1872 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). First printed version of the Thai epic Khun Chang Khun Phaen. Alfred Austin, Interludes Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair C. S. Calverley, published anonymously, Fly Leaves Samuel Ferguson, Congal W. S. Gilbert, More "Bab" Balads (see also "Bab" Ballads 1869) Edward Lear, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.
1945 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 4 — Pablo Neruda elected a Communist party senator in Chile. He officially joins the Communist Party of Chile four months later. April — Ilona Karmel and Henia Karmel, sisters from the Kraków Ghetto and together Polish Jewish prisoners of the Nazis, are on a forced death march when Germans in tanks crush them and then shove them, still living, into a mass grave.
1966 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Raymond Souster founds the League of Canadian Poets Philip Hobsbaum, who had founded The Belfast Group in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1963, departs for Glasgow, and the Belfast Group meetings lapsed for a while, but then was reconstituted in 1968 by Michael Allen, Arthur Terry, and Seamus Heaney. At one time or another, the grouping also includes Michael Longley, James Simmons, Paul Muldoon, Ciaran Carson, Stewart Parker, Bernard MacLaverty and the critic Edna Longley.
1963 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment...—Opening lines of "Edge" by Sylvia Plath, written days before her suicide January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who writes in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day February 11 – American-born poet Sylvia Plath (age 30) commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in her London flat (in a house lived in by W.