1963 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment...—Opening lines of "Edge" by Sylvia Plath, written days before her suicide January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who writes in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day February 11 – American-born poet Sylvia Plath (age 30) commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in her London flat (in a house lived in by W.
1925 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature, including Irish or France. January – Ezra Pound returns to Rapallo, Italy from Sicily to settle permanently after a brief stay the year before. February 11 – Eli Siegel wins The Nation Poetry Prize for "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana". February 21 – First issue of The New Yorker magazine is published. November 21 – First issue of McGill Fortnightly Review, a publication of Montreal Group of modernist poets and the first organ to feature modernist poetry, fiction, and literary criticism in Canada.
1894 in poetryNationality 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.
1973 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). September 16 – Chilean poet Víctor Jara, having been detained four days earlier as a political prisoner in Estadio Chile and tortured during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, is shot and killed. His last poem Estadio Chile is preserved in memories and scraps of paper retained by fellow detainees.
1842 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics, including "My Last Duchess", "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"; the author's first collection of shorter poems (reprinted, with some revisions and omissions in Poems 1849; see also Bells and Pomegranates 1841, reprinted each year from 1843–1846) Thomas Campbell, The Pilgrim of Glencoe, with Other Poems Frederick William Faber, The Styrian Lake, and Other Poems J.
1906 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein Jean Blewett, The Cornflower and Other Poems Helena Coleman, Songs and Sonnets Sophia Almon Hensley, The Heart of a Woman. J. D. Logan, Preludes, Sonnets and Other Verses Duncan Campbell Scott, Via Borealis, Toronto: William Tyrrell & Co. Frederick George Scott, The Hymn of Empire, and Other Poems 'Æ' (George William Russell), By Still Waters Joseph Campbell, The Rushlight John Davidson, Holiday, and Other Poems Walter de la Mare, Poems C.
1902 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). H.D. meets and befriends Ezra Pound Times Literary Supplement begins publication James B.
1889 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 8 – English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins dies aged 54 in Dublin of typhoid; he is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery; most of his poetry remains unpublished until 1918. December 12 – English poet Robert Browning dies aged 77 at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice on the same day his book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published; he is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; Alfred, Lord Tennyson will be buried adjacently.
1881 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Frederick James Furnivall founds the Browning Society Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, Poetical Works, posthumously published, Canada Pamela Vining Yule. Poems of the Heart and Home.
1850 in poetry— From Cantos 27 and 56, In Memoriam A.H.H., by Alfred Tennyson, published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). May (late) – Alfred Tennyson's poem In Memoriam A.H.H.
