List of years in poetry

This page 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.

21st century in poetry[]

2010s[]

2011 in poetry
2010 in poetry Death of Tuli Kupferberg, Peter Orlovsky, Beat Generation American poet, Death of P. Lal, Indian poet

2000s[]

2009 in poetry Elizabeth Alexander (poet) reads "Praise Song for the Day" at presidential inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama; Death of Jim Carroll, Dennis Brutus (S. African poet)
2008 in poetry Death of Jonathan Williams, American poet, publisher and founder of The Jargon Society
2007 in poetry Death of Emmett Williams, American poet, known for concrete poetry
2006 in poetry Death of Stanley Kunitz, former U.S. Poet Laureate
2005 in poetry Death of Philip Lamantia, Beat Generation American poet; - Robert Creeley, American poet of the Black Mountain School
2004 in poetry Death of Janet Frame, Jackson Mac Low, avant-garde American poet
2003 in poetry Published - Kenneth Rexroth, Complete Poems (posthumous)
2002 in poetry Death of Kenneth Koch, New York School American poet
2001 in poetry Death of Gregory Corso, Beat Generation American poet. First-ever Griffin Poetry Prize in Canada.
2000 in poetry Death of Yehuda Amichai (born 1924), Israeli poet

20th century in poetry[]

1960s[]

1969 in poetry Death of Jack Kerouac, influential Beat Generation American poet, writer, novelist; - André Salmon, French poet critic and novelist
1968 in poetry Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
1967 in poetry Death of Carl Sandburg, American poet, and historian; - John Edward Masefield, English poet, and writer, Poet Laureate, 1930–1967; - Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK.
1966 in poetry Death of André Breton, Frank O'Hara
1965 in poetry Death of T. S. Eliot
1964 in poetry John Lennon, 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; - Death of Dame Edith Sitwell DBE British poet, and critic
1963 in poetry Death of Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau, Bob Dylan releases his The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, album, with his most influential early songwriting.
1962 in poetry Death of E.E. Cummings
1961 in poetry Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems
1960 in poetry Death of Boris Pasternak, Russian poet and writer, winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature

1950s[]

1959 in poetry Death of Edgar Guest, American poet known as the "poet of the people"
1958 in poetry Death of Alfred Noyes, English poet; - Robert W. Service, American poet; - 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
1956 in poetry Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems, a signature of the Beat Generation published by City Lights Books, United States
1955 in poetry Death of Wallace Stevens, prominent American poet

1954 in poetry
1953 in poetry Death of Dylan Thomas, 39
1952 in poetry Death of Paul Éluard, 56, French poet who broke with Surrealism; - George Santayana, Spanish-American poet philosopher, essayist and novelist.
1951 in poetry
1950 in poetry Death of Edna St. Vincent Millay 58

1940s[]

1949 in poetry
1948 in poetry
1947 in poetry Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry, a classic statement of the New Criticism
1946 in poetry 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 Birth of Van Morrison, OBE, Irish poet, singer, songwriter, author, and multi-instrumentalist; - Death of Paul Valéry, French poet philosopher, author, Symbolist poet; - Robert Desnos, was a French surrealist poet.
1944 in poetry
1943 in poetry Death of Stephen Vincent Benét, 44, American poet, William Soutar in Perth; - Birth of Jim Morrison
1942 in poetry Birth of William Matthews, American poet and essayist
1941 in poetry Death of James Joyce, Birth of Bob Dylan
1940 in poetry Birth of John Lennon

1930s[]

1939 in poetry Death of William Butler Yeats
1938 in poetry
1937 in poetry Birth of Diane Wakoski American poet. First-ever Governor General's Literary Awards in Canada.
1936 in poetry Death of Federico García Lorca, Rudyard Kipling; - Birth of John Giorno
1935 in poetry Charles G.D. Roberts knighted for his poetry.
1934 in poetry Birth of Leonard Cohen
1933 in poetry Death of Sara Teasdale
1932 in poetry Death of Hart Crane; Birth of Michael McClure, American poet, David Antin, American poet
1931 in poetry Death of Vachel Lindsay, Kahlil Gibran
1930 in poetry Death of D. H. Lawrence, Gary Snyder, American poet

1920s[]

1929 in poetry Pulitzer Prize for Poetry awarded to Stephen Vincent Benet, for John Brown's Body; - Birth of Edward Dorn (died 1999) American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets
1928 in poetry Birth of Maya Angelou
1927 in poetry William Soutar creates his Epigram form of the Cinquain.
1926 in poetry Death of Rainer Maria Rilke, Birth of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Frank O'Hara
1925 in poetry
1924 in poetry Birth of Yehuda Amichai Israeli poet, Janet Frame New Zealand poet, writer and novelist, Zbigniew Herbert Polish poet
1923 in poetry Edna St. Vincent Millay is the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
1922 in poetry The publication of the The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot; Rainer Marie Rilke completes both the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus; - Birth of Jack Kerouac, influential Beat Generation American poet, writer, novelist
1921 in poetry
1920 in poetry The Dial, a longstanding American literary magazine, is re-established by Scofield Thayer; the publication becomes 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

1910s[]

1919 in poetry Birth of - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American beat poet; - Robert Duncan (died 1988), American poet associated with the Black Mountain poets and the Beat Generation; - May Swenson, (died 1989, American poet and playwright; - William Meredith, American poet
1918 in poetry Death of Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet, writer, and art critic
1917 in poetry Birth of Robert Lowell, American poet
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
1915 in poetry
1914 in poetry Death of Adelaide Crapsey; - Birth of William Burroughs
1913 in poetry The launch of Imagism in the pages of Poetry magazine by H.D., Richard Aldington and Ezra Pound
1912 in poetry Adelaide Crapsey creates her couplet form
1911 in poetry Birth of Leah Goldberg, Hebrew poet; - Adelaide Crapsey creates the American Cinquain form
1910 in poetry Birth of Charles Olson (died 1970), American poet; - Jean Genet, French poet novelist, and playwright; - Death of Julia Ward Howe, 91, American poet best known as the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic

1900s[]

1909 in poetry Death of Sarah Orne-Jewett.
1908 in poetry
1907 in poetry Birth of W. H. Auden
1906 in poetry Birth of Samuel Beckett, Irish poet, playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969; Alfred Noyes publishes The Highwayman
1905 in poetry
1904 in poetry Birth of Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972
1903 in poetry
1902 in poetry Birth of Langston Hughes, African-American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance; - Death of Shiki the haiku poet
1901 in poetry
1900 in poetry Death of Oscar Wilde, 46, Irish poet, playwright, novelist, and short story writer

19th century in poetry[]

1890s[]

1899 in poetry Birth of Hart Crane (died 1932), American poet
1898 in poetry Birth of Stephen Vincent Benét, Federico García Lorca, William Soutar in Perth,Scotland; - Death of Stéphane Mallarmé, Lewis Carroll
1897 in poetry
1896 in poetry Death of Paul Verlaine
1895 in poetry Birth of Robert Graves
1894 in poetry Death of Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. American poet, physician, and essayist
1893 in poetry
1892 in poetry Emily Dickinson First collection published; Death of - Walt Whitman, important American poet, James Russell Lowell, American poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson, popular English poet

1891 in poetry Birth of Nelly Sachs; - Death of Arthur Rimbaud, Herman Melville
1890 in poetry

1880s[]

1889 in poetry
1888 in poetry Birth of Thomas Stearns Eliot
1887 in poetry Birth of Marianne Moore; - Edith Sitwell DBE
1886 in poetry Death of Emily Dickinson
1885 in poetry
1884 in poetry
1883 in poetry Birth of William Carlos Williams
1882 in poetry Death of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 78, important American poet, author, and philosopher; - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 75, important American poet; - Birth of James Joyce (died 1941), influential Irish poet and writer; - A. A. Milne (died 1956), British poet author, playwright and writer of children's poetry best known for his books about the teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh.
1881 in poetry
1880 in poetry Birth of Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet, writer, and art critic, Alfred Noyes (died 1958), English poet, best known for his ballads

1870s[]

1879 in poetry
1878 in poetry Birth of Carl Sandburg (died 1967), important American poet, and historian; - John Edward Masefield (died 1967), English poet and writer, Poet Laureate, 1930–1967; - Adelaide Crapseyin New York
1877 in poetry
1876 in poetry
1875 in poetry French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", by Stéphane Mallarmé with drawings by Edouard Manet; - Birth of Rainer Maria Rilke, important pre-modernist 20th century poet in German.
1874 in poetry Arthur Rimbaud's IlluminationsFirst 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)
1872 in poetry Christina Rosetti In a bleak mid winter' (Christmas Carol)
1871 in poetry Lewis Carroll published, Through the Looking-Glass, including the complete Jabberwocky. Arthur Rimbaud wrote "Letters of the Seer."
1870 in poetry

1860s[]

1869 in poetry George Eliot sonnet Brother & Sister
1868 in poetry
1867 in poetry Death of Charles Baudelaire, French poet and art critic; - Birth of Shiki the haiku poet
1866 in poetry
1865 in poetry
1864 in poetry
1863 in poetry
1862 in poetry Christina Rossetti Goblin Market
1861 in poetry
1860 in poetry

1850s[]

1859 in poetry
1858 in poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish
1857 in poetry Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal
1856 in poetry
1855 in poetry Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a first stanza of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha

1854 in poetry Birth of Arthur Rimbaud
1853 in poetry
1852 in poetry
1851 in poetry
1850 in poetry Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese; Robert Browning Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day; - Death of William Wordsworth

1840s[]

1849 in poetry Death of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee, Birth of Sarah Orne-Jewett (Martha's Lady)
1848 in poetry Founding of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
1847 in poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline
1846 in poetry
1845 in poetry Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
1844 in poetry Birth of Paul Verlaine
1843 in poetry
1842 in poetry Birth of Stéphane Mallarmé
1841 in poetry
1840 in poetry

1830s[]

1839 in poetry
1838 in poetry
1837 in poetry
1836 in poetry
1835 in poetry
1834 in poetry Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1833 in poetry
1832 in poetry Birth of Lewis Carroll; - Death of Sir Walter Scott, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1831 in poetry Birth of Emily Dickinson
1830 in poetry Birth of Christina Rossetti in London

1820s[]

1829 in poetry
1828 in poetry
1827 in poetry
1826 in poetry Death of Issa the haiku poet
1825 in poetry
1824 in poetry Death of Lord Byron, important English Romantic poet
1823 in poetry
1822 in poetry Lord Byron The Vision of Judgment; Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, important English Romantic poet
1821 in poetry Death of John Keats, important English Romantic poet; - Birth of Charles Baudelaire, French poet and art critic
1820 in poetry

1810s[]

1819 in poetry Scholars described - The Great Year for John Keats, who publishes his famous Odes; - 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
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
1815 in poetry
1814 in poetry Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to war-ravaged France, accompanied by Godwin's stepsister, Mary Jane.
1813 in poetry
1812 in poetry
1811 in poetry
1810 in poetry Milton: a Poem, epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810

1800s[]

1809 in poetry Birth of Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. American poet, physician, and essayist
1808 in poetry
1807 in poetry
1806 in poetry
1805 in poetry Jerusalem poem by William Blake; - Death of Friedrich Schiller, German poet
1804 in poetry
1803 in poetry
1802 in poetry
1801 in poetry
1800 in poetry

18th century in poetry[]

1790s[]

1799 in poetry
1798 in poetry William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads
1797 in poetry Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
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
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

1780s[]

1789 in poetry William Blake publishes Songs of Innocence and The Book of Thel
1788 in poetry Birth of Lord Byron, (English)
1787 in poetry
1786 in poetry
1785 in poetry
1784 in poetry Death of Samuel Johnson English author, wrote Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, (1779–81)
1783 in poetry Death of Buson the haiku poet
1782 in poetry
1781 in poetry
1780 in poetry

1770s[]

1779 in poetry
1778 in poetry
1777 in poetry
1776 in poetry
1775 in poetry
1774 in poetry
1773 in poetry - Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill composes "Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire"
1772 in poetry Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1771 in poetry Death of Thomas Gray, English poet, (born 1716); - Birth of Sir Walter Scott
1770 in poetry Birth of William Wordsworth, important English poet (died 1850); - Death of Thomas Chatterton, 17-year old English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry born 1752

1760s[]

1769 in poetry
1768 in poetry
1767 in poetry
1766 in poetry
1765 in poetry
1764 in poetry
1763 in poetry
1762 in poetry Birth of Issa the haiku poet
1761 in poetry
1760 in poetry

1750s[]

1759 in poetry Birth of Robert Burns, Friedrich Schiller, German poet philosopher, and dramatist (died 1805)
1758 in poetry
1757 in poetry
1756 in poetry
1755 in poetry
1754 in poetry
1753 in poetry
1752 in poetry
1751 in poetry
1750 in poetry

1740s[]

1749 in poetry Birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German poet and author
1748 in poetry
1747 in poetry
1746 in poetry
1745 in poetry Death of Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet
1744 in poetry Death of Alexander Pope, English poet; - Anonymous, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, the first extant collection of nursery rhymes
1743 in poetry Death of Richard Savage, English poet
1742 in poetry
1741 in poetry
1740 in poetry

1730s[]

1739 in poetry
1738 in poetry
1737 in poetry
1736 in poetry Birth of James Macpherson, Scottish poet
1735 in poetry
1734 in poetry
1733 in poetry
1732 in poetry
1731 in poetry
1730 in poetry

1720s[]

1710s[]

1719 in poetry Death of Joseph Addison, English essayist and poet
1718 in poetry
1717 in poetry
1716 in poetry Birth of Thomas Gray, English poet, (died 1771)
1715 in poetry Birth of Buson the haiku poet
1714 in poetry
1713 in poetry
1712 in poetry
1711 in poetry
1710 in poetry

1700s[]

1709 in poetry Birth of Samuel Johnson, English author, biographer
1708 in poetry
1707 in poetry
1706 in poetry
1705 in poetry Death of Michael Wigglesworth (born 1631), English poet, colonist in America called "the most popular of early New England poets"
1704 in poetry
1703 in poetry
1702 in poetry
1701 in poetry
1700 in poetry Death of John Dryden, influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright

17th century in poetry[]

1690s[]

1699 in poetry
1698 in poetry
1697 in poetry Birth of Richard Savage, English poet
1696 in poetry
1695 in poetry
1694 in poetry Death of the haiku poet Matsuo Bashō
1693 in poetry
1692 in poetry
1691 in poetry
1690 in poetry

1680s[]

1689 in poetry
1688 in poetry Birth of Alexander Pope, English poet
1687 in poetry
1686 in poetry
1685 in poetry
1684 in poetry
1683 in poetry
1682 in poetry
1681 in poetry
1680 in poetry

1670s[]

1679 in poetry
1678 in poetry
1677 in poetry
1676 in poetry
1675 in poetry
1674 in poetry Death of John Milton, important English poet
1673 in poetry
1672 in poetry Birth of Joseph Addison, English essayist and poet
1671 in poetry
1670 in poetry

1660s[]

1669 in poetry
1668 in poetry
1667 in poetry Birth of Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet
1666 in poetry
1665 in poetry
1664 in poetry Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Divine and Moral^[3]
1663 in poetry
1662 in poetry
1661 in poetry
1660 in poetry

1650s[]

1659 in poetry
1658 in poetry
1657 in poetry
1656 in poetry
1655 in poetry
1654 in poetry
1653 in poetry
1652 in poetry
1651 in poetry
1650 in poetry

1640s[]

1649 in poetry
1648 in poetry
1647 in poetry April 1 — birth of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (died 1680)
1646 in poetry
1645 in poetry
1644 in poetry Birth of Matsuo Bashō the haiku poet
1643 in poetry
1642 in poetry
1641 in poetry
1640 in poetry

1630s[]

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

1620s[]

1629 in poetry
1628 in poetry
1627 in poetry
1626 in poetry
1625 in poetry
1624 in poetry
1623 in poetry
1622 in poetry
1621 in poetry
1620 in poetry

1610s[]

1619 in poetry
1618 in poetry Death of Sir Walter Raleigh
1617 in poetry
1616 in poetry Death of William Shakespeare English poet, playwright and genius
1615 in poetry
1614 in poetry A Wife, poem by Sir Thomas Overbury published posthumously
1613 in poetry Death of Thomas Overbury English poet
1612 in poetry
1611 in poetry
1610 in poetry

1600s[]

1609 in poetry Publication of William Shakespeare's Sonnets
1608 in poetry Birth of John Milton, important English poet
1607 in poetry
1606 in poetry
1605 in poetry
1604 in poetry
1603 in poetry
1602 in poetry
1601 in poetry
1600 in poetry

16th century in poetry[]

1590s[]

1599 in poetry Death of Edmund Spenser English poet
1598 in poetry
1597 in poetry
1596 in poetry
1595 in poetry
1594 in poetry
1593 in poetry Birth of George Herbert Welsh poet; - Death of Christopher Marlowe English poet

1592 in poetry
1591 in poetry
1590 in poetry

1580s[]

1589 in poetry
1588 in poetry
1587 in poetry
1586 in poetry Birth of John Ford English poet and playwright (d. c.1640)
1585 in poetry
1584 in poetry
1583 in poetry
1582 in poetry
1581 in poetry Birth of Thomas Overbury English poet (d.1613)
1580 in poetry

1570s[]

1579 in poetry
1578 in poetry
1577 in poetry
1576 in poetry
1575 in poetry
1574 in poetry
1573 in poetry
1572 in poetry Birth of John Donne, important English poet, essayist, author, preacher; - Birth of Ben Jonson, important English poet, playwright, actor
1571 in poetry
1570 in poetry

1560s[]

1569 in poetry
1568 in poetry
1567 in poetry
1566 in poetry
1565 in poetry
1564 in poetry Birth of William Shakespeare English poet, playwright, and genius, Christopher Marlowe English poet

1563 in poetry
1562 in poetry
1561 in poetry
1560 in poetry

1550s[]

1559 in poetry
1558 in poetry
1557 in poetry
1556 in poetry
1555 in poetry
1554 in poetry Miles Hogarde, 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]

1540s[]

1549 in poetry
1548 in poetry
1547 in poetry
1546 in poetry
1545 in poetry
1544 in poetry
1543 in poetry
1542 in poetry
1541 in poetry
1540 in poetry

1530s[]

1539 in poetry
1538 in poetry
1537 in poetry
1536 in poetry
1535 in poetry
1534 in poetry
1533 in poetry
1532 in poetry
1531 in poetry
1530 in poetry

1520s[]

1529 in poetry
1528 in poetry
1527 in poetry
1526 in poetry
1525 in poetry
1524 in poetry
1523 in poetry
1522 in poetry
1521 in poetry
1520 in poetry

1510s[]

1519 in poetry
1518 in poetry
1517 in poetry
1516 in poetry
1515 in poetry
1514 in poetry
1513 in poetry
1512 in poetry
1511 in poetry
1510 in poetry

1500s[]

15th century in poetry[]

1490s[]

1499 in poetry
1498 in poetry
1497 in poetry
1496 in poetry
1495 in poetry
1494 in poetry
1493 in poetry
1492 in poetry
1491 in poetry
1490 in poetry

1480s[]

1489 in poetry
1488 in poetry
1487 in poetry
1486 in poetry
1485 in poetry
1484 in poetry
1483 in poetry
1482 in poetry
1481 in poetry
1480 in poetry

1470s[]

1479 in poetry
1478 in poetry
1477 in poetry
1476 in poetry
1475 in poetry
1474 in poetry
1473 in poetry
1472 in poetry
1471 in poetry
1470 in poetry

1460s[]

1469 in poetry
1468 in poetry
1467 in poetry
1466 in poetry
1465 in poetry
1464 in poetry
1463 in poetry
1462 in poetry
1461 in poetry
1460 in poetry

1450s[]

1459 in poetry
1458 in poetry
1457 in poetry
1456 in poetry
1455 in poetry
1454 in poetry
1453 in poetry
1452 in poetry
1451 in poetry
1450 in poetry

1440s[]

1449 in poetry
1448 in poetry
1447 in poetry
1446 in poetry
1445 in poetry
1444 in poetry
1443 in poetry
1442 in poetry
1441 in poetry
1440 in poetry

1430s[]

1439 in poetry
1438 in poetry
1437 in poetry
1436 in poetry
1435 in poetry
1434 in poetry
1433 in poetry
1432 in poetry
1431 in poetry
1430 in poetry

1420s[]

1429 in poetry
1428 in poetry
1427 in poetry
1426 in poetry
1425 in poetry
1424 in poetry
1423 in poetry
1422 in poetry
1421 in poetry
1420 in poetry

1410s[]

1419 in poetry
1418 in poetry
1417 in poetry
1416 in poetry
1415 in poetry
1414 in poetry
1413 in poetry
1412 in poetry
1411 in poetry
1410 in poetry

1400s[]

1409 in poetry
1408 in poetry
1407 in poetry
1406 in poetry
1405 in poetry
1404 in poetry
1403 in poetry
1402 in poetry
1401 in poetry
1400 in poetry Death of Geoffrey Chaucer

14th century in poetry[]

1390s[]

1399 in poetry
1398 in poetry
1397 in poetry
1396 in poetry
1395 in poetry
1394 in poetry
1393 in poetry
1392 in poetry
1391 in poetry
1390 in poetry

1380s[]

1389 in poetry
1388 in poetry
1387 in poetry
1386 in poetry
1385 in poetry
1384 in poetry
1383 in poetry
1382 in poetry
1381 in poetry
1380 in poetry

1370s[]

1379 in poetry
1378 in poetry
1377 in poetry
1376 in poetry
1375 in poetry
1374 in poetry
1373 in poetry
1372 in poetry
1371 in poetry
1370 in poetry

1360s[]

1369 in poetry
1368 in poetry
1367 in poetry
1366 in poetry
1365 in poetry
1364 in poetry
1363 in poetry
1362 in poetry
1361 in poetry
1360 in poetry

1350s[]

1359 in poetry
1358 in poetry
1357 in poetry
1356 in poetry
1355 in poetry
1354 in poetry
1353 in poetry
1352 in poetry
1351 in poetry
1350 in poetry

1340s[]

1349 in poetry
1348 in poetry
1347 in poetry
1346 in poetry
1345 in poetry
1344 in poetry
1343 in poetry (circa) Birth of Geoffrey Chaucer, known as father of English poetry (died 1400)
1342 in poetry
1341 in poetry
1340 in poetry

1330s[]

1339 in poetry
1338 in poetry
1337 in poetry
1336 in poetry
1335 in poetry
1334 in poetry
1333 in poetry
1332 in poetry
1331 in poetry
1330 in poetry

1320s[]

1329 in poetry
1328 in poetry
1327 in poetry
1326 in poetry
1325 in poetry
1324 in poetry
1323 in poetry
1322 in poetry
1321 in poetry
1320 in poetry

1310s[]

1319 in poetry
1318 in poetry
1317 in poetry
1316 in poetry
1315 in poetry
1314 in poetry
1313 in poetry
1312 in poetry
1311 in poetry
1310 in poetry

1300s[]

1309 in poetry
1308 in poetry
1307 in poetry
1306 in poetry
1305 in poetry
1304 in poetry
1303 in poetry
1302 in poetry
1301 in poetry
1300 in poetry

13th century in poetry[]

1290s[]

1299 in poetry
1298 in poetry
1297 in poetry
1296 in poetry
1295 in poetry
1294 in poetry
1293 in poetry
1292 in poetry
1291 in poetry
1290 in poetry

1280s[]

1289 in poetry
1288 in poetry
1287 in poetry
1286 in poetry
1285 in poetry
1284 in poetry
1283 in poetry
1282 in poetry
1281 in poetry
1280 in poetry

1270s[]

1279 in poetry
1278 in poetry
1277 in poetry
1276 in poetry
1275 in poetry
1274 in poetry
1273 in poetry
1272 in poetry
1271 in poetry
1270 in poetry

1260s[]

1269 in poetry
1268 in poetry
1267 in poetry
1266 in poetry
1265 in poetry
1264 in poetry
1263 in poetry
1262 in poetry
1261 in poetry
1260 in poetry

1250s[]

1259 in poetry
1258 in poetry
1257 in poetry
1256 in poetry
1255 in poetry
1254 in poetry
1253 in poetry
1252 in poetry
1251 in poetry
1250 in poetry

1240s[]

1249 in poetry
1248 in poetry
1247 in poetry
1246 in poetry
1245 in poetry
1244 in poetry
1243 in poetry
1242 in poetry
1241 in poetry
1240 in poetry

1230s[]

1239 in poetry
1238 in poetry
1237 in poetry
1236 in poetry
1235 in poetry
1234 in poetry
1233 in poetry
1232 in poetry
1231 in poetry
1230 in poetry

1220s[]

1229 in poetry
1228 in poetry
1227 in poetry
1226 in poetry
1225 in poetry
1224 in poetry
1223 in poetry
1222 in poetry
1221 in poetry
1220 in poetry

1210s[]

1219 in poetry
1218 in poetry
1217 in poetry
1216 in poetry
1215 in poetry
1214 in poetry
1213 in poetry
1212 in poetry
1211 in poetry
1210 in poetry

1200s[]

1209 in poetry
1208 in poetry
1207 in poetry
1206 in poetry
1205 in poetry
1204 in poetry
1203 in poetry
1202 in poetry
1201 in poetry
1200 in poetry

12th century in poetry[]

1190s[]

1199 in poetry
1198 in poetry
1197 in poetry
1196 in poetry
1195 in poetry
1194 in poetry
1193 in poetry
1192 in poetry
1191 in poetry
1190 in poetry

1180s[]

1189 in poetry
1188 in poetry
1187 in poetry
1186 in poetry
1185 in poetry
1184 in poetry
1183 in poetry
1182 in poetry
1181 in poetry
1180 in poetry

1170s[]

1179 in poetry
1178 in poetry
1177 in poetry
1176 in poetry
1175 in poetry
1174 in poetry
1173 in poetry
1172 in poetry
1171 in poetry
1170 in poetry

1160s[]

1169 in poetry
1168 in poetry
1167 in poetry
1166 in poetry
1165 in poetry
1164 in poetry
1163 in poetry
1162 in poetry
1161 in poetry
1160 in poetry

1150s[]

1159 in poetry
1158 in poetry
1157 in poetry
1156 in poetry
1155 in poetry
1154 in poetry
1153 in poetry
1152 in poetry
1151 in poetry
1150 in poetry

1140s[]

1149 in poetry
1148 in poetry
1147 in poetry
1146 in poetry
1145 in poetry
1144 in poetry
1143 in poetry
1142 in poetry
1141 in poetry
1140 in poetry

1130s[]

1139 in poetry
1138 in poetry
1137 in poetry
1136 in poetry
1135 in poetry
1134 in poetry
1133 in poetry
1132 in poetry
1131 in poetry
1130 in poetry

1120s[]

1129 in poetry
1128 in poetry
1127 in poetry
1126 in poetry
1125 in poetry
1124 in poetry
1123 in poetry
1122 in poetry
1121 in poetry
1120 in poetry

1110s[]

1119 in poetry
1118 in poetry
1117 in poetry
1116 in poetry
1115 in poetry
1114 in poetry
1113 in poetry
1112 in poetry
1111 in poetry
1110 in poetry

1100s[]

1109 in poetry
1108 in poetry
1107 in poetry
1106 in poetry
1105 in poetry
1104 in poetry
1103 in poetry
1102 in poetry
1101 in poetry
1100 in poetry

11th century in poetry[]

1090s[]

1099 in poetry
1098 in poetry
1097 in poetry
1096 in poetry
1095 in poetry
1094 in poetry
1093 in poetry
1092 in poetry
1091 in poetry
1090 in poetry

1080s[]

1089 in poetry
1088 in poetry
1087 in poetry
1086 in poetry
1085 in poetry
1084 in poetry
1083 in poetry
1082 in poetry
1081 in poetry
1080 in poetry

1070s[]

1079 in poetry
1078 in poetry
1077 in poetry
1076 in poetry
1075 in poetry
1074 in poetry
1073 in poetry
1072 in poetry
1071 in poetry
1070 in poetry

1060s[]

1069 in poetry
1068 in poetry
1067 in poetry
1066 in poetry
1065 in poetry
1064 in poetry
1063 in poetry
1062 in poetry
1061 in poetry
1060 in poetry

1050s[]

1059 in poetry
1058 in poetry
1057 in poetry
1056 in poetry
1055 in poetry
1054 in poetry
1053 in poetry
1052 in poetry
1051 in poetry
1050 in poetry

1040s[]

1049 in poetry
1048 in poetry
1047 in poetry
1046 in poetry
1045 in poetry
1044 in poetry
1043 in poetry
1042 in poetry
1041 in poetry
1040 in poetry

1030s[]

1039 in poetry
1038 in poetry
1037 in poetry
1036 in poetry
1035 in poetry
1034 in poetry
1033 in poetry
1032 in poetry
1031 in poetry
1030 in poetry

1020s[]

1029 in poetry
1028 in poetry
1027 in poetry
1026 in poetry
1025 in poetry
1024 in poetry
1023 in poetry
1022 in poetry
1021 in poetry
1020 in poetry

1010s[]

1019 in poetry
1018 in poetry
1017 in poetry
1016 in poetry
1015 in poetry
1014 in poetry
1013 in poetry
1012 in poetry
1011 in poetry
1010 in poetry

1000s[]

1009 in poetry
1008 in poetry
1007 in poetry
1006 in poetry
1005 in poetry
1004 in poetry
1003 in poetry
1002 in poetry
1001 in poetry
1000 in poetry

10th century in poetry[]

990s[]

999 in poetry
998 in poetry
997 in poetry
996 in poetry
995 in poetry
994 in poetry
993 in poetry
992 in poetry
991 in poetry
990 in poetry

980s[]

989 in poetry
988 in poetry
987 in poetry
986 in poetry
985 in poetry
984 in poetry
983 in poetry
982 in poetry
981 in poetry
980 in poetry

970s[]

979 in poetry
978 in poetry
977 in poetry
976 in poetry
975 in poetry
974 in poetry
973 in poetry
972 in poetry
971 in poetry
970 in poetry

960s[]

969 in poetry
968 in poetry
967 in poetry
966 in poetry
965 in poetry
964 in poetry
963 in poetry
962 in poetry
961 in poetry
960 in poetry

950s[]

959 in poetry
958 in poetry
957 in poetry
956 in poetry
955 in poetry
954 in poetry
953 in poetry
952 in poetry
951 in poetry
950 in poetry

940s[]

949 in poetry
948 in poetry
947 in poetry
946 in poetry
945 in poetry
944 in poetry
943 in poetry
942 in poetry
941 in poetry
940 in poetry

930s[]

939 in poetry
938 in poetry
937 in poetry
936 in poetry
935 in poetry
934 in poetry
933 in poetry
932 in poetry
931 in poetry
930 in poetry

920s[]

929 in poetry
928 in poetry
927 in poetry
926 in poetry
925 in poetry
924 in poetry
923 in poetry
922 in poetry
921 in poetry
920 in poetry

910s[]

919 in poetry
918 in poetry
917 in poetry
916 in poetry
915 in poetry
914 in poetry
913 in poetry
912 in poetry
911 in poetry
910 in poetry

900s[]

909 in poetry
908 in poetry
907 in poetry
906 in poetry
905 in poetry
904 in poetry
903 in poetry
902 in poetry
901 in poetry
900 in poetry

9th century in poetry[]

890s[]

899 in poetry
898 in poetry
897 in poetry
896 in poetry
895 in poetry
894 in poetry
893 in poetry
892 in poetry
891 in poetry
890 in poetry

880s[]

889 in poetry
888 in poetry
887 in poetry
886 in poetry
885 in poetry
884 in poetry
883 in poetry
882 in poetry
881 in poetry
880 in poetry

870s[]

879 in poetry
878 in poetry
877 in poetry
876 in poetry
875 in poetry
874 in poetry
873 in poetry
872 in poetry
871 in poetry
870 in poetry

860s[]

869 in poetry
868 in poetry
867 in poetry
866 in poetry
865 in poetry
864 in poetry
863 in poetry
862 in poetry
861 in poetry
860 in poetry

850s[]

859 in poetry
858 in poetry
857 in poetry
856 in poetry
855 in poetry
854 in poetry
853 in poetry
852 in poetry
851 in poetry
850 in poetry

840s[]

849 in poetry
848 in poetry
847 in poetry
846 in poetry
845 in poetry
844 in poetry
843 in poetry
842 in poetry
841 in poetry
840 in poetry

830s[]

839 in poetry
838 in poetry
837 in poetry
836 in poetry
835 in poetry
834 in poetry
833 in poetry
832 in poetry
831 in poetry
830 in poetry

820s[]

829 in poetry
828 in poetry
827 in poetry
826 in poetry
825 in poetry
824 in poetry
823 in poetry
822 in poetry
821 in poetry
820 in poetry

810s[]

819 in poetry
818 in poetry
817 in poetry
816 in poetry
815 in poetry
814 in poetry
813 in poetry
812 in poetry
811 in poetry
810 in poetry

800s[]

809 in poetry
808 in poetry
807 in poetry
806 in poetry
805 in poetry
804 in poetry
803 in poetry
802 in poetry
801 in poetry
800 in poetry

700s[]

600s[]

600 – Venantius Fortunatus born (c. 530 – c. 600), Latin poet and hymnodist from Northern Italy
615 – Saint Columbanus (born 543), Hiberno-Latin poet and writer
625 – Maymun Ibn Qays Al-a'sha born (died 625)
661 – Labīd died this year (born 560); Arabic poet

500s[]

500 – Procopius born about this year (died 565)
505 – Blossius Aemilius Dracontius born about this year (born 455) of Carthage, a Latin poet
521
- July 17 – Magnus Felix Ennodius died (born 474 – July 17, 521), Bishop of Pavia and poet, writing in Latin
- November – Jacob of Serugh died (born 451), writing in Syriac
530 – Venantius Fortunatus born (c. 530 – c. 600), Latin poet and hymnodist from Northern Italy
534 – Taliesin born about this year (died c. 599), the earliest identified Welsh poet
536 – Agathias born about this year (died 582/594); Ancient Greek poet and historian
539 – Chilperic I born (died September 584) Frankish king of Neustria and a Latin poet
543 – Saint Columbanus (died 615), Hiberno-Latin poet and writer
544 – Arator declaims his poem De Actibus Apostolorum in the Church of San Pietro-in-Vinculi
554 – 'Abid ibn al-Abris died about this year; Arabic poet
560:
- Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya died about this year; Jewish poet writing in Arabic
- Labīd born this year (died 661); Arabic poet
565 – Procopius died (born about 500)
570 – Maymun Ibn Qays Al-a'sha born (died 625)
580 – Antara Ibn Shaddad died about this year; Arabic poet
584
- (September) – Chilperic I died (born 539) Frankish king of Neustria and a Latin poet
- Amr ibn Kulthum died about this year; Arabic poet
599 – Taliesin died about this year (born c. 534), the earliest identified Welsh poet

400s[]

451 – Jacob of Serugh born (died November 521), writing in Syriac
455 – Blossius Aemilius Dracontius born about this year (died c. 505) of Carthage, a Latin poet
474 – Magnus Felix Ennodius (died July 17, 521), Bishop of Pavia and poet, writing in Latin

300s[]

Poetry before the 9th century[]

References[]

↑ [1] 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
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

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[1] [1] Retrieved November 10, 2010

[2] Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Chronology" chapter, p 118

[3] 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

[wt-4] 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

[cocel-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

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