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.
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.
1898 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The "Generation of '98" (also called "Generation of 1898", in Spanish, Generación del 98 or Generación de 1898) was a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War. Jose Martínez Ruiz, commonly known as Azorín, comes up with the name in 1913 to allude to the moral, political, and social crisis produced by Spain's defeat.
1877 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). In the annals of poetasting, 1877 stands out as a historic year. The most startling incident in my life was the time I discovered myself to be a poet, which was in the year 1877. So wrote William Topaz McGonagall (1825 –1902) a Scottish weaver, "actor", and "poet" who would become comically renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language. Also this year Poetaster Julia A.
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.
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).
