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// Hilda Doolittle meets and befriends Ezra Pound Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and Present Walter De la Mare, Songs of Childhood John Edward Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads, including I must go down to the sea again W.B. Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan February 1 â Langston Hughes (died 1967), African...
// William Butler Yeats leaves Ireland for an extended stay in the United States on a lecture tour Thomas Traherne, Poetical Works (posthumous) W. B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods, Ideas of Good and Evil January 9 â Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903âJanuary 9, 1946), African-American poet November 6 â Carl...
// Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre. ...
// Picassos portrait of Gertrude Stein Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman, a ballad C. M. Doughty, The Dawn in Britain Thomas Hardy. ...
// W.B. Yeats in Dublin on 24 January, 1908 Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. ...
See also: 1901 in literature, other events of 1902, 1903 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1902 in literature, other events of 1903, 1904 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1903 in literature, other events of 1904, 1905 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1904 in literature, other events of 1905, 1906 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1905 in literature, other events of 1906, 1907 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1906 in literature, other events of 1907, 1908 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1907 in literature, other events of 1908, 1909 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
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These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ...
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...
The 21st century is the present century of the Anno Domini (common) era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ...
This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ...
// 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. ...
The 1930s (years from 1930-1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ...
This page indexes the individual years pages. ...
1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ...
Year 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Events
- Ezra Pound presents Hilda Doolittle (the poet "H.D.") with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book
- March — art student Vachel Lindsay goes into the streets of New York City and tries to sell or give away copies of one of his poems. The take: 13 cents. His reaction: Ecstasy. "Now let there be here recorded my conclusions from one evening, one hour of peddling poetry. I am so rejoiced over it and so uplifted I am going to do it many times. It sets the heart trembling with happiness. The people like poetry as well as the scholars, or better."[1]
Ezra Pound in 1913. ...
H.D. in the mid 1910s Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961), better known by the pen name H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. ...
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (November 10, 1879 - December 5, 1931), an American poet born in Springfield, Illinois, became known as the Prairie Troubador. ...
Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ...
Works published E. C. Bentley (July 10, 1875 – March 30, 1956), was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics. ...
A Clerihew (or clerihew) is a very specific kind of humorous verse, typically with the following properties: The first line consists solely (or almost solely) of a well-known persons name The verse is humorous and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; but it...
Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867-23 February 1900), an English poet who was associated with the Decadent Movement, was born at Lee, south-east of London. ...
Dr. Duncan Campbell Scott Source: Library and Archives Canada, PA-165842 Duncan Campbell Scott (August 2, 1862-December 19, 1947) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. ...
Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 â November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. ...
Births Brian Coffey (June 8, 1905 - April 14, 1995) was an Irish poet and publisher. ...
Idris Davies 1905-1953 was a Welsh poet, writing in English. ...
Geoffrey Grigson (2nd March 1905 - 1985) was an English writer. ...
Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 - 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet. ...
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (born July 29, 1905) is a noted American poet who served two years (1974â1976) as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000. ...
Kenneth Rexroth (December 22, 1905 â June 6, 1982) was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. ...
Rex Warner (March 9, 1905 - June 24, 1986) was an English classicist, writer and translator. ...
Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 â September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and was one of the founders of The New Criticism. ...
Deaths - Violet Fane
- July 1 — John Hay, 64, American statesman, diplomat, author, poet, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln
- September 18 — George MacDonald, 80, Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister known mostly for his fantasy stories
July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ...
// Directed two seminal dramatisations of epic poems by Heathcote Williams in the early nineties. ...
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 â April 15, 1865) was an American politician elected from Illinois as the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ...
September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ...
George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 â September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. ...
Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ...
Awards and honors Notes - ^ "Vachel Lindsay" essay, Richard Ellman and Robert O'Clair, editors, Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 1973, page 257, which cites Ruggles, Eleanor, The West-Going Heart, A Life of Vachel Lindsay (New York, 1959), page 97
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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 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
маÑовÑкие ÑиÑоÑÑ) were a group of Russian poets from Saint Petersburg. ...
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. ...
Mountebanks ...
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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