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// F. J. Childs edition of English and Scottish Popular Ballads, in 5 volumes (1882-98), including multiple versions of 305 ballads Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, In the Harbor George Robert Sims, The Dagonet Ballads January 18 â A. A. Milne (died 1956), British author, playwright and writer of childrens poetry...
// Robert Browning, Jocoseria Emma Lazarus writes The New Colossus in aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the New York Statue of Liberty George Meredith, Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Century of Roundels Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion February 18 â Nikos Kazantzakis...
// Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley Society September 18 â The Symbolist manifesto (âLe Symbolismeâ, Le Figaro} published this date by Jean Moréas, who announced that Symbolism was hostile to plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description, and that its goal instead was to clothe the Ideal...
See also: 1881 in literature, other events of 1882, 1883 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1882 in literature, other events of 1883, 1884 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1883 in literature, other events of 1884, 1885 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1884 in literature, other events of 1885, 1886 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1885 in literature, other events of 1886, 1887 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1886 in literature, other events of 1887, 1888 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1887 in literature, other events of 1888, 1889 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries in poetry. ...
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These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ...
(17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...
Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
(19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...
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// Events and Trends Technology Production of steel revolutionised by invention of the Bessemer process Benjamin Silliman fractionates petroleum by distillation for the first time First transatlantic telegraph cable laid First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis Science Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, putting forward the theory of evolution...
// The First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ...
// The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ...
// Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. ...
The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...
// First flight by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903. ...
// Events and trends The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th Century. ...
This page indexes the individual years pages. ...
Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ...
1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ...
1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ...
1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ...
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Awards Works published Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 â December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. ...
Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 _ April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. ...
Births This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. ...
A statue of Rupert Brooke in Rugby Rupert Chawner Brooke (August 3, 1887 â April 23, 1915) was a British poet known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier), as well as for his poetry written outside of war, especially The Old Vicarage, Grantchester...
Elizabeth Daryush (1887-1977) was an English poet. ...
Bridges on the cover of Time in 1929 Robert Seymour Bridges (October 23, 1844âApril 21, 1930) was an English poet, holder of the honour of poet laureate from 1913. ...
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, FRS (June 22, 1887 â February 14, 1975) was a British biologist, author, Humanist and internationalist, known for his popularisations of science in books and lectures. ...
Marianne Moore photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Marianne Moore (December 11, 1887 - February 5, 1972) was a Modernist American poet and writer. ...
Edwin Muir (15 May 1887 - 3 January 1959) was an Orcadian [1] poet, novelist and translator born on a farm in Deerness on the Orkney Islands. ...
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 â 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic. ...
Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH (November 15, 1897âOctober 1, 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. ...
Dorothy Violet Ashton (21 August 1885 - July 11, 1956) was an English socialite, author, poet and literary editor. ...
Deaths May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ...
Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802-May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman and human rights campaigner, perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. ...
George Cameron (vocals/drums) was a founding member of the baroque rock vocal group the Left Banke. ...
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (October 18, 1831-August 12, 1885) was an American writer. ...
Richard Monckton Milnes Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (June 19, 1809 - August 11, 1885) was an English poet and politician. ...
Susanna Moodie, née Strickland (6 December 1803 â 8 April 1885) was a British author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada. ...
Charles Whitehead (1804 - 1862), poet, novelist, and dramatist, was specially remembered for three works, all of which met with popular favour: The Solitary (1831), a poem, The Autobiography of Jack Ketch (1834), a novel, and The Cavalier (1836), a play in blank verse. ...
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The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) // Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ...
This page indexes the individual year in poetry, the decade in poetry and the century in poetry pages. ...
This is a list of poetry groups and movements that have pages in Wikipedia. ...
The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) // Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ...
Akhmatova Orphans (ÐÑ
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The Beat Generation was a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. ...
// General A 2005 international exhibition, Back to Black - Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary, details which are available with the Archives of Whitechapel Art Gallery UK Recently redeveloped African and Asian Visual Arts Archive ( AAVAA) currently located at University of East London (UEL). ...
The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called the Projectivist poets, were a group of mid 20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered around Black Mountain College. ...
The British Poetry Revival is the general name given to a loose poetic movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. ...
The British Army presence in Egypt in World War II had as a side-effect the concentration of a group of Cairo poets. ...
Cavalier poets is a broad description of a school of poets, who came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War. ...
Chhayavaad refers to the romantic upsurge in the Hindi literature particularly poetry, which began in early 19th century. ...
Churchyard Poets or Graveyard Poets is a critical term applied in retrospect to a number of English poets of the 1750s to the 1790s who wrote in the vein of Thomas Grays Elegy in a Country Churchyard (1750). ...
Confessionalism is a label formally applied to a style of American poetry which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. ...
Créolité is a literary movement first developed in the 1980s by Martinican writers Patrick Chamoiseau, Jean Bernabé and Raphaël Confiant. ...
Cyclic Poets are epic poets who followed Homer and wrote poems and songs about the Trojan war. ...
Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ...
Deep image is a term coined by Jerome Rothenberg and Robert Kelly in the second issue of Trobar, and was used to describe poetry written by him and by Robert Kelly, Diane Wakoski and Clayton Eshleman. ...
The Della Cruscans were a set of English sentimental poetasters, the leaders of them hailing from Florence, that appeared in England towards the close of the 18th century, and that for a time imposed on many by their extravagant panegyrics of one another, the founder of the set being one...
Dolce Stil Novo (Italian for The Sweet New Style) is the name given to the most important literary movement of 13th century Italy. ...
The Dymock poets were a literary group of the early 20th century, who made their home in the Gloucestershire village of Dymock. ...
A group of Ecuadorian poets born between 1905 and 1920 representing the neosymbolism or lyrical vanguard movement. ...
Flarf Poetry is an avant garde, modernist poetry movement of the late 20th century and the early 21st century. ...
The Free Academy was founded in 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel. ...
The Fugitives were a group of poets and literary scholars who came together at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennesee around 1920. ...
Garip (Turkish: strange or peculiar) was a group of Turkish poets. ...
// Background The Generation of 98 (also called Generation of 1898 or, in Spanish, Generación del 98 or Generación de 1898) was a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish-American War (1898). ...
The Generation of 27 (Spanish Generación del 27) was an influential group of poets that arose in Spanish literary circles between 1923 and 1927, essentially out of a shared desire to experience and work with avant-garde forms of art and poetry. ...
The Georgian poets were, by the strictest definition, those whose works appeared in a series of five anthologies named Georgian Poetry, published by Harold Monro and edited by Edward Marsh. ...
The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote bibulous, satirical Latin poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. ...
Philip Hobsbaum (born 29 June 1932) is an academic, poet and critic. ...
The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African American art, literature, music and culture in the United States led primarily by the African American community based in Harlem, New York City, after World War I. Literary historians and academics have yet to reach a consensus as to when the period...
The Harvard Aesthetes is a name given to a group of poets attending Harvard University in a period roughly 1912-1919. ...
Ezra Pound, one of the prime movers of Imagism. ...
The Jindyworobak Movement was a nationalistic Australian literary movement whose white members sought to promote indigenous Australian ideas and customs, particularly in poetry. ...
Kimo is a post-Haiku poetic form , consisting of three lines of 10, 7, and 6 syllables. ...
The Lake Poets all lived in the Lake District of England at the turn of the nineteenth century. ...
The Language poets (or L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets, after the magazine that bears that name) are an avant garde group or tendency in United States poetry that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s; its central figures are all actively writing, teaching, and performing...
Martian poetry. ...
The metaphysical poets were a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century, who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them. ...
The Misty Poets are a group of Chinese poets who reacted against the restrictions of the Cultural Revolution. ...
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The Movement was a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator, in 1954 to describe a group of writers including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn, and Robert Conquest. ...
Négritude is a literary and political movement developed in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and Léon Damas. ...
The New American Poetry 1945-1960 was a poetry anthology edited by Donald Allen, and published in 1960. ...
The New Apocalyptics were a poetry grouping in the UK in the 1940s, taking their name from the anthology The New Apocalypse (1939), which was edited by J. F. Hendry (1912-1986) and Henry Treece. ...
New Formalism is a late-twentieth and early twenty-first century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical and rhymed verse. ...
The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters and musicians active in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in New York City. ...
William Carlos Williams, who was the only poet to be published as both an Objectivist and an Imagist The Objectivist poets were a loose-knit group of second-generation Modernists who emerged in the 1930s. ...
Others was a group of avante-garde artists in New York formed after World War I. Poet Alfred Kreymborg and artist Man Ray founded the group, centered in Ridgefield, NJ. Through the group, American writers and artists came into contact and found collaboration with emigree artists who had fled from...
The Parnassians were a group of 19th-century French poets, so called from their journal, the Parnasse contemporain, itself named after Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses in Greek mythology. ...
The Pléiade was a group of 16th-century French poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. ...
The Rhymers Club was a group of London-based poets, founded in 1890 by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys. ...
Founded in 1922 as the Rochester, NY chapter of the Poetry Society of America, Rochester Poets is the areas oldest, ongoing literary organization. ...
The term San Francisco Renaissance is used as a global designation for a range of poetic activity centred around that city and which brought it to prominence as a hub of the American poetic avant-garde. ...
The Scottish version of modernism, the Scottish literary renaissance was begun by Hugh MacDiarmid in the 1920s when he abandoned his English language poetry and began to write in Lallans. ...
In a literary context, the term Sicilian School identifies a small community of Sicilian, and to a lesser extent, mainland Italian poets gathered around Frederick II, most of them belonging to his court, the Magna Curia. ...
The phrase Sons of Ben is a mildly problematic term applied to followers of Benamor the Great. ...
The Southern Agrarians or Vanderbilt Agrarians were a group of 12 American Traditionalist writers and poets from the Southern United States who joined together to publish the Agrarian manifesto, a collection of essays entitled Ill Take My Stand in 1930. ...
The term spasmodic, certainly with some derogatory as well as humorous intention, was applied by William Edmonstoune Aytoun to a group of British poets of the Victorian era. ...
Poezja Åpiewana (meaning sung poetry in Polish) is a broad and inprecise music genre, used mostly in Poland to describe songs consisting of a poem (most often a ballad) and music written specially for that text. ...
Yves Tanguy Indefinite Divisibility 1942 Surrealism[1] is a movement stating that the liberation of our mind, and subsequently the liberation of the individual self and society, can be achieved by exercising the imaginative faculties of the unconscious mind to the attainment of a dream-like state different from, or...
The Uranians were a relatively obscure group of pederastic poets who flourished between 1870 and 1930, particularly among the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge. ...
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