1942 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 28 – Spanish poet Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital having scrawled his last verse on the wall. April 3 – French poet Paul Éluard (Eugène Paul Grindel)'s poem "Liberté" is first published in the collection Poésie et vérité ("Poetry and truth") in Paris. In June it is reprinted by the magazine Fontaine, titled "Une seule pensée", to reach Vichy France.
1918 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 23 — English poet Robert Graves marries the painter Nancy Nicholson in London. Wedding guests include Wilfred Owen, who will be killed by the end of the year, and whose first nationally published poem appears 3 days later ("Miners" in The Nation). April — Hu Shih, chief advocate of the revolution in Chinese literature at this time, publishes an essay, "Constructive Literary Revolution - A Literature of National Speech" in New Youth proposing a four-point reform program.
1926 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France. Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published. Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness.
1929 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The Little Review, edited by Margaret Caroline Anderson and Jane Heap, ceases publication The Dial ceases publication Arthur Bourinot, Ottawa Lyrics and verses for children. Frederick George Scott, New Poems.
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).
1876 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 24 – Première of first stage production of the poetic drama Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, in Christiania, Norway. Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love (revised and expanded in 1889) Robert Browning, Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper; with Other Poems Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark Edward Dowden, Poems Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields: Verse Translations and Poems, Bhowanipur, Calcutta: B.
1887 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Henry Lawson, "A Song for the Republic", English, the author's first published poem, in The Bulletin, October 1 issue; Australia Narsinhrao Divetia, Kusumamala, Gujarati, his first collection of poems, "considered a definite advance in modern Gujarati poetry because of its novel use of poetic diction", according to A handbook of Indian Literature" Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Narada Samvadam, Telugu long poem condemning banal, rule-minded poetry George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, English, posthumously published (by his brother).
