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JANUARY

• January 1 NEW YEAR'S DAY
  • birth of Katherine Philips (1631)
  • birth of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819; M-W)
  • birth of Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830; M-W)
  • Ralph Maldo Emerson recites his "Boston Hymn" during a celebration of the newly-signed Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
  • death of Joseph Howe (1873)
  • Francis Thompson's New Year's Chimes
  • death of William Wilfrid Campbell (1918; M-W)
  • death of Donagh MacDonagh (1968; M-W)

• January 2
  • birth of Philip Freneau (1752; M-W)
  • Robert Browning completes "`Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'" (1852; Smalley, 500)
  • death of Sabine Baring-Gould (1924)
  • Elizabeth Bishop's poem "Brazil Jan. 2, 1502"

• January 3
  • Robert Browning composes "Love among the Ruins" (1852)
  • birth of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892; M-W)
  • death of James Elroy Flecker (1915)
  • death of Edwin Muir (M-W; 1959)

• January 4
  • birth of Alfred Comyn Lyall (1835)
  • birth of A. E. Coppard (1878)
  • death of T. S. Eliot (1965; M-W)

• January 5
  • birth of Thomas Pringle (1789)
  • death of Alexander Smith (1867)
  • birth of Humbert Wolfe (1885)
  • birth of W. D. Snodgrass (1926; M-W)
  • death of Humbert Wolfe (1940)

• January 6 EPIPHANY, TWELFTH DAY
  • death of Sir John Denham (1639; DNB 5.795)
  • death of John Dennis (1734; DNB 5.822)
  • death of Hartley Coleridge (1849; DNB 4.756)
  • birth of Carl Sandburg (1878; M-W)

• January 7 ST. DISTAFF'S DAY, ROCK DAY
  • Robert Herrick's "St. Distaff's Day; or, the Morrow after Twelfth-Day"
  • death of Allan Ramsay (1758; M-W)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge composes "To William Wordsworth" after hearing his The Prelude (1807)
  • death of John Hookham Frere (1846; DNB 7.709)
  • birth of Robert Duncan (1919; M-W)
  • suicide of John Berryman (1972; M-W)

• January 8
  • birth of John G. Neihardt (1881; M-W)
  • birth of Charles Tomlinson (1927; M-W)
  • death of Kenneth Patchen (1972)

• January 9
  • birth of Thomas Warton the younger (1728; M-W)
  • birth of Catherine Parr Traill (1802; M-W)
  • birth of William Cory (1823)
  • birth of Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856; M-W)
  • birth of Lascelles Abercrombie (1881)
  • death of Countee Cullen (1946; M-W)

• January 10
  • death of Mary Russell Mitford (1855; M-W)
  • birth of Sir Charles G. D. Roberts (1860: M-W)
  • birth of Robinson Jeffers (1887; M-W)
  • death of Charles Olson (1970; M-W)

• January 11
  • death of Francis Scott Key (1843)
  • death of Thomas Hardy (1928; M-W)
  • death of Padraic Colum (1972; M-W)

• January 12
  • birth of Edith Emma Cooper ("Michael Field"; 1862)

• January 13 ST. HILARY'S DAY
  • execution of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (1547; M-W)
  • death of Edmund Spenser (1599; M-W)
  • death of Stephen Collins Foster (1864)
  • death of James Joyce (1941)

• January 14
  • death of Peter Pindar (alias of John Wolcot; 1819; M-W)
  • birth of Joseph Warren Beach (1880)
  • death of Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll; 1898)
  • birth of Dudley Randall (1914)
  • death of G. K. Chesterton (1936)

• January 15
  • The San Francisco Examiner publishes Edwin Markham's "The Man with a Hoe" (1899)
  • The New Statesman publishes W. H. Auden's "As I Walked out one Evening" (1938)

• January 16
  • baptism of Henry King (1592; M-W)
  • death of Edmund Spenser (1599)
  • birth of Richard Savage (1697)
  • birth of William Robert Service (1874; M-W)
  • death of Edmund Hamilton Sears (1876)
  • birth of Laura Riding (1901; M-W)
  • birth of Anthony Hecht (1923)

• January 17
  • birth of Anne Brontë (1820; M-W)
  • birth of William Stafford (1914)
  • death of Yvor Winters (1968; M-W)

• January 18
  • birth of Henry Austin Dobson (1840; M-W)
  • death of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1873; M-W)
  • birth of A. A. Milne (1882; M-W)
  • death of Edmund Clarence Stedman (1908; M-W)
  • death of Rudyard Kipling (1936; M-W)

• January 19
  • execution of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey (1547)
  • death of William Congreve (1729; DNB 4.933)
  • birth of Edgar Allan Poe (1809; M-W)
  • birth of Tom Hood the younger (1835; DNB 9.1166)
  • birth of George Mann MacBeth (1932; M-W)

• January 20
  • birth of Keith Castellain Douglas (1920; M-W)
  • Robert Frost recites "The Gift Outright" at the televised inauguration ceremony for President John F. Kennedy (1961)
  • death of Robinson Jeffers (1962; M-W)
  • death of Edmund Blunden (1974; M-W)

• January 21
  • William Butler Yeats composes "The Black Tower," his last poem (1939)

• January 22
  • birth of Lord Byron (1788; DNB 3.584)
  • John Keats writes "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again" (1818)
  • Lord Byron's "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year, Missolonghi, January 22, 1824"
  • birth of Howard Moss (1922; M-W)
  • death of Arthur Symonds (1945; M-W)

• January 23
  • birth of Charles Harpur (1813; M-W)
  • birth of Katherine Tynan (1861; M-W)
  • death of Thomas Love Peacock (1866)
  • death of Charles Kingsley (1875)
  • birth of Louis Zukofsky (1904; M-W)
  • birth of Derek Walcott (1930; M-W)

• January 24
  • birth of Charles Sackville, 6th earl of Dorset (1638)
  • birth of William Congreve (1670; MW)

• January 25 ST. PAUL'S DAY
  • birth of Robert Burns (1759; DNB 3.426)
  • The New Age publishes imagist T. E. Hulme's collected works, five poems in all (1912)
  • broadcast of Dylan Thomas' verse play Under Milkwood (1954)

• January 26
  • death of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1849; DNB 2.97)
  • birth of May Miller (1899; M-W)
  • death of Yvor Winters (1968)

• January 27
  • death of Sir William Temple (1699)
  • birth of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, i.e., Lewis Carroll (1832)
  • birth of D. M. Thomas (1935; M-W)

• January 28
  • death of Henry VIII (1547; DNB 9.544)
  • death of Sabine Baring-Gould (1834)
  • death of Dr John McCrae (1918)
  • death of Victor Plarr (1929)
  • death of W. B. Yeats (1939; M-W)
  • death of George Woodcock (1995; M-W)

• January 29
  • death of Charles Sackville, 6th earl of Dorset (1706)
  • The New York Evening Mirror publishes Edgar A. Poe's "The Raven" (1845)
  • death of Edward Lear (1888; M-W)
  • death of Sara Teasdale (1933; M-W)
  • death of Robert Frost (1963; M-W)
  • death of John Glassco (1981; M-W)

• January 30
  • birth of George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham (1628)
  • death of Charles I (1649)
  • birth of Walter Savage Landor (1775; M-W)
  • birth of Ann Taylor (1782)
  • birth of Augusta Webster (1837)
  • birth of Gelett Burgess (1866; M-W)
  • death of Arthur O-Shaughnessy (1881; M-W)
  • death of Mary Howitt (1888)
  • death of Charles Montagu Doughty (1926)

• January 31
  • death of Bernard Barton (1849; DNB 1.1260)
  • death of A. A. Milne (1956; M-W)
  • death of Francis Reginald Scott (1985; M-W)

FEBRUARY

• February 1 ST. BRIDGET'S DAY
  • birth of Elkanah Settle (1648)
  • birth of Arthur Henry Hallam (1811; M-W), mourned in Alfred lord Tennyson's In Memoriam
  • birth of Langston Hughes (1902; M-W)
  • birth of Galway Kinnell (1927; M-W)
  • birth of David Antin (1932; M-W)

• February 2 CANDLEMAS
  • birth of Hannah More (1745)
  • death of Adelaide Procter (1864)
  • birth of James Joyce (1882; M-W)
  • birth of James Dickey (1923; M-W)
  • birth of Cynthia Macdonald (1928; M-W)

• February 3
  • death of George Crabbe (1832; DNB 4.1355)
  • birth of Sidney Lanier (1842; M-W)
  • birth of Gertrude Stein (1874)
  • death of James Kenneth Stephen (1892)
  • The Irish Times and The Irish Independent publishes W. B. Yeats' "Under Ben Bulben" (1939)
  • death of Robert Duncan (1988; M-W)

• February 4
  • death of Robert Blair (1746; DNB 2.627)
  • death of Thomas Carlyle (1795)
  • birth of E. J. Pratt (1883; M-W)
  • birth of Gavin Evart (1916; M-W)
  • death of Louise Bogan (1970; M-W)

• February 5
  • death of Henry Crabb Robinson (1867; M-W)
  • death of A. B. Paterson (1941; M-W)
  • death of Marianne Moore (1972; M-W)

• February 6
  • birth of Christopher Marlowe (1564)
  • baptism of Samuel Butler (1612; DNB 3.526)
  • birth of Melvin Tolson (1898; M-W)
  • The New Republic publishes Robert Frost's "The Death of the Hired Man" (1915)
  • birth of Louis Dudek (1918; M-W)
  • death of James Merrill (1995; M-W)

• February 7
  • birth of Sir Thomas More (1478)
  • birth of Charles Dickens (1812)
  • death of Dollie Radford (1920)

• February 8
  • death of Aaron Hill (1750; DNB 9.840)
  • birth of Elizabeth Bishop (1911; M-W)

• February 9
  • birth of Amy Lowell (1874)
  • death of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1906; M-W)
  • birth of Daniel Berrigan (1921; M-W)
  • birth of Alice Walker (1944; M-W)
  • death of Allen Tate (1979; M-W)

• February 10
  • birth of Sir John Suckling (1609)
  • baptism of William Congreve (1670; DNB 4.931)
  • birth of Aaron Hill (1685; DNB 9.838)
  • birth of Charles Lamb (1775; M-W)
  • death of Archibald Lampman (1899; M-W)
  • birth of Fleur Adcock (1934; M-W)

• February 11
  • Anglo-Roman feast day for Cædmon
  • death of Gabriel Harvey (1631)
  • birth of William Falconer (1732; DNB 6.1028)
  • death of William Shenstone (1763; M-W)
  • death of Elizabeth Siddall (1862)
  • birth of Roy Fuller (1912; M-W)
  • suicide of Sylvia Plath (1963; M-W)

• February 12
  • birth of Thomas Campion (1567; M-W)
  • birth of William Whitehead (1715; M-W)
  • death of Elkanah Settle (1724)
  • birth of Abraham Lincoln (1809)
  • birth of George Meredith (1828; M-W)
  • death of Alice Cary (1871; M-W)
  • death of Isabella Valancy Crawford (1887; M-W)
  • birth of Alan Dugan (1923; M-W)
  • death of Muriel Rukeyser (1980; M-W)

• February 13
  • Oscar Wilde publishes "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1898)
  • death of James Joyce (1941; M-W)

• February 14 ST. VALENTINE'S DAY
  • Michael Drayton's "To his Valentine"
  • The Springfield Daily Republican publishes Emily Dickinson's "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" (1819)
  • death of Douglas Stewart (1985; M-W)

• February 15
  • death of John Philips (1709)

• February 16
  • death of Charles Cotton (1687)
  • birth of Peter Porter (1929; M-W)
  • death of George Mann MacBeth (1992; M-W)

• February 17
  • death of James Macpherson (1796; M-W)
  • death of Elizabeth Carter (1806; M-W)
  • John Keats completes "The Eve of St. Mark" (1819)
  • birth of A. B. Paterson (1864; M-W)
  • death of Charles Jeremiah Wells (1879; M-W)
  • death of Charles Stuart Calverley (1884)
  • death of Joaquin Miller (1913; M-W)
  • death of Hugh McCrae (1958; M-W)

• February 18
  • birth of A. R. Ammons (1926; M-W)
  • birth of Audre Lorde (Gambia Adisa; 1934; M-W)

• February 19
  • death of Bernard Barton (1849; DNB 1.1262)

• February 20
  • birth of Henry James Pye, poet laureate (1745; M-W)
  • Faber and Faber publishes T. S. Eliot's "Burnt Norton," the first of the Four Quartets (1941)
  • the Bollingen Prize is awarded to Ezra Pound for his Pisan Cantos (1949)

• February 21
  • execution of Robert Southwell, SJ at Tyburn (1595)
  • birth of John Henry (Cardinal) Newman (1801; M-W)
  • death of Charles Wolfe (1823; M-W)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge composes "Work without Hope" (1825)
  • birth of W. H. Auden (1907; M-W)

• February 22
  • birth of Sarah Fuller Adams (1805)
  • birth of William Barnes (1801; M-W)
  • birth of Sarah Fuller Adams (1805)
  • birth of James Russell Lowell (1819; M-W)
  • birth of Margaret E. Sangster (1838)
  • death of Sidney Smith (1845; M-W)
  • birth of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892; M-W)
  • death of Frances Ellen Watkins (1911; MW)
  • death of Phyllis McGinley (1978; M-W)

• February 23
  • death of Owen Felltham (1668; M-W)
  • death of Joseph Warton (1800; M-W)
  • death of John Keats (1821; M-W)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Adonais", on John Keats' death
  • death of Joanna Baillie (1851; DNB 1.889)
  • death of Ernest Dowson (1900; M-W)

• February 24
  • death of John Sheffield, duke of Buckingham (1721; M-W)
  • death of Richard Hovey (1900; M-W)

• February 25
  • death of Thomas Moore (1852; M-W)
  • birth of James Kenneth Stephen (1859)
  • death of Robert Hayden (1980; M-W)

• February 26
  • baptism of Christopher Marlowe (1564; M-W)
  • birth of Mary Leapor (1722)
  • birth of I. A Richards (1893; M-W)
  • birth of Kenneth Koch (1925)
  • death of Richard Lattimore (1984; M-W)

• February 27
  • death of Henry Vaughan (1666)
  • birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807; M-W)
  • death of Kenneth Koch (1925; M-W)

• February 28
  • death of Edward Moore (1757)
  • birth of Arthur Symonds (1865; M-W)
  • birth of Stephen Spender (1909; M-W)

• February 29

MARCH

• March 1 ST. DAVID'S DAY
  • death of Thomas Campion (1620; M-W)
  • Byron publishes cantos 1-2 of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812)
  • birth of William Dean Howells (1837)
  • The Springfield Daily Republican publishes Emily Dickinson's "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" (1862)
  • birth of Robert Lowell (1917; M-W)
  • birth of Howard Nemerov (1920; M-W)
  • birth of Richard Wilbur (1921; M-W)

• March 2
  birth of George Sandys (1578; M-W)
  • death of John Wesley (1791)
  • death of George Dyer (1841; DNB 6.285)
  • birth of Geoffrey Grigson (1905; M-W)
  • death of D. H. Lawrence (1930; M-W)

• March 3
  • birth of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582; DNB 9.624)
  • baptism of Sir William D'Avenant (1606; DNB 5.551)
  • birth of Edmund Waller (1606; M-W)
  • burial of George Herbert (1633; DNB 9.637)
  • birth of Thomas Otway (1652; M-W)
  • death of John Frederick William Herschel (1871)
  • birth of Edward Thomas (1878; M-W)
  • birth of James Merrill (1926; M-W)

• March 4
  • execution of Robert Southwell (1595; M-W)
  • birth of Toru Dutt (1856)
  • birth of T. Sturge Moore (1870)
  • death of William Carlos Williams (1963; M-W)

• March 5
  • The Wasp publishes Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary (1881)
  • birth of Peter Quennell (1905)
  • death of Alun Lewis (1944; M-W)
  • death of Edgar Lee Masters (1950; M-W)

• March 6
  • death of Francis Beaumont (1616; DNB 2.55)
  • birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806; DNB 3.78)

• March 7
  • birth of John Frederick William Herschel (1792)
  • The New Republic publishes Robert Frost's"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923)
  • death of Edwin Markham (1940; M-W)
  • death of Stevie Smith (1971; M-W)

• March 8
  • birth of William Roscoe (1753)
  • death of Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (1929)
  • The New Republic publishes W. H. Auden's "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" (1939)
  • death of Stevie Smith (1971)

• March 9
  • birth of Edmund Waller (1606)
  • death of William Warner (1609)
  • death of Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1825; M-W)
  • birth of Rex Warner (1905; M-W)
  • birth of Elder Olson (1908; M-W)
  • death of Charles Bukowski (1994; M-W)

• March 10
  • death of Laurence Binyon (1943; M-W)
  • death of Etheridge Knight (1991; M-W)

• March 11
  • burial of Giles Fletcher the elder (1611; M-W)
  • birth of D. J. Enright (1920; M-W)

• March 12
  • birth of Mary Howitt (1799)
  • The Round Table publishes Emily Dickinson's "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church" (1864)
  • birth of Irving Layton (1912)
  • birth of Jack Kerouac (1922; M-W)

• March 13
  • Jonathan Swift's "Stella's Birthday March 13, 1719" and "Stella's Birthday March 13, 1727"
  • death of Stephen Vincent Benét (1943; M-W)

• March 14
  • William Wordsworth composes "To a Butterfly" (1802)
  • birth of Arthur O'Shaughnessy (1844; M-W)
  • birth of John Wain (1925; M-W)

• March 15
  • birth of George Dyer (1755; DNB 6.284)
  • birth of Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867; M-W)
  • death of James Joseph Sylvester (1897)
  • The Saturday Review publishes Hart Crane's "Cape Hatteras" (1930)

• March 16
  • birth of Percy MacKaye (1875; M-W)
  • The New Statesman publishes Sylvia Plath's "Wuthering Heights" (1962)

• March 17 ST. PATRICK'S DAY
  • death of Thomas Randolph (1634)
  • birth of Ebenezer Elliott, "Corn Law Rhymer" (1781)
  • birth of Joseph Skipsey (1832)

• March 18
  • birth of David Mills (1831)
  • birth of William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840)
  • birth of Wilfred Owen (1893; M-W)
  • birth of John Updike (1932; M-W)
  • birth of Michael S. Harper (1938; M-W)

• March 19 ST. JOSEPH'S DAY
  • birth of William Allingham (1824)
  • death of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907; M-W)
  • death of Austin Clarke (1974)

• March 20
  • death of Sir Richard Maitland, lord Lethington (1586; M-W)
  • William Cowper composes "The Castaway," his last poem (1799)
  • birth of William Barnes (1801)
  • death of Charles Godfrey Leland (1903; M-W)

• March 21
  • birth of Henry Kirke White (1785)
  • birth of Mathilde Blind (1841)
  • death of Robert Southey (1843; M-W)
  • birth of Phyllis McGinley (1905; M-W)

• March 22
  • death of Thomas Carew (1639; M-W)
  • birth of Edward Moore (1712)
  • birth of Caroline Norton (1808; M-W)
  • birth of John Banister Tabb (1845)

• March 23
  • William Wordsworth composes "To the Cuckoo" (1802)
  • death of Franklin P. Adams (1960)
  • death of John Davidson (1909; M-W)

• March 24
  • death of Elizabeth I (1603; DNB 6.647)
  • birth of Joel Barlow (1754; M-W)
  • birth of William Morris (1834; M-W)
  • death of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1882; M-W)
  • death of Edwin Arnold (1904; M-W)
  • death of J. M. Synge (1909; M-W)
  • birth of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919; M-W)
  • birth of Wilson Harris (1921; M-W)
  • death of Charlotte Mew (1928; M-W)

• March 25 LADY DAY, ANNUNICATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
  • death of Anna Seward (1809)
  • birth of Anne Brontë (1820)
  • death of James Wright (1980; M-W)
  • death of John Drinkwater (1937; M-W)

• March 26
  • William Wordsworth363 composes "My Heart Leaps Up" (1802)
  • birth of A. E. Housman (1859; M-W)
  • birth of Robert Frost (1874; M-W)
  • death of Walt Whitman (1892; M-W)
  • death of Noël Coward (1973; M-W)

• March 27
  • William Wordsworth composes "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1802)
  • birth of Kenneth Slessor (1901; M-W)
  • birth of Louis Simpson (1923; M-W)

• March 28
  • birth of Gilbert E. Brooke (1873)
  • suicide of Charlotte Mew (1928)
  • death of Katharine Lee Bates (1929; M-W)
  • death of Stephen Leacock (1944; M-W)
  • death of Francis Brett Young (1954; M-W)

• March 29
  • death of Charles Wesley (1788)
  • birth of R. S. Thomas (1913; M-W)

• March 30
  • birth of Sir Henry Wotton (1568; M-W)
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow composes "My Lost Youth" (1855)
  • birth of Julian Grenfell (1888)
  • death of Jean Toomer (1967; M-W)
  • death of John Ciardi (1986; M-W)

• March 31
  • birth of Andrew Marvell (1621; M-W)
  • death of John Donne (1631; DNB 5.1136)
  • birth of Edward Fitzgerald (1809; DNB 7.111)
  • birth of Andrew Lang (1844)
  • death of Charlotte Brontë (1855; DNB 2.1320)
  • birth of Marge Piercy (1936)

APRIL

• April 1 APRIL FOOL'S DAY
  • Robert Burns composes his first "Epistle to J. Lapraik" (1785)
  • death of John Langhorne, translator of Plutarch (1779; M-W)

• April 2
  • birth of Edward de Vere (1550)
  • birth of J. C. Squire (1882; M-W)
  • death of Katherine Tynan (1931; M-W)

• April 3
  • birth of George Herbert (1593; DNB 9.636)
  • dearh of Reginald Heber, Lord Bishop of Calcutta (1826)
  • death of Robert Bridges (1930)

• April 4
  • death of Oliver Goldsmith (1774; DNB 8.93)
  • birth of Maya Angelou (Marguerite Johnson; 1928; M-W)

• April 5
  • death of Edward Young (1765; M-W)
  • birth of Sydney Thompson Dobell (1824; DNB 5.1038)
  • birth of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837; M-W)
  • birth of William Herbert Carruth (1859)
  • birth of Richard Eberhart (1904; M-W)

• April 6
  • birth of Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810)
  • death of William Henry Drummond (1907; M-W)
  • death of Edwin Arlington Robinson (1935; M-W)

• April 7
  • birth of John Sheffield, 1st duke of Buckingham (1648; M-W)
  • death of Sir William D'Avenant (1668; DNB 5.557)
  • birth of William Wordsworth (1770; M-W)
  • death of William Lisle Bowles (1850; DNB 2.978)
  • death of John Lehmann (1987; M-W)

• April 8
  • birth of Phineas Fletcher (1582; DNB 7.316)
  • death of Susanna Moodie (1885)

• April 9
  • death of John Howard Payne (1852; M-W)
  • birth of Adela Florence Nicolson (1865)
  • death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1882)
  • death of Edward Thomas in action during World War I (1917; M-W)

• April 10
  • birth of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester (1647; M-W)
  • death of Thomas Otway (1685)
  • birth of Æ (George William Russell; 1867)
  • birth of Laurence Binyon (1869; M-W)
  • death of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1882; M-W)
  • death of John Addington Symonds (1893)
  • death of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1909; M-W)
  • death of Alfred Comyn Lyall (1911)
  • death of Henry Van Dyke (1933; M-W)

• April 11
  • birth of Christopher Smart (1722; M-W)
  • birth of George Canning (1770; DNB 3.872)
  • death of Barron Field (1846)
  • birth of John Davidson (1857; M-W)
  • birth of Bernard Patrick O'Dowd (1866; M-W)
  • death of Gamaliel Bradford (1932)
  • birth of Mark Strand (1934; M-W)

• April 12
  • birth of Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford (1550; M-W)
  • death of Thomas Stanley (1678; M-W)
  • death of Edward Young (1765)
  • death of James Schuyler (1991; M-W)

• April 13
  • John Dryden becomes Poet Laureate (1668)
  • birth of Alexander Ross (1699)
  • birth of Thomas Percy (1729; M-W)
  • death of Jane Taylor (1824)
  • birth of William Henry Drummond (1854; M-W)
  • birth of Samuel Beckett (1906)
  • birth of Seamus Heaney (1939; M-W)

• April 14
  • death of Thomas Otway (1685; M-W)
  • death of William Whitehead (1785; M-W)
  • Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!", commemorating the death of Abraham Lincoln this day
  • Thomas Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain," commemorating the sinking of the Titanic this day

• April 15
  • birth of Bliss Carman (1861; M-W)
  • death of Matthew Arnold (1888)
  • death of William Empson (1984; M-W)

• April 16
  • death of George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham (1687)
  • death of Aphra Behn (1689; DNB 2.130)
  • The Morning Post publishes Samuel Taylor Coleridge's France: An ode (1798)
  • birth of John Millington Synge (1871; M-W)
  • birth of Kingsley Amis (1922; M-W)

• April 17
  • birth of Henry and Thomas Vaughan, twins (1622; M-W)

• April 18
  • death of Erasmus Darwin (1802; DNB 5.535)
  • birth of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1807)
  • birth of Henry Kendall (1839; M-W)
  • The Nation publishes "The Bear" by Robert Frost (1928)
  • death of Basil Bunting (1985)

• April 19
  • death of Thomas Sackville, earl of Dorset (1608; M-W)
  • birth of Anna Letitia Waring (1823)
  • death of Lord Byron (1824; DNB 3.604)
  • death of John Addington Symonds (1893; M-W)
  • birth of Etherige Knight (1931; M-W)

• April 20
  • birth of Dinah Maria Craik (1726)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge composes "Fears in Solitude" (1798)
  • birth of Dinah Maria Craik (1826)
  • birth of W. H. Davies (1870)
  • death of Archibald MacLeish (1982; M-W)

• April 21
  • birth of Reginald Heber, Lord Bishop of Calcutta (1783)
  • Robert Burns composes the second "Epistle to J. Lapraik" (1785)
  • birth of Charlotte Brontë (1816; DNB 2.1314)
  • John Keats completes "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (1819)
  • death of Mark Twain (1910; M-W)
  • death of Robert Bridges (1930; M-W)

• April 22
  • birth of Joseph Warton (1722; M-W)
  • birth of James Grahame (1765; DNB 8.366)
  • birth of William Jay Smith (1918; M-W)
  • birth of Louise Glück (1943; M-W)
  • death of Roy Campbell (1957; M-W)

• April 23 ST. GEORGE'S DAY
  • birth of William Shakespeare (1564)
  • death of Henry Vaughan (1695; M-W)
  • death of Thomas Tickell (1740)
  • death of William Wordsworth (1850; M-W)
  • birth of Edwin Markham (1852; M-W)
  • death of Rupert Brooke (1915; M-W)
  • birth of Margaret Avison (1918; M-W)

• April 24
  • birth of John Trumbull (1750; M-W)
  • birth of Arthur Christopher Benson (1862)
  • birth of Robert Penn Warren (1905; M-W)
  • birth of George Oppen (1908; M-W)
  • the Irish Easter rebellion of 1916, remembered in W. B. Yeats' "Easter 1916"
  • Faber and Faber publishes T. S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday (1930)
  • death of Lucy Maud Montgomery (1942; M-W)

• April 25 ST. MARK'S DAY
  • death of William Cowper (1800; DNB 4.1326)
  • birth of Walter de la Mare (1873; M-W)
  • death of Thomas Aird (1876; DNB 1.201)

• April 26
  • death of Daniel Defoe (1731)
  • birth of Alice Cary (1820; M-W)
  • birth of John Byrne Leicester Warren (1835)
  • death of E. J. Pratt (1964; M-W)

• April 27
  • death of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882; M-W)
  • birth of C. Day Lewis (1904)
  • suicide of Hart Crane (1933; M-W)
  • John Berryman publishes 77 Dream Songs (1964)

• April 28
  • birth of Charles Cotton (1630; DNB 4.1223)
  • publication of George Meredith's Modern Love (1862)
  • birth of William Soutar (1898; M-W)
  • birth of Carolyn Forché (1950; M-W)

• April 29
  • death of John Cleveland (1658; DNB 4.508)

• April 30
  • The Tatler publishes Jonathan Swift's " A Description of the Morning" (1709)
  • death of James Montgomery (1854; M-W)
  • death of Sarah Josepha Hale (1879; M-W)
  • birth of John Crowe Ransom (1888; M-W)
  • death of A. E. Housman (1936; M-W)

MAY

• May 1 MAY DAY
  • birth of Joseph Addison (1672; DNB 1.122)
  • death of John Dryden (1700; DNB 6.72)
  • John Keats composes "Fragment of an Ode to Maia" (1818; Bate, 335)
  • death of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978; M-W)

• May 2
  • death of George Wither (1667; M-W)
  • The National Era publishes John Greenleaf Whittier's "Ichabod" (1850)
  • death of Claude McKay (1948)

• May 3
  • birth of William Broome (1689; M-W)
  • death of Thomas Hood (1845; DNB 9.1165)
  • death of Sara Coleridge (1852; M-W)
  • birth of May Sarton (1912; M-W)

• May 4
  • birth of Charlotte Smith (1749; M-W)
  • birth of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825)
  • birth of Richard Hovey (1864; M-W)
  • death of Edith Nesbit (1924; M-W)
  • death of Sir Osbert Sitwell (1969; M-W)

• May 5
  • birth of Thomas Edward Brown (1830)
  • death of Francis Brett Harte (1902)

• May 6
  • birth of Rabindranath Tagore (1861)
  • death of Henry David Thoreau (1862; M-W)
  • birth of Richmond Lattimore (1906; M-W)
  • birth of Douglas Stewart (1913; M-W)
  • birth of Randall Jarrell (1914; M-W)

• May 7
  • William Wordsworth completes "Resolution and Independence" (1802)
  • birth of Robert Browning (1812; M-W)
  • birth of Archibald MacLeish (1892; M-W)

• May 8
  • birth of Francis Quarles (1592; M-W)
  • death of Richard Jago (1781)
  • death of Very Jones (1880; M-W)
  • birth of George Woodcock (1912; M-W)
  • birth of Mona Van Duyn (1921; M-W)
  • birth of Gary Snyder (1930; M-W)

• May 9
  • birth of Peter Pindar (alias of John Wolcot; 1738; M-W)
  • birth of Austin Clarke (1896)
  • birth of Charles Simic (1938; M-W)
  • birth of Jorie Graham (1951; M-W)

• May 10
  • death of Sir George Etherege (1692; M-W)
  • the International Exhibition in Philadelphia opens with a singing of John Greenleaf Whittier's "Centennial Hymn" (1876)
  • death of Alexander MacGregor Rose (1898)
  • death of Anna Letitia Waring (1910)

• May 11
  • death of Sir Edward Dyer (1607; DNB 6.284)
  • death of John Trumbull (1831; M-W)
  • death of William Dean Howells (1920)

• May 12
  • death of George Chapman (1634; DNB 4.53)
  • birth of Edward Lear (1812; M-W)
  • birth of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828; M-W)
  • death of Richard Henry Stoddard (1903; M-W)
  • publication of T. S. Eliot's Poems
  • death of Amy Lowell (1925)
  • death of Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1944; M-W)
  • death of John Masefield (1967; M-W)
  • death of Louis Zukofsky (1978; M-W)

• May 13
  • birth of Henry Crabb Robinson (1775; M-W)
  • birth of Earl Birney (1904; M-W)
  • death of Walter Alexander Raleigh (1922)

• May 14
  • published Alexander Pope's "Messiah, a Sacred Eclogue" (1712; Wimsatt, Jr. [1951]: viii)
  • Alfred Tennyson publishes his Poems (1842)
  • birth of Robert Finch (1900; M-W)
  • The New Republic publishes Dylan Thomas' "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" (1945)

• May 15
  • Alexander Pope's Essay in Criticism (1711)
  • death of Emily Dickinson (1886; M-W)
  • birth of Edwin Muir (1887; M-W)
  • The New Republic publishes e. e. cummings' "Conceive a Man" (1935)
  • death of William Empson (1984)

• May 16
  • death of Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1835; DNB 9.383)
  • death of Edmund Goose (1928)
  • birth of Adrienne Rich (1929; M-W)

• May 17
  • death of Samuel Boyse (1749)
  • death of Robert Tannahill (1810)
  • birth of Frederic Prokosch (1908; M-W)

• May 18
  • Forum publishes Philip Freneau's "The Deserted Farm House" (1785)
  • death of George Meredith (1909; M-W)
  • The New English Weekly publishes Sylan Thomas' "And Death Shall have no Dominion" (1933)

• May 19
  • death of John Blackwell (1841; M-W)
  • death of T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia, alias T. E. Shaw; 1935; M-W)
  • death of Ogden Nash (1971; M-W)
  • death of John Betjeman (1984; M-W)

• May 20
  • death of Thomas Sprat (1713; M-W)
  • death of Alexander Ross (1784)
  • death of Thomas Warton the younger (1790)
  • death of Joseph Blanco White (1841)
  • death of Mary Lamb (1847; M-W)
  • death of John Clare (1864; DNB 4.386)

• May 21
  • death of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose (1650)
  • birth of Alexander Pope (1688; M-W)
  • birth of John Hookham Frere (1769; DNB 7.708)
  • death of Christopher Smart (1771; M-W)
  • death of Thomas Warton the younger (1790; M-W)
  • birth of Robert Creeley (1926; M-W)

• May 22
  • The Saturday Review publishes W. H. Auden's "Spain" (1937)
  • death of Claude McKay (1948; M-W)
  • death of Langston Hughes (1967; M-W)
  • death of C. Day Lewis (1972)

• May 23
  • birth of Thomas Hood (1799; DNB 9.1164)

• May 24
  • death of William Hamilton (1751; M-W)
  • death of John Wain (1994; M-W)

• May 25
  • birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803; M-W)
  • birth of Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803; M-W)
  • birth of Theodore Roethke (1908; M-W)
  • birth of Phyllis Gotlieb (1926)
  • death of Ernest Percival Rhys (1946; M-W)

• May 26 ST. PHILLIP'S DAY
  • birth of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689; M-W)
  • publication of Oliver Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village" (1770)
  • death of Julian Grenfell (1915)
  • death of Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1962; M-W)

• May 27
  • birth of Julia Ward Howe (1819; M-W)

• May 28
  • birth of Thomas Moore (1779; M-W)
  • death of Anne Brontë (1849; DNB 2.1319)
  • birth of May Swenson (1919; M-W)

• May 29
  • birth of Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821)
  • birth of G. K. Chesterton (1874; M-W)
  • death of William Gilbert (1911; M-W)
  • death of Ralph Gustafson (1995; M-W)

• May 30
  • murder of Christopher Marlowe (1593; M-W)
  • death of Alexander Pope (1744; M-W)
  • birth of Alfred Austin (1835; M-W)
  • death of Frederick Locker-Lampson (1895)
  • birth of Countee Cullen (1903; M-W)

• May 31
  • birth of Alexander Pope (1688)
  • birth of Walt Whitman (1819; M-W)
  • birth of Judith Wright (1915; M-W)

JUNE

• June 1
  • death of Christopher Marlowe (1593)
  • birth of Henry Francis Lyte (1793)
  • publication of Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam (1850)
  • birth of William Wilfred Campbell (1861; M-W)
  • death of Joseph Howe (1873)
  • birth of John Masefield (1878; M-W)
  • birth of John Drinkwater (1882; M-W)
  • publication of William Carlos Williams' Patterson I (1946)

• June 2
  • birth of Thomas Hardy (1840; M-W)
  • birth of John Lehmann (1907; M-W)
  • death of Margaret E. Sangster (1912)
  • death of Alfred Austin (1913; M-W)

• June 3
  • birth of Sidney Smith (1771; M-W)
  • birth of Robert Tannahill (1774)
  • death of James Thomson (1882; M-W)
  • birth of Allen Ginsberg (1926; M-W)

• June 4

• June 5
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley completes Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (1821)
  • death of Stephen Crane (1900; M-W)
  • death of Orlando Gibbons (1625)

• June 6
  • publication of the first volume of Alexander Pope's translation of Homer's Iliad (1715)
  • T.P.'s Weekly publishes Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" (1913)
  • birth of Maxine Kumin (1925; M-W)
  • death of Kenneth Rexroth (1982; M-W)
  • death of Frederic Prokosch (1989; M-W)

• June 7
  • birth of Gwendolyn Brooks (1917; M-W)
  • birth of Nikki Giovanni (1943; M-W)
  • death of Dorothy Parker (1967; M-W)

• June 8
  • death of Henry Clay Work (1884)
  • death of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1889; M-W)
  • death of Bliss Carman (1929; M-W)

• June 9
  • birth of John Howard Payne (1791; M-W)
  • death of Charles Dickens (1870)
  • birth of John Gillespie Magee Jr. (1922)
  • The New Republic publishes Robinson Jeffers' "Promise of Peace" (1926)
  • death of Keith Castellain Douglas at Normandy (1944; M-W)

• June 10
  • death of Alexander Barclay (1552; M-W)
  • death of Michael Wigglesworth (1705; M-W)
  • birth of Edwin Arnold (1832; M-W)
  • death of Lydia Howard Signourney (1865; M-W)
  • death of Charles Harpur (1868; M-W)
  • death of Robert William Buchanan (1901)
  • death of Henry Treece (1966; M-W)

• June 11 ST. BARNABUS' DAY
  • birth of Barnabe Googe (1540; DNB 8.151)
  • supposed birth of Ben Jonson (1572; M-W)
  • birth of George Wither (1588; M-W)
  • Edmund Spenser's "Epithalamion," written for his own wedding day (1594)
  • birth of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844)
  • death of William Cory (1892)
  • death of William Ernest Henley (1903)
  • birth of Josephine Mills (1911)
  • publication of William Carlos Williams' Patterson IV (1951)
  • death of Karl Shapiro (1966)

• June 12
  • death of William Collins (1759; DNB 4.835)
  • Lord Byron composes "She Walks in Beauty" (1814)
  • birth of Charles Kingsley (1819)
  • death of William Cullen Bryant (1878; M-W)
  • death of Herbert Read (1968; M-W)

• June 13
  • birth of W. B. Yeats (1865; M-W)
  • birth of Mark Van Doren (1894; M-W)
  • birth of Jay Macpherson (1931; M-W)

• June 14
  • birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811)
  • death of Edward Fitzgerald (1883; DNB 7.112)
  • birth of Kathleen Raine (1908; M-W)
  • W. B. Yeats composes "Among School Children" (1926)
  • death of G. K. Chesterton (1936; M-W)

• June 15 ST. VITUS' DAY
  • birth of Thomas Randolph (1605; M-W)
  • death of Thomas Campbell (1844; DNB 3.848)
  • death of Caroline Norton (1877; M-W)
  • birth of Amy Clampitt (1920; M-W)
  • death of Evelyn Underhill (1941; M-W)
  • The Harvard Alumni Bulletin publishes W. H. Auden's "Under Which Lyre" (1946)

• June 16 "BLOOMSDAY" (day of the events narrated in James Joyce's Ulysses)
  • birth of John Cleveland (1613; M-W)
  • death of Anne Killigrew (1685)
  • death of John Skinner (1807)

• June 17
  • birth of John Wesley (1703)
  • death of Joseph Addison (1719; DNB 1.130)
  • death of Richard Harris Barham (1845)
  • birth of Henry Lawson (1867; M-W)
  • birth of James Weldon Johnson (1871; M-W)
  • birth of Gwendolyn Brooks (1917)
  • death of Arthur Christopher Benson (1925)

• June 18
  • baptism of Sir Thomas Overbury (1581; M-W)
  • death of Ambrose Philips (1749; M-W)
  • birth of George Essex Evans (1863)
  • death of Samuel Butler (1902)

• June 19
  • The New Age publishes the first part of Ezra Pound's "Homage to Sextus Propertius" (1919)

• June 20
  • birth of Nicholas Rowe (1674; M-W)
  • birth of Anna Lætitia Barbauld (1743; M-W)
  • birth of Vikram Seth (1952; M-W)

• June 21
  • death of John Skelton (1529; M-W)
  • birth of William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813; DNB 1.774)
  • birth of Victor Plarr (1863)

• June 22
  • death of Katherine Philips (1664)
  • death of Walter de la Mare (1956; M-W)

• June 23
  • death of Mark Akenside (1770; DNB 1.210)

• June 24 MIDSUMMER DAY, NATIVITY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
  • death of Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford (1604; M-W)
  • death of Edward Taylor (1729; M-W)
  • birth of Ambrose Bierce (1842; M-W)
  • death of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1870; M-W)
  • birth of John Ciardi (1916; M-W)
  • death of Rex Warner (1986; M-W)

• June 25
  • death of John Marston (1634; M-W)

• June 26
  • death of Gilbert White (1793)
  • birth of Laurie Lee (1914; M-W)
  • birth of Frank O'Hara (1926; E-W)
  • death of James Weldon Johnson in a card accident (1938; M-W)
  • death of Kenneth Fearing (1961; M-W)

• June 27
  • birth of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872; M-W)
  • birth of Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (1883)
  • birth of Vernon Phillips Watkins (1906; M-W)
  • death of Malcolm Lowry (1957; M-W)
  • death of Arthur David Waley (1966; M-W)
  • death of Léonie Fuller Adams (1988; M-W)

• June 28
  • birth of Henry VIII (1491; DNB 9.527)
  • birth of John Boyle O'Reilly (1844)
  • death of Daniel Decatur Emmett (1904)
  • death of Alfred Noyes (1958; M-W)
  • death of Daniel Decatur Emmett (1904)

• June 29
  • birth of Francis Brett Young (1884; M-W)
  • death of Thomas Henry Huxley (1895)

• June 30
  • death of Alexander Brome (1666; M-W)
  • birth of John Gay (1685; M-W)
  • death of William Roscoe (1831)
  • death of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1861; DNB 3.81)
  • birth of Molly Peacock (1947)

JULY

• July 1 CANADA DAY
  • birth of Joseph Hall (1574)
  • death of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896)
  • birth of Alun Lewis (1915; M-W)

• July 2
  • birth of Richard Henry Stoddard (1825; M-W)
  • death of William Cosmo Monkhouse (1901)
  • death of Ernest Hemingway (1961; M-W)

• July 3
  • death of Sir John Suckling (1642)
  • baptism of Edward Young (1683; M-W)
  • birth of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860; M-W)
  • birth of William Henry Davies (1871; M-W)

• July 4 INDEPENDENCE DAY (USA)
  • William Wordsworth completes "Michael: A Pastoral Poem"
  • birth of Stephen Collins Foster (1826)
  • Lewis Carroll tells Alice the tale that will eventually become Alice's Adventures Underground
  • publication of the first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855)
  • death of John Crowe Ransom (1974; M-W)

• July 5
  • publication of James Joyce's Pomes Penyeach (1927)
  • death of Howard Nemerov (1991; M-W)
  • birth of Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (1949)

• July 6
  • execution of Sir Thomas More (1535)
  • death of Paul Hamilton Payne (1886; M-W)

• July 7
  • death of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1816; M-W)
  • birth of Margaret Walker (1915; M-W)
  • death of George Oppen (1984; M-W)

• July 8
  • death of Percy Bysshe Shelley by drowning (1822; M-W)
  • birth of William Vaughn Moody (1869)
  • birth of Richard Aldington (1892; M-W)

• July 9
  • birth of Mervyn Peake (1911; M-W)
  • birth of John Heath-Stubbs (1918; M-W)

• July 10
  • birth of Aphra Behn (1640; DNB 2.129)
  • death of Clement Clarke Moore (1863; M-W)
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow composes "The Cross of Snow" (1879)

• July 11
  • death of William Ernest Henley (1903; M-W)

• July 12
  • birth of Henry David Thoreau (1817; M-W)

• July 13
  • birth of John Clare (1793; DNB 4.384)
  • William Wordsworth composed Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (1798)
  • death of Stephen Collins Foster (1864)
  • birth of Wole Soyinka (1934; M-W)

• July 14

• July 15
  • birth of Clement Clarke Moore (1779; M-W)
  • death of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1839)

• July 16
  • death of Anne Askew (1546)
  • birth of Charles Sangster (1822)
  • death of Hilaire Belloc (1953; M-W)
  • death of May Sarton (1995; M-W)

• July 17
  • birth of Richard Carew (1555; DNB 3.969)
  • birth of Isaac Watts (1674; M-W)
  • death of William Somerville (1742; M-W)
  • death of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1816)
  • birth of Ernrst Percival Rhys (1859; M-W)
  • birth of Donald Davie (1922; M-W)
  • death of Æ (George William Russell; 1935)
  • death of Stephen Spender (1995; M-W)

• July 18
  • Anne Bradstreet's "Verses upon the Burning of our House, July 18th, 1666"
  • birth of Gilbert White (1720)
  • birth of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811; M-W)
  • birth of Elizabeth Jennings (1926; M-W)

• July 19
  • Ben Jonson received an honorary M.A. from Oxford University

• July 20
  • birth of Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803; DNB 2.95)
  • death of Andrew Lang (1912)

• July 21
  • birth of Matthew Prior (1664)
  • death of Robert Burns (1796; DNB 3.435)
  • birth of Thomas William Hodgson (1865)
  • birth of Hart Crane (1899; M-W)
  • birth of Ernest Hemingway (1899; M-W)

• July 22
  • birth of Emma Lazarus (1849; M-W)
  • birth of Carl Sandburg (1878; M-W)
  • birth of Stephen Vincent Benét (1898; M-W)
  • death of James Whitcomb Riley (1916; M-W)
  • death of Carl Sandburg (1967)

• July 23
  • birth of Coventry Patmore (1823; M-W)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley composes "Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni" (1816)

• July 24

• July 25 ST. JACOB'S DAY
  • birth of John Newton (1725)
  • birth of Elizabeth Siddall (1829)
  • death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1834; DNB 4.770)
  • death of Frank O'Hara (1966; M-W)
  • death of Elder Olson (1992; M-W)

• July 26
  • death of John Wilmot, earl of Rochester (1680; M-W)
  • birth of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802)
  • birth of Robert Graves (1895)

• July 27
  • birth of Thomas Campbell (1777; DNB 3.844)
  • birth of Hillaire Belloc (1870; M-W)
  • death of Gertrude Stein (1946)
  • death of Richard Aldington (1962; M-W)

• July 28
  • death of Abraham Cowley (1667; DNB 4.1306)
  • birth of Stephen Phillips (1864; M-W)
  • birth of Kenneth Fearing (1902; M-W)
  • birth of Malcolm Lowry (1909; M-W)
  • birth of John Ashbery (1937; M-W)

• July 29
  • birth of Don Marquis (1878; M-W)
  • birth of Stanley Kunitz (1905; M-W)
  • The New Republic publishes Hart Crane's "The Hurricane" (1931)

• July 30
  • death of Nahum Tate (1715; M-W)
  • birth of Samuel Rogers (1763; M-W)
  • death of Thomas Gray (1771; DNB 8.469)
  • birth of Emily Brontë (1818; M-W)
  • death of Walter Pater (1894)
  • birth of Anne Rider (1912; M-W)
  • death of Joyce Kilmer in war action (1918; M-W)
  • death of Kenneth Slessor (1971; M-W)

• July 31
  • death of Phoebe Cary (1871; M-W)
  • death of Francis Ledwidge (1917)
  • publication of Robert Burns' Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect

AUGUST

• August 1
  • death of Richard Savage (1743; M-W)
  • birth of Francis Scott Key (1779)
  • birth of Herman Melville (1819; M-W)
  • Matthew Arnold composes "Shakespeare" (1844; Culler [1961]: 538)
  • death of Henry Kendall (1882; M-W)
  • birth of Aline Kilmer (1888)
  • birth of Francis Reginald Scott (1899; M-W)
  • death of Theodore Roethke (1963; M-W)

• August 2
  • birth of William Watson (1858; M-W)
  • birth of Duncan Campbell Scott (1862; M-W)
  • birth of Ernest Dowson (1867; M-W)
  • death of Wallace Stevens (1955; M-W)

• August 3
  • birth of Rupert Brooke (1887; M-W)
  • birth of Diane Wakoski (1937; M-W)
  • The Listener publishes W. H. Auden's "The Unknown Citizen" (1939)

• August 4
  • birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792; M-W)
  • birth of Walter Pater (1839)
  • death of William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1865; DNB 1.775)
  • birth of Robert Hayden (1913)

• August 5
  • death of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1720; DNB 7.1)
  • birth of Conrad Aiken (1889; M-W).
  • death of Edgar Guest (1959; M-W)

• August 6
  • death of Ben Jonson (1637; M-W)
  • birth of Alfred Tennyson (M-W; 1809)

• August 7
  • The New Republic publishes Amy Lowell's "After a Storm" (1915)
  • death of Rabindranath Tagore (1941)

• August 8
  • death of George Canning (1827; DNB 3.882)
  • birth of Sara Teasdale (1884; M-W)
  • The New Yorker publishes Ted Hughes' "Bullfrog" (1959)

• August 9
  • burial of Anthony Munday (1633; M-W)
  • birth of John Dryden (1631; doubtful according to DNB 6.64)
  • birth of John Oldham (1653; M-W)
  • birth of Philip Larkin (1922; M-W)

• August 10 ST. LAWRENCE'S DAY
  • birth of Laurence Binyon (1869)
  • death of Edward King (1637), memorialized by John Milton in "Lycidas"
  • death of John Boyle O'Reilly (1890)

• August 11
  • death of Henry James Pye (1813; M-W)
  • birth of Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1836)
  • death of John Henry (Cardinal) Newman (1890)
  • birth of Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve; 1892; M-W)
  • birth of Louise Bogan (1897; M-W)
  • death of William Watson (1935; M-W)

• August 12
  • birth of Robert Southey (1774; M-W)
  • death of William Blake (1827; DNB 2.645)
  • birth of Katharine Lee Bates (1859; M-W)
  • death of Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (1885; M-W)
  • death of James Russell Lowell (1891; M-W)
  • birth of Donald Justice (1925; M-W).

• August 13
  • baptism of John Dyer (1699; M-W)
  • birth of Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848)
  • death of William Watson (1935)
  • death of Joseph Warren Beach (1957)

• August 14
  • death of Augustus Montagu Toplady (1778)
  • birth of Laetitia Elizabeth Landon (1802; M-W)
  • birth of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840)
  • death of Sarah Fuller Adams (1848)

• August 15
  • birth of Sir Walter Scott (1771; M-W)
  • birth of Charles Godfrey Leland (1824; M-W)
  • birth of Edith Nesbit (1858; M-W)
  • death of Robert Stephen Hawker (1875)
  • birth of T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia, alias T. E. Shaw; 1888; M-W)

• August 16
  • birth of Ralph Gustafson (1909; M-W)
  • birth of Charles Bukowski (1920; M-W)
  • birth of Ted Hughes (1930)

• August 17
  • birth of William Knox (1789)
  • birth of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840; M-W)
  • birth of Alexander MacGregor Rose (1846)
  • birth of Alice Meynell (1847)
  • Dylan Thomas composes "The Hand that Signed the Paper" (1933)
  • death of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935; M-W)
  • death of Conrad Aiken (1973; M-W)

• August 18
  • death of Andrew Marvell (1678; M-W)
  • death of James Beattie (1803; DNB 2.25)
  • birth of Robert William Buchanan (1841)

• August 19
  • birth of Charles Montagu Doughty (1843)
  • birth of Edith Nesbit (1858)
  • birth of Arthur David Waley (1889; M-W)
  • birth of Francis Ledwidge (1891)
  • birth of Ogden Nash (1902; M-W)

• August 20
  • death of Edward Herbert, first Baron Herbert of Cherbury (1648; DNB 9.628)
  • death of Sir Charles Sedley (1701; M-W)
  • birth of Emily Jane Bront� (1818)
  • birth of Edgar Guest (1881; M-W)

• August 21
  • death of Richard Crashaw (1649, before August 25; DNB 5.34)
  • death of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1782; M-W)
  • birth of X. J. Kennedy (1929; M-W)
  • death of A. M. Klein (1972; M-W)

• August 22 ST. MARGARET'S DAY
  • death of Sydney Thompson Dobell (1874)
  • birth of Dorothy Parker (1893; M-W)
  • birth of Leo Kennedy (1907; M-W)

• August 23
  • birth of William Ernest Henley (1849; M-W)
  • birth of Edgar Lee Masters (1868; M-W)

• August 24
  • birth of John Taylor the Water Poet (1580; M-W)
  • baptism of Robert Herrick (1591; M-W)

• August 25
  • suicide of Thomas Chatterton by arsenic (1770; DNB 4.150)
  • birth of Francis Brett Harte (1836)
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow composes "Mezzo Cammin" (1842)
  • death of Mary Coleridge (1907)
  • birth of Brian Moore (1921; M-W)

• August 26

• August 27
  • death of John Hoskyns (1638)
  • death of James Thomson (1748)

• August 28
  • burial of Thomas Dekker (1632)
  • birth of Thomas Aird (1802; DNB 1.201)
  • birth of Very Jones (1813; M-W)
  • death of Leigh Hunt (1859)
  • birth of John Betjeman (1906; M-W)
  • birth of Janet Frame (1924; M-W)
  • birth of Rita Dove (1952; M-W)

• August 29
  • death of John Fletcher (1625; M-W)
  • birth of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809)
  • death of Catherine Parr Traill (1899; M-W)
  • birth of Thom Gunn (1929; M-W)
  • death of Melvin Tolson (1966; M-W)

• August 30
  • William Wordsworth writes "Composed in the Valley near Dover" (1802)
  • death of Toru Dutt (1877)

• August 31
  • death of John Bunyan (1688; DNB 3.282)
  • death of Percy MacKaye (1956; M-W)

SEPTEMBER

• September 1
  • birth of Lydia Howard Sigourney (1791; M-W)
  • death of Siegfried Sassoon (1967; M-W)

• September 2
  • birth of William Somerville (1675; M-W)
  • birth of Eugene Field (1850; M-W)
  • death of Henry Austin Dobson (1921; M-W)
  • death of Bernard Patrick O'Dowd (1953; M-W)
  • death of J. R. R. Tolkien (1973; M-W)
  • death of Laura Riding (1991; M-W)

• September 3
  • death of Robert Greene (1592; DNB 8.510)
  • William Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"
  • birth of James Joseph Sylvester (1814)
  • death of Joseph Skipsey (1903)
  • death of e.e. cummings (1962; M-W)
  • death of Louis MacNeice (1963; M-W)

• September 4
  • birth of Phoebe Cary (1824; M-W)
  • W. B. Yeats composes "Under Ben Bulben" (1938)
  • Faber and Faber publishes T. S. Eliot's The Dry Salvages (1941)

• September 5
  • birth of Robert Fergusson (1750; DNB 6.1226)
  • birth of Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861)
  • death of Augusta Webster (1894)

• September 6

• September 7
  • birth of Elizabeth I (1533; DNB 6.621)
  • death of Hannah More (1833)
  • death of Sidney Lanier (1881; M-W)
  • birth of Elinor Wylie (1885; M-W)
  • birth of Dame Edith Sitwell (1887; M-W)
  • death of John Greenleaf Whittier (1892; M-W)
  • death of I. A. Richards (1979; M-W)

• September 8
  • death of Francis Quarles (1644; M-W)
  • death of Joseph Hall (1656)
  • birth of Joaquin Miller (1837; M-W)
  • birth of Siegfried Sassoon (1886; M-W)

• September 9
  • birth of Ralph Hodgson (1871; M-W)
  • death of Hugh MacDiarmid (alias Christopher Murray Grieve; 1978; M-W)

• September 10
  • birth of H. D. (Hilda Doolittle; 1886; M-W)
  • suicide of Amy Levy (1889)
  • death of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1922)
  • birth of Mary Oliver (1935; M-W)
  • death of Amy Clampitt (1994; M-W)

• September 11
  • birth of James Thomson (1700)
  • birth of Joanna Baillie (1762; DNB 1.886)
  • The Morning Post publishes Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Hymn before Sunrise" (1802)
  • birth of D. H. Lawrence (1885; M-W)
  • birth of Reed Whittemore (1919; M-W)
  • death of Robert William Service (1958; M-W)

• September 12
  • death of Edmund Waller (1687)
  • Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry (1846)
  • birth of Louis MacNeice (1907; M-W)
  • death of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1922; M-W)
  • birth of Michael Ondaatje (1943; M-W)
  • death of Robert Lowell (1977; M-W)

• September 13

• September 14
  • death of James Grahame (1811; DNB 8.366)
  • Frances Scott Key writes "The Star-spangled Banner" (1814)

• September 15
  • death of Sir Thomas Overbury by poisoning (1613; M-W)
  • death of Arthur Henry Hallam (1833; M-W), commemorated in Tennyson's "In Memoriam"
  • birth of Claude McKay (1889)
  • birth of Claude McKay (1890; M-W)
  • death of Robert Penn Warren (1989; M-W)

• September 16
  • death of Anne Bradstreet (1672; DNB 2.1094)
  • baptism of John Gay (1685; DNB 7.962)
  • The Advertiser publishes Oliver Wendell Holmes' "Old Ironsides" (1830)
  • birth of Alfred Noyes (1880; M-W)
  • birth of T. E. Hulme (1883; M-W)
  • birth of Rogers Tiller (1916; M-W)
  • death of Howard Moss (1987; M-W)
  • death of Kath Walker (1993; M-W)

• September 17
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge completes Biographia Literaria (1815)
  • death of Walter Savage Landor (1864; M-W)
  • birth of William Carlos Williams (1883; M-W)
  • birth of D. H. Lawrence (1885)
  • death of Gelett Burgess (1951; M-W)
  • publication of William Carlos Williams' Patterson V (1958)

• September 18
  • birth of James Shirley (1596)
  • birth of Samuel Johnson (1709; M-W)
  • death of Matthew Prior (1721)
  • death of George Macdonald (1905; M-W)
  • death of Frank Gelett Burgess (1951)

• September 19
  • birth of Hartley Coleridge (1796; DNB 4.755)
  • John Keats composes "To Autumn" (1819; Bates, 580)

• September 20
  • death of Chidiock Tichborne (1586)
  • birth of Stevie Smith (1902; M-W)
  • birth of Donald Hall (1928; M-W)

• September 21
  • death of Sir Walter Scott (1832)
  • birth of Edmund Gosse (1849)
  • death of John Davidson (1909)

• September 22
  • birth of Alice Meynell (1847; M-W)
  • birth of Babette Deutsch (1895; M-W)
  • death of Henry Lawson (1922; M-W)

• September 23
  • death of Robert Dodsley (1764; M-W)
  • birth of Jane Taylor (1783)
  • birth of Mary Coleridge (1861)
  • death of Eliza Cook (1889)

• September 24
  • birth of William Lisle Bowles (1762; DNB 2.977)
  • birth of Frances Ellen Watkins (1825; M-W)
  • death of William Henry Davies (1940; M-W)

• September 25
  • death of Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (1621; M-W)
  • death of Samuel Butler (1680; DNB 3.527)
  • birth of Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793; DNB 9.382)

• September 26 ST. STEPHEN'S DAY
  • birth of T. S. Eliot (1888; M-W)
  • birth of William Empson (1906)
  • death of Katherine Harris Bradley ("Michael Field"; 1914)
  • W. B. Yeats composes "Sailing to Byzantium" (1926)
  • death of Harriet Monroe (1936; M-W)
  • death of George Santayana (1952; M-W)

• September 27
  • death of Thomas Traherne (1674)
  • death of James Thomson (1748)
  • birth of William Empson (1906; M-W)
  • birth of Louis Albert Johnson (1924; M-W)
  • death of H. D. (Hilda Doolittle; 1961)
  • death of Roy Fuller (1991; M-W)

• September 28
  • death of Joshua Sylvester (1618; M-W)
  • birth of William Mickle (1735)
  • birth of Francis Turner Palgrave (1824; M-W)
  • death of Herman Melville (1891; M-W)
  • death of T. E. Hulme in World War II action (1917; M-W)

• September 29 ST. MICHAEL'S DAY, MICHAELMAS
  • death of George Buchanan (1582; M-W)
  • first performance of John Milton's Comus (1634)
  • death of W. H. Auden (1973; M-W)
  • death of William McGonagall (1902)

• September 30
  • death of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, by duelling (1628; M-W)
  • death of Henry King (1669; M-W)
  • death of Thomas Percy (1811; M-W)
  • birth of W. S. Merwin (1927; M-W)

OCTOBER

• October 1
  • birth of Richard Jago (1715)
  • birth of Henry Clay Work (1832)
  • death of Aline Kilmer (1941)
  • publication of John Berryman's Homage to Mistress Bradtsreet (1956)
  • death of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell (1988; M-W)

• October 2
  • birth of Wilfred Wilson Gibson (1878; M-W)
  • birth of Wallace Stevens (1879; M-W)
  • birth of Roy Campbell (1901; M-W)
  • Reedy's Mirror publishes the first part of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology (1915)

• October 3
  • birth of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (1554; M-W)
  • birth of John Skinner (1721)
  • death of William Morris (1896; M-W)

• October 4
  • publication of John Dryden's "Mac Flecknoe" (1683)
  • death of Henry Carey (1743; M-W)
  • The Morning Post publishes Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" (1802)
  • birth of Hugh McCrae (1876; M-W)
  • death of Lionel Pigot Johnson (1902; M-W)
  • death of Adela Florence Nicolson (1904)
  • suicide of Anne Sexton (1974; M-W)

• October 5
  • Edmund Spenser writes his letter to Gabriel Harvey about poetry (1579)
  • birth of John Addington Symonds (1840; M-W)

• October 6
  • death of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1542; M-W)
  • death of Henry Timrod (1867; M-W)
  • death of Alfred Lord Tennyson (1892; M-W)
  • The Saturday Review publishes Robert Frost's "Two Tramps in Mud Time" (1934)
  • death of Elizabeth Bishop (1979; M-W)

• October 7
  • baptism of John Marston (1576; M-W)
  • death of George Gascoigne (1577; DNB 7.917)
  • death of Edgar Allan Poe (1849; M-W)
  • birth of James Whitcomb Riley (1849; M-W)
  • death of William Barnes (1886; M-W)
  • death of Oliver Wendell Holmes (1894)
  • birth of Leroi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka; 1934; M-W)

• October 8
  • birth of Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833; M-W)
  • death of Vernon Phillips Watkins (1967; M-W)

• October 9
  • baptism of Ambrose Philips (1674; M-W)
  • The New York Times publishes Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" (1849)
  • birth of Gamaliel Bradford (1863)

• October 10
  • death of Thomas Parnell (1718)
  • birth of David Gascoyne (1916; M-W)

• October 11

• October 12
  • death of Dinah Maria Craik (1887)
  • death of Cecil Frances Alexander (1895)
  • birth of Dorothy Livesay (1909; M-W)
  • birth of James Phillip McAuley (1917; M-W)
  • birth of Robin Skelton (1925)

• October 13
  • birth of Ernest Myers (1844)
  • birth of Richard Howard (1929; M-W)

• October 14
  • birth of Katherine Mansfield (1888)
  • birth of e. e. cummings (1894; M-W)
  • death of Randall Jarrell in a car accident (1965; M-W)

• October 15
  • birth of Allan Ramsay (1686?; M-W)
  • birth of Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (1830; M-W)
  • death of Laetitia Elizabeth Landon (1838; M-W)
  • birth of Oscar Wilde (1854)
  • death of William Soutar (1943; M-W)
  • death of James Phillip McAuley (1976; M-W)

• October 16
  • death of Robert Fergusson (1774; DNB 6.1228)
  • birth of Oscar Wilde (1854; M-W)
  • birth of Eugene O'Neill (1888; M-W)

• October 17
  • death of Sir Philip Sidney (1586; M-W)
  • The Tatler publishes Jonathan Swift's "A Description of a City Shower" (1710)
  • birth of Isa Knox (1831)
  • birth of Yvor Winters (1900; M-W)
  • death of Julia Ward Howe (1910; M-W)
  • death of William Vaughn Moody (1910)
  • death of Katherine Mansfield (1923)
  • birth of C. K. Stead (1932; M-W)
  • birth of Les Murray (1938; M-W)

• October 18
  • birth of Michael Wigglesworth (1631; M-W)
  • birth of Thomas Love Peacock (1785)

• October 19
  • death of Jonathan Swift (1745; M-W)
  • birth of Leigh Hunt (1784)
  • death of Henry Kirke White (1806)
  • birth of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833; M-W)
  • death of John Reed (1920; M-W)
  • death of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1950; M-W)

• October 20
  • birth of Philip Whalen (1923; M-W)
  • birth of Robert Pinsky (1940; M-W)

• October 21
  • death of Edmund Waller (1687; M-W)
  • birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772; DNB 4.758)
  • birth of Patrick Kavanagh (1904)
  • death of Jack Kerouac (1969; M-W)

• October 22
  • birth of John Reed (1887; M-W)
  • death of Kingsley Amis (1995; M-W)

• October 23
  • death of Richard Lovelace (1658)
  • birth of Barron Field (1786)
  • birth of Robert Bridges (1844; M-W)
  • birth of Denise Levertov (1923)
  • death of Gavin Ewart (1995; M-W)

• October 24
  • birth of Sarah Josepha Hale (1788; M-W)
  • death of Francis Turner Palgrave (1897; M-W)
  • birth of Denise Levertov (1923; M-W)

• October 25 FEAST OF ST. CRISPIN
  • death of Geoffrey Chaucer (1400; MW)
  • birth of James Beattie (1735; DNB 2.22)
  • birth of Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800)
  • birth of Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815)
  • birth of John Berryman (1914; M-W)

• October 26
  • The New Republic publishes Allen Tate's "The Subway"

• October 27
  • birth of Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke (1561; M-W)
  • birth of James Macpherson (1736; M-W)
  • The Home Journal publishes Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells" (1849)
  • birth of Katherine Harris Bradley ("Michael Field"; 1848)
  • birth of Dylan Thomas (1914; M-W)
  • birth of Sylvia Plath (1932; M-W)

• October 28 ST. SIMON'S DAY
  • death of William Mickle (1788)
  • death of Charlotte Smith (1806; M-W)
  • birth of John Hollander (1929)

• October 29
  • burial of James Shirley (1666; M-W)
  • birth of William Hayley (1745; M-W)
  • birth of Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815)
  • death of Thomas Edward Brown (1897)
  • The Sunday Referee publishes Dylan Thomas' "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" (1933)

• October 30
  • birth of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751)
  • birth of Adelaide Procter (1825)
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow composes "The Evening Star" (1845)
  • birth of Ezra Pound (1885; M-W)
  • death of Thomas Edward Brown (1897)
  • birth of James Laughlin (1914; M-W)
  • death of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1919)

• October 31 HALLOWEEN
  • birth of John Keats (1795; M-W)

NOVEMBER

• November 1 ALL HALLOWS, ALL SAINTS' DAY
  • birth of Stephen Crane (1871; M-W)
  • birth of Edmund Blunden (1896; M-W)
  • birth of David Jones (1895)
  • death of Ezra Pound (1972; M-W)
  • death of Louis Albert Johnson (1988; M-W)

• November 2 ALL SOULS' DAY

• November 3
  • birth of William Cullen Bryant (1794; M-W)
  • birth of Kath Walker (1920; M-W)
  • death of Ralph Hodgson (1962; M-W)
  • death of John G. Neihardt (1973; M-W)

• November 4
  • birth of William Habington (1605)
  • birth of Augustus Montagu Toplady (1740)
  • baptism of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751; M-W)
  • death of Charles Churchill (1764; DNB 4.312)
  • birth of James Montgomery (1771; M-W)
  • birth of Eden Phillpotts (1862; M-W)
  • death of Eugene Field (1895; M-W)
  • death of Wilfred Owen in action during World War I (1918; M-W)
  • birth of C. K. Williams (1936; M-W)

• November 5 GUNPOWDER PLOT
  • William Wordsworth composes "The Solitary Reaper" (1805)
  • birth of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850)
  • death of James Clerk Maxwell (1879)
  • birth of James Elroy Flecker (1884)

• November 6
  • death of Richard Carew (1620; DNB 3.970)
  • birth of Colley Cibber (1671; DNB 4.352)

• November 7
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow publishes "The Village Blacksmith" (1840)

• November 8
  • death of John Milton (1674; M-W)
  • birth of A. J. M. Smith (1902; M-W)

• November 9
  • publication of John Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" (1681)
  • birth of Mark Akenside (1721; DNB 1.208)
  • birth of James Schuyler (1923; M-W)
  • birth of Anne Sexton (1928; M-W)
  • death of Dylan Thomas (1953; M-W)

• November 10
  • birth of Oliver Goldsmith (1728; DNB 8.86)
  • birth of Henry Van Dyke (1852; M-W)
  • birth of Amy Levy (1861)
  • birth of Vachel Lindsay (1879; M-W)
  • death of Emma Lazarus (1887)
  • death of George Essex Evans (1909)
  • birth of Karl Shapiro (1913; M-W)

• November 11 ST. MARTIN'S DAY; REMEMBRANCE DAY (CANADA); VETERANS DAY (USA)
  • birth of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836; M-W)

• November 12
  • death of Mary Leapor (1746)
  • birth of Amelia Opie (1769; M-W)
  • death of William Hayley (1820; M-W)
  • death of William Knox (1825)

• November 13
  • birth of William Shenstone (1714)
  • birth of James Clerk Maxwell (1831)
  • birth of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850; M-W)
  • death of Arthur Hugh Clough (1861; DNB 4.584)
  • death of Francis Thompson (1907; M-W)
  • death of Babette Deutsch (1982; M-W)

• November 14
  • Anna Lætitia's Barbauld's "To Mr. Barbauld, November, 14, 1778"
  • birth of Norman MacCaig (1910; M-W)
  • The New Republic publishes Langston Hughes' "Ballad of Roosevelt" (1934)

• November 15
  • birth of William Cowper (1731; DNB 4.1319)
  • birth of Charlotte Mew (1869; M-W)
  • birth of Franklin P. Adams (1881)
  • birth of Marianne Moore (1887; M-W)
  • birth of Sir Sacherevell Sitwell (1897; M-W)

• November 16
  • death of Anne Bradstreet (1672; DNB 2.1094)
  • death of William Broome (1745; M-W)
  • birth of Nicholas Moore (1918; M-W)

• November 17
  • publication of Robert Browning's Men and Women (1855)
  • birth of Archibald Lampman (1861; M-W)
  • death of Mervyn Peake (1968; M-W)
  • death of Audre Lorde (Gambia Adisa; 1992; M-W)

• November 18
  • birth of Richard Shenstone (1714; M-W)
  • birth of W. S. Gilbert (1836; M-W)
  • death of William Allingham (1889)
  • birth of Margaret Atwood (1939; M-W)

• November 19
  • birth of Charles I (1600)
  • death of Thomas Shadwell (1692; M-W)
  • Alfred lord Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate (1850)
  • death of Emma Lazarus (1887)
  • birth of Allen Tate (1899; M-W)
  • death of John Banister Tabb (1909)
  • birth of Sharon Olds (1942; M-W)

• November 20
  • birth of Thomas Chatterton (1752; DNB 4.143)
  • death of Henry Francis Lyte (1847)
  • death of Tom Hood the younger (1874; DNB 9.1166)

• November 21
  • Freeman's Journal publishes Philip Freneau's "To the Memory of the Brave Americans" (1781)
  • death of James Hogg, the "Ettrick Shepherd" (1835; M-W)
  • birth of Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1863; M-W)
  • publication of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book begins (1868; Poems, ed. Donald Smalley [1956]: xxix)
  • death of A. J. M. Smith (1980; M-W)

• November 22 ST. CECILIA'S DAY
  • John Dryden's "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day" (1687)
  • death of Alicia Cockburn (1794; DNB 4.638)
  • birth of George Eliot (1819; M-W)
  • death of John Byrne Leicester Warren (1895)
  • death of Alice Meynell (1922)

• November 23
  • birth of James Thomson (1834; M-W)
  • birth of Christopher Logue (1926; M-W)

• November 24
  • The Nation publishes E. A. Robinson's "Mr. Flood's Party" (1920)

• November 25 THANKSGIVING DAY (USA)
  • death of Isaac Watts (1748; M-W)
  • birth of Isaac Rosenberg (1890; M-W)
  • Edgar Guest's "Thanksgiving"
  • death of Ernest Myers (1921)
  • death of Geoffrey Grigson (1985; M-W)

• November 26
  • publication of Robert Browning's Dramatic Lyrics (1842)
  • death of Coventry Patmore (1896; M-W)
  • death of Mathilde Blind (1896)
  • The Independent publishes E. A. Robinson's "Richard Cory"
  • death of Charles G. D. Roberts (1943; M-W)

• November 27
  • birth of Mary Robinson (1758)
  • death of Alice Meynell (1922; M-W)
  • death of Eugene O'Neill (1953; M-W)

• November 28
  • birth of William Blake (1757; DNB 2.642)
  • John Keats completes "Endymion" (1817; Bate, Keats [1963]: 231)
  • birth of Randolph Stow (1935; M-W)

• November 29
  • death of William Cartwright (1643; M-W)

• November 30 ST. ANDREW'S DAY (SCOTLAND)
  • birth of Sir Philip Sidney (1554; M-W)
  • death of William Habington (1654)
  • birth of Jonathan Swift (1667; M-W)
  • birth of Mark Twain (1835; M-W)
  • birth of Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874; M-W)
  • death of Oscar Wilde (1900; M-W)
  • The New Age publishes Ezra Pound's "The Seafarer" (1911)
  • death of Patrick Kavanagh (1967; M-W)

DECEMBER

• December 1
  • The Literary Chronicle publishes Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Adonais" (1821)
  • Faber and Faber publishes T. S. Eliot's Little Gidding (1942)

• December 2
  • death of Amelia Opie (1853; M-W)
  • birth of Jon Silkin (1930)
  • death of Philip Larkin (1985; M-W)

• December 3
  • birth of Mary Lamb (1763; M-W)
  • birth of Robert Stephen Hawker (1803)
  • birth of Dollie Radford (1858)
  • death of Robert Louis Stevenson (1894; M-W)

• December 4
  • death of Alexander Hume (1609; M-W)
  • death of William Drummond of Hawthornden (1649; DNB 6.48)
  • death of John Gay (1732; DNB 7.968)
  • birth of Thomas Carlyle (1795)
  • birth of Samuel Butler (1835)
  • death of Robert Louis Stevenson (1894)
  • birth of Herbert Read (1893; M-W)
  • death of May Swenson (1989; M-W)

• December 5
  • Jonathan Swift publishes "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed" (1734)
  • death of Phillis Wheatley (1784; M-W)
  • birth of Christina Rossetti (1830; M-W)
  • suicide of Vachel Lindsay (1931; M-W)

• December 6
  • birth of John Milton (1608)
  • death of Nicholas Rowe (1718; M-W)
  • birth of Richard Harris Barham (1788)
  • birth of Susannah Moodie (1803)
  • birth of Evelyn Underhill (1875; M-W)
  • birth of Joyce Kilmer (1886; M-W)
  • birth of Sir Osbert Sitwell (1892; M-W)
  • birth of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893; M-W)

• December 7
  • death of Robert Graves (1985; M-W)

• December 8
  • death of Sir John Davies (1626; M-W)
  • birth of Henry Timrod (1828; M-W)
  • birth of Padraic Colum (1881; M-W)
  • birth of Delmore Schwartz (1913; M-W)
  • death of Robert Graves (1985)

• December 9
  • birth of John Milton (1608; M-W)
  • death of John Oldham (1683; M-W)
  • baptism of James Hogg (1770; M-W)
  • The Examiner publishes Alfred lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
  • birth of Léonie (Fuller) Adams (1899; M-W)
  • death of Stephen Phillips (1915; M-W)

• December 10
  • birth of George Macdonald (1824; M-W)
  • birth of Emily Dickinson (1830; M-W)
  • birth of Carolyn Kizer (1925; M-W)
  • death of Mark Van Doren (1972; M-W)

• December 11
  • birth of Grace Paley (1922; M-W)
  • birth of John Harrison (1937; M-W)
  • death of John Gillespie Magee Jr. (1941)

• December 12
  • John Donne's "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day" (published 1633)
  • birth of Erasmus Darwin (1731; DNB 5.534)
  • birth of Anna Seward (1742)
  • death of Colley Cibber (1757; DNB 4.357)
  • death of Robert Browning (1889; M-W)

• December 13
  • birth of William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585; DNB 6.45)
  • death of Samuel Johnson (1784; M-W)
  • death of Edith Emma Cooper ("Michael Field"; 1913)
  • birth of James Wright (1927; M-W)

• December 14
  • birth of Charles Wolfe (1791; M-W)

• December 15
  • birth of Charlotte Mew (1869)
  • birth of John Glassco (1909; M-W)
  • birth of Muriel Rukeyser (1913; M-W)

• December 16
  • birth of Elizabeth Carter (1717; M-W)
  • birth of Mary Russell Mitford (1787; M-W)
  • birth of George Santayana (1863; M-W)
  • birth of Noël Coward (1899; M-W)
  • birth of Theodore Weiss (1916)
  • death of Elinor Wylie (1928; M-W)

• December 17
  • birth of John Greenleaf Whittier (1807; M-W)
  • death of Lizette Woodworth Reese (1935; M-W)

• December 18
  • birth of Charles Wesley (1707)
  • death of Philip Freneau in a snowstorm (1832; M-W)
  • death of Samuel Rogers (1855; M-W)
  • birth of Francis Joseph Thompson (1859; M-W)

• December 19
  • death of Emily Jane Brontë (1848; M-W)
  • death of Henry Luttrell (1851; M-W)
  • birth of F. S. Flint (1885)
  • death of Charles Sangster (1893)
  • death of Duncan Campbell Scott (1947; M-W)

• December 20
  • baptism of John Fletcher (1579; M-W)
  • death of Ann Taylor (1866)
  • death of J. C. Squire (1958; M-W)

• December 21
  • death of John Newton (1807)

• December 22
  • birth of Sara Coleridge (1802; M-W)
  • birth of Charles Stuart Calverley (1831)
  • birth of Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869; M-W)
  • death of George Eliot (1880; M-W)
  • birth of Kenneth Rexroth (1905; M-W)
  • death of Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (1919)
  • publication of William Carlos Williams' Patterson III (1949)

• December 23
  • death of Michael Drayton (1631)
  • death of William Makepeace Thackeray (1863)
  • death of Isa Knox (1903)
  • death of Thomas William Hodgson (1924)
  • birth of Robert Bly (1926; M-W)

• December 24
  • birth of George Crabbe (1754; DNB 4.1353)
  • death of Joel Barlow (1812; M-W)
  • birth of Eliza Cook (1818)
  • birth of Matthew Arnold (1822)
  • The New York Saturday Press publishes Walt Whitman's "A Child's Reminiscence," which he revised as "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" (1859)
  • death of William Makepeace Thackeray (1863; M-W)

• December 25 CHRISTMAS
  • John Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" (1629)
  • birth of William Collins (1721; DNB 4.833)
  • death of John Logan (1788; M-W)
  • "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas"
  • birth of Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850; M-W)

• December 26 BOXING DAY (CANADA)
  • birth of Thomas Gray (1716; DNB 8.465)
  • death of Mary Robinson (1800)
  • death of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1831)
  • death of Robert Fuller Murray (1863)
  • birth of Jean Toomer (1894; M-W)
  • subject of Anthony Hecht's "The Feast of Stephen"
  • death of James Stephens (1950; M-W)

• December 27
  • death of Robert Shiels (1753; M-W)
  • death of Charles Lamb (1834; M-W)
  • birth of Charles Olson (1910; M-W)

• December 28 CHILDERMAS DAY, INNOCENTS' DAY
  • Matthew Arnold composes "Youth and Calm" (1851; Poetry, ed. A. D. Culler [1961]: 548)
  • death of Thomas Babington Macaulay (1859)
  • death of Herman Melville (1891)

• • death of Christina Rossetti (1894; M-W)
  • The New Republic publishes Robert Frost's "Once by the Pacific" (1926)
  • death of Don Marquis (1937; M-W)
  • death of Eden Phillpotts (1960; M-W)

• December 30
  • birth of John Philips (1676)
  • birth of Rudyard Kipling (1865; M-W)
  • birth of Stephen Leacock (1869)
  • birth of Al Purdy (1918; M-W)

• December 31
  • birth of Alexander Smith (1830)

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