1956 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 25 – English poet Ted Hughes and American poet Sylvia Plath meet in Cambridge, England. June 16 – Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath marry at the church of St George the Martyr, Holborn, London and spend the night at his flat at 18 Rugby Street.
1947 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 17 – On the death of Montserrat-born British fantasy fiction writer M. P. Shiel, his supposed title to the Kingdom of Redonda passes to London poet John Gawsworth. March – Landfall literary magazine is founded by Charles Brasch and first published by Caxton Press (New Zealand); it becomes that country's oldest literary journal. November – Muriel Spark becomes editor of Poetry Review in London from this month's issue.
1967 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Poetry International started by Ted Hughes and Patrick Garland May 16 – the premiere at Taganka Theater in Moscow of the staged a poetical performance Послушайте! ("Listen!"), based on the works of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. The show was in repertoire until April 1984, was revived in May 1987 and again in repertoire until June 1989.
1917 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January — Philosopher Hu Shih, the primary advocate for the revolution in Chinese literature at this time to replace scholarly language with the vernacular, publishes an article in the magazine New Youth (Xin Qingnian) titled "A Preliminary Discussion of Literature Reform", in which he originally emphasizes eight guidelines that all Chinese writers should take to heart (next year he will compress the list to four points).
2010 in poetryNationality 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.
1886 in poetryNationality 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".
1883 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). William Allingham, The Fairies, including "Up the airy mountain ..."; reprinted from Poems 1850 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Wind and the Whirlwind Robert Bridges, Prometheus the Firegiver Robert Browning, Jocoseria George Meredith, Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Century of Roundels Francis James Child, editor, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, an anthology published in five volumes from this year to 1898 Mary E.
1859 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). May – Antoni de Bofarull and Víctor Balaguer re-establish the Barcelona Floral Games (jocs florals), contests for Catalan Renaixença poetry. The first translation of Adam Mickiewicz's Polish epic poem Pan Tadeusz (1834) into a different language, Belarusian, is made by Belarusian writer and dramatist Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich, in Vilnius but because of pressure from the authorities of the ruling Russian Empire he is able to publish only the first two chapters of the poem.
1944 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 1 & June 5 – The first and (modified) second lines respectively of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne (Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne / Bercent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.) are broadcast by the Allies over BBC Radio Londres among coded messages to the French Resistance to prepare for the D-Day landings (second broadcast at 22:15 local time).
1945 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 4 — Pablo Neruda elected a Communist party senator in Chile. He officially joins the Communist Party of Chile four months later. April — Ilona Karmel and Henia Karmel, sisters from the Kraków Ghetto and together Polish Jewish prisoners of the Nazis, are on a forced death march when Germans in tanks crush them and then shove them, still living, into a mass grave.
