- Source: List of years in poetry
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.
21st century in poetry
= 2020s
=2023 in poetry
2022 in poetry
2021 in poetry
2020 in poetry - Lana Del Rey's Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
= 2010s
=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
= 2000s
=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
20th century in poetry
= 1990s
=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
= 1980s
=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)
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
= 1970s
=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
= 1960s
=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
= 1950s
=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. 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
= 1940s
=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
= 1930s
=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
= 1920s
=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
= 1910s
=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
= 1900s
=1909 in poetry Death of Sarah Orne Jewett; Birth of Stephen Spender
1908 in poetry
1907 in poetry Rudyard Kipling awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Birth of W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice
1906 in poetry Alfred Noyes publishes The Highwayman; Birth of Samuel Beckett
1905 in poetry
1904 in poetry Birth of Cecil Day-Lewis, Patrick Kavanagh, Pablo Neruda
1903 in poetry
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
1901 in poetry Birth of Jaroslav Seifert
1900 in poetry Death of Oscar Wilde
19th century in poetry
= 1890s
=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
= 1880s
=1889 in poetry Birth of Anna Akhmatova; death of Gerard Manley Hopkins
1888 in poetry Birth of T. S. Eliot
1887 in poetry Lāčplēsis by Andrejs Pumpurs; Birth of Marianne Moore, Joseph Plunkett, Edith Sitwell DBE
1886 in poetry Death of Emily Dickinson; birth of H.D.
1885 in poetry Birth of D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound; Death of Victor Hugo
1884 in poetry
1883 in poetry Birth of William Carlos Williams
1882 in poetry Death of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Birth of James Joyce, A. A. Milne
1881 in poetry
1880 in poetry Birth of Guillaume Apollinaire, Andrei Bely, Tom Kettle, Alfred Noyes, Alexander Blok
= 1870s
=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 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); 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
= 1860s
=1869 in poetry George Eliot sonnet Brother & Sister; Birth of Zinaida Gippius, important Russian poet
1868 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
1866 in poetry
1865 in poetry Birth of William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling
1864 in poetry Death of John Clare, Walter Savage Landor
1863 in poetry
1862 in poetry Christina Rossetti Goblin Market, George Meredith's Modern Love
1861 in poetry Death of Taras Shevchenko, Birth of Rabindranath Tagore
1860 in poetry
= 1850s
=1859 in poetry Death of Leigh Hunt
1858 in poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish
1857 in poetry Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal
1856 in poetry Death of Heinrich Heine; - Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
1854 in poetry Birth of Arthur Rimbaud
1853 in poetry First and unprinted version of Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald's Kalevipoeg
1852 in poetry Death of Thomas Moore
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; Petar II Petrović-Njegoš's The Mountain Wreath
1846 in poetry
1845 in poetry Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
1844 in poetry Birth of Paul Verlaine
1843 in poetry William Wordsworth becomes Poet Laureate
1842 in poetry Birth of Stéphane Mallarmé; Alfred Tennyson Poems
1841 in poetry Death of Mikhail Lermontov
1840 in poetry Birth of Thomas Hardy
= 1830s
=1839 in poetry
1838 in poetry Florante at Laura by Francisco Balagtas
1837 in poetry Death of Aleksandr Pushkin
1836 in poetry The Baptism on the Savica by France Prešeren
1835 in poetry The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
1834 in poetry Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz; 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 Alfred Lord Tennyson is awarded the Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem
1828 in poetry Birth of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1827 in poetry Death of William Blake
1826 in poetry Death of Issa the haiku poet
1825 in poetry Alexander Pushkin begins publishing Eugene Onegin in serial form
1824 in poetry Death of Lord Byron, 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
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; 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
= 1800s
=1809 in poetry Birth of Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. American poet, physician, and essayist
1808 in poetry Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust, Part One
1807 in poetry Birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier
1806 in poetry Birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1805 in poetry Jerusalem poem by William Blake; - Death of Friedrich Schiller, German poet
1804 in poetry
1803 in poetry Birth of Fyodor Tyutchev, important Russian poet
1802 in poetry Birth of Victor Hugo
1801 in poetry
1800 in poetry Death of William Cowper
18th century in poetry
= 1790s
=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
= 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 Robert Burns publishes Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
1785 in poetry William Cowper publishes The Task
1784 in poetry Birth of Leigh Hunt; 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 Birth of Irish poet Thomas Moore
1778 in poetry
1777 in poetry
1776 in poetry
1775 in poetry Birth of Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor
1774 in poetry Birth of Robert Southey; Death of Oliver Goldsmith
1773 in poetry Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill composes "Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire"
1772 in poetry "Prometheus" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 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 Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry; Kristijonas Donelaitis, The Seasons
1764 in poetry Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
1763 in poetry Birth of Samuel Rogers
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 Death of James Thomson
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
=1729 in poetry
1728 in poetry
1727 in poetry
1726 in poetry
1725 in poetry
1724 in poetry
1723 in poetry
1722 in poetry
1721 in poetry
1720 in poetry
= 1710s
=1719 in poetry Death of Joseph Addison, English essayist and poet
1718 in poetry
1717 in poetry
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)
1715 in poetry Birth of Buson the haiku poet
1714 in poetry First printed version of Popol Vuh
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 Hikayat Hang Tuah; Death of John Dryden, influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright; - Birth of James Thomson, English poet
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 Oku no Hosomichi by Matsuo Bashō
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
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 The Siege of Sziget by Miklós Zrínyi; 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 - Biag ni Lam-ang first transcribed by Pedro Bucaneg
= 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"
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 Death of Pierre de Ronsard
1584 in poetry
1583 in poetry
1582 in poetry
1581 in poetry Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso; Birth of Thomas Overbury English poet (d.1613)
1580 in poetry
= 1570s
=1579 in poetry
1578 in poetry
1577 in poetry Illustrated manuscript of the Hamzanama
1576 in poetry
1575 in poetry
1574 in poetry
1573 in poetry
1572 in poetry Luís Vaz de Comões – Os Lusíadas; 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 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
1553 in poetry Anonymous, Pierce the Ploughmans Crede; Gavin Douglas, translator, Aeneid, The Palis of Honoure, second, revised edition (publication year conjectural)
1552 in poetry Birth of Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh; Works: Thomas Churchyard, A Myrrour for Man
1551 in poetry Robert Crowley, published anonymously, Philargyrie of Greate Britayne; or, The Fable of the Great Giant
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
= 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 Birth of Pierre de Ronsard
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
=1509 in poetry
1508 in poetry
1507 in poetry
1506 in poetry
1505 in poetry
1504 in poetry
1503 in poetry
1502 in poetry
1501 in poetry Judita - Marko Marulić
1500 in poetry La Araucana - Alonso de Ercilla
15th century in poetry
= 1490s
=1499 in poetry La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
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 c. Death of François Villon
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 c. Birth of François Villon
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 Death of Hafez
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 John Barbour's The Brus
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 Approximate date of the Mocedades de Rodrigo
= 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 (c.) 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 Birth of Hafez, Persian poet
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 Kebra Nagast, Sundiata Keita in oral form
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 Death of Saadi
1290 in poetry
= 1280s
=1289 in poetry
1288 in poetry
1287 in poetry The Jewang Un'gi by Yi Seung-hyu
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 Birth of Saadi, Persian poet
= 1200s
=1209 in poetry
1208 in poetry Estimated date of the Gesta Danorum
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 Approximate date of El Cantar de mio Cid
1194 in poetry
1193 in poetry
1192 in poetry
1191 in poetry
1190 in poetry Approximate date of The Tale of Igor's Campaign
= 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 The Knight in the Panther's Skin by Shota Rustaveli
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
== 1050s
== 1040s
== 1030s
== 1020s
== 1010s
== 1000s
=10th century in poetry
= 990s
== 980s
== 970s
=977 - The Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
= 960s
== 950s
== 940s
== 930s
== 920s
== 910s
== 900s
=Earliest possible date of Lebor Gabála Érenn
5th century in poetry – 9th century in poetry
= 890s
== 880s
== 870s
== 860s
== 850s
== 840s
== 830s
== 820s
== 810s
== 800s
== 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
=Unknown – Compilation of the Mahavamsa by Buddhist monks
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
Poetry before the 5th century
4th century in poetry
3rd century in poetry
2nd century in poetry
1st century in poetry
1st century BC in poetry
2nd century BC in poetry
3rd century BC in poetry
4th century BC in poetry
5th century BC in poetry
6th century BC in poetry
7th century BC in poetry
Before 1000 BC in poetry
11th century BC – earliest works in the Classic of Poetry
c. 1500 BC – Earliest possible date for composition of the "family poems" in the Rig Veda
c. 23rd century BC – Enheduanna, The Exaltation of Inanna and the Temple Hymns
c. 26th century BC – Kesh Temple Hymn
See also
History of poetry
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- The 100 (buku)
- Billy Childish
- Inggris
- Invictus
- Britania Raya
- Eminem
- Che Guevara
- Timothée Chalamet
- Kontroversi Karmapa
- John Stuart Mill
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- List of poetry anthologies
- United States Poet Laureate
- Lists of years by topic
- List of poetry awards
- English poetry
- List of poetry collections
- Poetry
- Bollingen Prize
