Calendar
A YEAR'S DAYS OF POETS IN
- January
- January 1
- Francis Thompson's New Year's Chimes
- Elizabeth Bishop's poem "Brazil Jan. 1, 1502"
- Birth of Katherine Philips (1631)
- Birth of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819)
- Birth of Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson recites his "Boston Hymn" during a celebration of the newly-signed Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Death of Joseph Howe (1873)
- Death of William Wilfrid Campbell (1918)
- Death of Donagh MacDonagh (1968)
- January 2
- January 3
- January 4
- January 5
- January 6
- January 7
- January 8
- January 9
- January 10
- January 11
- January 12
- January 13
- January 14
- January 15
- January 16
- January 17
- January 18
- January 19
- January 20
- January 22
- January 23
- January 24
- January 25
- January 26
- January 27
- January 28
- January 29
- January 30
- Birth of George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham (1628)
- Death of Charles I (1649)
- Birth of Walter Savage Landor (1775)
- Birth of Ann Taylor (1782)
- Birth of Augusta Webster (1837)
- Birth of Gelett Burgess (1866)
- Death of Arthur O-Shaughnessy (1881)
- Death of Mary Howitt (1888)
- Death of Charles Montagu Doughty (1926)
- January 31
- January 1
- Feburary
- Feburary 1
- Feburary 2
- Feburary 3
- Feburary 4
- Feburary 5
- Feburary 6
- Feburary 7
- Feburary 8
- Feburary 9
- Feburary 10
- Feburary 11
- Feburary 12
- Feburary 13
- Feburary 14
- Feburary 15
- Feburary 16
- Feburary 17
- Feburary 18
- Feburary 20
- Feburary 21
- Feburary 22
- Feburary 23
- Feburary 24
- Feburary 25
- Feburary 26
- Feburary 27
- Feburary 28
- March
- April
- April 1
- April 2
- April 3
- April 4
- April 5
- April 6
- April 7
- April 8
- April 9
- April 10
- April 11
- April 12
- April 13
- April 14
- April 15
- April 16
- April 17
- April 18
- April 19
- April 20
- April 21
- April 22
- April 23
- April 24
- Birth of John Trumbull (1750)
- Birth of Arthur Christopher Benson (1862)
- Birth of Robert Penn Warren (1905)
- Birth of George Oppen (1908)
- 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)
- April 25
- April 26
- April 27
- April 28
- April 29
- April 30
- May
- May 1
- May 2
- May 3
- May 4
- May 5
- May 6
- May 7
- May 8
- May 9
- May 10
- May 11
- May 12
- Publication of T. S. Eliot's Poems
- Death of George Chapman (1634)
- Birth of Edward Lear (1812)
- Birth of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828)
- Death of Richard Henry Stoddard (1903)
- Death of Amy Lowell (1925)
- Death of Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1944)
- Death of John Masefield (1967)
- Death of Louis Zukofsky (1978)
- May 13
- May 14
- May 15
- May 16
- May 17
- May 18
- May 19
- May 20
- May 21
- May 22
- May 23
- May 24
- May 25
- May 26
- May 27
- May 28
- May 29
- May 30
- May 31
- June
- June 1
- June 2
- June 3
- June 5
- June 6
- June 7
- June 8
- June 9
- June 10
- June 11
- Birth of Barnabe Googe (1540)
- Supposed birth of Ben Jonson (1572)
- Birth of George Wither (1588)
- Edmund Spenser's "Epithalamion," written for his own wedding day (1594)
- Birth of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844)
- Death of William Cory (1892)
- Birth of Josephine Miles (1911)
- Publication of William Carlos Williams' Patterson IV (1951)
- Death of Karl Shapiro (1966)
- June 12
- June 13
- June 14
- June 15
- June 16
- June 17
- June 18
- June 19
- June 20
- June 21
- June 22
- June 23
- June 24
- June 25
- June 26
- June 27
- June 28
- June 29
- June 30
- July
- August
- September
- September 1
- September 2
- September 3
- September 4
- September 5
- September 7
- September 8
- September 9
- September 10
- September 11
- September 12
- September 14
- September 15
- September 16
- September 17
- September 18
- September 19
- September 20
- September 21
- September 22
- September 23
- September 24
- September 25
- September 26
- September 27
- September 28
- September 29
- September 30
- October
- October 1
- October 2
- October 3
- October 4
- October 5
- October 6
- October 7
- October 8
- October 9
- October 10
- October 12
- October 13
- October 14
- October 15
- October 16
- October 17
- Death of Sir Philip Sidney (1586)
- The Tatler publishes Jonathan Swift's "A Description of a City Shower" (1710)
- Birth of Isa Knox (1831)
- Birth of Yvor Winters (1900)
- Death of Julia Ward Howe (1910)
- Death of William Vaughn Moody (1910)
- Death of Katherine Mansfield (1923)
- Birth of C. K. Stead (1932)
- Birth of Les Murray (1938)
- October 18
- October 19
- October 20
- October 21
- October 22
- October 23
- October 24
- October 25
- October 26
- October 27
- October 28
- October 29
- October 30
- October 31
- November
- November 1
- November 3
- November 4
- Birth of William Habington (1605)
- Birth of Augustus Montagu Toplady (1740)
- Baptism of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751)
- Death of Charles Churchill (1764)
- Birth of James Montgomery (1771)
- Birth of Eden Phillpotts (1862)
- Death of Eugene Field (1895)
- Death of Wilfred Owen in action during World War I (1918)
- Birth of C. K. Williams (1936)
- November 5
- November 6
- November 7
- November 8
- November 9
- November 10
- November 11
- November 12
- November 13
- November 14
- November 15
- November 16
- November 17
- November 18
- November 19
- November 20
- November 21
- November 22
- November 23
- November 24
- November 25
- November 26
- November 27
- November 28
- November 29
- November 30
- December
- December 1
- December 2
- December 3
- December 4
- December 5
- December 6
- December 7
- December 8
- December 9
- December 10
- December 11
- December 12
- December 13
- December 14
- December 15
- December 16
- December 17
- December 18
- December 19
- December 20
- December 21
- December 22
- December 23
- December 24
- December 25
- December 26
- December 27
- December 28
- December 29
- December 30
- December 31