1843 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (following the death of Robert Southey on March 21) on being assured that it is regarded as a purely honorific position. R. S.
1854 in poetry— From "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). William Allingham, Day and Night Songs W. E. Aytoun, writing under the pen name "T.
1909 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February – Founding of the Poetry Recital Society, later the Poetry Society, in London. July 1 – English poets F. M. Cornford and Frances Darwin marry. T. E. Hulme leaves the Poets' Club, and starts meeting with F. S. Flint and other poets in a new group which Hulme refers to as the 'Secession Club'; they meet at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in London's Soho district to discuss plans to reform contemporary poetry through the introduction of free verse, tanka and haiku, and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage from poems.
1907 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Hélène van Zuylen leaves her partner, English-born French poet Renée Vivien, for another woman. Peter McArthur, The Prodigal and other Poems Robert W.
1903 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Gün Gencer, General Poems: Australia facing the dawn and its result, published by the author, printed in Sydney by R.T. Kelly Allen Gilfillen, A Day, Melbourne: Melville and Mullen, drama and poetry Lilian Wooster Greaves, Poems by Lilian, Newtown, New South Wales: G. Baker Walker Bernard O'Dowd, Dawnward?, Australia Banjo Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda", Australia's most widely known bush ballad Bliss Carman, From the Green Book of Bards E.
1908 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March – Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. In April, he moves to Venice, where in July he self-publishes his first collection of poems, A Lume Spento (dedicated to his friend Philadelphia artist William Brooke Smith, who has just died of tuberculosis). In August he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920 and in December publish A Quinzaine for this Yule.
1901 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). A small plaque is set on the Statue of Liberty to display Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "The New Colossus" The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sully Prudhomme, a French poet and essayist. Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States William Henry Drummond, Johnnie Courteau and other Poems.
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.
1900 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February – Myōjō ("Bright Star" or "Morning Star"), a monthly literary magazine, begins publication in Japan, running until November 1908. It is the organ of the Shinshisha ("New Poetry Society") founded in 1899 by Yosano Tekkan (who becomes editor-in-chief and who revives the magazine after it first goes defunct in 1908). The magazine is initially known for its development and promotion of a modernized version of the 31-syllable tanka poetry.
