ...

*

1956 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * February 25 – English poet Ted Hughes and American poet Sylvia Plath meet in Cambridge, England. *June 16 &n ...

Allen Ginsberg's '' Howl and Other Poems'', a signature of the

Beat Generation The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized by Silent Generatio ...

published by City Lights Books, United States; Birth of

Cathal Ó Searcaigh Cathal Ó Searcaigh (born 12 July 1956), is a modern Irish language poet. His work has been widely translated, anthologised and studied. "His confident internationalism", according to Theo Dorgan, has channeled "new modes, new possibilities, in ...

*

1955 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April – Wallace Stevens is baptized a Catholic by the chaplain of St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connectic ...

Discovery of the '' Hinilawod'' by

F. Landa Jocano Felipe Landa Jocano (February 5, 1930 – October 27, 2013) was a Filipino anthropologist, educator, and author known for his significant body of work within the field of Philippine Anthropology, and in particular for documenting and translatin ...

; Death of

Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance compa ...

; Birth of

Paula Meehan Paula Meehan (born 1955) is an Irish poet and playwright. Life and work Paula Meehan was born in Dublin in 1955, the eldest of six children. She subsequently moved to London with her parents where she attended St. Elizabeth's Primary School ...

, William Wall *

1954 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 25 – Dylan Thomas's ''Under Milk Wood'' is broadcast posthumously on BBC Radio. * February – W. ...

Dr. Seuss's '' Horton Hears a Who!'' *

1953 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * T. S. Eliot founds the Poetry Book Society in the U.K. * George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Harold L. Humes fo ...

Death of

Dylan Thomas Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" ''Under ...

; Birth of Frank McGuinness *

1952 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * August 12 — Night of the Murdered Poets, the execution of thirteen Soviet Jews in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow ...

Death of

Paul Éluard Paul Éluard (), born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (; 14 December 1895 – 18 November 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. In 1916, he chose the name Paul Éluard, a matronymic borrowed from his maternal ...

, George Santayana; Birth of

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (; born 1952) is a leading Irish poet. Biography Born in Lancashire, England, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5 and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary. Her uncle, Mo ...

*

1951 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Poet Cid Corman begins ''Origin'' magazine in response to the failure of a magazine that Robert Creeley had planne ...

Birth of Paul Muldoon *

1950 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *Charles Olson publishes his seminal essay, "Projective Verse". In this, he calls for a poetry of "open field" compos ...

Death of

Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of he ...

; Birth of

Mary Dorcey Mary Dorcey (born in 1950) is an Irish poet, novelist, short story writer, feminist and LGBTQIA+ activist. She was a former writer in residence at Trinity College Dublin and the Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre of University Coll ...

, Medbh McGuckian

1940s

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1949 in poetry Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry. Events * January 19 - Starting this year, and cont ...

Birth of

Gabriel Rosenstock Gabriel Rosenstock (born 29 September 1949) is an Irish writer who works chiefly in the Irish language. A member of Aosdána, he is poet, playwright, haikuist, tankaist, essayist, and author/translator of over 180 books, mostly in Irish. Born in ...

*

1948 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 6 – Pablo Neruda speaks out in the Senate of Chile against political repression and is forced into hiding ...

T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biogr ...

awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

*

1947 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * February 17 – On the death of Montserrat-born British fantasy fiction writer M. P. Shiel, his supposed title ...

Cleanth Brooks's ''The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry'' (a classic statement of the

New Criticism New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century. It emphasized close reading, particularly of poetry, to discover how a work of literature functioned as ...

); Birth of Dermot Healy *

1946 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March – Japanese poet Sadako Kurihara's "Bringing Forth New Life" (生ましめんかな, ''Umashimen-kana'') is ...

"

On Raglan Road "On Raglan Road" is a well-known Irish song from a poem written by Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh named after Raglan Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin. In the poem, the speaker recalls, while walking on a "quiet street," a love affair that he had with ...

" first published, with the title "Dark Haired Miriam Ran Away";

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

brought back to the United States on treason charges, but found unfit to face trial because of insanity and sent to

St. Elizabeths Hospital St. Elizabeths Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Southeast, Washington, D.C. operated by the District of Columbia Department of Behavioral Health. It opened in 1855 under the name Government Hospital for the Insane, the first federally oper ...

in Washington, D.C., where he remained for 12 years; Death of Gertrude Stein *

1945 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 4 — Pablo Neruda elected a Communist party senator in Chile. He officially joins the Communist Party of Ch ...

Death of Paul Valéry,

Robert Desnos Robert Desnos (; 4 July 1900 – 8 June 1945) was a French poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement of his day. Biography Robert Desnos was born in Paris on 4 July 1900, the son of a licensed dealer in game and poultry at the '' H ...

, Zinaida Gippius; Birth of Van Morrison,

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

*

1944 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * June 1 & June 5 – The first and (modified) second lines respectively of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem ''Chanson d ...

Birth of Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan *

1943 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * September 12 – Abraham Sutzkever, a Polish Jew writing poetry in Yiddish, escapes the Vilna Ghetto with his w ...

Death of Stephen Vincent Benét,

William Soutar William Soutar (28 April 1898 – 15 October 1943) was a Scottish poet and diarist who wrote in English and in Braid Scots. He is known best for his epigrams. Life and works William Soutar was born on 28 April 1898 on South Inch Terrace in P ...

in Perth; Birth of Jim Morrison;

T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biogr ...

's '' Four Quartets'' published as a whole *

1942 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March 28 – Spanish poet Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital havin ...

Birth of William Matthews,

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (; born 1942) is an Irish poet and academic. She was the Ireland Professor of Poetry (2016–19). Biography Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork in 1942. She is the daughter of Eilís Dillon and Professor Cormac Ó Cuil ...

; Death of

Konstantin Balmont Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont ( rus, Константи́н Дми́триевич Бальмо́нт, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪdʑ bɐlʲˈmont, a=Konstantin Dmitriyevich Bal'mont.ru.vorb.oga; – 23 December 1942) was a Rus ...

*

1941 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January 20 — Chittadhar Hridaya begins a 6-year sentence of imprisonment in Kathmandu for writing poetry in ...

Death of James Joyce, Marina Tsvetaeva; Birth of Bob Dylan,

Derek Mahon Derek Mahon (23 November 1941 – 1 October 2020) was an Irish poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland but lived in a number of cities around the world. At his death it was noted that his, "influence in the Irish poetry community, lite ...

*

1940 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January – English literary magazine ''Horizon'' is first published in London by Cyril Connolly, Peter Watso ...

Birth of

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...

, John Lennon

1930s

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1939 in poetry — W. H. Auden, from "September 1, 1939" Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January ** Last issue of ''The Criterion'' is published ** '' The Ken ...

Death of

W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...

; Birth of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley; T.S. Eliot's '' Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats'' *

1938 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * In Nazi Germany the ''Reichsschrifttumskammer'' (the National Socialist authors' association) bans German expressi ...

Death of Osip Mandelstam *

1937 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * February 1 – First broadcast on Sveriges Radio (Sweden) of the continuing programme ''Dagens dikt'' ("Poem of the ...

''

Lahuta e Malcís ''The Highland Lute'' ( sq, Lahuta e Malcís, original and standard language of the time based on Gheg Albanian) is the Albanian national epic poem, completed and published by the Albanian friar and poet Gjergj Fishta in 1937. It consists of 30 son ...

'' -

Gjergj Fishta Gjergj Fishta (; 23 October 187130 December 1940) was an Albanian Franciscan friar, poet, educator, politician, rilindas, translator and writer. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century due to his epic ...

; First-ever

Governor General's Literary Awards The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...

in Canada; Birth of Diane Wakoski *

1936 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January – ''Canadian Poetry Magazine'' first published by the Canadian Authors Association, with E. J. Pratt ...

Killing of Federico García Lorca, Death of Rudyard Kipling; Birth of

John Giorno John Giorno (December 4, 1936 – October 11, 2019) was an American poet and performance artist. He founded the not-for-profit production company Giorno Poetry Systems and organized a number of early multimedia poetry experiments and events, inc ...

*

1935 in poetry Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, "United Kingdom" links to English poetry and "India" links to Indian poetry. Events * June 3 – Canadian poet Charles ...

Charles G. D. Roberts Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. He was one of the first Canadian authors to be internationally known. He published various works on Canadian exploration and na ...

knighted for his poetry; Anna Akhmatova begins publishing her cycle of poems ''

Requiem A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead ( la, Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead ( la, Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, ...

'' *

1934 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April 6 – Rudyard Kipling and W. B. Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry. * September – T ...

Death of Andrei Bely; Birth of Leonard Cohen, Wole Soyinka *

1933 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January – Geoffrey Grigson publishes the first issue of ''New Verse'' in London (1933–39). * January–Ma ...

'' The Winding Stair'' -

W.B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...

; Death of Sara Teasdale; Birth of Yevgeny Yevtushenko *

1932 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April 23 – Opening of Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. *April 26 – 32-year-old American poet Hart ...

Death of

Hart Crane Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Provoked and inspired by T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, '' The Brid ...

; Birth of Christy Brown, Michael McClure, David Antin, Sylvia Plath * 1931 in poetry Death of Vachel Lindsay, Kahlil Gibran; Birth of Tomas Tranströmer * 1930 in poetry John Masefield succeeds Robert Bridges as the UK's Poet Laureate; Death of Robert Bridges, D. H. Lawrence, Vladimir Mayakovsky; birth of Gary Snyder, Adunis,

Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanne ...

,

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

1920s

* 1929 in poetry Pulitzer Prize for Poetry awarded to Stephen Vincent Benét for ''John Brown's Body (poem), John Brown's Body''; Birth of Ed Dorn, John Montague (poet), John Montague * 1928 in poetry ''The Tower (poetry collection), The Tower (book)'' -

W.B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...

; Birth of

Maya Angelou Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and ...

, Thomas Kinsella; Death of Thomas Hardy * 1927 in poetry

William Soutar William Soutar (28 April 1898 – 15 October 1943) was a Scottish poet and diarist who wrote in English and in Braid Scots. He is known best for his epigrams. Life and works William Soutar was born on 28 April 1898 on South Inch Terrace in P ...

creates his ''Epigram form'' of the Cinquain; Birth of John Ashbery * 1926 in poetry Death of Rainer Maria Rilke, Birth of Allen Ginsberg,

Robert Creeley Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with Char ...

,

Frank O'Hara Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure i ...

* 1925 in poetry Death of Sergei Yesenin, Birth of Ahmad Shamlou * 1924 in poetry Birth of Yehuda Amichai, Janet Frame,

Zbigniew Herbert Zbigniew Herbert (; 29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998) was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. He is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. While he was first published in the 1950s (a volume title ...

* 1923 in poetry

W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...

is the first Irishman awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

;

Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She wrote much of he ...

is the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Birth of Brendan Behan, Yves Bonnefoy, Wisława Szymborska, Aco Šopov * 1922 in poetry T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"; Rainer Maria Rilke completes both the ''Duino Elegies'' and the ''Sonnets to Orpheus''; Birth of

Jack Kerouac Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Of French-Canadian a ...

, Máire Mhac an tSaoi * 1921 in poetry Birth of Vasko Popa, Death of Alexander Blok * 1920 in poetry The ''Epic of Manas'' is published; approximate date of Mikhail Khudiakov's ''Dorvyzhy''; ''The Dial'', a longstanding American literary magazine, is re-established by Scofield Thayer, with the publication becoming an important outlet for Modernist literature, Modernist poets and writers (until 1929 in poetry, 1929), with contributors this year including Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Kenneth Burke,

Hart Crane Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Provoked and inspired by T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, '' The Brid ...

,

E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...

, Charles Demuth, Kahlil Gibran, Gaston Lachaise, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore,

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

, Odilon Redon, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Van Wyck Brooks, and

W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...

; Birth of

Paul Celan Paul Celan (; ; 23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born German-language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți (German: Czernowitz), in the then Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsi, U ...

, Charles Bukowski

1910s

* 1919 in poetry Birth of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, May Swenson, William Morris Meredith, Jr., William Meredith * 1918 in poetry Death of Guillaume Apollinaire, Wilfred Owen; Gerard Manley Hopkins's ''Poems'' published posthumously by Robert Bridges * 1917 in poetry Birth of

Robert Lowell Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the ''Mayflower''. His family, past and present, were important subjects i ...

;

T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biogr ...

's ''Prufrock and other Observations'' * 1916 in poetry The Dada movement in art, poetry and literature coalesced at Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich), Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, where Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Täuber and others discussed art and put on performances expressing their disgust with World War I and the interests they believed inspired it; Death of Patrick Pearse, Joseph Mary Plunkett; Birth of Tom Kettle * 1915 in poetry Death of Rupert Brooke * 1914 in poetry Death of Adelaide Crapsey; Birth of William Burroughs, Octavio Paz,

Dylan Thomas Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" ''Under ...

* 1913 in poetry Rabindranath Tagore awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

, Robert Bridges succeeds Alfred Austin as the UK's Poet Laureate; The launch of Imagism in the pages of ''Poetry (magazine), Poetry'' magazine by H.D., Richard Aldington and

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

,

Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloq ...

's ''A Boy's Will''; Death of Alfred Austin, Lesya Ukrainka; birth of R. S. Thomas * 1912 in poetry Adelaide Crapsey creates her ''couplet'' form * 1911 in poetry Adelaide Crapsey creates the ''American Cinquain'' form; Birth of Leah Goldberg,

Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation ...

* 1910 in poetry Death of Julia Ward Howe; Birth of Charles Olson,

Jean Genet Jean Genet (; – ) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels ''The Thief's ...

1900s

* 1909 in poetry Death of Sarah Orne Jewett; Birth of Stephen Spender * 1908 in poetry * 1907 in poetry Rudyard Kipling awarded the

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

; Birth of W. H. Auden,

Louis MacNeice Frederick Louis MacNeice (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet and playwright, and a member of the Auden Group, which also included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis. MacNeice's body of work was widely a ...

* 1906 in poetry Alfred Noyes publishes ''The Highwayman (poem), The Highwayman''; Birth of

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

* 1905 in poetry * 1904 in poetry Birth of

Cecil Day-Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis (or Day Lewis; 27 April 1904 – 22 May 1972), often written as C. Day-Lewis, was an Irish-born British poet and Poet Laureate from 1968 until his death in 1972. He also wrote mystery stories under the pseudonym of Nicholas Bla ...

, Patrick Kavanagh,

Pablo Neruda Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda (; ), was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Nerud ...

* 1903 in poetry * 1902 in poetry Death of Masaoka Shiki, Shiki the haiku poet; Birth of Langston Hughes ; Giles Lytton Strachey is awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal for an English Poem * 1901 in poetry Birth of Jaroslav Seifert * 1900 in poetry Death of Oscar Wilde

19th century in poetry

1890s

* 1899 in poetry Birth of

Hart Crane Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Provoked and inspired by T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, '' The Brid ...

,

Micheál Mac Liammóir Micheál Mac Liammóir (born Alfred Willmore; 25 October 1899 – 6 March 1978) was an actor, designer, dramatist, writer and impresario in 20th-century Ireland. Though born in London to an English family with no Irish connections, he emigrated ...

, Vladimir Nabokov * 1898 in poetry Death of Stéphane Mallarmé, Lewis Carroll; Birth of Stephen Vincent Benét, Federico García Lorca,

William Soutar William Soutar (28 April 1898 – 15 October 1943) was a Scottish poet and diarist who wrote in English and in Braid Scots. He is known best for his epigrams. Life and works William Soutar was born on 28 April 1898 on South Inch Terrace in P ...

* 1897 in poetry * 1896 in poetry Death of Paul Verlaine * 1895 in poetry Birth of

Robert Graves Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was a British poet, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celtic ...

, Sergei Yesenin * 1894 in poetry Death of Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. * 1893 in poetry Birth of Vladimir Mayakovsky * 1892 in poetry Emily Dickinson First collection published; Death of Walt Whitman James Russell Lowell, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Afanasy Fet; Birth of Marina Tsvetaeva, Hugh MacDiarmid * 1891 in poetry Death of Arthur Rimbaud, Herman Melville; Birth of

Nelly Sachs Nelly Sachs (; 10 December 1891 – 12 May 1970) was a German-Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of he ...

, Osip Mandelstam * 1890 in poetry Birth of

Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (; rus, Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к, p=bɐˈrʲis lʲɪɐˈnʲidəvʲɪtɕ pəstɛrˈnak; 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer and literary translator. Composed in 1917, Pa ...

1880s

* 1889 in poetry Birth of Anna Akhmatova; death of Gerard Manley Hopkins * 1888 in poetry Birth of

T. S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 18884 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor.Bush, Ronald. "T. S. Eliot's Life and Career", in John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds), ''American National Biogr ...

* 1887 in poetry ''Lāčplēsis'' by Andrejs Pumpurs; Birth of Marianne Moore, Joseph Plunkett, Edith Sitwell DBE * 1886 in poetry Death of Emily Dickinson; birth of H.D. * 1885 in poetry Birth of D. H. Lawrence,

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

; Death of Victor Hugo * 1884 in poetry * 1883 in poetry Birth of William Carlos Williams * 1882 in poetry Death of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Birth of James Joyce, A. A. Milne * 1881 in poetry * 1880 in poetry Birth of Guillaume Apollinaire, Andrei Bely, Tom Kettle, Alfred Noyes, Alexander Blok

1870s

* 1879 in poetry Birth of Patrick Pearse,

Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance compa ...

* 1878 in poetry Birth of

Oliver St. John Gogarty Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty (17 August 1878 – 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist. He served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel ...

, Carl Sandburg, John Edward Masefield, Adelaide Crapsey * 1877 in poetry Jacint Verdaguer's ''L'Atlàntida'' * 1876 in poetry Death of John Neal (writer), John Neal * 1875 in poetry French language, French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", by Stéphane Mallarmé with drawings by Édouard Manet; - Birth of Rainer Maria Rilke, important pre-Modernism, modernist 20th-century poet in German poetry, German. * 1874 in poetry Arthur Rimbaud's ''Illuminations (poems), Illuminations''First collection of George Eliot's poetry; - Birth of Gertrude Stein,

Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloq ...

, important American poetry, American poet * 1873 in poetry Arthur Rimbaud's ''Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell)''; Publication of ''Daredevils of Sassoun''; Death of Fyodor Tyutchev * 1872 in poetry Christina Rossetti's ''In the Bleak Midwinter'' (Christmas carol); José Hernández's ''Martín Fierro''; Michel Rodange's ''Rénert the Fox'' * 1871 in poetry Lewis Carroll publishes ''Through the Looking-Glass'', including the complete ''Jabberwocky''. Arthur Rimbaud wrote "Letters of the Seer." Birth of Lesya Ukrainka, important Ukrainian poet * 1870 in poetry

1860s

* 1869 in poetry George Eliot sonnet Brother & Sister; Birth of Zinaida Gippius, important Russian poet * 1868 in poetry * 1867 in poetry Death of Charles Baudelaire, French poetry, French poet and art critic; Birth of Masaoka Shiki, Shiki the haiku poet,

Konstantin Balmont Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont ( rus, Константи́н Дми́триевич Бальмо́нт, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪdʑ bɐlʲˈmont, a=Konstantin Dmitriyevich Bal'mont.ru.vorb.oga; – 23 December 1942) was a Rus ...

, Russian Symbolism (arts), symbolist poet * 1866 in poetry * 1865 in poetry Birth of William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling * 1864 in poetry Death of John Clare, Walter Savage Landor * 1863 in poetry * 1862 in poetry Christina Rossetti ''Goblin Market'', George Meredith's ''Modern Love'' * 1861 in poetry Death of Taras Shevchenko, Birth of Rabindranath Tagore * 1860 in poetry

1850s

* 1859 in poetry Death of James Henry Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt * 1858 in poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ''The Courtship of Miles Standish * 1857 in poetry Charles Baudelaire's ''Les Fleurs du mal'' * 1856 in poetry Death of Heinrich Heine; - ''Aurora Leigh'' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning * 1855 in poetry Walt Whitman's ''Leaves of Grass,'' a first stanza of Lewis Carroll's ''Jabberwocky,'' Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's ''The Song of Hiawatha''; - Death of Adam Mickiewicz * 1854 in poetry Birth of Arthur Rimbaud * 1853 in poetry First and unprinted version of Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald's ''Kalevipoeg'' * 1852 in poetry Death of Thomas Moore * 1851 in poetry * 1850 in poetry Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ''Sonnets from the Portuguese''; Robert Browning ''Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day''; - Death of William Wordsworth

1840s

* 1849 in poetry Death of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's ''Annabel Lee,'' Birth of Sarah Orne Jewett (Martha's Lady) * 1848 in poetry Founding of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood * 1847 in poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's ''Evangeline''; Petar II Petrović-Njegoš's ''The Mountain Wreath'' * 1846 in poetry * 1845 in poetry Edgar Allan Poe's ''The Raven'' * 1844 in poetry Birth of Paul Verlaine * 1843 in poetry William Wordsworth becomes Poet Laureate * 1842 in poetry Birth of Stéphane Mallarmé; Alfred Tennyson ''Poems (Tennyson, 1842), Poems'' * 1841 in poetry Death of Mikhail Lermontov * 1840 in poetry Birth of Thomas Hardy

1830s

* 1839 in poetry * 1838 in poetry ''Florante at Laura'' by Francisco Balagtas * 1837 in poetry Death of Aleksandr Pushkin * 1836 in poetry ''The Baptism on the Savica'' by France Prešeren * 1835 in poetry ''The Kalevala'' by Elias Lönnrot * 1834 in poetry ''Pan Tadeusz'' by Adam Mickiewicz; Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge * 1833 in poetry * 1832 in poetry Birth of Lewis Carroll; Death of Sir Walter Scott, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe * 1831 in poetry Birth of Emily Dickinson * 1830 in poetry Birth of Christina Rossetti in London

1820s

* 1829 in poetry Alfred Lord Tennyson is awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal for an English Poem * 1828 in poetry Birth of Dante Gabriel Rossetti * 1827 in poetry Death of William Blake * 1826 in poetry Death of Kobayashi Issa, Issa the haiku poet * 1825 in poetry Alexander Pushkin begins publishing ''Eugene Onegin'' in serial form * 1824 in poetry Death of Lord Byron, important English poetry, English Romantic poetry, Romantic poet * 1823 in poetry Birth of Sándor Petőfi, Hungary, Hungarian national poet Winthrop Mackworth Praed is awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal for an English Poem, Clement Clarke Moore A Visit from St. Nicholas * 1822 in poetry Lord Byron ''The Vision of Judgment''; Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, important English poetry, English Romantic poetry, Romantic poet * 1821 in poetry Death of John Keats, important English poetry, English Romantic poetry, Romantic poet; - Birth of Charles Baudelaire, French poetry, French poet and art critic * 1820 in poetry

1810s

* 1819 in poetry Scholars described - ''The Great Year'' for John Keats, who publishes his famous ''Odes''; ''Don Juan (Byron)'' - Lord Byron; - Birth of George Eliot, Walt Whitman, important American poetry, American poet, Herman Melville, American poetry, American poet, novelist, James Russell Lowell, American poetry, American poet, Julia Ward Howe, American poetry, American poet * 1818 in poetry Lord Byron's ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Book IV,'' published; - Birth of Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle; - Mary Shelley (''née'' Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin publishes ''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' anonymously; Percy Bysshe Shelley's ''Ozymandias'' * 1817 in poetry Percy Bysshe Shelley, ''Laon and Cythna'' * 1816 in poetry Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley marries Mary Shelley, Mary Woolstonecraft Godwin, Lord Byron's ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Book III,'' published; Samuel Coleridge's ''Kubla Khan'' * 1815 in poetry * 1814 in poetry ''West-östlicher Diwan'' - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; ''She Walks in Beauty'' - Lord Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to war-ravaged France, accompanied by Godwin's stepsister, Mary Jane. Birth of Mikhail Lermontov, important Russian poet; Birth of Taras Shevchenko, important Ukrainians, Ukrainian poet * 1813 in poetry The Chancellor's Gold Medal for an English Poem is awarded for the first time. Recipient is George Waddington. * 1812 in poetry ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage'' - Lord Byron; Birth of Afanasy Fet, important Russian poet * 1811 in poetry * 1810 in poetry ''Milton: a Poem,'' epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810

1800s

* 1809 in poetry Birth of Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. American poetry, American poet, physician, and essayist * 1808 in poetry Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - ''Goethe's Faust, Faust, Part One'' * 1807 in poetry Birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier * 1806 in poetry Birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning * 1805 in poetry ''And did those feet in ancient time, Jerusalem'' poem by William Blake; - Death of Friedrich Schiller, German poetry, German poet * 1804 in poetry * 1803 in poetry Birth of Fyodor Tyutchev, important Russian poet * 1802 in poetry Birth of Victor Hugo * 1801 in poetry * 1800 in poetry Death of William Cowper

18th century in poetry

1790s

* 1799 in poetry Birth of Aleksandr Pushkin, important Russian poetry, Russian poet * 1798 in poetry William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish ''Lyrical Ballads''. Birth of Adam Mickiewicz, important Poles, Polish poet * 1797 in poetry Birth of Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Heinrich Heine * 1796 in poetry Death of Robert Burns, James Macpherson * 1795 in poetry Birth of John Keats, important English poetry, English poet; - William Blake, ''The Book of Los'', ''The Book of Ahania'', ''The Song of Los'' * 1794 in poetry ''Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul'' two books of poetry and ''The Book of Urizen'' by English people, English poet and Painting, painter William Blake * 1793 in poetry William Blake, ''Visions of the Daughters of Albion'' and ''America, A Prophecy''; - Birth of John Clare, John Neal (writer), John Neal * 1792 in poetry Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley, important English poetry, English poet; - William Blake ''Song of Liberty'' * 1791 in poetry William Blake, ''The French Revolution'' * 1790 in poetry William Blake, ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell''

1780s

* 1789 in poetry William Blake publishes ''Songs of Innocence'' and ''The Book of Thel'' * 1788 in poetry Birth of Lord Byron, (English poetry, English) * 1787 in poetry * 1786 in poetry Robert Burns publishes ''Kilmarnock volume, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect'' * 1785 in poetry William Cowper publishes ''The Task (poem), The Task'' * 1784 in poetry Birth of James Henry Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt; Death of Samuel Johnson English literature, English author, wrote Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, (1779–81) * 1783 in poetry Death of Buson the haiku poet * 1782 in poetry * 1781 in poetry * 1780 in poetry

1770s

* 1779 in poetry Birth of Irish poetry, Irish poet Thomas Moore * 1778 in poetry * 1777 in poetry * 1776 in poetry * 1775 in poetry Birth of Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor * 1774 in poetry Birth of Robert Southey; Death of Oliver Goldsmith * 1773 in poetry Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill composes "Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire" * 1772 in poetry "Prometheus" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge * 1771 in poetry Death of Thomas Gray, English poetry, English poet, (born 1716 in poetry, 1716); - Birth of Sir Walter Scott * 1770 in poetry Birth of William Wordsworth, important English poetry, English poet (died 1850 in poetry, 1850); - Death of Thomas Chatterton, 17-year-old English poetry, English poet and forgery, forger of pseudo-medieval poetry born 1752 in poetry, 1752

1760s

* 1769 in poetry * 1768 in poetry * 1767 in poetry * 1766 in poetry * 1765 in poetry Thomas Percy (Bishop of Dromore), Thomas Percy, ''Reliques of Ancient English Poetry''; Kristijonas Donelaitis, ''The Seasons (poem), The Seasons'' * 1764 in poetry Oliver Goldsmith, ''The Traveller (poem), The Traveller'' * 1763 in poetry Birth of Samuel Rogers * 1762 in poetry Birth of Kobayashi Issa, Issa the haiku poet * 1761 in poetry * 1760 in poetry

1750s

* 1759 in poetry Birth of Robert Burns, Friedrich Schiller, German poetry, German poet philosopher, and dramatist (died 1805 in poetry, 1805) * 1758 in poetry * 1757 in poetry * 1756 in poetry * 1755 in poetry * 1754 in poetry * 1753 in poetry * 1752 in poetry * 1751 in poetry * 1750 in poetry

1740s

* 1749 in poetry Birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poetry, German poet and author * 1748 in poetry Death of James Thomson (poet), James Thomson * 1747 in poetry * 1746 in poetry * 1745 in poetry Death of Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satire, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, English poetry, poet * 1744 in poetry Death of Alexander Pope, English poetry, English poet; - Anonymous, ''Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book'', the first extant collection of nursery rhymes * 1743 in poetry Death of Richard Savage (poet), Richard Savage, English poetry, English poet * 1742 in poetry * 1741 in poetry * 1740 in poetry

1730s

* 1739 in poetry * 1738 in poetry * 1737 in poetry * 1736 in poetry Birth of James Macpherson, Scottish poet * 1735 in poetry * 1734 in poetry * 1733 in poetry * 1732 in poetry * 1731 in poetry * 1730 in poetry

1720s

* 1729 in poetry * 1728 in poetry * 1727 in poetry * 1726 in poetry * 1725 in poetry * 1724 in poetry * 1723 in poetry * 1722 in poetry * 1721 in poetry * 1720 in poetry

1710s

* 1719 in poetry Death of Joseph Addison, English essayist and poet * 1718 in poetry * 1717 in poetry * 1716 in poetry First printed version of the ''Epic of King Gesar''; First printed version of ''The Jangar Epic''; Birth of Thomas Gray, English poetry, English poet, (died 1771 in poetry, 1771) * 1715 in poetry Birth of Buson the haiku poet * 1714 in poetry First printed version of ''Popol Vuh'' * 1713 in poetry * 1712 in poetry * 1711 in poetry * 1710 in poetry

1700s

* 1709 in poetry Birth of Samuel Johnson, English literature, English author, biographer * 1708 in poetry * 1707 in poetry * 1706 in poetry * 1705 in poetry Death of Michael Wigglesworth (born 1631 in poetry, 1631), English poetry, English poet, colonist in American poetry, America called "the most popular of early New England poets" * 1704 in poetry * 1703 in poetry * 1702 in poetry * 1701 in poetry * 1700 in poetry ''Hikayat Hang Tuah''; Death of John Dryden, influential England, English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright; - Birth of James Thomson (poet), James Thomson, English poet

17th century in poetry

1690s

* 1699 in poetry * 1698 in poetry * 1697 in poetry Birth of Richard Savage (poet), Richard Savage, English poetry, English poet * 1696 in poetry * 1695 in poetry * 1694 in poetry Death of the haiku poet Matsuo Bashō * 1693 in poetry * 1692 in poetry * 1691 in poetry * 1690 in poetry

1680s

* 1689 in poetry ''Oku no Hosomichi'' by Matsuo Bashō * 1688 in poetry Birth of Alexander Pope, English poetry, English poet * 1687 in poetry * 1686 in poetry * 1685 in poetry * 1684 in poetry * 1683 in poetry * 1682 in poetry * 1681 in poetry * 1680 in poetry

1670s

* 1679 in poetry * 1678 in poetry * 1677 in poetry * 1676 in poetry * 1675 in poetry * 1674 in poetry Death of John Milton, important English poetry, English poet * 1673 in poetry * 1672 in poetry Birth of Joseph Addison, English essayist and poet * 1671 in poetry * 1670 in poetry

1660s

* 1669 in poetry * 1668 in poetry * 1667 in poetry Birth of Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satire, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, English poetry, poet * 1666 in poetry * 1665 in poetry * 1664 in poetry Anne Bradstreet, ''Meditations Divine and Moral''Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West
''Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History''
Oxford University Press US, 1996 , retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009 * 1663 in poetry * 1662 in poetry * 1661 in poetry * 1660 in poetry

1650s

* 1659 in poetry * 1658 in poetry * 1657 in poetry * 1656 in poetry * 1655 in poetry * 1654 in poetry * 1653 in poetry * 1652 in poetry * 1651 in poetry * 1650 in poetry

1640s

* 1649 in poetry * 1648 in poetry * 1647 in poetry ''The Siege of Sziget'' by Miklós Zrínyi; April 1 — birth of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (died 1680 in poetry, 1680) * 1646 in poetry * 1645 in poetry * 1644 in poetry Birth of Matsuo Bashō the haiku poet * 1643 in poetry * 1642 in poetry * 1641 in poetry * 1640 in poetry - ''Biag ni Lam-ang'' first transcribed by Pedro Bucaneg

1630s

* 1639 in poetry * 1638 in poetry * 1637 in poetry Death of Ben Jonson, important English poetry, English poet, playwright, actor * 1636 in poetry * 1635 in poetry * 1634 in poetry * 1633 in poetry * 1632 in poetry * 1631 in poetry Death of John Donne, important English poetry, English poet, essayist, author, preacher; - Birth of John Dryden influential England, English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright; Birth of Michael Wigglesworth (died 1705 in poetry, 1705), English poetry, English poet, colonist in American poetry, America called "the most popular of early New England poets"Trent, William P. and Wells, Benjamin W., ''Colonial Prose and Poetry: The Beginnings of Americanism 1650-1710'', New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1903 edition, page 41 * 1630 in poetry

1620s

* 1629 in poetry * 1628 in poetry * 1627 in poetry * 1626 in poetry * 1625 in poetry * 1624 in poetry * 1623 in poetry * 1622 in poetry * 1621 in poetry * 1620 in poetry

1610s

* 1619 in poetry * 1618 in poetry Death of Sir Walter Raleigh * 1617 in poetry * 1616 in poetry Death of William Shakespeare English poetry, English poet, playwright and genius * 1615 in poetry * 1614 in poetry ''A Wife,'' poem by Thomas Overbury, Sir Thomas Overbury published posthumously * 1613 in poetry Death of Thomas Overbury English poetry, English poet * 1612 in poetry * 1611 in poetry * 1610 in poetry

1600s

* 1609 in poetry Publication of William Shakespeare's ''Sonnets'' * 1608 in poetry Birth of John Milton, important English poetry, English poet * 1607 in poetry * 1606 in poetry * 1605 in poetry * 1604 in poetry * 1603 in poetry * 1602 in poetry * 1601 in poetry * 1600 in poetry

16th century in poetry

1590s

* 1599 in poetry Death of Edmund Spenser English poetry, English poet * 1598 in poetry * 1597 in poetry * 1596 in poetry * 1595 in poetry * 1594 in poetry * 1593 in poetry Birth of George Herbert Welsh poetry, Welsh poet; - Death of Christopher Marlowe English poetry, English poet * 1592 in poetry * 1591 in poetry * 1590 in poetry

1580s

* 1589 in poetry * 1588 in poetry * 1587 in poetry * 1586 in poetry Birth of John Ford (dramatist), John Ford English poetry, English poet and playwright (d. c. 1640) * 1585 in poetry Death of Pierre de Ronsard * 1584 in poetry * 1583 in poetry * 1582 in poetry * 1581 in poetry ''Jerusalem Delivered'' by Torquato Tasso; Birth of Thomas Overbury English poetry, English poet (d.1613) * 1580 in poetry

1570s

* 1579 in poetry * 1578 in poetry * 1577 in poetry Illustrated manuscript of the ''Hamzanama'' * 1576 in poetry * 1575 in poetry * 1574 in poetry * 1573 in poetry * 1572 in poetry Luís Vaz de Comões – ''Os Lusíadas''; Birth of John Donne, important English poetry, English poet, essayist, author, preacher; - Birth of Ben Jonson, important English poetry, English poet, playwright, actor * 1571 in poetry * 1570 in poetry

1560s

* 1569 in poetry * 1568 in poetry * 1567 in poetry * 1566 in poetry * 1565 in poetry * 1564 in poetry Birth of William Shakespeare English poetry, English poet, playwright, and genius, Christopher Marlowe English poetry, English poet * 1563 in poetry * 1562 in poetry * 1561 in poetry * 1560 in poetry

1550s

* 1559 in poetry * 1558 in poetry * 1557 in poetry * 1556 in poetry * 1555 in poetry * 1554 in poetry Miles Huggarde, ''The Assault of the Sacrament of the Altar''; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Henry Howard, ''The Fourth Boke of Virgill, Intreating of the Love Betweene Aeneas & Dido''; Sir David Lyndsay, David Lindsay, ''The Monarche'' * 1553 in poetry Anonymous, ''Pierce the Ploughmans Crede''; Gavin Douglas, translator, ''Aeneid'', ''The Palis of Honoure'', second, revised edition (publication year conjectural) * 1552 in poetry Birth of Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh; Works: Thomas Churchyard, ''A Myrrour for Man'' * 1551 in poetry Robert Crowley (printer), Robert Crowley, published anonymously, ''Philargyrie of Greate Britayne; or, The Fable of the Great Giant'' * 1550 in poetry Charles Bansley, ''The Pride of Women''; Robert Crowley (printer), Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes''; John Heywood, ''An Hundred Epigrammes''; William Langland (attributed), ''Piers Plowman, the B textCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004,

1540s

* 1549 in poetry * 1548 in poetry * 1547 in poetry * 1546 in poetry * 1545 in poetry * 1544 in poetry * 1543 in poetry * 1542 in poetry * 1541 in poetry * 1540 in poetry

1530s

* 1539 in poetry * 1538 in poetry * 1537 in poetry * 1536 in poetry * 1535 in poetry * 1534 in poetry * 1533 in poetry * 1532 in poetry * 1531 in poetry * 1530 in poetry

1520s

* 1529 in poetry * 1528 in poetry * 1527 in poetry * 1526 in poetry * 1525 in poetry * 1524 in poetry Birth of Pierre de Ronsard * 1523 in poetry * 1522 in poetry * 1521 in poetry * 1520 in poetry

1510s

* 1519 in poetry * 1518 in poetry * 1517 in poetry * 1516 in poetry * 1515 in poetry * 1514 in poetry * 1513 in poetry * 1512 in poetry * 1511 in poetry * 1510 in poetry

1500s

* 1509 in poetry * 1508 in poetry * 1507 in poetry * 1506 in poetry * 1505 in poetry * 1504 in poetry * 1503 in poetry * 1502 in poetry * 1501 in poetry ''Judita'' - Marko Marulić * 1500 in poetry ''La Araucana'' - Alonso de Ercilla

15th century in poetry

1490s in poetry, 1490s

* 1499 in poetry ''La Celestina'' by Fernando de Rojas * 1498 in poetry * 1497 in poetry * 1496 in poetry * 1495 in poetry * 1494 in poetry * 1493 in poetry * 1492 in poetry * 1491 in poetry * 1490 in poetry

1480s in poetry, 1480s

* 1489 in poetry * 1488 in poetry * 1487 in poetry * 1486 in poetry * 1485 in poetry * 1484 in poetry * 1483 in poetry * 1482 in poetry * 1481 in poetry * 1480 in poetry

1470s in poetry, 1470s

* 1479 in poetry * 1478 in poetry * 1477 in poetry * 1476 in poetry * 1475 in poetry * 1474 in poetry * 1473 in poetry * 1472 in poetry * 1471 in poetry * 1470 in poetry

1460s in poetry, 1460s

* 1469 in poetry * 1468 in poetry * 1467 in poetry * 1466 in poetry * 1465 in poetry * 1464 in poetry * 1463 in poetry c. Death of François Villon * 1462 in poetry * 1461 in poetry * 1460 in poetry

1450s in poetry, 1450s

* 1459 in poetry * 1458 in poetry * 1457 in poetry * 1456 in poetry * 1455 in poetry * 1454 in poetry * 1453 in poetry * 1452 in poetry * 1451 in poetry * 1450 in poetry

1440s in poetry, 1440s

* 1449 in poetry * 1448 in poetry * 1447 in poetry * 1446 in poetry * 1445 in poetry * 1444 in poetry * 1443 in poetry * 1442 in poetry * 1441 in poetry * 1440 in poetry

1430s in poetry, 1430s

* 1439 in poetry * 1438 in poetry * 1437 in poetry * 1436 in poetry * 1435 in poetry * 1434 in poetry * 1433 in poetry * 1432 in poetry * 1431 in poetry c. Birth of François Villon * 1430 in poetry

1420s in poetry, 1420s

* 1429 in poetry * 1428 in poetry * 1427 in poetry * 1426 in poetry * 1425 in poetry * 1424 in poetry * 1423 in poetry * 1422 in poetry * 1421 in poetry * 1420 in poetry

1410s in poetry, 1410s

* 1419 in poetry * 1418 in poetry * 1417 in poetry * 1416 in poetry * 1415 in poetry * 1414 in poetry * 1413 in poetry * 1412 in poetry * 1411 in poetry * 1410 in poetry

1400s in poetry, 1400s

* 1409 in poetry * 1408 in poetry * 1407 in poetry * 1406 in poetry * 1405 in poetry * 1404 in poetry * 1403 in poetry * 1402 in poetry * 1401 in poetry * 1400 in poetry Death of Geoffrey Chaucer

14th century in poetry

1390s in poetry, 1390s

* 1399 in poetry * 1398 in poetry * 1397 in poetry * 1396 in poetry * 1395 in poetry * 1394 in poetry * 1393 in poetry * 1392 in poetry * 1391 in poetry * 1390 in poetry

1380s in poetry, 1380s

* 1389 in poetry Death of Hafez * 1388 in poetry * 1387 in poetry * 1386 in poetry * 1385 in poetry * 1384 in poetry * 1383 in poetry * 1382 in poetry * 1381 in poetry * 1380 in poetry

1370s in poetry, 1370s

* 1379 in poetry * 1378 in poetry * 1377 in poetry * 1376 in poetry * 1375 in poetry John Barbour (poet), John Barbour's ''The Brus'' * 1374 in poetry * 1373 in poetry * 1372 in poetry * 1371 in poetry * 1370 in poetry

1360s in poetry, 1360s

* 1369 in poetry * 1368 in poetry * 1367 in poetry * 1366 in poetry * 1365 in poetry * 1364 in poetry * 1363 in poetry * 1362 in poetry * 1361 in poetry * 1360 in poetry Approximate date of the ''Mocedades de Rodrigo''

1350s in poetry, 1350s

* 1359 in poetry * 1358 in poetry * 1357 in poetry * 1356 in poetry * 1355 in poetry * 1354 in poetry * 1353 in poetry * 1352 in poetry * 1351 in poetry * 1350 in poetry

1340s in poetry, 1340s

* 1349 in poetry * 1348 in poetry * 1347 in poetry * 1346 in poetry * 1345 in poetry * 1344 in poetry * 1343 in poetry (c.) Birth of Geoffrey Chaucer, known as father of English poetry (died 1400) * 1342 in poetry * 1341 in poetry * 1340 in poetry

1330s in poetry, 1330s

* 1339 in poetry * 1338 in poetry * 1337 in poetry * 1336 in poetry * 1335 in poetry * 1334 in poetry * 1333 in poetry * 1332 in poetry * 1331 in poetry * 1330 in poetry

1320s in poetry, 1320s

* 1329 in poetry * 1328 in poetry * 1327 in poetry * 1326 in poetry * 1325 in poetry Birth of Hafez, Persian poet * 1324 in poetry * 1323 in poetry * 1322 in poetry * 1321 in poetry * 1320 in poetry

1310s in poetry, 1310s

* 1319 in poetry * 1318 in poetry * 1317 in poetry * 1316 in poetry * 1315 in poetry * 1314 in poetry * 1313 in poetry * 1312 in poetry * 1311 in poetry * 1310 in poetry

1300s in poetry, 1300s

* 1309 in poetry * 1308 in poetry * 1307 in poetry * 1306 in poetry * 1305 in poetry * 1304 in poetry * 1303 in poetry * 1302 in poetry * 1301 in poetry * 1300 in poetry ''Kebra Nagast'', ''Sundiata Keita'' in oral form

13th century in poetry

1290s

* 1299 in poetry * 1298 in poetry * 1297 in poetry * 1296 in poetry * 1295 in poetry * 1294 in poetry * 1293 in poetry * 1292 in poetry * 1291 in poetry Death of Saadi Shirazi, Saadi * 1290 in poetry

1280s

* 1289 in poetry * 1288 in poetry * 1287 in poetry The ''Jewang ungi, Jewang Un'gi'' by Yi Seung-hyu * 1286 in poetry * 1285 in poetry * 1284 in poetry * 1283 in poetry * 1282 in poetry * 1281 in poetry * 1280 in poetry

1270s

* 1279 in poetry * 1278 in poetry * 1277 in poetry * 1276 in poetry * 1275 in poetry * 1274 in poetry * 1273 in poetry * 1272 in poetry * 1271 in poetry * 1270 in poetry

1260s

* 1269 in poetry * 1268 in poetry * 1267 in poetry * 1266 in poetry * 1265 in poetry * 1264 in poetry * 1263 in poetry * 1262 in poetry * 1261 in poetry * 1260 in poetry

1250s

* 1259 in poetry * 1258 in poetry * 1257 in poetry * 1256 in poetry * 1255 in poetry * 1254 in poetry * 1253 in poetry * 1252 in poetry * 1251 in poetry * 1250 in poetry

1240s

* 1249 in poetry * 1248 in poetry * 1247 in poetry * 1246 in poetry * 1245 in poetry * 1244 in poetry * 1243 in poetry * 1242 in poetry * 1241 in poetry * 1240 in poetry

1230s

* 1239 in poetry * 1238 in poetry * 1237 in poetry * 1236 in poetry * 1235 in poetry * 1234 in poetry * 1233 in poetry * 1232 in poetry * 1231 in poetry * 1230 in poetry

1220s

* 1229 in poetry * 1228 in poetry * 1227 in poetry * 1226 in poetry * 1225 in poetry * 1224 in poetry * 1223 in poetry * 1222 in poetry * 1221 in poetry * 1220 in poetry

1210s

* 1219 in poetry * 1218 in poetry * 1217 in poetry * 1216 in poetry * 1215 in poetry * 1214 in poetry * 1213 in poetry * 1212 in poetry * 1211 in poetry * 1210 in poetry Birth of Saadi Shirazi, Saadi, Persian poet

1200s

* 1209 in poetry * 1208 in poetry Estimated date of the ''Gesta Danorum'' * 1207 in poetry * 1206 in poetry * 1205 in poetry * 1204 in poetry * 1203 in poetry * 1202 in poetry * 1201 in poetry * 1200 in poetry

12th century in poetry

1190s in poetry, 1190s

* 1199 in poetry * 1198 in poetry * 1197 in poetry * 1196 in poetry * 1195 in poetry Approximate date of ''El Cantar de mio Cid'' * 1194 in poetry * 1193 in poetry * 1192 in poetry * 1191 in poetry * 1190 in poetry Approximate date of ''The Tale of Igor's Campaign''

1180s in poetry, 1180s

* 1189 in poetry * 1188 in poetry * 1187 in poetry * 1186 in poetry * 1185 in poetry * 1184 in poetry * 1183 in poetry * 1182 in poetry * 1181 in poetry * 1180 in poetry

1170s in poetry, 1170s

* 1179 in poetry * 1178 in poetry * 1177 in poetry * 1176 in poetry * 1175 in poetry * 1174 in poetry * 1173 in poetry * 1172 in poetry * 1171 in poetry * 1170 in poetry

1160s in poetry, 1160s

* 1169 in poetry * 1168 in poetry * 1167 in poetry * 1166 in poetry * 1165 in poetry * 1164 in poetry * 1163 in poetry * 1162 in poetry * 1161 in poetry * 1160 in poetry

1150s in poetry, 1150s

* 1159 in poetry * 1158 in poetry * 1157 in poetry * 1156 in poetry * 1155 in poetry * 1154 in poetry * 1153 in poetry * 1152 in poetry * 1151 in poetry * 1150 in poetry

1140s in poetry, 1140s

* 1149 in poetry * 1148 in poetry * 1147 in poetry * 1146 in poetry * 1145 in poetry * 1144 in poetry * 1143 in poetry * 1142 in poetry * 1141 in poetry * 1140 in poetry

1130s in poetry, 1130s

* 1139 in poetry * 1138 in poetry * 1137 in poetry * 1136 in poetry * 1135 in poetry * 1134 in poetry * 1133 in poetry * 1132 in poetry * 1131 in poetry * 1130 in poetry

1120s in poetry, 1120s

* 1129 in poetry * 1128 in poetry * 1127 in poetry * 1126 in poetry * 1125 in poetry * 1124 in poetry * 1123 in poetry * 1122 in poetry * 1121 in poetry * 1120 in poetry

1110s in poetry, 1110s

* 1119 in poetry * 1118 in poetry * 1117 in poetry * 1116 in poetry * 1115 in poetry * 1114 in poetry * 1113 in poetry * 1112 in poetry * 1111 in poetry * 1110 in poetry

1100s in poetry, 1100s

* 1109 in poetry * 1108 in poetry * 1107 in poetry * 1106 in poetry * 1105 in poetry * 1104 in poetry * 1103 in poetry * 1102 in poetry * 1101 in poetry * 1100 in poetry ''The Knight in the Panther's Skin'' by Shota Rustaveli

11th century in poetry

1090s in poetry, 1090s

* 1099 in poetry * 1098 in poetry * 1097 in poetry * 1096 in poetry * 1095 in poetry * 1094 in poetry * 1093 in poetry * 1092 in poetry * 1091 in poetry * 1090 in poetry

1080s in poetry, 1080s

* 1089 in poetry * 1088 in poetry * 1087 in poetry * 1086 in poetry * 1085 in poetry * 1084 in poetry * 1083 in poetry * 1082 in poetry * 1081 in poetry * 1080 in poetry

1070s in poetry, 1070s

* 1079 in poetry * 1078 in poetry * 1077 in poetry * 1076 in poetry * 1075 in poetry * 1074 in poetry * 1073 in poetry * 1072 in poetry * 1071 in poetry * 1070 in poetry

1060s in poetry, 1060s

1050s in poetry, 1050s

1040s in poetry, 1040s

1030s in poetry, 1030s

1020s in poetry, 1020s

1010s in poetry, 1010s

1000s in poetry, 1000s

10th century in poetry

990s in poetry, 990s

980s in poetry, 980s

970s in poetry, 970s

* 977 - The ''Shahnameh'' by Ferdowsi

960s in poetry, 960s

950s in poetry, 950s

940s in poetry, 940s

930s in poetry, 930s

920s in poetry, 920s

910s in poetry, 910s

900s in poetry, 900s

*Earliest possible date of Lebor Gabála Érenn

5th century in poetry – 9th century in poetry

890s in poetry, 890s

880s in poetry, 880s

870s in poetry, 870s

860s in poetry, 860s

850s in poetry, 850s

840s in poetry, 840s

830s in poetry, 830s

820s in poetry, 820s

810s in poetry, 810s

800s in poetry, 800s

8th century in poetry, 700s

7th century in poetry, 600s

* 600 – Venantius Fortunatus born (c. 530 – c. 600), Latin poet and hymnodist from Northern Italy * 615 – Saint Columbanus (born 543), Hiberno-Latin poet and writer * 625 – Al-A'sha, Maymun Ibn Qays Al-a'sha born (died 625) * 661 – Labīd died this year (born 560); Arabic poetry, Arabic poet

6th century in poetry, 500s

* 500 – Procopius born about this year (died 565) * 505 – Blossius Aemilius Dracontius born about this year (born 455) of Carthage, a Latin poet * 521 ** July 17 – Magnus Felix Ennodius died (born 474 – July 17, 521), Bishop of Pavia and poet, writing in Latin ** November – Jacob of Serugh died (born 451), writing in Syriac language, Syriac * 530 – Venantius Fortunatus born (c. 530 – c. 600), Latin poet and hymnodist from Northern Italy * 534 – Taliesin born about this year (died c. 599), the earliest identified Welsh people, Welsh poet * 536 – Agathias born about this year (died 582/594); Ancient Greek poetry, Ancient Greek poet and historian * 539 – Chilperic I born (died September 584) Frankish king of Neustria and a Latin poet * 543 – Saint Columbanus (died 615), Hiberno-Latin poet and writer * 544 – Arator declaims his poem ''De Actibus Apostolorum'' in the Church of San Pietro-in-Vinculi * 554 – 'Abid ibn al-Abris died about this year; Arabic poetry, Arabic poet * 560: ** Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya died about this year; Jewish poet writing in Arabic poetry, Arabic ** Labīd born this year (died 661); Arabic poetry, Arabic poet * 565 – Procopius died (born about 500) * 570 – Al-A'sha, Maymun Ibn Qays Al-a'sha born (died 625) * 580 – Antara Ibn Shaddad died about this year; Arabic poetry, Arabic poet * 584 ** (September) – Chilperic I died (born 539) Frankish king of Neustria and a Latin poet ** Amr ibn Kulthum died about this year; Arabic poetry, Arabic poet * 599 – Taliesin died about this year (born c. 534), the earliest identified Welsh people, Welsh poet

5th century in poetry, 400s

* Unknown – Compilation of the ''Mahavamsa'' by Buddhist monks * 451 – Jacob of Serugh born (died November 521), writing in Syriac language, Syriac * 455 – Blossius Aemilius Dracontius born about this year (died c. 505) of Carthage, a Latin poet * 474 – Magnus Felix Ennodius (died July 17, 521), Bishop of Pavia and poet, writing in Latin

Poetry before the 5th century

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Before 1000 BC in poetry

* 11th century BC – earliest works in the ''Classic of Poetry'' * c. 1500 BC – Earliest possible date for composition of the "family poems" in the ''Rig Veda'' * c. 23rd century BC – Enheduanna, ''The Exaltation of Inanna'' and "Sumerian Temple Hymns" * c. 26th century BC – ''Kesh Temple Hymn''

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