Events
Louise Gluck publishes "The Triumph of Achilles"Mary Oliver's "American Primitive" is publishedWallace Stevens' "Collected Poems"Sylvia Plath's "Collected Poems" released for the publicSylvia Plath diesElizabeth Bishop's "Collected Poems" wins the National Book AwardLouise Gluck wins the Pulitzer Prize for "The Wild Iris""The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot is publishedFirst volume of William Carlos Williams' "Paterson" is publishedEmily Dickinson's Complete Poems are finally publishedEmily Dickinson diesAllen Ginsberg's "Howl and Other Poems" is publishedEzra Pound finishes "The Cantos"W.B. Yeats finishes "The Tower"First edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is publishedSeamus Heaney publishes groundbreaking translation of "Beowulf"Pablo Neruda wins the Nobel Prize in LiteratureBob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize in LiteratureRudyard Kipling publishes his landmark book "If"John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" published anonymouslyLangston Hughes' "Weary Blues" published; forerunner of Harlem RenaissanceLongfellow's "Song of Hiawatha" is completedJohn Keats dies at 25 of tuberculosisPoe's "The Raven" is publishedAngelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is publishedPercy Shelley's "Ozymandias" publishedColeridge and Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads" published; launches the Romantic movement in poetryWilliam Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience" publishedMilton's "Paradise Lost" first publicationShakespeare's "First Folio" is published; first time his plays are read publiclyGeoffrey Chaucer dies without completing "The Canterbury Tales"The Caxton Edition of Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is published in print; first publication of the workFirst recorded manuscript of "Beowulf"Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" is published for the first time"The Tenth Muse" by Anne Bradstreet is published; largely considered the first Colonial American poetry collection"Poems on Various Subjects" by Phillis Wheatley is publishedTennyson's "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical" first publishedArchibald MacLeish is appointed Librarian of CongressFirst appearance of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"John Donne's "Anatomy of the World" first publishedRobert Burns passes at the ripe age of 37Andrew Marvell publishes "To His Coy Mistress" (posthumously)Earliest date for "Caedmon's Hymn"; earliest known English poemJohn Gower's "Confessio Amantis" finally finished after 33,000 linesEarliest known version of "Piers Plowman" by William Langland; first reference of literary Robin Hoode.e. cummings releases his first poetry collection "Tulips and Chimneys"Lord Byron completes his epic poetical retelling of the Spanish legend "Don Juan"Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his "Poems" collectionRalph Waldo Emerson publishes "Nature, Addresses and Lectures"Robert Frost wins his fourth and final Pulitzer Prize for "A Witness Tree"Jonathan Swift publishes his first poem "Ode to the Athenian Society"
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