Literary Chronology

1572:

Ben Jonson is born sometime between May 1572 and January 1573 in London, England.

1616:

Ben Jonson's "Song: To Celia" is published.

1637:

Ben Jonson dies.

1806:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning is born on March 6.

1857:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Aurora Leigh" is published.

1861:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies on June 29 in Florence, Italy.

1875:

Antonio Machado is born on July 26 near Seville, Spain.

1908:

Josephine Jacobsen is born on August 19 in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada.

1909:

Stephen Spender is born on February 28 in London, England.

1926:

James Ingram Merrill is born on March 3 in New York City, New York.

1934:

Joanne Kyger is born on November 19 in Vallejo, California.

1936:

Antonio Machado's "The Crime Was in Granada" is published.

1939:

Antonio Machado dies on February 22 in Collioure, France.

1941:

Stephen Dobyns is born on February 19 in Orange, New Jersey.

1943:

Ellen Bryant Voigt is born on May 9 in Danville, Virginia.

1944:

Jesper Svenbro is born on March 10 in Land-skrona, Sweden.

1946:

Mary Jo Bang is born in Waynesville, Missouri.

1950:

Josephine Jacobsen's "Fiddler Crab" is published.

1953:

Rosanna Warren is born July 27 in Fairfield, Connecticut.

1955:

Kimiko Hahn is born in Mount Kisco, New York.

1955:

Natasha Sajé is born on June 6 in Munich, Germany.

1959:

Carl Phillips is born on July 23 in Everett, Washington.

1962:

Glyn Maxwell is born in Hertfordshire, England.

1964:

Stephen Spender's "An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum" is published.

1974:

James Merrill's "Lost in Translation" is published.

1975:

Joanne Kyger's "September" is published.

1976:

James Merrill's wins the Pulitzer Prize for Divine Comedies, the collection containing "Lost in Translation."

1980:

Stephen Dobyns's "It's like This" is published.

1995:

Stephen Spender dies on July 16 in London, England.

1995:

James Merrill dies in Tucson, Arizona.

1999:

Jesper Svenbro's "Lepidopterology" is published.

1999:

Kimiko Hahn's "Pine" is published.

2002:

Ellen Bryant Voigt's "Practice" is published.

2002:

Glyn Maxwell's "The Nerve" is published.

2003:

Josephine Jacobsen dies on July 9 in Cock-eysville, Maryland.

2003:

Rosanna Warren's "Lake" is published.

2004:

Carl Phillips's "All It Takes" is published.

2004:

Mary Jo Bang's "Allegory" is published.

2004:

Natasha Sajé's "The Art of the Novel" is published.