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// Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads, including Gunga Din Alfred Tennyson, The Death of Oenone Richard Aldington (died 1962), English poet, novelist, writer, translator and biographer June 12 â Djuna Barnes (died 1982), American writer and poet Mary Phelps Crosby Archibald MacLeish Hugh MacDiarmid (Scotland) Edna St. ...
// The Yellow Book, with a cover illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. ...
// The Generation of 98 (also called Generation of 1898, 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). ...
See also: 1891 in literature, other events of 1892, 1893 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1892 in literature, other events of 1893, 1894 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1893 in literature, other events of 1894, 1895 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1894 in literature, other events of 1895, 1896 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1895 in literature, other events of 1896, 1897 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1896 in literature, other events of 1897, 1898 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1897 in literature, other events of 1898, 1899 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...
This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ...
// Events and trends Technology The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ...
// Events and Trends Technology 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. ...
The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...
This page indexes the individual years pages. ...
1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
Events
Oscar Wilde's arrest and conviction - February 18 — John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, father of Oscar Wilde's lover, left a calling card at one of Wilde's clubs, the Albemarle. On the back of the card he wrote "For Oscar Wilde posing as a Somdomite" (a misspelling of "Sodomite"); Wilde charged him with criminal libel
- April — the government takes over prosecution of the case but loses it as the defense brings in evidence of Wilde's past liaisons with men and teenage boys
- April 6 — Wilde arrested at the Cadogan Hotel, London, and charged with "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons"
- May 25 — Wilde convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labor
February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
John Sholto Douglas (1844-1900) was an eccentric Scottish nobleman, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry and Viscount Drumlanrig. ...
Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 â November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. ...
Sodomy is a term of religious origin to characterize certain sexual acts and behaviours as a perversion of the human capacity for union through sexuality. ...
April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ...
Blue plaque to Lillie Langtree The Cadogan Hotel is one of Londons most prestigious luxury hotels and restaurants. ...
May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ...
Awards Works published Katharine Lee Bates, (August 12, 1859 - March 26, 1929), is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem America the Beautiful. ...
America the Beautiful is an American patriotic song which rivals The Star-Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States, in popularity. ...
Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 - September 18, 1951) was an artist, art critic, poet, author, and humorist. ...
Honorary statue of James Whitcomb Riley on courthouse lawn in Greenfield, Indiana James Whitcomb Riley (Greenfield, Indiana October 7, 1849 â July 22, 1916), American writer and poet called the Hoosier poet and Americas Childrens Poet made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal...
W.B. Yeats in Dublin on 24 January 1908. ...
Births Lilian Bowes-Lyon (or Bowes Lyon) (1895 - 1949) was a British poet. ...
Babette Deutsch (1895 - 1982) was an US poet. ...
Paul Éluard was the nom de plume of Eugène Grindel (December 14, 1895 - November 18, 1952), a French poet. ...
Portrait of Robert Graves (circa 1974) by Rab Shiell Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 â 7 December 1985) was an English scholar, poet, and novelist. ...
Robert Silliman Hillyer (1895-1965) was a poet and academic, becoming Professor of English at Harvard University. ...
Charles Hamilton Sorley (May 19, 1895 - October 13, 1915) was a British poet of World War I. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was educated, like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College (1908-1913). ...
Deaths Cecil Frances Alexander (1818 - 1895), born Cecil Frances Humphreys, was an Irish poet famous for writing hymns, of which her most famous is All Things Bright and Beautiful This article is a stub. ...
Eugene Field, American writer Eugene Field (September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895) American writer, best known for poetry for children and for humorous essays. ...
Thomas Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley F.R.S. (May 4, 1825 â June 29, 1895) was a British biologist, known as Darwins Bulldog for his defence of Charles Darwins theory of evolution. ...
Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895) was an English man of letters and poet. ...
William Wetmore Story (1819 - 1895) was a U.S. sculptor. ...
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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. ...
The âNineties Poetsâ in Jordan is a label that refers to a group of poets who appeared in the late 1980âs and early 1990âs. ...
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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