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// Charles Causley, Figgie Hobbin See 1970 Governor Generals Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. ...
See also: 1969 in literature, other events of 1970, 1971 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1970 in literature, other events of 1971, 1972 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1971 in literature, other events of 1972, 1973 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1972 in literature, other events of 1973, 1974 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1973 in literature, other events of 1974, 1975 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1974 in literature, other events of 1975, 1976 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
See also: 1975 in literature, other events of 1976, 1977 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
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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 Gregorian calendar. ...
This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ...
The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ...
The 1950s was the decade spanning from the 1st of January, 1950 to the 31st December, 1959. ...
The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...
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1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...
1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...
1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
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Derek Walcott, courtesy of the Nobel Foundation Derek Alton Walcott (born January 23, 1930) is a West-Indian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who writes in English. ...
Awards Each winner of the 1973 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. ...
The Cholmondeley Award is given by the Society of Authors for poetry. ...
Patric Thomas Dickinson (1913-1994) was a British poet, translator from the Greek and Latin classics, and playwright. ...
Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 â 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. ...
The Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submisson. ...
John Wyndham (July 10, 1903 - March 11, 1969) was the pen name used by the apocalyptically oriented British science fiction writer John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris. ...
James Fenton (born April 25, 1949, Lincoln, England) has been, at various times, a journalist, poet, literary critic, and professor. ...
Keith harris with Orville Keith Harris (born 21 September 1947 in Lyndhurst, England) is a legendry British ventriloquist, singer, actor and genius who is known for his television show (which ran from 1982 till 1990), audio recordings and club appearances with his puppets Orville The Duck and Cuddles The Monkey. ...
David Howarth David Ross Howarth (born November 10, 1958) is a British Liberal Democrat politician and Member of Parliament for Cambridge. ...
The Gold Medal for Poetry, originally instituted by King George V, is awarded in some years on 23 April, for a book of verse written by a United Kingdom or British Commonwealth citizen; before 1985 it was awarded only to British writers (this rule clearly not having hardened by 1940). ...
John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs (born 9 July 1918) is a British poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius (1972). ...
The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress is appointed by the United States Librarian of Congress and earns a stipend of $35,000 a year. ...
Daniel Gerard Hoffman (b. ...
Two American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals are awarded each year by the academy for distinguished achievement. ...
John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 - July 3, 1974) was an American poet, essayist, and social commentator. ...
The Bollingen Prize, awarded every two years by the Bollingen Foundation, is a prestigious literary honor bestowed on a poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement. ...
poet James Merrill, age 30, in a 1957 publicity photograph for The Seraglio James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 - February 6, 1995) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American writer, increasingly regarded as one of the most important 20th century poets in the English language. ...
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ...
Maxine Kumin (b. ...
Births Sonnet LAbbé (born Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian poet. ...
Paul Vermeersch is a Canadian poet. ...
Deaths - March 26 — Noël Coward, 73, English actor, playwright, poet and composer of popular music, of a heart attack
- May 20 — Charles Brasch, 63, New Zealand poet, literary editor, and arts patron
- June 4 — Arna Bontemps, 70, American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance, of a heart attack
- August 17, Conrad Aiken, 84, of a heart attack
- September 2 — J.R.R. Tolkien, 81, poet, author and academic
- September 23 — Pablo Neruda, 69, Chilean writer, poet and Communist politician, from leukemia
- September 28 — W. H. Auden, 66, English poet, often cited as one of the most influential of the century
- November 22 — Ramon Guthrie, 77,
- November 23 — Francis Webb, 48, Australian poet
- date not known — Kenneth Allott, Welsh poet, academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold
March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ...
Noël Coward Sir Noel Peirce Coward (spelling his forename Noël with the diaeresis was an affectation of later life, and Peirce is the correct spelling) (December 16, 1899 - March 26, 1973) was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. ...
Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ...
May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ...
Charles Orwell Brasch (27 July 1909 - 20 May 1973) was a New Zealand poet, literary editor and arts patron. ...
June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ...
Arna Bontemps, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939 Arna Wendell Bontemps (October 13, 1902 _ June 4, 1973) was an American poet and part of the Harlem Renaissance. ...
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...
August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 â August 17, 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, born in Savannah, Georgia, whose work includes poetry, short stories and novels. ...
September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ...
September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ...
Neruda recording poems at the U.S. Library of Congress in 1966 Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 â September 23, 1973) was the pen name of the Chilean writer and communist politician Ricardo Eliecer Neftalà Reyes Basoalto. ...
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September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ...
November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ...
Francis Charles Webb-Wagg who published under the name Francis Webb (8 February 1925 — 23 November 1975) was an Australian poet. ...
Kenneth Allott (1911-1973) was a Welsh poet and academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold. ...
Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ...
Matthew Arnold Caricature from Punch, 1881: Admit that Homer sometimes nods, That poets do write trash, Our Bard has written Balder Dead, And also Balder-dash Family tree Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 â 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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 Alfred Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings 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. ...
Psalm 69, egg tempera and oil on wood by Ernst Fuchs 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...
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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