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1874 in poetry
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1966 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Raymond Souster founds the League of Canadian Poets Philip Hobsbaum, who had founded The Belfast Group in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1963, departs for Glasgow, and the Belfast Group meetings lapsed for a while, but then was reconstituted in 1968 by Michael Allen, Arthur Terry, and Seamus Heaney. At one time or another, the grouping also includes Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critic Edna Longley.
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.
1868 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Frederick James Furnivall founds the Chaucer Society James Anderson. Sawney's Letters, or Cariboo Rhymes.
1869 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). October 5 – Model, poet and artist Elizabeth Siddal (d. 1862) is exhumed at Highgate Cemetery in London in order to recover the manuscript of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems buried with her. Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, Volumes 3 and 4 (Volume 3 published in January, Volume 4 in February; see also The Ring and the Book 1868) C. S. Calverley, Theocritus Translated into English Verse A.
1945 in poetry
Nationality 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.
1958 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April 18 — American poet Ezra Pound's indictment for treason is dismissed. He is released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Maryland, after spending 12 years there (starting in 1946) and returns to Italy. June 29 — A monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky is unveiled in the centre of Moscow and becomes a focus for informal poetry readings.
1944 in poetry
Nationality 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).
1922 in poetry
— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 2 Who Goes with Fergus? by W. B. Yeats (first published in 1892) is the song that haunts James Joyce's autobiographical character Stephen Dedalus in the novel Ulysses, first published complete in book form today. Stephen sings it to his mother as she lies dying, and her ghost returns to taunt him with it.