Literary Chronology
1564:William Shakespeare is born on April 23 in
Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
1572:John Donne is born in London, England.
1616:William Shakespeare dies on April 23 in
Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
1623:William Shakespeare’s comedic play, As
You Like It, which contains the poem ‘‘Seven
Ages of Man,’’ is published.
1631:John Donne dies after a long illness on
March 31 in London, England.
1633:John Donne’s poem ‘‘Song’’ is published.
1788:Lord Byron is born on January 22 in
London, England.
1818: Lord Byron’s poem ‘‘Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage’’ is published.
1824:Lord Byron dies of a fever on April 19 in
Missolonghi, Greece.
1830:Emily Dickinson is born on December 10
in Amherst, Massachusetts.
1869:Edwin Arlington Robinson is born on
December 22 in Head Tide, Maine.
1874:Robert Frost is born on March 26 in San
Francisco, California.
1879:Wallace Stevens is born on October 2 in
Reading, Pennsylvania.
1886:Emily Dickinson dies of kidney disease on
May 15 in Amherst, Massachusetts.
1904:Pablo Neruda is born on July 12 in Parral,
Chile.
1910:Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem ‘‘Miniver
Cheevy’’ is published.
1911:Czeslaw Milosz is born on June 30 in
Szetejnie, Lithunia.
1916:PakTu-JinisbornonMarch10inAnseong,
Kyonggi province, South Korea.
1922:Edwin Arlington Robinson is awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry forCollected Poems.
1924:Robert Frost is awarded the Pulitzer Prize
for Poetry forNew Hampshire.
1925:Edwin Arlington Robinson is awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry forThe Man Who
Died Twice.
1927:Robert Frost’s poem ‘‘Acquainted with the
Night’’ is published.
1927:Galway Kinnell is born on February 1 in
Providence, Rhode Island.
1928:Edwin Arlington Robinson is awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry forTristram.
1931:Robert Frost is awarded the Pulitzer Prize
for Poetry forCollected Poems.
1935:Edwin Arlington Robinson dies of cancer
on April 6 in New York, New York.
1935:Charles Penzel Wright is born on August 25
in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee.
1937:Robert Frost is awarded the Pulitzer Prize
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