1904 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre. The National Monthly in Canada publishes an article by Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer on Charles G. D. Roberts titled "The Father of Canadian Poetry", a title which sticks to Roberts, an influential poet, long afterward.
1878 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). July – Notorious Scottish poetaster William McGonagall journeys on foot from Dundee to Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a violent thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before Queen Victoria. July 26 – In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach.
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.
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.
1876 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 24 – Première of first stage production of the poetic drama Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, in Christiania, Norway. Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love (revised and expanded in 1889) Robert Browning, Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper; with Other Poems Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark Edward Dowden, Poems Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields: Verse Translations and Poems, Bhowanipur, Calcutta: B.
1957 in poetryNationality 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.
