1976 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). January 1 – Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published April 5 – 1976 Tiananmen Incident in Beijing, China: the display of poems against the Gang of Four are among events provoking a police crackdown.
1960 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Spring – August Derleth launches the poetry magazine Hawk and Whippoorwill in the United States. September 5 – Welsh poet Waldo Williams is imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending). An inscription of an excerpt of the Poema de Fernán González is discovered on a roofing tile in Merindad de Sotoscueva, the earliest known record of it.
1972 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 4 — Joseph Brodsky is expelled from the Soviet Union. May 22 — Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, dies at Lemmons, the home of writers Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard on the northern edge of London. Autumn — The first threnody attributed to E. J. Thribb (actually written by Barry Fantoni and colleagues) is published in the English satirical magazine Private Eye.
1943 in poetryNationality 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.
1911 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). c. April 8 – English poet Lascelles Abercrombie and his family move to live near Dymock in rural Gloucestershire, first of the Dymock poets c. August – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire", is suspected in the theft of the Mona Lisa from The Louvre museum in Paris and imprisoned for six days December 16 – The Copyright Act in the United Kingdom consolidates copyright law in the British Empire and confirms the six libraries in each of which a copy of every book published in the U.
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.
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.
1886 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 Shelley Society September 18 – The "Symbolist Manifesto" (Le Symbolisme) is published in French newspaper Le Figaro by Greek-born poet Jean Moréas, who announces that Symbolism is hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description," and that its goal instead is to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose "goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal" December 10 – American poet Emily Dickinson dies aged 55 of Bright's disease at the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts with fewer than a dozen of her poems published and is buried under the self-penned epitaph "Called Back".
1893 in poetryNationality 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.
