1972 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 4 — Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union. May 22 — Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of writers Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard on the northern edge of London. Autumn — The first threnody attributed to E. J. Thribb (actually written by Barry Fantoni and colleagues) is published in the English satirical magazine Private Eye.
1916 in poetry—Closing lines of "Easter, 1916" by W. B. Yeats Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 5 – Cabaret Voltaire is opened by German performance poet Hugo Ball and his future wife Emmy Hennings in the back room of Ephraim Jan's Holländische Meierei in Zürich, Switzerland; although surviving only until the summer it is pivotal in the creation of the Dada movement in art, poetry and literature.
1912 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January – The Poetry Review, edited by Harold Monro, supersedes the Poetical Gazette as the journal of the Poetry Society, just renamed from the Poetry Recital Society. April 14–15 – Sinking of the RMS Titanic: The ocean liner strikes an iceberg and sinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States. This leads to a flood of Titanic poems, including Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain".
1845 in poetry— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 10—Robert Browning, 32, and Elizabeth Barrett, 38, begin their correspondence when she receives a note declaring "I love you" from Browning, a little-known poet whose verses she had praised in her poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship"; on May 20 they meet for the first time. She begins writing her Sonnets from the Portuguese. April - Nathaniel Hawthorne first publishes "P.
1969 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 23 – German-born writer Assia Wevill, a mistress of English poet Ted Hughes (and ex-wife of Canadian poet David Wevill), gasses herself and their daughter at her London home. FIELD magazine founded at Oberlin College. Charles Bukowski quits his day job as a Post Office clerk in Los Angeles to embark on a writing career after being promised a $100 stipend from Black Sparrow Press.
1863 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 1 – American essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorates today's Emancipation Proclamation by composing "Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with its debut reading at Boston Music Hall. May 17 – Intimist poet Rosalía de Castro published her first collection in Galician, Cantares gallegos ("Galician Songs"), commemorated every year as the Día das Letras Galegas ("Galician Literature Day"), an official holiday of the Autonomous Community of Galicia in Spain.
1856 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Henry Wallis exhibits his romantic painting of The Death of Chatterton in London with the young poet and novelist George Meredith posing as his 18th-century predecessor Thomas Chatterton.
1907 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Hélène van Zuylen leaves her partner, English-born French poet Renée Vivien, for another woman. Peter McArthur, The Prodigal and other Poems Robert W.
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.
1890 in poetryNationality 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.