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1916 in poetry
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1909 in poetry
Nationality 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.
1923 in poetry
—From Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", first published this year in his collection New Hampshire Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). In Paris, Basil Bunting meets Ezra Pound, whose poems will have a strong influence on Bunting throughout his career. E. C. McFarlane and others found the Jamaican Poetry League. Xu Zhimo founds the Crescent Moon Society in China.
1984 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). December 19 – Ted Hughes' appointment as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in succession to Sir John Betjeman is announced, Philip Larkin having turned down the post. After Ghazi al-Gosaibi, the Saudi Arabian minister of health, publishes a poem, "A Pen Bought and Sold", that criticizes the corruption and privilege of the country's elite, he is dismissed from his post.
1990 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day. Jason Shinder, an American poet, expands a New York City Y.M.C.A. writing education program nationwide, thereby founding the Y.M.C.A. National Writer's Voice program, one of the country's largest networks of literary-arts centers, with 24 locations by 2008. Writers who teach in the program include poets Adrienne Rich and Galway Kinnell, novelists Michael Cunningham and E.
1913 in poetry
— Joyce Kilmer (1886–1918), "Trees", first published this year Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. — Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), from "Sacred Emily", written this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January and March – Three poems by H.D. appear in the January issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, submitted by Ezra Pound, the magazine's "foreign editor" and a close associate of Doolittle.
1845 in poetry
— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 10—Robert Browning, 32, and Elizabeth Barrett, 38, begin their correspondence when she receives a note declaring "I love you" from Browning, a little-known poet whose verses she had praised in her poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship"; on May 20 they meet for the first time. She begins writing her Sonnets from the Portuguese. April - Nathaniel Hawthorne first publishes "P.
1893 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford (from which the poet was expelled in 1811), designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford Founding of Vangiya Sahitya Parishad in Bengal William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs.
1836 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 6 November – The burial of Czech romantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha (in a pauper's grave) takes place on what should have been the day of his wedding to Eleonora Šomková, about a month after the birth of their child. Mácha had overexerted himself in helping put out a fire and died the previous day in Litoměřice just before his 26th birthday.
1890 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Rhymers' Club founded in London by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who meet regularly and publish anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees include Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, , A. C. Hillier, John Todhunter, Arthur Symons, Ernest Radford and Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wilde attends some meetings held in private homes Dove Cottage, Grasmere in the English Lake District acquired by the Wordsworth Trust.