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1919 in poetry
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1913 in poetry
— Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), "Trees", first published this year Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. — Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), from "Sacred Emily", written this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January and March – Three poems by H.D. appear in the January issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, submitted by Ezra Pound, the magazine's "foreign editor" and a close associate of Doolittle.
2008 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 18 – Release in the United Kingdom of a new film, The Edge of Love, concerning Dylan Thomas' relationship with two women, starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys (as Thomas). September – A United Kingdom examination board, Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, asks schools to withdraw copies of its anthology which contain the poem, Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy after some teachers complained about the poem's reference to knives.
2012 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 31 – A Chinese court sentences poet and political dissident Zhu Yufu to a seven-year prison term for "inciting subversion of state power". During Yufu's trial hearing, prosecutors have cited a poem and messages he had sent on the internet. February 13 – In a ceremony at the White House, John Ashbery is awarded the National Humanities Medal and Rita Dove awarded the National Medal of Arts.
1885 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement. Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems. Published at author's expense.
1870 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1847 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April – Robert Browning settles with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence Between July and October – Rev. Henry Francis Lyte composes the hymn "Abide with Me" a few months before his death September 16 – William Shakespeare's house of birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation; this year also, Schiller's house in Weimar is opened to the public as a museum Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) to 30 books Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.
1914 in poetry
— "Ode of Remembrance", an ode taken from Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen", first published in The Times of London in September of this year. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 1 – The Egoist, a London literary magazine is founded by Dora Marsden, a successor to The New Freewoman (the new publication will go defunct in 1919); it publishes early modernist works, including those of James Joyce January 18 – A party held in honor of English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt at his stud farm in West Sussex brings together W.
1920 in poetry
— Wilfred Owen, concluding lines of "Dulce et Decorum est", written 1917, published posthumously this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Fire and Ice by Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
1922 in poetry
— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 2 Who Goes with Fergus? by W. B. Yeats (first published in 1892) is the song that haunts James Joyce's autobiographical character Stephen Dedalus in the novel Ulysses, first published complete in book form today. Stephen sings it to his mother as she lies dying, and her ghost returns to taunt him with it.