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1700 - Today Poetic Timeline
18th and 19th Century - A hundred year stretch from 1700-1800, were philosophical, and Satires ruled.
- Alexander Pope was a major player, along with Samuel Johnson
- William Blake (1757-1827) , writes Song of the Innocence (1789)
- Lyrical Ballad, A dual authored master piece, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth.
- 1809 Edgar Allen Poe is Born
- Romantics of the time include
- Robert Burns (1759-1796) Scottish
- John Keats (1795-1821) English
- George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English
- 1819 Byron publishes Don Juan
- 1855 Walt Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass
- Masaoka Shiki, famous writer Japanese verse was born in 1867.
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) first publication, in 1890.
20th Century
- Rudyard Kipling received Nobel piece prize, in 1940.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, writes The Duino Elegies. (1913)
- 1913 Robert Frost writes, A Boy’s Will, and North of Boston
- 1921 William Butler Yeast publishes The Second Coming
- T. S. Eliot writes The Waste Land (1922)
- Langston Hughes Writes The Weary Blues, to be a corner stone in the Harlem Renaissance. (1926)
- Robert Frost reads, The Gift Outright, at JFK inauguration. (1961)
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, but was educated in England. After finishing school he retired back to India. He worked for a newspaper in India for many years. Kipling was known as only a short story writer, with his work on, Departmental Ditties. After that The Jungle Book appeared all over the world. Kipling also wrote some propaganda during the First World War. His first collection of poetry was published in 1933.
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri. Hughes started writing poetry in 8th grade. He continued his education at Colombia University (which his father paid for.) Hughes dropped out of his Engineering mayor with a B+ average and went on perusing poetry.Hughes wrote many fine essay, and even finer poems.
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