1840 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The Percy Society is established in Britain to publish scholarly editions of early ballads, poems and other works in English. Thomas Aird, Orthuriel, and Other Poems Matthew Arnold, Alaric at Rome Robert Browning, Sordello Caroline Clive, under the pen name "V", IX Poems by 'V''' Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of the Lake Poets, final two essays on the Lake Poets published in Tait's E
1797 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 5 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, living at Nether Stowey in the Quantock Hills, renews his friendship with William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy, who take a house nearby. August – The British Home Office sends an agent to Nether Stowey to investigate Coleridge and Wordsworth who are suspected of being French spies. October – Coleridge composes Kubla Khan in an opium-induced dream and writes down only a fragment of it on waking.
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.
1862 in poetryMine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. first stanza of Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic conceived as both poem and lyrics to a popular tune and first published in February in The Atlantic Monthly Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1922 in poetry— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 2 Who Goes with Fergus? by W. B. Yeats (first published in 1892) is the song that haunts James Joyce's autobiographical character Stephen Dedalus in the novel Ulysses, first published complete in book form today. Stephen sings it to his mother as she lies dying, and her ghost returns to taunt him with it.
