Literary Chronology
1809 Alfred Tennyson is born August 6 in
Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.
1850 Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s “Proem” is pub-
lished.
1863 Constantine Peter Cavafy is born on April
17 in Alexandria, Egypt.
1875 Rainer Maria Rilke is born December 4 in
Prague, Austria.
1892 Alfred Tennyson dies on October 6 in Eng-
land.
1894 e. e. cummings is born October 14 in Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts.
1902 Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Childhood” is pub-
lished.
1911 C. P. Cavafy’s “Ithaka” is published.
1915 Ruth Stone is born June 8 in Roanoke, Vir-
ginia.
1926 Rainer Maria Rilke dies on December 29 in
Montreaux, Switzerland, of leukemia.
1926 A. R. Ammons is born on February 18 near
Whiteville, North Carolina.
1930 Ted Hughes is born August 17 in Mytholm-
royd in West Yorkshire, England.
1930 Gary Snyder is born on May 8 in San Fran-
cisco, California.
1931 e. e. cummings’s “somewhere i have never
travelled,gladly beyond” is published.
1933 Constantine Peter Cavafy dies on April 29
of cancer of the larynx.1937 Alicia Ostriker is born on November 11 in
Brooklyn, New York.
1942 Marilyn Hacker is born on November 27 in
Bronx, New York.
1943 Michael Ondaatje is born on September 12
in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
1947 Ellen Bass is born on June 16 in Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania.
1948 Diane Ackerman is born on October 7 in
Waukegan, Illinois.
1953 Tony Hoagland is born on November 19 in
Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
1954 Sandra Cisneros is born on December 20 in
Chicago, Illinois.
1957 Jill Bialosky is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
1962 e. e. cummings dies on September 3.
1971 A. R. Ammons’s “The City Limits” is pub-
lished.
1980 Alicia Ostriker’s “His Speed and Strength”
is published.
1983 Gary Snyder’s “True Night” is published.
1984 Michael Ondaatje’s “The Cinnamon Peeler”
is published.
1994 Sandra Cisneros’s “Once Again I Prove the
Theory of Relativity” is published.
1998 Diane Ackerman’s “On Location in the Loire
Valley” is published.
1998 Ted Hughes dies on October 28 in Devon,
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