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1913 in poetry
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1919 in poetry
—From A Prayer for My Daughter by W. B. Yeats, written on the birth of his daughter Anne on February 26 Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April 2 — Vladimir Nabokov, novelist and poet, leaves Russia with his family. October — W. B. Yeats travels to the United States and begins a lecture tour lasting until May, 1920. December — The Egoist, a London literary magazine founded by Dora Marsden which published early modernist works, including those of James Joyce, goes defunct.
1914 in poetry
— "Ode of Remembrance", an ode taken from Laurence Binyon's "For the Fallen", first published in The Times of London in September of this year. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 1 – The Egoist, a London literary magazine is founded by Dora Marsden, a successor to The New Freewoman (the new publication will go defunct in 1919); it publishes early modernist works, including those of James Joyce January 18 – A party held in honor of English poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt at his stud farm in West Sussex brings together W.
1926 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The remains of English war poet Isaac Rosenberg, killed in World War I (1918) at the age of 28 and originally buried in a mass grave, are re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France. Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury, London, closes William Henry Drummond, Complete Poems, posthumously published. Wilson MacDonald, Out Of The Wilderness.
1912 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January – The Poetry Review, edited by Harold Monro, supersedes the Poetical Gazette as the journal of the Poetry Society, just renamed from the Poetry Recital Society. April 14–15 – Sinking of the RMS Titanic: The ocean liner strikes an iceberg and sinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States. This leads to a flood of Titanic poems, including Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain".
1991 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Forward Poetry Prize created Dana Gioia, writing in The Atlantic Monthly suggests (in an article titled "Can Poetry Matter?") that poets recite the works of other poets at public readings. Joseph Brodsky, the United States poet laureate, suggests in The New Republic that an anthology of American poetry be put beside the Bible and telephone directory in every hotel room in the country.
1916 in poetry
—Closing lines of "Easter, 1916" by W. B. Yeats Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 5 – Cabaret Voltaire is opened by German performance poet Hugo Ball and his future wife Emmy Hennings in the back room of Ephraim Jan's Holländische Meierei in Zürich, Switzerland; although surviving only until the summer it is pivotal in the creation of the Dada movement in art, poetry and literature.
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.
1955 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April – Wallace Stevens is baptized a Catholic by the chaplain of St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, where Stevens spends his last days suffering from terminal cancer. After a brief release from the hospital, Stevens is readmitted and dies on August 2 at the age of 76. July 30 – Philip Larkin makes a train journey in England from Hull to Grantham which inspires his poem The Whitsun Weddings.
1910 in poetry
— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If—, first published this year in Rewards and Fairies Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or French). Oxford Poetry founded as a literary magazine by publisher Basil Blackwell in England. The Rev. James B. Dollard, also known as "Father Dollard", Poems Frederick George Scott, also known as "F. G. Scott", Collected Poems Tom MacInnes, In Amber Lands, mostly a reprint of Lonesome Bar and Other Poems 1909 "Yukon Bill" [Kate Simpson Hayes], Derby Days in the Yukon.
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.