Literary Chronology
612–630BCE:Sappho is born in Lesbos, Greece.
500sBCE:Sappho’s ‘‘Fragment 2’’ is composed.
550–580BCE:Sappho dies of unknown causes.
1642: Edward Taylor is born in Sketchley,
Leicestershire, England.
1729:Edward Taylor dies of failing health in old
age on June 24, in Westfield, Massachusetts.
1807:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is born on
February 27, in Portland, Maine.
1813:Walt Whitman is born on May 31, in West
Hills, near Huntingdon, Long Island, New
York.
1841: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ‘‘The
Wreck of the Hesperus’’ is published.
1881: Walt Whitman’s ‘‘A Noiseless Patient
Spider’’ is published.
1882: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies of
peritonitis on March 24, in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
1892: Edna St. Vincent Millay is born on
February 22, in Rockland, Maine.
1892:Walt Whitman dies of a stroke on March
26, in New Jersey.
1894:Jean Toomer is born Nathan Pinchback
Toomer on December 26, in Washington,
D.C.
1898:Federico Garcı ́a Lorca is born on June 5,
in Fuentevaqueros, Granada, Spain.
1902: Ogden Nash is born Frederick Ogden
Nash on August 19, in Rye, New York.
1911:Elizabeth Bishop is born on February 8, in
Worcester, Massachusetts.
1913:Robert Hayden is born on August 4, in
Detroit, Michigan.
1914: Randall Jarrell is born on May 6, in
Nashville, Tennessee.
1915:Margaret Walker is born on July 7, in
Birmingham, Alabama.
1922: Jean Toomer’s ‘‘Storm Ending’’ is
published.
1923:Denise Levertov is born on October 24, in
Ilford, Essex, England.
1923:Edna St. Vincent Millay is awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Harp-
Weaver and Other Poems.
1923:Wisl⁄awa Szymborska is born on July 2, in
Ko ́rnik, Poland.
1935: Federico Garcı ́a Lorca’s ‘‘Lament for
Ignacio Sa ́nchez Mejı ́as’’ is first published
in Spanish and will be published in English
in 1937 as ‘‘Lament for the Death of a
Bullfighter.’’
1935:Mary Oliver is born on September 10, in
Maple Heights, Ohio.
1936: Federico Garcı ́a Lorca is executed c.
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