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2000 Peter Levi, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood, dies
1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell 1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht 1981 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson and Howard Nemerov 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin 1975 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere) 1974 Victor E van Vriesland, poet (Mirror of Dutch Poetry), dies at 82 1971 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur 1969 Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro 1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren 1965 Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory 1962 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock 1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters 1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz 1959 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke 1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings 1957 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate 1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken 1955 D Shostakovich' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams 1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish 1952 Rita Dove, born in Akron, Ohio, author, poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress 1993 1952 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore 1951 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom 1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens 1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry 1950 Dylan Thomas arrives in New York City for his 1st U.S. poetry reading tour 1949 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound 1939 Seamus Heaney, born in Ireland, poet, writer, poetry professor at the University of Oxford, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, wrote play The Cure at Troy, Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf: A New Translation 1938 Johnny Tillotson, born in Jacksonville, Florida, singer, Gidget, Poetry in Motion 1933 Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, dies 1933 Edward Lucie-Smith, poetry critic 1931 Peter Levi, born in Ruislip, England, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood 1929 Arno Holz, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus', dies at 66 1920 Harri Webb, Swansea, Wales, journalist, nationalist, poet, volunteered for the Royal Navy, published The Green Desert, a collection of poetry in 1969, Poems and Points in 1983 1912 Georg Heym, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style, dies at 24 from falling through the ice, trying to save a friend 1900 Karin Boye, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, born Karin Maria Boye, poet, novelist, co-founder of poetry magazine Spektrum, introduced T.S. Eliot to Swedish readers, best-known novel 'Kallocain' 1892 Victor E van Vriesland, Dutch poet and critic, Mirror of Dutch Poetry 1887 Georg Heym, born in Hirschberg, Germany, poet, writer, wrote, 'Der ewige Tag', poetry considered early Expressionist style 1886 Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91 1876 Hans Bethge, born in Dessau, Germany, writer, short stories, essays, plays, poetry on love, nature, works include, 'Agyptische Reise' 'Egyptian Journey' 1863 Arno Holz, born in Germany, poet, dramatist, freelance writer, wrote book of poetry 'Phantaesus' 1860 Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine, You and I 1852 Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg 1794 Leopold Zunz, German scientist, Synagogical Poetry 1760 Juptier Hammon, New York slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught" 1744 Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28 1715 Immanuel J Pyra, German poet, Temple of Real Poetry 1711 Jupiter Hammon, 1st American black to publish poetry, Complete Works 1598 Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry", Hercules 1597 Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" |
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