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1922 in poetry
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2000 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally.
1937 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 1 – First broadcast on Sveriges Radio (Sweden) of the continuing programme Dagens dikt ("Poem of the day"). Summer – In Nazi Germany, Wolfgang Willrich, a member of the SS, lampoons German expressionist poet Gottfried Benn in his book Säuberung des Kunsttempels; Heinrich Himmler, however, steps in to reprimand Willrich and defends Benn on the grounds of his pro-Nazi record since 1933 (his earlier artistic output being dismissed as irrelevant).
1874 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1949 in poetry
Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry. January 19 - Starting this year, and continuing to at least 2009, an anonymous black-clad person, who enters popular lore as the Poe Toaster, appears in Baltimore at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground tomb of American poet Edgar Allan Poe early on the morning of Poe's birthday.
1943 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). September 12 – Abraham Sutzkever, a Polish Jew writing poetry in Yiddish, escapes the Vilna Ghetto with his wife and hides in the forests. Sutzkever and fellow Yiddish poet Shmerke Kaczerginsky, fight against the Nazis as partisans. During the Nazi era, Sutzkever writes more than eighty poems, whose manuscripts he manages to save for postwar publication.
1894 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April — The Yellow Book first published (continues to 1897). June 22 — Nina Davis' first published translation from medieval Hebrew poetry into English, of Abraham ibn Ezra's The Song of Chess, appears in The Jewish Chronicle. November 8 — Robert Frost's poem "My Butterfly" is published on this date in the New York Independent, marking the first sale of his poetry. He earns $15.
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.
1862 in poetry
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. first stanza of Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic conceived as both poem and lyrics to a popular tune and first published in February in The Atlantic Monthly Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1861 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 29 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies in the arms of her husband and fellow poet Robert Browning in Florence; on July 1 she is buried in the Protestant cemetery there. Robert leaves the city soon afterwards November 19 – Julia Ward Howe composes "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer (see also F. W.
1899 in poetry
— Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 20 – Welsh "tramp-poet" W. H. Davies loses his foot trying to jump a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario. William Hughes Mearns writes "Antigonish" this year; it won't be published until 1922. Romesh Chunder Dutt's translation of the Ramayana into English verse is first published, in London.