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This article gives a chronological list of years in poetry. These pages supplement the List of years in literature pages with a focus on events in the history of poetry.

Before 1000 BC

c. 26th century BC – Kesh Temple Hymn
c. 23rd century BC – Enheduanna, The Exaltation of Inanna and the Temple Hymns
c. 1500 BC – Earliest possible date for composition of the "family poems" in the Rig Veda
11th century BC – earliest works in the Classic of Poetry

First millennium BC

First millennium AD

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5th century in poetry
- 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
6th century in poetry
- 500 – Procopius born about this year (died 565)
- 505 – Blossius Aemilius Dracontius born about this year (born 455) of Carthage, a Latin poet
- 521 – Jacob of Serugh (451–521), writing in Syriac
- 521 – Magnus Felix Ennodius (474 – July 17, 521), Bishop of Pavia and poet, writing in Latin
- 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 – Labīd born this year (died 661); Arabic poet
- 560 – Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya died about this year; Jewish poet writing in Arabic
- 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 – Amr ibn Kulthum died about this year; Arabic poet
- 584 – Chilperic I died (born 539) Frankish king of Neustria and a Latin poet
- 599 – Taliesin died about this year (born c. 534), the earliest identified Welsh poet
7th century in poetry
- 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
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9th century in poetry
- 800s
- 810s
- 820s
- 830s
- 840s
- 850s
- 860s
- 870s
- 880s
- 890s

10th century

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11th century

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12th century

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13th century

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1200s

1200 in poetry
1201 in poetry
1202 in poetry
1203 in poetry
1204 in poetry
1205 in poetry
1206 in poetry
1207 in poetry
1208 in poetry – Estimated date of the Gesta Danorum
1209 in poetry

1210s

1210 in poetry – Birth of Saadi, Persian poet
1211 in poetry
1212 in poetry
1213 in poetry
1214 in poetry
1215 in poetry
1216 in poetry
1217 in poetry
1218 in poetry
1219 in poetry

1220s

1230s

1240s

1250s

1260s

1270s

1280s

1280 in poetry
1281 in poetry
1282 in poetry
1283 in poetry
1284 in poetry
1285 in poetry
1286 in poetry
1287 in poetry – The Jewang Un'gi by Yi Seung-hyu
1288 in poetry
1289 in poetry

1290s

14th century

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15th century

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16th century

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1500s

1500 in poetry – La Araucana - Alonso de Ercilla
1501 in poetry – Judita - Marko Marulić
1502 in poetry
1503 in poetry
1504 in poetry
1505 in poetry
1506 in poetry
1507 in poetry
1508 in poetry
1509 in poetry

1510s

1520s

1520 in poetry
1521 in poetry
1522 in poetry
1523 in poetry
1524 in poetry – Birth of Pierre de Ronsard
1525 in poetry
1526 in poetry
1527 in poetry
1528 in poetry
1529 in poetry

1530s

1540s

1550s

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
1551 in poetry – Robert Crowley, published anonymously, Philargyrie of Greate Britayne; or, The Fable of the Great Giant
1552 in poetry – Birth of Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh; Works: Thomas Churchyard, A Myrrour for Man
1553 in poetry – Anonymous, Pierce the Ploughmans Crede; Gavin Douglas, translator, Aeneid, The Palis of Honoure, second, revised edition (publication year conjectural)
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
1555 in poetry
1556 in poetry
1557 in poetry
1558 in poetry
1559 in poetry

17th century

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1600s

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

1610s

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

1620s

1630s

1630 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"
1632 in poetry
1633 in poetry
1634 in poetry
1635 in poetry
1636 in poetry
1637 in poetry – Death of Ben Jonson, important English poet, playwright, actor
1638 in poetry
1639 in poetry

1640s

1640 in poetry – Biag ni Lam-ang first transcribed by Pedro Bucaneg
1641 in poetry
1642 in poetry
1643 in poetry
1644 in poetry – Birth of Matsuo Bashō the haiku poet
1645 in poetry
1646 in poetry
1647 in poetry – The Siege of Sziget by Miklós Zrínyi; April 1 — birth of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (died 1680)
1648 in poetry
1649 in poetry

1650s

1660s

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

1670s

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

1680s

1680 in poetry
1681 in poetry
1682 in poetry
1683 in poetry
1684 in poetry
1685 in poetry
1686 in poetry
1687 in poetry
1688 in poetry – Birth of Alexander Pope, English poet
1689 in poetry – Oku no Hosomichi by Matsuo Bashō

1690s

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

18th century

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1700s

1700 in poetry – Hikayat Hang Tuah; Death of John Dryden, influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright; - Birth of James Thomson, English poet
1701 in poetry
1702 in poetry
1703 in poetry
1704 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"
1706 in poetry
1707 in poetry
1708 in poetry
1709 in poetry – Birth of Samuel Johnson, English author, biographer

1710s

1710 in poetry
1711 in poetry
1712 in poetry
1713 in poetry
1714 in poetry – First printed version of Popol Vuh
1715 in poetry – Birth of Buson the haiku poet
1716 in poetry – First printed version of the Epic of King Gesar; First printed version of The Jangar Epic; Birth of Thomas Gray, English poet, (died 1771)
1717 in poetry
1718 in poetry
1719 in poetry – Death of Joseph Addison, English essayist and poet

1720s

1730s

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

1740s

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

1750s

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

1760s

1760 in poetry
1761 in poetry
1762 in poetry – Birth of Issa the haiku poet
1763 in poetry – Birth of Samuel Rogers
1764 in poetry – Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
1765 in poetry – Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry; Kristijonas Donelaitis, The Seasons
1766 in poetry
1767 in poetry
1768 in poetry
1769 in poetry

1770s

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
1771 in poetry – Death of Thomas Gray, English poet, (born 1716); - Birth of Sir Walter Scott
1772 in poetry – "Prometheus" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1773 in poetry – Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill composes "Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire"
1774 in poetry – Birth of Robert Southey; Death of Oliver Goldsmith
1775 in poetry – Birth of Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor
1776 in poetry
1777 in poetry
1778 in poetry
1779 in poetry – Birth of Irish poet Thomas Moore

1780s

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

1790s

1790 in poetry – William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
1791 in poetry – William Blake, The French Revolution
1792 in poetry – Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley, important English poet; - William Blake Song of Liberty
1793 in poetry – William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion and America, A Prophecy; - Birth of John Clare, John Neal
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
1795 in poetry – Birth of John Keats, important English poet; - William Blake, The Book of Los, The Book of Ahania, The Song of Los
1796 in poetry – Death of Robert Burns, James Macpherson
1797 in poetry – Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Heinrich Heine
1798 in poetry – William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads. Birth of Adam Mickiewicz, important Polish poet
1799 in poetry – Birth of Aleksandr Pushkin, important Russian poet

19th century

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1800s

1800 in poetry – Death of William Cowper
1801 in poetry
1802 in poetry – Birth of Victor Hugo
1803 in poetry – Birth of Fyodor Tyutchev, important Russian poet
1804 in poetry
1805 in poetry – Jerusalem poem by William Blake; - Death of Friedrich Schiller, German poet
1806 in poetry – Birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1807 in poetry – Birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier
1808 in poetry – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust, Part One
1809 in poetry – Birth of Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. American poet, physician, and essayist

1810s

1810 in poetry – Milton: a Poem, epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810
1811 in poetry
1812 in poetry – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Lord Byron; Birth of Afanasy Fet, important Russian poet
1813 in poetry – The Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem is awarded for the first time. Recipient is George Waddington.
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
1815 in poetry
1816 in poetry – Shelley marries Mary Woolstonecraft Godwin, Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Book III, published; Samuel Coleridge's Kubla Khan
1817 in poetry – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Laon and Cythna
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
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

1820s

1820 in poetry
1821 in poetry – Death of John Keats, important English Romantic poet; - Birth of Charles Baudelaire, French poet and art critic
1822 in poetry – Lord Byron The Vision of Judgment; Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, important English Romantic poet
1823 in poetry – Birth of Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian national poet Winthrop Mackworth Praed is awarded the Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem, Clement Clarke Moore A Visit from St. Nicholas
1824 in poetry – Death of Lord Byron, important English Romantic poet
1825 in poetry – Alexander Pushkin begins publishing Eugene Onegin in serial form
1826 in poetry – Death of Issa the haiku poet
1827 in poetry – Death of William Blake
1828 in poetry – Birth of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1829 in poetry – Alfred Lord Tennyson is awarded the Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem

1830s

1830 in poetry – Birth of Christina Rossetti in London
1831 in poetry – Birth of Emily Dickinson
1832 in poetry – Birth of Lewis Carroll; Death of Sir Walter Scott, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1833 in poetry
1834 in poetry – Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz; Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1835 in poetry – The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
1836 in poetry – The Baptism on the Savica by France Prešeren
1837 in poetry – Death of Aleksandr Pushkin
1838 in poetry – Florante at Laura by Francisco Balagtas
1839 in poetry

1840s

1840 in poetry – Birth of Thomas Hardy
1841 in poetry – Death of Mikhail Lermontov
1842 in poetry – Birth of Stéphane Mallarmé; Alfred Tennyson Poems
1843 in poetry – William Wordsworth becomes Poet Laureate
1844 in poetry – Birth of Paul Verlaine
1845 in poetry – Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
1846 in poetry
1847 in poetry – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline; Petar II Petrović-Njegoš's The Mountain Wreath
1848 in poetry – Founding of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
1849 in poetry – Death of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee, Birth of Sarah Orne Jewett (Martha's Lady)

1850s

1850 in poetry – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese; Robert Browning Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day; - Death of William Wordsworth
1851 in poetry
1852 in poetry – Death of Thomas Moore
1853 in poetry – First and unprinted version of Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald's Kalevipoeg
1854 in poetry – Birth of Arthur Rimbaud
1855 in poetry – Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a first stanza of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha; - Death of Adam Mickiewicz
1856 in poetry – Death of Heinrich Heine; - Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1857 in poetry – Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal
1858 in poetry – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish
1859 in poetry – Death of Leigh Hunt

1860s

1860 in poetry
1861 in poetry – Death of Taras Shevchenko, Birth of Rabindranath Tagore
1862 in poetry – Christina Rossetti Goblin Market, George Meredith's Modern Love
1863 in poetry
1864 in poetry – Death of John Clare, Walter Savage Landor
1865 in poetry – Birth of William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling
1866 in poetry
1867 in poetry – Death of Charles Baudelaire, French poet and art critic; Birth of Shiki the haiku poet, Konstantin Balmont, Russian symbolist poet
1868 in poetry
1869 in poetry – George Eliot sonnet Brother & Sister; Birth of Zinaida Gippius, important Russian poet

1870s

1870 in poetry
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
1872 in poetry – Christina Rossetti's In the Bleak Midwinter (Christmas carol); José Hernández's Martín Fierro; Michel Rodange's Rénert the Fox
1873 in poetry – Arthur Rimbaud's Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell); Publication of Daredevils of Sassoun; Death of Fyodor Tyutchev
1874 in poetry – Arthur Rimbaud's IlluminationsFirst collection of George Eliot's poetry; - Birth of Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, important American poet
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.
1876 in poetry – Death of John Neal
1877 in poetry – Jacint Verdaguer's L'Atlàntida
1878 in poetry – Birth of Oliver St. John Gogarty, Carl Sandburg, John Edward Masefield, Adelaide Crapsey
1879 in poetry – Birth of Patrick Pearse, Wallace Stevens

1880s

1880 in poetry – Birth of Guillaume Apollinaire, Andrei Bely, Tom Kettle, Alfred Noyes, Alexander Blok
1881 in poetry
1882 in poetry – Death of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Birth of James Joyce, A. A. Milne
1883 in poetry – Birth of William Carlos Williams
1884 in poetry
1885 in poetry – Birth of D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound; Death of Victor Hugo
1886 in poetry – Death of Emily Dickinson; birth of H.D.
1887 in poetry – Lāčplēsis by Andrejs Pumpurs; Birth of Marianne Moore, Joseph Plunkett, Edith Sitwell DBE
1888 in poetry – Birth of T. S. Eliot
1889 in poetry – Birth of Anna Akhmatova; death of Gerard Manley Hopkins

1890s

1890 in poetry – Birth of Boris Pasternak
1891 in poetry – Death of Arthur Rimbaud, Herman Melville; Birth of Nelly Sachs, Osip Mandelstam
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
1893 in poetry – Birth of Vladimir Mayakovsky
1894 in poetry – Death of Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
1895 in poetry – Birth of Robert Graves, Sergei Yesenin
1896 in poetry – Death of Paul Verlaine
1897 in poetry –
1898 in poetry – Death of Stéphane Mallarmé, Lewis Carroll; Birth of Stephen Vincent Benét, Federico García Lorca, William Soutar
1899 in poetry – Birth of Hart Crane, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Vladimir Nabokov

20th century

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1900s

1900 in poetry – Death of Oscar Wilde
1901 in poetry – Birth of Jaroslav Seifert
1902 in poetry – Death of Shiki the haiku poet; Birth of Langston Hughes ; Giles Lytton Strachey is awarded the Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem
1903 in poetry
1904 in poetry – Birth of Cecil Day-Lewis, Patrick Kavanagh, Pablo Neruda
1905 in poetry
1906 in poetry – Alfred Noyes publishes The Highwayman; Birth of Samuel Beckett
1907 in poetry – Rudyard Kipling awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Birth of W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice
1908 in poetry
1909 in poetry – Death of Sarah Orne Jewett; Birth of Stephen Spender

1910s

1910 in poetry – Death of Julia Ward Howe; Birth of Charles Olson, Jean Genet
1911 in poetry – Adelaide Crapsey creates the American Cinquain form; Birth of Leah Goldberg, Czesław Miłosz
1912 in poetry – Adelaide Crapsey creates her couplet form
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
1914 in poetry – Death of Adelaide Crapsey; Birth of William Burroughs, Octavio Paz, Dylan Thomas
1915 in poetry – Death of Rupert Brooke
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
1917 in poetry – Birth of Robert Lowell; T. S. Eliot's Prufrock and other Observations
1918 in poetry – Death of Guillaume Apollinaire, Wilfred Owen; Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poems published posthumously by Robert Bridges
1919 in poetry – Birth of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, May Swenson, William Meredith

1920s

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
1921 in poetry – Birth of Vasko Popa, Death of Alexander Blok
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
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
1924 in poetry – Birth of Yehuda Amichai, Janet Frame, Zbigniew Herbert
1925 in poetry – Death of Sergei Yesenin, Birth of Ahmad Shamlou
1926 in poetry – Death of Rainer Maria Rilke, Birth of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Frank O'Hara
1927 in poetry – William Soutar creates his Epigram form of the Cinquain; Birth of John Ashbery
1928 in poetry – The Tower (book) - W. B. Yeats; Birth of Maya Angelou, Thomas Kinsella; Death of Thomas Hardy
1929 in poetry – Pulitzer Prize for Poetry awarded to Stephen Vincent Benét for John Brown's Body; Birth of Ed Dorn, John Montague

1930s

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
1931 in poetry – Death of Vachel Lindsay, Kahlil Gibran; Birth of Tomas Tranströmer
1932 in poetry – Death of Hart Crane; Birth of Christy Brown, Michael McClure, David Antin, Sylvia Plath
1933 in poetry – The Winding Stair - W. B. Yeats; Death of Sara Teasdale; Birth of Yevgeny Yevtushenko
1934 in poetry – Death of Andrei Bely; Birth of Leonard Cohen, Wole Soyinka
1935 in poetry – Charles G. D. Roberts knighted for his poetry; Anna Akhmatova begins publishing her cycle of poems Requiem
1936 in poetry – Killing of Federico García Lorca, Death of Rudyard Kipling; Birth of John Giorno
1937 in poetry – Lahuta e Malcís - Gjergj Fishta; First-ever Governor General's Literary Awards in Canada; Birth of Diane Wakoski
1938 in poetry – Death of Osip Mandelstam
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

1940s

1940 in poetry – Birth of Joseph Brodsky, John Lennon
1941 in poetry – Death of James Joyce, Marina Tsvetaeva; Birth of Bob Dylan, Derek Mahon
1942 in poetry – Birth of William Matthews, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin; Death of Konstantin Balmont
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
1944 in poetry – Birth of Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan
1945 in poetry – Death of Paul Valéry, Robert Desnos, Zinaida Gippius; Birth of Van Morrison, OBE
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
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
1948 in poetry – T. S. Eliot awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
1949 in poetry – Birth of Gabriel Rosenstock

1950s

1950 in poetry – Death of Edna St. Vincent Millay; Birth of Mary Dorcey, Medbh McGuckian
1951 in poetry – Birth of Paul Muldoon
1952 in poetry – Death of Paul Éluard, George Santayana; Birth of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
1953 in poetry – Death of Dylan Thomas; Birth of Frank McGuinness
1954 in poetry – Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who!
1955 in poetry – Discovery of the Hinilawod by F. Landa Jocano; Death of Wallace Stevens; Birth of Paula Meehan, William Wall
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
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
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. He is released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Maryland, after spending 12 years there (starting in 1946)
1959 in poetry – Death of Edgar Guest, Lakshmi Prasad Devkota

1960s

1960 in poetry – Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham; Death of Boris Pasternak
1961 in poetry – Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish and Other Poems; death of H. D.,Death of Rabindranath Tagore
1962 in poetry – Death of E. E. Cummings
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
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
1965 in poetry – Death of T. S. Eliot
1966 in poetry – Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist; Death of Anna Akhmatova, André Breton, Frank O'Hara, Basil Bunting's Briggflatts
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
1968 in poetry – Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
1969 in poetry – Samuel Beckett awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Jack Kerouac, André Salmon

1970s

1970 in poetry – Death of Nelly Sachs, Charles Olson, Paul Celan, Leah Goldberg
1971 in poetry – Pablo Neruda awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Jim Morrison, Ogden Nash
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
1973 in poetry – Death of W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, J. R. R. Tolkien
1974 in poetry – Death of Miguel Ángel Asturias, Anne Sexton; Philip Larkin's High Windows
1975 in poetry
1976 in poetry
1977 in poetry – Death of Robert Lowell, Vladimir Nabokov, Seán Ó Ríordáin
1978 in poetry – Death of Micheál Mac Liammóir
1979 in poetry – Death of Elizabeth Bishop; Jacqueline Osherow is awarded the Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem

1980s

1980 in poetry – Czesław Miłosz awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Muriel Rukeyser
1981 in poetry – Death of Christy Brown
1982 in poetry – Death of Kenneth Rexroth, Archibald MacLeish, Djuna Barnes
1983 in poetry – Death of Ted Berrigan, Edwin Denby
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
1985 in poetry – Death of Robert Graves, Philip Larkin
1986 in poetry – Wole Soyinka awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of John Ciardi, Jean Genet, Jaroslav Seifert
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)
1988 in poetry – Death of Máirtín Ó Direáin, Miguel Piñero, Robert Duncan
1989 in poetry – Death of Samuel Beckett, Robert Penn Warren, May Swenson

1990s

1990 in poetry – Octavio Paz awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Lawrence Durrell
1991 in poetry – Death of Dr. Seuss, James Schuyler, Howard Nemerov
1992 in poetry – Derek Walcott awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Eve Merriam
1993 in poetry – Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of U.S. President Bill Clinton
1994 in poetry – Death of Charles Bukowski
1995 in poetry – Seamus Heaney awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of May Sarton, Sir Stephen Spender CBE, David Avidan
1996 in poetry – Seamus Heaney's The Spirit Level; Wisława Szymborska awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Joseph Brodsky
1997 in poetry – Death of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, James Dickey, Denise Levertov, David Ignatow, James Laughlin, William Matthews
1998 in poetry – Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters; Death of Zbigniew Herbert, Ted Hughes, Octavio Paz
1999 in poetry – Andrew Motion succeeds Ted Hughes as the UK's Poet Laureate; Julia Donaldson's The Gruffalo; Death of Edward Dorn

21st century

Main article: 21st century in poetry

2000s

2000 in poetry – Death of Yehuda Amichai, Ahmad Shamlou
2001 in poetry – Seamus Heaney's Electric Light; First-ever Griffin Poetry Prize in Canada; Death of Gregory Corso
2002 in poetry – Death of Kenneth Koch
2003 in poetry – John Paul II's Roman Triptych (Meditation); Kenneth Rexroth's Complete Poems (posthumous)
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
2005 in poetry – Harold Pinter awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Philip Lamantia, Robert Creeley
2006 in poetry – Seamus Heaney's District and Circle; Death of Stanley Kunitz
2007 in poetry – Death of William Morris Meredith Jr., Emmett Williams
2008 in poetry – Death of Harold Pinter, Jonathan Williams
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)

2010s

2010 in poetry – Seamus Heaney's Human Chain; Death of Tuli Kupferberg, Peter Orlovsky, P. Lal, Edwin Morgan
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
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
2013 in poetry – Death of Thomas McEvilley, Taylor Mead, Seamus Heaney
2014 in poetry – Death of Madeline Gins, Amiri Baraka, Juan Gelman, José Emilio Pacheco, Maya Angelou
2015 in poetry
2016 in poetry
2017 in poetry
2018 in poetry
2019 in poetry

2020s

References

^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
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
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
Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Chronology" chapter, p 118
Pound, Ezra (1987). Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky. ISBN 9780811210133. Retrieved November 10, 2010.

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