Literary Chronology

1809     Alfred Tennyson is born August 6 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England.

1850     Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Proem" is published.

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 England.

1894     e. e. cummings is born October 14 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1902     Rainer Maria Rilke's "Childhood" is published.

1911     C. P. Cavafy's "Ithaka" is published.

1915     Ruth Stone is born June 8 in Roanoke, Virginia.

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 Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire, England.

1930     Gary Snyder is born on May 8 in San Francisco, 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 Philadelphia, 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 published.

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, England, of cancer.

1998     Ted Hughes's "Perfect Light" is published.

1999     Ruth Stone's "Ordinary Words" is published.

1999     Tony Hoagland's "Social Life" is published.

1999     Marilyn Hacker's "The Boy" is published.

2001     Ellen Bass's "And What If I Spoke of Despair" is published.

2001     Jill Bialosky's "Seven Seeds" is published.

2001     A. R. Ammons dies on February 25 in Ithaca, New York.