Literary Chronology
1591:Robert Herrick is baptized on August 24 in
London, England.
1648:Robert Herrick’s ‘‘The Night-Piece: To
Julia’’ is published.
1674:Robert Herrick dies in October in Devon,
England.
c. 1753:Phillis Wheatley is born in West Africa.
1773:Phillis Wheatley’s ‘‘On Being Brought
from Africa to America’’ is published.
1784:Phillis Wheatley dies on December 5 in
Boston, Massachusetts.
1788:George Gordon Byron (later Lord Byron)
is born on January 22 in London.
1816:Lord George Gordon Byron’s ‘‘When We
Two Parted’’ is published.
1824:Lord George Gordon Byron succumbs to
a fever and dies on April 19 in Mesolonghi,
Greece.
1892:Marina Tsvetaeva is born on October 9 in
Moscow, Russia.
1911:Czeslaw Milosz is born on June 30 in
Szetejnie, Lithuania.
1921:Richard Wilbur is born on March 1 in New
York City.
1926:W. D. Snodgrass is born on January 5 in
Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.
1926:Allen Ginsberg is born on June 23 in
Newark, New Jersey.
1928:Marina Tsvetaeva’s ‘‘An Attempt at Jeal-
ousy’’ is published.
1929:Adrienne Rich is born on May 26 in
Baltimore, Maryland.
1933:Yevgeny Yevtushenko is born on July 18
in Stantzia Zima, Siberia.
1934:Saadi Youssef is born in Abulkhasib, near
Basra, Iraq.
1935:Kathleen Fraser is born on March 22 in
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1936:Lucille Clifton is born on June 27 in Depew,
New York.
1937:Muriel Rukeyser is born on December 15
in New York City.
1941:Marina Tsvetaeva dies of suicide by hang-
ing on August 31 in Elabuga, USSR.
1944:Shirley Geok-lin Lim is born on December
27 in Malacca, Malaysia.
1956:Allen Ginsberg’s ‘‘Howl’’ is published.
1956:Richard Wilbur’s ‘‘Love Calls Us to the
Things of This World’’ is published.
1957:Richard Wilbur is awarded the Pulitzer
Prize in Poetry forThings of This World:
Poems.
1959:W. D. Snodgrass’s ‘‘Heart’s Needle’’ is
published.
1960:W. D. Snodgrass is awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry forHeart’s Needle.xv