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1945 in poetry
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1893 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford (from which the poet was expelled in 1811), designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford Founding of Vangiya Sahitya Parishad in Bengal William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs.
1869 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). October 5 – Model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal (d. 1862) is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems buried with her. Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, Volumes 3 and 4 (Volume 3 published in January, Volume 4 in February; see also The Ring and the Book 1868) C. S. Calverley, Theocritus Translated into English Verse A.
1957 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 10 – T. S. Eliot marries his secretary Valerie Fletcher, almost 40 years his junior, in a private church ceremony. March 15 – Élet és Irodalom first published in Hungary as a literary magazine. March 25 – Copies of Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems (first published 1 November 1956) printed in England are seized by United States Customs Service officials in San Francisco on the grounds of obscenity.
2010 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 19 – For the first time since 1949, an anonymous black-clad man, known as the Poe Toaster, failed to show up at the tomb of Edgar Allan Poe at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, early on the morning of Poe's birthday. The absence of the man, who would toast Poe with Cognac and leave three red roses at the grave (along with the rest of the Cognac), disappointed more than 30 people who stayed up all night to be present at the appearance.
1900 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February – Myōjō ("Bright Star" or "Morning Star"), a monthly literary magazine, begins publication in Japan, running until November 1908. It is the organ of the Shinshisha ("New Poetry Society") founded in 1899 by Yosano Tekkan (who becomes editor-in-chief and who revives the magazine after it first goes defunct in 1908). The magazine is initially known for its development and promotion of a modernized version of the 31-syllable tanka poetry.
1948 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 6 – Pablo Neruda speaks out in the Senate of Chile against political repression and is forced into hiding. Summer – Composer Richard Strauss sets three short poems by Hermann Hesse to music; they become part of his valedictory Four Last Songs, his final works before his death in 1949. September 17 – The remains of Irish poet W. B.
1905 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March – Art student Vachel Lindsay goes into the streets of New York City and tries to sell or give away copies of one of his poems. The take: 13 cents. His reaction: Ecstasy. "Now let there be here recorded my conclusions from one evening, one hour of peddling poetry. I am so rejoiced over it and so uplifted I am going to do it many times. It sets the heart trembling with happiness.
1886 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley Society September 18 – The "Symbolist Manifesto" (Le Symbolisme) is published in French newspaper Le Figaro by Greek-born poet Jean Moréas, who announces that Symbolism is hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description," and that its goal instead is to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose "goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal" December 10 – American poet Emily Dickinson dies aged 55 of Bright's disease at the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts with fewer than a dozen of her poems published and is buried under the self-penned epitaph "Called Back".
1890 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Rhymers' Club founded in London by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who meet regularly and publish anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees include Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, , A. C. Hillier, John Todhunter, Arthur Symons, Ernest Radford and Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wilde attends some meetings held in private homes Dove Cottage, Grasmere in the English Lake District acquired by the Wordsworth Trust.