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This article gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order). These pages supplement the
List of years in literature pages with a focus on events in the history of poetry.
2019 in poetry
2018 in poetry
2017 in poetry
2016 in poetry
2015 in poetry
2014 in poetry Death of
Madeline Gins ,
Amiri Baraka ,
Juan Gelman ,
José Emilio Pacheco ,
Maya Angelou
2013 in poetry Death of
Thomas McEvilley ,
Taylor Mead ,
Seamus Heaney
2012 in poetry
Günter Grass 's poem "
What Must Be Said " leads to him being declared
persona non grata ; Death of
Adrienne Rich ,
Wisława Szymborska
2011 in poetry
Tomas Tranströmer awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ;
Liz Lochhead succeeds
Edwin Morgan as
The Scots Makar ; Death of
Josephine Hart ,
Václav Havel ,
Robert Kroetsch
2010 in poetry
Seamus Heaney 's
Human Chain ; Death of
Tuli Kupferberg ,
Peter Orlovsky ,
P. Lal ,
Edwin Morgan
2009 in poetry Turkish government posthumously restores
Nâzım Hikmet 's citizenship, stripped from him because of his beliefs;
Ruth Padel the first woman elected
Oxford Professor of Poetry , only to resign in controversy before taking office;
Carol Ann Duffy succeeds Andrew Motion as the UK's
Poet Laureate ;
Elizabeth Alexander reads "Praise Song for the Day" at presidential inauguration of U.S. President
Barack Obama ; Death of
Dennis Brutus ,
Jim Carroll ,
Nicholas Hughes (son of
Ted Hughes and
Sylvia Plath )
2008 in poetry Death of
Harold Pinter ,
Jonathan Williams
2007 in poetry Death of
William Morris Meredith Jr. ,
Emmett Williams
2006 in poetry Seamus Heaney's
District and Circle ; Death of
Stanley Kunitz
2005 in poetry
Harold Pinter awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ; Death of
Philip Lamantia ,
Robert Creeley
2004 in poetry
Seamus Heaney reads "
Beacons of Bealtaine " for 25 leaders of the enlarged
European Union ;
Edwin Morgan named as
The Scots Makar ; Death of
Janet Frame ,
Jackson Mac Low ,
Czesław Miłosz
2003 in poetry John Paul II's
Roman Triptych (Meditation) ;
Kenneth Rexroth 's Complete Poems (posthumous)
2002 in poetry Death of
Kenneth Koch
2001 in poetry Seamus Heaney's
Electric Light ; First-ever
Griffin Poetry Prize in Canada; Death of
Gregory Corso
2000 in poetry Death of
Yehuda Amichai ,
Ahmad Shamlou
1999 in poetry
Andrew Motion succeeds Ted Hughes as the UK's
Poet Laureate ; Julia Donaldson's
The Gruffalo ; Death of
Edward Dorn
1998 in poetry Ted Hughes's
Birthday Letters ; Death of
Zbigniew Herbert ,
Ted Hughes ,
Octavio Paz
1997 in poetry Death of
William Burroughs ,
Allen Ginsberg ,
James Dickey ,
Denise Levertov ,
David Ignatow ,
James Laughlin ,
William Matthews
1996 in poetry Seamus Heaney's
The Spirit Level ;
Wisława Szymborska awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ; Death of
Joseph Brodsky
1995 in poetry
Seamus Heaney awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ; Death of
May Sarton ,
Sir Stephen Spender
CBE ,
David Avidan
1994 in poetry Death of
Charles Bukowski
1993 in poetry
Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of U.S. President
Bill Clinton
1992 in poetry
Derek Walcott awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ; Death of
Eve Merriam
1991 in poetry Death of
Dr. Seuss ,
James Schuyler ,
Howard Nemerov
1990 in poetry
Octavio Paz awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ; Death of
Lawrence Durrell
1989 in poetry Death of
Samuel Beckett ,
Robert Penn Warren ,
May Swenson
1988 in poetry Death of
Máirtín Ó Direáin ,
Miguel Piñero ,
Robert Duncan
1987 in poetry
Joseph Brodsky awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ;
Ezra Pound and
Louis Zukofsky , Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky , edited by Barry Ahearn (Faber & Faber)
[1]
1986 in poetry
Wole Soyinka awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ; Death of
John Ciardi ,
Jean Genet ,
Jaroslav Seifert
1985 in poetry Death of
Robert Graves ,
Philip Larkin
1984 in poetry
Jaroslav Seifert awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ;
Ted Hughes succeeds John Betjeman as the UK's
Poet Laureate (on the refusal of
Philip Larkin ); Death of
George Oppen
1983 in poetry Death of
Ted Berrigan ,
Edwin Denby
1982 in poetry Death of
Kenneth Rexroth ,
Archibald MacLeish ,
Djuna Barnes
1981 in poetry Death of
Christy Brown
1980 in poetry
Czesław Miłosz awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ; Death of
Muriel Rukeyser
1979 in poetry Death of
Elizabeth Bishop ; Jacqueline Osherow is awarded the Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem
1978 in poetry Death of
Micheál Mac Liammóir
1977 in poetry Death of
Robert Lowell ,
Vladimir Nabokov ,
Seán Ó Ríordáin
1976 in poetry
1975 in poetry
1974 in poetry Death of
Miguel Ángel Asturias ,
Anne Sexton ;
Philip Larkin 's High Windows
1973 in poetry Death of
W. H. Auden ,
Pablo Neruda ,
J. R. R. Tolkien
1972 in poetry
John Betjeman succeeds Cecil Day-Lewis as the UK's
Poet Laureate ; Death of
John Berryman ,
Kenneth Patchen ,
Padraic Colum ,
Marianne Moore ,
Richard Church ,
Cecil Day-Lewis ,
Ezra Pound ,
Mark Van Doren ,
Paul Goodman
1971 in poetry
Pablo Neruda awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ; Death of
Jim Morrison ,
Ogden Nash
1970 in poetry Death of
Nelly Sachs ,
Charles Olson ,
Paul Celan ,
Leah Goldberg
1969 in poetry
Samuel Beckett awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ; Death of
Jack Kerouac ,
André Salmon
1968 in poetry
Leonard Cohen , Selected Poems, 1956-1968
1967 in poetry
Cecil Day-Lewis selected as the UK's new
Poet Laureate (succeeding John Masefield); Death of
Patrick Kavanagh ,
John Masefield ,
Carl Sandburg
1966 in poetry Seamus Heaney's
Death of a Naturalist ; Death of
Anna Akhmatova ,
André Breton ,
Frank O'Hara ,
Basil Bunting 's Briggflatts
1965 in poetry Death of
T. S. Eliot
1964 in poetry
John Lennon 's
In His Own Write , containing nonsensical poems, sketches and drawings (a best seller by the member of
the Beatles );
Something Else Press founded by
Dick Higgins in 1963 (publishes
concrete poetry by several authors, starting in 1964),
Philip Larkin 's The Whitsun Weddings ; Death of
Brendan Behan ,
Dame Edith Sitwell
DBE
1963 in poetry Bob Dylan's album
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan released (with his most influential early songwriting); Death of
Nâzım Hikmet ,
Louis MacNeice ,
Sylvia Plath ,
Robert Frost ,
William Carlos Williams ,
Tristan Tzara ,
Jean Cocteau
1962 in poetry Death of
E. E. Cummings
1961 in poetry
Allen Ginsberg 's Kaddish and Other Poems ; death of
H. D. ,Death of
Rabindranath Tagore
1960 in poetry
Dr. Seuss 's
Green Eggs and Ham ; Death of
Boris Pasternak
1959 in poetry Death of
Edgar Guest ,
Lakshmi Prasad Devkota
1958 in poetry
Boris Pasternak awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ; Death of
Alfred Noyes ,
Robert W. Service ;
Ezra Pound 's indictment for treason is dismissed.
[2] He is released from
St. Elizabeths Hospital , an insane asylum in Maryland, after spending 12 years there (starting in
1946 )
1957 in poetry
Howl obscenity trial in
San Francisco ,
Ted Hughes 's The Hawk in the Rain ,
Dr. Seuss 's
The Cat in the Hat and
How the Grinch Stole Christmas ; Death of
Oliver St. John Gogarty
1956 in poetry
Allen Ginsberg 's
Howl and Other Poems , a signature of the
Beat Generation published by
City Lights Books ,
United States ; Birth of
Cathal Ó Searcaigh
1955 in poetry Discovery of the
Hinilawod by
F. Landa Jocano ; Death of
Wallace Stevens ; Birth of
Paula Meehan ,
William Wall
1954 in poetry
Dr. Seuss 's
Horton Hears a Who!
1953 in poetry Death of
Dylan Thomas ; Birth of
Frank McGuinness
1952 in poetry Death of
Paul Éluard ,
George Santayana ; Birth of
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
1951 in poetry Birth of
Paul Muldoon
1950 in poetry Death of
Edna St. Vincent Millay ; Birth of
Mary Dorcey ,
Medbh McGuckian
1949 in poetry Birth of
Gabriel Rosenstock
1948 in poetry
T. S. Eliot awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature
1947 in poetry
Cleanth Brooks 's The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (a classic statement of the
New Criticism ); Birth of
Dermot Healy
1946 in poetry "
On Raglan Road " first published, with the title "Dark Haired Miriam Ran Away";
Ezra Pound brought back to the United States on treason charges, but found unfit to face trial because of insanity and sent to
St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he remained for 12 years; Death of
Gertrude Stein
1945 in poetry Death of
Paul Valéry ,
Robert Desnos ,
Zinaida Gippius ; Birth of
Van Morrison ,
OBE
1944 in poetry Birth of
Eavan Boland ,
Paul Durcan
1943 in poetry Death of
Stephen Vincent Benét ,
William Soutar in Perth; Birth of
Jim Morrison ;
T. S. Eliot 's
Four Quartets published as a whole
1942 in poetry Birth of
William Matthews ,
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin ; Death of
Konstantin Balmont
1941 in poetry Death of
James Joyce ,
Marina Tsvetaeva ; Birth of
Bob Dylan ,
Derek Mahon
1940 in poetry Birth of
Joseph Brodsky ,
John Lennon
1939 in poetry Death of
W. B. Yeats ; Birth of
Seamus Heaney ,
Michael Longley ; T.S. Eliot's
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
1938 in poetry Death of
Osip Mandelstam
1937 in poetry
Lahuta e Malcís -
Gjergj Fishta ; First-ever
Governor General's Literary Awards in Canada; Birth of
Diane Wakoski
1936 in poetry Killing of
Federico García Lorca , Death of
Rudyard Kipling ; Birth of
John Giorno
1935 in poetry
Charles G. D. Roberts knighted for his poetry;
Anna Akhmatova begins publishing her cycle of poems
Requiem
1934 in poetry Death of
Andrei Bely ; Birth of
Leonard Cohen ,
Wole Soyinka
1933 in poetry
The Winding Stair -
W. B. Yeats ; Death of
Sara Teasdale ; Birth of
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
1932 in poetry Death of
Hart Crane ; Birth of
Christy Brown ,
Michael McClure ,
David Antin ,
Sylvia Plath
1931 in poetry Death of
Vachel Lindsay ,
Kahlil Gibran ; Birth of
Tomas Tranströmer
1930 in poetry
John Masefield succeeds Robert Bridges as the UK's
Poet Laureate ; Death of
Robert Bridges ,
D. H. Lawrence ,
Vladimir Mayakovsky ; birth of
Gary Snyder ,
Adunis ,
Harold Pinter ,
Derek Walcott
1929 in poetry
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry awarded to
Stephen Vincent Benét for
John Brown's Body ; Birth of
Ed Dorn ,
John Montague
1928 in poetry
The Tower (book) -
W. B. Yeats ; Birth of
Maya Angelou ,
Thomas Kinsella ; Death of
Thomas Hardy
1927 in poetry
William Soutar creates his
Epigram form of the
Cinquain ; Birth of
John Ashbery
1926 in poetry Death of
Rainer Maria Rilke , Birth of
Allen Ginsberg ,
Robert Creeley ,
Frank O'Hara
1925 in poetry Death of
Sergei Yesenin , Birth of
Ahmad Shamlou
1924 in poetry Birth of
Yehuda Amichai ,
Janet Frame ,
Zbigniew Herbert
1923 in poetry
W. B. Yeats is the first Irishman awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ;
Edna St. Vincent Millay is the first woman to win the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ; Birth of
Brendan Behan ,
Yves Bonnefoy ,
Wisława Szymborska ,
Aco Šopov
1922 in poetry T. S. Eliot's "
The Waste Land ";
Rainer Maria Rilke completes both the
Duino Elegies and the
Sonnets to Orpheus ; Birth of
Jack Kerouac ,
Máire Mhac an tSaoi
1921 in poetry Birth of
Vasko Popa , Death of
Alexander Blok
1920 in poetry The
Epic of Manas is published; approximate date of Mikhail Khudiakov's
Dorvyzhy ;
The Dial , a longstanding American literary magazine, is re-established by
Scofield Thayer , with the publication becoming an important outlet for
Modernist poets and writers (until
1929 ), with contributors this year including
Sherwood Anderson ,
Djuna Barnes ,
Kenneth Burke ,
Hart Crane ,
E. E. Cummings ,
Charles Demuth ,
Kahlil Gibran ,
Gaston Lachaise ,
Amy Lowell ,
Marianne Moore ,
Ezra Pound ,
Odilon Redon ,
Bertrand Russell ,
Carl Sandburg ,
Van Wyck Brooks , and
W. B. Yeats ; Birth of
Paul Celan ,
Charles Bukowski
1919 in poetry Birth of
Lawrence Ferlinghetti ,
Robert Duncan ,
May Swenson ,
William Meredith
1918 in poetry Death of
Guillaume Apollinaire ,
Wilfred Owen ;
Gerard Manley Hopkins 's Poems published posthumously by Robert Bridges
1917 in poetry Birth of
Robert Lowell ;
T. S. Eliot 's Prufrock and other Observations
1916 in poetry The
Dada movement in art, poetry and literature coalesced at
Cabaret Voltaire in
Zurich, Switzerland , where
Hugo Ball ,
Emmy Hennings ,
Tristan Tzara ,
Hans Arp ,
Richard Huelsenbeck ,
Sophie Täuber and others discussed art and put on performances expressing their disgust with
World War I and the interests they believed inspired it; Death of
Patrick Pearse ,
Joseph Mary Plunkett ; Birth of
Tom Kettle
1915 in poetry Death of
Rupert Brooke
1914 in poetry Death of
Adelaide Crapsey ; Birth of
William Burroughs ,
Octavio Paz ,
Dylan Thomas
1913 in poetry
Rabindranath Tagore awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature ,
Robert Bridges succeeds Alfred Austin as the UK's
Poet Laureate ; The launch of
Imagism in the pages of
Poetry magazine by
H.D. ,
Richard Aldington and
Ezra Pound ,
Robert Frost 's
A Boy's Will ; Death of
Alfred Austin ,
Lesya Ukrainka ; birth of
R. S. Thomas
1912 in poetry
Adelaide Crapsey creates her
couplet form
1911 in poetry
Adelaide Crapsey creates the American
Cinquain form; Birth of
Leah Goldberg ,
Czesław Miłosz
1910 in poetry Death of
Julia Ward Howe ; Birth of
Charles Olson ,
Jean Genet
1899 in poetry Birth of
Hart Crane ,
Micheál Mac Liammóir ,
Vladimir Nabokov
1898 in poetry Death of
Stéphane Mallarmé ,
Lewis Carroll ; Birth of
Stephen Vincent Benét ,
Federico García Lorca ,
William Soutar
1897 in poetry
1896 in poetry Death of
Paul Verlaine
1895 in poetry Birth of
Robert Graves ,
Sergei Yesenin
1894 in poetry Death of
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle ,
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
1893 in poetry Birth of
Vladimir Mayakovsky
1892 in poetry
Emily Dickinson First collection published; Death of
Walt Whitman
James Russell Lowell ,
Alfred Lord Tennyson ,
Afanasy Fet ; Birth of
Marina Tsvetaeva ,
Hugh MacDiarmid
1891 in poetry Death of
Arthur Rimbaud ,
Herman Melville ; Birth of
Nelly Sachs ,
Osip Mandelstam
1890 in poetry Birth of
Boris Pasternak
1879 in poetry Birth of
Patrick Pearse ,
Wallace Stevens
1878 in poetry Birth of
Oliver St. John Gogarty ,
Carl Sandburg ,
John Edward Masefield ,
Adelaide Crapsey
1877 in poetry
Jacint Verdaguer 's
L'Atlàntida
1876 in poetry Death of
John Neal
1875 in poetry
French translation of
Edgar Allan Poe 's "
The Raven ", by
Stéphane Mallarmé with drawings by
Édouard Manet ; - Birth of
Rainer Maria Rilke , important pre-
modernist 20th-century poet in
German .
1874 in poetry
Arthur Rimbaud 's
Illuminations First collection of
George Eliot 's poetry; - Birth of
Gertrude Stein ,
Robert Frost , important
American poet
1873 in poetry
Arthur Rimbaud 's
Une Saison en Enfer (
A Season in Hell ) ; Publication of
Daredevils of Sassoun ; Death of
Fyodor Tyutchev
1872 in poetry
Christina Rossetti 's
In the Bleak Midwinter (Christmas carol); José Hernández's
Martín Fierro ; Michel Rodange's
Rénert the Fox
1871 in poetry
Lewis Carroll publishes
Through the Looking-Glass , including the complete
Jabberwocky .
Arthur Rimbaud wrote "Letters of the Seer." Birth of
Lesya Ukrainka , important Ukrainian poet
1870 in poetry
1819 in poetry Scholars described - The Great Year for
John Keats , who publishes his famous Odes ;
Don Juan (Byron) -
Lord Byron ; - Birth of
George Eliot ,
Walt Whitman , important
American poet ,
Herman Melville ,
American poet , novelist,
James Russell Lowell ,
American poet ,
Julia Ward Howe ,
American poet
1818 in poetry
Lord Byron 's
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , Book IV, published; - Birth of
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle ; -
Mary Shelley (
née
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin publishes
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus anonymously;
Percy Bysshe Shelley 's
Ozymandias
1817 in poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley , Laon and Cythna
1816 in poetry
Shelley marries
Mary Woolstonecraft Godwin ,
Lord Byron 's
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage , Book III, published;
Samuel Coleridge 's
Kubla Khan
1815 in poetry
1814 in poetry
West-östlicher Diwan -
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ;
She Walks in Beauty -
Lord Byron ;
Percy Bysshe Shelley and
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to war-ravaged France, accompanied by Godwin's stepsister, Mary Jane. Birth of
Mikhail Lermontov , important Russian poet; Birth of
Taras Shevchenko , important
Ukrainian poet
1813 in poetry The Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem is awarded for the first time. Recipient is George Waddington.
1812 in poetry
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage -
Lord Byron ; Birth of
Afanasy Fet , important Russian poet
1811 in poetry
1810 in poetry
Milton: a Poem ,
epic poem by
William Blake , written and illustrated between
1804 and
1810
1799 in poetry Birth of
Aleksandr Pushkin , important
Russian poet
1798 in poetry
William Wordsworth and
Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish
Lyrical Ballads . Birth of
Adam Mickiewicz , important
Polish poet
1797 in poetry Birth of
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ,
Heinrich Heine
1796 in poetry Death of
Robert Burns ,
James Macpherson
1795 in poetry Birth of
John Keats , important
English poet ; -
William Blake , The Book of Los ,
The Book of Ahania ,
The Song of Los
1794 in poetry
Songs of Innocence and of Experience : Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul two books of
poetry and
The Book of Urizen by
English
poet and
painter
William Blake
1793 in poetry
William Blake ,
Visions of the Daughters of Albion and America, A Prophecy ; - Birth of
John Clare ,
John Neal
1792 in poetry Birth of
Percy Bysshe Shelley , important
English poet ; -
William Blake
Song of Liberty
1791 in poetry
William Blake , The French Revolution
1790 in poetry
William Blake ,
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
1639 in poetry
1638 in poetry
1637 in poetry Death of
Ben Jonson , important
English poet ,
playwright ,
actor
1636 in poetry
1635 in poetry
1634 in poetry
1633 in poetry
1632 in poetry
1631 in poetry Death of
John Donne , important
English poet , essayist, author, preacher; - Birth of
John Dryden influential
English
poet ,
literary critic ,
translator and
playwright ; Birth of
Michael Wigglesworth (died
1705 ),
English poet , colonist in
America called "the most popular of early New England poets"
[4]
1630 in poetry
1559 in poetry
1558 in poetry
1557 in poetry
1556 in poetry
1555 in poetry
1554 in poetry
Miles Huggarde , The Assault of the Sacrament of the Altar ;
Henry Howard , The Fourth Boke of Virgill, Intreating of the Love Betweene Aeneas & Dido ; Sir
David Lindsay , The Monarche
[5]
1553 in poetry Anonymous, Pierce the Ploughmans Crede ;
Gavin Douglas , translator, Aeneid , The Palis of Honoure , second, revised edition (publication year conjectural)
[5]
1552 in poetry Birth of
Edmund Spenser ,
Walter Raleigh ; Works:
Thomas Churchyard , A Myrrour for Man
[5]
1551 in poetry
Robert Crowley , published anonymously, Philargyrie of Greate Britayne; or, The Fable of the Great Giant
[5]
1550 in poetry
Charles Bansley , The Pride of Women ;
Robert Crowley , One and Thyrtye Epigrammes;
John Heywood , An Hundred Epigrammes;
William Langland (attributed),
Piers Plowman , the B text
[5]
5th century in poetry – 9th century in poetry
Poetry before the 5th century
^ Pound, Ezra (1987).
Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky .
ISBN
9780811210133 . Retrieved November 10, 2010 .
^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound , Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Chronology" chapter, p 118
^ Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West,
Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History , Oxford University Press US, 1996
ISBN
978-0-19-509053-6 , retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
^ Trent, William P. and Wells, Benjamin W., Colonial Prose and Poetry: The Beginnings of Americanism 1650-1710 , New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1903 edition, page 41
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