List of years in poetry

This article gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order). These pages supplement the List of years in literature pages with a focus on events in the history of poetry.

2020s

 * 2023 in poetry
 * 2022 in poetry
 * 2021 in poetry
 * 2020 in poetry - Lana Del Rey's Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

2010s

 * 2019 in poetry
 * 2018 in poetry
 * 2017 in poetry
 * 2016 in poetry
 * 2015 in poetry
 * 2014 in poetry Death of Madeline Gins, Amiri Baraka, Juan Gelman, José Emilio Pacheco, Maya Angelou
 * 2013 in poetry Death of Thomas McEvilley, Taylor Mead, Seamus Heaney
 * 2012 in poetry Günter Grass's poem "What Must Be Said" leads to him being declared persona non grata; Death of Adrienne Rich, Wisława Szymborska
 * 2011 in poetry Tomas Tranströmer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Liz Lochhead succeeds Edwin Morgan as The Scots Makar; Death of Josephine Hart, Václav Havel, Robert Kroetsch
 * 2010 in poetry Seamus Heaney's Human Chain; Death of Tuli Kupferberg, Peter Orlovsky, P. Lal, Edwin Morgan

2000s

 * 2009 in poetry Turkish government posthumously restores Nâzım Hikmet's citizenship, stripped from him because of his beliefs; Ruth Padel the first woman elected Oxford Professor of Poetry, only to resign in controversy before taking office; Carol Ann Duffy succeeds Andrew Motion as the UK's Poet Laureate; Elizabeth Alexander reads "Praise Song for the Day" at presidential inauguration of U.S. President Barack Obama; Death of Dennis Brutus, Jim Carroll, Nicholas Hughes (son of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath)
 * 2008 in poetry Death of Harold Pinter, Jonathan Williams
 * 2007 in poetry Death of William Morris Meredith Jr., Emmett Williams
 * 2006 in poetry Seamus Heaney's District and Circle; Death of Stanley Kunitz
 * 2005 in poetry Harold Pinter awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Philip Lamantia, Robert Creeley
 * 2004 in poetry Seamus Heaney reads "Beacons of Bealtaine" for 25 leaders of the enlarged European Union; Edwin Morgan named as The Scots Makar; Death of Janet Frame, Jackson Mac Low, Czesław Miłosz
 * 2003 in poetry John Paul II's Roman Triptych (Meditation); Kenneth Rexroth's Complete Poems (posthumous)
 * 2002 in poetry Death of Kenneth Koch
 * 2001 in poetry Seamus Heaney's Electric Light; First-ever Griffin Poetry Prize in Canada; Death of Gregory Corso
 * 2000 in poetry Death of Yehuda Amichai, Ahmad Shamlou

1990s

 * 1999 in poetry Andrew Motion succeeds Ted Hughes as the UK's Poet Laureate; Julia Donaldson's The Gruffalo; Death of Edward Dorn
 * 1998 in poetry Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters; Death of Zbigniew Herbert, Ted Hughes, Octavio Paz
 * 1997 in poetry Death of William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, James Dickey, Denise Levertov, David Ignatow, James Laughlin, William Matthews
 * 1996 in poetry Seamus Heaney's The Spirit Level; Wisława Szymborska awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Joseph Brodsky
 * 1995 in poetry Seamus Heaney awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of May Sarton, Sir Stephen Spender CBE, David Avidan
 * 1994 in poetry Death of Charles Bukowski
 * 1993 in poetry Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of U.S. President Bill Clinton
 * 1992 in poetry Derek Walcott awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Eve Merriam
 * 1991 in poetry Death of Dr. Seuss, James Schuyler, Howard Nemerov
 * 1990 in poetry Octavio Paz awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Lawrence Durrell

1980s

 * 1989 in poetry Death of Samuel Beckett, Robert Penn Warren, May Swenson
 * 1988 in poetry Death of Máirtín Ó Direáin, Miguel Piñero, Robert Duncan
 * 1987 in poetry Joseph Brodsky awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky, edited by Barry Ahearn (Faber & Faber)
 * 1986 in poetry Wole Soyinka awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of John Ciardi, Jean Genet, Jaroslav Seifert
 * 1985 in poetry Death of Robert Graves, Philip Larkin
 * 1984 in poetry Jaroslav Seifert awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Ted Hughes succeeds John Betjeman as the UK's Poet Laureate (on the refusal of Philip Larkin); Death of George Oppen
 * 1983 in poetry Death of Ted Berrigan, Edwin Denby
 * 1982 in poetry Death of Kenneth Rexroth, Archibald MacLeish, Djuna Barnes
 * 1981 in poetry Death of Christy Brown
 * 1980 in poetry Czesław Miłosz awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Muriel Rukeyser

1970s

 * 1979 in poetry Death of Elizabeth Bishop; Jacqueline Osherow is awarded the Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem
 * 1978 in poetry Death of Micheál Mac Liammóir
 * 1977 in poetry Death of Robert Lowell, Vladimir Nabokov, Seán Ó Ríordáin
 * 1976 in poetry
 * 1975 in poetry
 * 1974 in poetry Death of Miguel Ángel Asturias, Anne Sexton; Philip Larkin's  High Windows
 * 1973 in poetry Death of W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, J. R. R. Tolkien
 * 1972 in poetry John Betjeman succeeds Cecil Day-Lewis as the UK's Poet Laureate; Death of John Berryman, Kenneth Patchen, Padraic Colum, Marianne Moore, Richard Church, Cecil Day-Lewis, Ezra Pound, Mark Van Doren, Paul Goodman
 * 1971 in poetry Pablo Neruda awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Jim Morrison, Ogden Nash
 * 1970 in poetry Death of Nelly Sachs, Charles Olson, Paul Celan, Leah Goldberg

1960s

 * 1969 in poetry Samuel Beckett awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Jack Kerouac, André Salmon
 * 1968 in poetry Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
 * 1967 in poetry Cecil Day-Lewis selected as the UK's new Poet Laureate (succeeding John Masefield); Death of Patrick Kavanagh, John Masefield, Carl Sandburg
 * 1966 in poetry Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist; Death of Anna Akhmatova, André Breton, Frank O'Hara, Basil Bunting's Briggflatts
 * 1965 in poetry Death of T. S. Eliot
 * 1964 in poetry John Lennon's In His Own Write, containing nonsensical poems, sketches and drawings (a best seller by the member of the Beatles); Something Else Press founded by Dick Higgins in 1963 (publishes concrete poetry by several authors, starting in 1964), Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings; Death of Brendan Behan, Dame Edith Sitwell DBE
 * 1963 in poetry Bob Dylan's album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan released (with his most influential early songwriting); Death of Nâzım Hikmet, Louis MacNeice, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Tristan Tzara, Jean Cocteau
 * 1962 in poetry Death of E. E. Cummings
 * 1961 in poetry Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish and Other Poems; death of H. D.,Death of Rabindranath Tagore
 * 1960 in poetry Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham; Death of Boris Pasternak

1950s

 * 1959 in poetry Death of Edgar Guest, Lakshmi Prasad Devkota
 * 1958 in poetry Boris Pasternak awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Death of Alfred Noyes, Robert W. Service; Ezra Pound's indictment for treason is dismissed. He is released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Maryland, after spending 12 years there (starting in 1946)
 * 1957 in poetry Howl obscenity trial in San Francisco, Ted Hughes's The Hawk in the Rain, Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas; Death of Oliver St. John Gogarty
 * 1956 in poetry Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems, a signature of the Beat Generation published by City Lights Books, United States; Birth of Cathal Ó Searcaigh
 * 1955 in poetry Discovery of the Hinilawod by F. Landa Jocano; Death of Wallace Stevens; Birth of Paula Meehan, William Wall
 * 1954 in poetry Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who!
 * 1953 in poetry Death of Dylan Thomas; Birth of Frank McGuinness
 * 1952 in poetry Death of Paul Éluard, George Santayana; Birth of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
 * 1951 in poetry Birth of Paul Muldoon
 * 1950 in poetry Death of Edna St. Vincent Millay; Birth of Mary Dorcey, Medbh McGuckian

1940s

 * 1949 in poetry Birth of Gabriel Rosenstock
 * 1948 in poetry T. S. Eliot awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
 * 1947 in poetry Cleanth Brooks's The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (a classic statement of the New Criticism); Birth of Dermot Healy
 * 1946 in poetry "On Raglan Road" first published, with the title "Dark Haired Miriam Ran Away"; Ezra Pound brought back to the United States on treason charges, but found unfit to face trial because of insanity and sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he remained for 12 years; Death of Gertrude Stein
 * 1945 in poetry Death of Paul Valéry, Robert Desnos, Zinaida Gippius; Birth of Van Morrison, OBE
 * 1944 in poetry Birth of Eavan Boland, Paul Durcan
 * 1943 in poetry Death of Stephen Vincent Benét, William Soutar in Perth; Birth of Jim Morrison; T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets published as a whole
 * 1942 in poetry Birth of William Matthews, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin; Death of Konstantin Balmont
 * 1941 in poetry Death of James Joyce, Marina Tsvetaeva; Birth of Bob Dylan, Derek Mahon
 * 1940 in poetry Birth of Joseph Brodsky, John Lennon

1930s

 * 1939 in poetry Death of W. B. Yeats; Birth of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley; T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
 * 1938 in poetry Death of Osip Mandelstam
 * 1937 in poetry Lahuta e Malcís - Gjergj Fishta; First-ever Governor General's Literary Awards in Canada; Birth of Diane Wakoski
 * 1936 in poetry Killing of Federico García Lorca, Death of Rudyard Kipling; Birth of John Giorno
 * 1935 in poetry Charles G. D. Roberts knighted for his poetry; Anna Akhmatova begins publishing her cycle of poems Requiem
 * 1934 in poetry Death of Andrei Bely; Birth of Leonard Cohen, Wole Soyinka
 * 1933 in poetry The Winding Stair - W. B. Yeats; Death of Sara Teasdale; Birth of Yevgeny Yevtushenko
 * 1932 in poetry Death of Hart Crane; Birth of Christy Brown, Michael McClure, David Antin, Sylvia Plath
 * 1931 in poetry Death of Vachel Lindsay, Kahlil Gibran; Birth of Tomas Tranströmer
 * 1930 in poetry John Masefield succeeds Robert Bridges as the UK's Poet Laureate; Death of Robert Bridges, D. H. Lawrence, Vladimir Mayakovsky; birth of Gary Snyder, Adunis, Harold Pinter, Derek Walcott

1920s

 * 1929 in poetry Pulitzer Prize for Poetry awarded to Stephen Vincent Benét for John Brown's Body; Birth of Ed Dorn, John Montague
 * 1928 in poetry The Tower (book) - W. B. Yeats; Birth of Maya Angelou, Thomas Kinsella; Death of Thomas Hardy
 * 1927 in poetry William Soutar creates his Epigram form of the Cinquain; Birth of John Ashbery
 * 1926 in poetry Death of Rainer Maria Rilke, Birth of Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Frank O'Hara
 * 1925 in poetry Death of Sergei Yesenin, Birth of Ahmad Shamlou
 * 1924 in poetry Birth of Yehuda Amichai, Janet Frame, Zbigniew Herbert
 * 1923 in poetry W. B. Yeats is the first Irishman awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Edna St. Vincent Millay is the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Birth of Brendan Behan, Yves Bonnefoy, Wisława Szymborska, Aco Šopov
 * 1922 in poetry T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"; Rainer Maria Rilke completes both the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus; Birth of Jack Kerouac, Máire Mhac an tSaoi
 * 1921 in poetry Birth of Vasko Popa, Death of Alexander Blok
 * 1920 in poetry The Epic of Manas is published; approximate date of Mikhail Khudiakov's Dorvyzhy; The Dial, a longstanding American literary magazine, is re-established by Scofield Thayer, with the publication becoming an important outlet for Modernist poets and writers (until 1929), with contributors this year including Sherwood Anderson, Djuna Barnes, Kenneth Burke, Hart Crane, E. E. Cummings, Charles Demuth, Kahlil Gibran, Gaston Lachaise, Amy Lowell, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Odilon Redon, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sandburg, Van Wyck Brooks, and W. B. Yeats; Birth of Paul Celan, Charles Bukowski

1910s

 * 1919 in poetry Birth of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, May Swenson, William Meredith
 * 1918 in poetry Death of Guillaume Apollinaire, Wilfred Owen; Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poems published posthumously by Robert Bridges
 * 1917 in poetry Birth of Robert Lowell; T. S. Eliot's Prufrock and other Observations
 * 1916 in poetry The Dada movement in art, poetry and literature coalesced at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland, where Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Sophie Täuber and others discussed art and put on performances expressing their disgust with World War I and the interests they believed inspired it; Death of Patrick Pearse, Joseph Mary Plunkett; Birth of Tom Kettle
 * 1915 in poetry Death of Rupert Brooke
 * 1914 in poetry Death of Adelaide Crapsey; Birth of William Burroughs, Octavio Paz, Dylan Thomas
 * 1913 in poetry Rabindranath Tagore awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Robert Bridges succeeds Alfred Austin as the UK's Poet Laureate; The launch of Imagism in the pages of Poetry magazine by H.D., Richard Aldington and Ezra Pound, Robert Frost's A Boy's Will; Death of Alfred Austin, Lesya Ukrainka; birth of R. S. Thomas
 * 1912 in poetry Adelaide Crapsey creates her couplet form
 * 1911 in poetry Adelaide Crapsey creates the American Cinquain form; Birth of Leah Goldberg, Czesław Miłosz
 * 1910 in poetry Death of Julia Ward Howe; Birth of Charles Olson, Jean Genet

1900s

 * 1909 in poetry Death of Sarah Orne Jewett; Birth of Stephen Spender
 * 1908 in poetry
 * 1907 in poetry Rudyard Kipling awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; Birth of W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice
 * 1906 in poetry Alfred Noyes publishes The Highwayman; Birth of Samuel Beckett
 * 1905 in poetry
 * 1904 in poetry Birth of Cecil Day-Lewis, Patrick Kavanagh, Pablo Neruda
 * 1903 in poetry
 * 1902 in poetry Death of Shiki the haiku poet; Birth of Langston Hughes ; Giles Lytton Strachey is awarded the Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem
 * 1901 in poetry Birth of Jaroslav Seifert
 * 1900 in poetry Death of Oscar Wilde

1890s

 * 1899 in poetry Birth of Hart Crane, Micheál Mac Liammóir, Vladimir Nabokov
 * 1898 in poetry Death of Stéphane Mallarmé, Lewis Carroll; Birth of Stephen Vincent Benét, Federico García Lorca, William Soutar
 * 1897 in poetry
 * 1896 in poetry Death of Paul Verlaine
 * 1895 in poetry Birth of Robert Graves, Sergei Yesenin
 * 1894 in poetry Death of Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
 * 1893 in poetry Birth of Vladimir Mayakovsky
 * 1892 in poetry Emily Dickinson First collection published; Death of Walt Whitman James Russell Lowell, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Afanasy Fet; Birth of Marina Tsvetaeva, Hugh MacDiarmid
 * 1891 in poetry Death of Arthur Rimbaud, Herman Melville; Birth of Nelly Sachs, Osip Mandelstam
 * 1890 in poetry Birth of Boris Pasternak

1880s

 * 1889 in poetry Birth of Anna Akhmatova; death of Gerard Manley Hopkins
 * 1888 in poetry Birth of T. S. Eliot
 * 1887 in poetry Lāčplēsis by Andrejs Pumpurs; Birth of Marianne Moore, Joseph Plunkett, Edith Sitwell DBE
 * 1886 in poetry Death of Emily Dickinson; birth of H.D.
 * 1885 in poetry Birth of D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound; Death of Victor Hugo
 * 1884 in poetry
 * 1883 in poetry Birth of William Carlos Williams
 * 1882 in poetry Death of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Birth of James Joyce, A. A. Milne
 * 1881 in poetry
 * 1880 in poetry Birth of Guillaume Apollinaire, Andrei Bely, Tom Kettle, Alfred Noyes, Alexander Blok

1870s

 * 1879 in poetry Birth of Patrick Pearse, Wallace Stevens
 * 1878 in poetry Birth of Oliver St. John Gogarty, Carl Sandburg, John Edward Masefield, Adelaide Crapsey
 * 1877 in poetry Jacint Verdaguer's L'Atlàntida
 * 1876 in poetry Death of John Neal
 * 1875 in poetry French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", by Stéphane Mallarmé with drawings by Édouard Manet; - Birth of Rainer Maria Rilke, important pre-modernist 20th-century poet in German.
 * 1874 in poetry Arthur Rimbaud's IlluminationsFirst collection of George Eliot's poetry; - Birth of Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, important American poet
 * 1873 in poetry Arthur Rimbaud's Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell); Publication of Daredevils of Sassoun; Death of Fyodor Tyutchev
 * 1872 in poetry Christina Rossetti's In the Bleak Midwinter (Christmas carol); José Hernández's Martín Fierro; Michel Rodange's Rénert the Fox
 * 1871 in poetry Lewis Carroll publishes Through the Looking-Glass, including the complete Jabberwocky. Arthur Rimbaud wrote "Letters of the Seer." Birth of Lesya Ukrainka, important Ukrainian poet
 * 1870 in poetry

1860s

 * 1869 in poetry George Eliot sonnet Brother & Sister; Birth of Zinaida Gippius, important Russian poet
 * 1868 in poetry
 * 1867 in poetry Death of Charles Baudelaire, French poet and art critic; Birth of Shiki the haiku poet, Konstantin Balmont, Russian symbolist poet
 * 1866 in poetry
 * 1865 in poetry Birth of William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling
 * 1864 in poetry Death of John Clare, Walter Savage Landor
 * 1863 in poetry
 * 1862 in poetry Christina Rossetti Goblin Market, George Meredith's Modern Love
 * 1861 in poetry Death of Taras Shevchenko, Birth of Rabindranath Tagore
 * 1860 in poetry

1850s

 * 1859 in poetry Death of Leigh Hunt
 * 1858 in poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish
 * 1857 in poetry Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal
 * 1856 in poetry Death of Heinrich Heine; - Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 * 1855 in poetry Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a first stanza of Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha; - Death of Adam Mickiewicz
 * 1854 in poetry Birth of Arthur Rimbaud
 * 1853 in poetry First and unprinted version of Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald's Kalevipoeg
 * 1852 in poetry Death of Thomas Moore
 * 1851 in poetry
 * 1850 in poetry Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese; Robert Browning Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day; - Death of William Wordsworth

1840s

 * 1849 in poetry Death of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee, Birth of Sarah Orne Jewett (Martha's Lady)
 * 1848 in poetry Founding of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
 * 1847 in poetry Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline; Petar II Petrović-Njegoš's The Mountain Wreath
 * 1846 in poetry
 * 1845 in poetry Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven
 * 1844 in poetry Birth of Paul Verlaine
 * 1843 in poetry William Wordsworth becomes Poet Laureate
 * 1842 in poetry Birth of Stéphane Mallarmé; Alfred Tennyson Poems
 * 1841 in poetry Death of Mikhail Lermontov
 * 1840 in poetry Birth of Thomas Hardy

1830s

 * 1839 in poetry
 * 1838 in poetry Florante at Laura by Francisco Balagtas
 * 1837 in poetry Death of Aleksandr Pushkin
 * 1836 in poetry The Baptism on the Savica by France Prešeren
 * 1835 in poetry The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot
 * 1834 in poetry Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz; Death of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * 1833 in poetry
 * 1832 in poetry Birth of Lewis Carroll; Death of Sir Walter Scott, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 * 1831 in poetry Birth of Emily Dickinson
 * 1830 in poetry Birth of Christina Rossetti in London

1820s

 * 1829 in poetry Alfred Lord Tennyson is awarded the Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem
 * 1828 in poetry Birth of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 * 1827 in poetry Death of William Blake
 * 1826 in poetry Death of Issa the haiku poet
 * 1825 in poetry Alexander Pushkin begins publishing Eugene Onegin in serial form
 * 1824 in poetry Death of Lord Byron, important English Romantic poet
 * 1823 in poetry Birth of Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian national poet Winthrop Mackworth Praed is awarded the Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem, Clement Clarke Moore A Visit from St. Nicholas
 * 1822 in poetry Lord Byron The Vision of Judgment; Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley, important English Romantic poet
 * 1821 in poetry Death of John Keats, important English Romantic poet; - Birth of Charles Baudelaire, French poet and art critic
 * 1820 in poetry

1810s

 * 1819 in poetry Scholars described - The Great Year for John Keats, who publishes his famous Odes; Don Juan (Byron) - Lord Byron; - Birth of George Eliot, Walt Whitman, important American poet, Herman Melville, American poet, novelist, James Russell Lowell, American poet, Julia Ward Howe, American poet
 * 1818 in poetry Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Book IV, published; - Birth of Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle; - Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin publishes Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus anonymously; Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias
 * 1817 in poetry Percy Bysshe Shelley, Laon and Cythna
 * 1816 in poetry Shelley marries Mary Woolstonecraft Godwin, Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Book III, published; Samuel Coleridge's Kubla Khan
 * 1815 in poetry
 * 1814 in poetry West-östlicher Diwan - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin elope to war-ravaged France, accompanied by Godwin's stepsister, Mary Jane. Birth of Mikhail Lermontov, important Russian poet; Birth of Taras Shevchenko, important Ukrainian poet
 * 1813 in poetry The Chancellor's gold medal for an English Poem is awarded for the first time. Recipient is George Waddington.
 * 1812 in poetry Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Lord Byron; Birth of Afanasy Fet, important Russian poet
 * 1811 in poetry
 * 1810 in poetry Milton: a Poem, epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810

1800s

 * 1809 in poetry Birth of Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. American poet, physician, and essayist
 * 1808 in poetry Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust, Part One
 * 1807 in poetry Birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier
 * 1806 in poetry Birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 * 1805 in poetry Jerusalem poem by William Blake; - Death of Friedrich Schiller, German poet
 * 1804 in poetry
 * 1803 in poetry Birth of Fyodor Tyutchev, important Russian poet
 * 1802 in poetry Birth of Victor Hugo
 * 1801 in poetry
 * 1800 in poetry Death of William Cowper

1790s

 * 1799 in poetry Birth of Aleksandr Pushkin, important Russian poet
 * 1798 in poetry William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads. Birth of Adam Mickiewicz, important Polish poet
 * 1797 in poetry Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Heinrich Heine
 * 1796 in poetry Death of Robert Burns, James Macpherson
 * 1795 in poetry Birth of John Keats, important English poet; - William Blake, The Book of Los, The Book of Ahania, The Song of Los
 * 1794 in poetry Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul two books of poetry and The Book of Urizen by English poet and painter William Blake
 * 1793 in poetry William Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion and America, A Prophecy; - Birth of John Clare, John Neal
 * 1792 in poetry Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley, important English poet; - William Blake Song of Liberty
 * 1791 in poetry William Blake, The French Revolution
 * 1790 in poetry William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

1780s

 * 1789 in poetry William Blake publishes Songs of Innocence and The Book of Thel
 * 1788 in poetry Birth of Lord Byron, (English)
 * 1787 in poetry
 * 1786 in poetry Robert Burns publishes Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
 * 1785 in poetry William Cowper publishes The Task
 * 1784 in poetry Birth of Leigh Hunt; Death of Samuel Johnson English author, wrote Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, (1779–81)
 * 1783 in poetry Death of Buson the haiku poet
 * 1782 in poetry
 * 1781 in poetry
 * 1780 in poetry

1770s

 * 1779 in poetry Birth of Irish poet Thomas Moore
 * 1778 in poetry
 * 1777 in poetry
 * 1776 in poetry
 * 1775 in poetry Birth of Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor
 * 1774 in poetry Birth of Robert Southey; Death of Oliver Goldsmith
 * 1773 in poetry Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill composes "Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire"
 * 1772 in poetry "Prometheus" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 * 1771 in poetry Death of Thomas Gray, English poet, (born 1716); - Birth of Sir Walter Scott
 * 1770 in poetry Birth of William Wordsworth, important English poet (died 1850); - Death of Thomas Chatterton, 17-year-old English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry born 1752

1760s

 * 1769 in poetry
 * 1768 in poetry
 * 1767 in poetry
 * 1766 in poetry
 * 1765 in poetry Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry; Kristijonas Donelaitis, The Seasons
 * 1764 in poetry Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller
 * 1763 in poetry Birth of Samuel Rogers
 * 1762 in poetry Birth of Issa the haiku poet
 * 1761 in poetry
 * 1760 in poetry

1750s

 * 1759 in poetry Birth of Robert Burns, Friedrich Schiller, German poet philosopher, and dramatist (died 1805)
 * 1758 in poetry
 * 1757 in poetry
 * 1756 in poetry
 * 1755 in poetry
 * 1754 in poetry
 * 1753 in poetry
 * 1752 in poetry
 * 1751 in poetry
 * 1750 in poetry

1740s

 * 1749 in poetry Birth of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet and author
 * 1748 in poetry Death of James Thomson
 * 1747 in poetry
 * 1746 in poetry
 * 1745 in poetry Death of Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet
 * 1744 in poetry Death of Alexander Pope, English poet; - Anonymous, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, the first extant collection of nursery rhymes
 * 1743 in poetry Death of Richard Savage, English poet
 * 1742 in poetry
 * 1741 in poetry
 * 1740 in poetry

1730s

 * 1739 in poetry
 * 1738 in poetry
 * 1737 in poetry
 * 1736 in poetry Birth of James Macpherson, Scottish poet
 * 1735 in poetry
 * 1734 in poetry
 * 1733 in poetry
 * 1732 in poetry
 * 1731 in poetry
 * 1730 in poetry

1720s

 * 1729 in poetry
 * 1728 in poetry
 * 1727 in poetry
 * 1726 in poetry
 * 1725 in poetry
 * 1724 in poetry
 * 1723 in poetry
 * 1722 in poetry
 * 1721 in poetry
 * 1720 in poetry

1710s

 * 1719 in poetry Death of Joseph Addison, English essayist and poet
 * 1718 in poetry
 * 1717 in poetry
 * 1716 in poetry First printed version of the Epic of King Gesar; First printed version of The Jangar Epic; Birth of Thomas Gray, English poet, (died 1771)
 * 1715 in poetry Birth of Buson the haiku poet
 * 1714 in poetry First printed version of Popol Vuh
 * 1713 in poetry
 * 1712 in poetry
 * 1711 in poetry
 * 1710 in poetry

1700s

 * 1709 in poetry Birth of Samuel Johnson, English author, biographer
 * 1708 in poetry
 * 1707 in poetry
 * 1706 in poetry
 * 1705 in poetry Death of Michael Wigglesworth (born 1631), English poet, colonist in America called "the most popular of early New England poets"
 * 1704 in poetry
 * 1703 in poetry
 * 1702 in poetry
 * 1701 in poetry
 * 1700 in poetry Hikayat Hang Tuah; Death of John Dryden, influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright; - Birth of James Thomson, English poet

1690s

 * 1699 in poetry
 * 1698 in poetry
 * 1697 in poetry Birth of Richard Savage, English poet
 * 1696 in poetry
 * 1695 in poetry
 * 1694 in poetry Death of the haiku poet Matsuo Bashō
 * 1693 in poetry
 * 1692 in poetry
 * 1691 in poetry
 * 1690 in poetry

1680s

 * 1689 in poetry Oku no Hosomichi by Matsuo Bashō
 * 1688 in poetry Birth of Alexander Pope, English poet
 * 1687 in poetry
 * 1686 in poetry
 * 1685 in poetry
 * 1684 in poetry
 * 1683 in poetry
 * 1682 in poetry
 * 1681 in poetry
 * 1680 in poetry

1670s

 * 1679 in poetry
 * 1678 in poetry
 * 1677 in poetry
 * 1676 in poetry
 * 1675 in poetry
 * 1674 in poetry Death of John Milton, important English poet
 * 1673 in poetry
 * 1672 in poetry Birth of Joseph Addison, English essayist and poet
 * 1671 in poetry
 * 1670 in poetry

1660s

 * 1669 in poetry
 * 1668 in poetry
 * 1667 in poetry Birth of Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet
 * 1666 in poetry
 * 1665 in poetry
 * 1664 in poetry Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Divine and Moral
 * 1663 in poetry
 * 1662 in poetry
 * 1661 in poetry
 * 1660 in poetry

1650s

 * 1659 in poetry
 * 1658 in poetry
 * 1657 in poetry
 * 1656 in poetry
 * 1655 in poetry
 * 1654 in poetry
 * 1653 in poetry
 * 1652 in poetry
 * 1651 in poetry
 * 1650 in poetry

1640s

 * 1649 in poetry
 * 1648 in poetry
 * 1647 in poetry The Siege of Sziget by Miklós Zrínyi; April 1 &mdash; birth of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (died 1680)
 * 1646 in poetry
 * 1645 in poetry
 * 1644 in poetry Birth of Matsuo Bashō the haiku poet
 * 1643 in poetry
 * 1642 in poetry
 * 1641 in poetry
 * 1640 in poetry - Biag ni Lam-ang first transcribed by Pedro Bucaneg

1630s

 * 1639 in poetry
 * 1638 in poetry
 * 1637 in poetry Death of Ben Jonson, important English poet, playwright, actor
 * 1636 in poetry
 * 1635 in poetry
 * 1634 in poetry
 * 1633 in poetry
 * 1632 in poetry
 * 1631 in poetry Death of John Donne, important English poet, essayist, author, preacher; - Birth of John Dryden influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright; Birth of Michael Wigglesworth (died 1705), English poet, colonist in America called "the most popular of early New England poets"
 * 1630 in poetry

1620s

 * 1629 in poetry
 * 1628 in poetry
 * 1627 in poetry
 * 1626 in poetry
 * 1625 in poetry
 * 1624 in poetry
 * 1623 in poetry
 * 1622 in poetry
 * 1621 in poetry
 * 1620 in poetry

1610s

 * 1619 in poetry
 * 1618 in poetry Death of Sir Walter Raleigh
 * 1617 in poetry
 * 1616 in poetry Death of William Shakespeare English poet, playwright and genius
 * 1615 in poetry
 * 1614 in poetry A Wife, poem by Sir Thomas Overbury published posthumously
 * 1613 in poetry Death of Thomas Overbury English poet
 * 1612 in poetry
 * 1611 in poetry
 * 1610 in poetry

1600s

 * 1609 in poetry Publication of William Shakespeare's Sonnets
 * 1608 in poetry Birth of John Milton, important English poet
 * 1607 in poetry
 * 1606 in poetry
 * 1605 in poetry
 * 1604 in poetry
 * 1603 in poetry
 * 1602 in poetry
 * 1601 in poetry
 * 1600 in poetry

1590s

 * 1599 in poetry Death of Edmund Spenser English poet
 * 1598 in poetry
 * 1597 in poetry
 * 1596 in poetry
 * 1595 in poetry
 * 1594 in poetry
 * 1593 in poetry Birth of George Herbert Welsh poet; - Death of Christopher Marlowe English poet
 * 1592 in poetry
 * 1591 in poetry
 * 1590 in poetry

1580s

 * 1589 in poetry
 * 1588 in poetry
 * 1587 in poetry
 * 1586 in poetry Birth of John Ford English poet and playwright (d. c. 1640)
 * 1585 in poetry Death of Pierre de Ronsard
 * 1584 in poetry
 * 1583 in poetry
 * 1582 in poetry
 * 1581 in poetry Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso; Birth of Thomas Overbury English poet (d.1613)
 * 1580 in poetry

1570s

 * 1579 in poetry
 * 1578 in poetry
 * 1577 in poetry Illustrated manuscript of the Hamzanama
 * 1576 in poetry
 * 1575 in poetry
 * 1574 in poetry
 * 1573 in poetry
 * 1572 in poetry Luís Vaz de Comões – Os Lusíadas; Birth of John Donne, important English poet, essayist, author, preacher; - Birth of Ben Jonson, important English poet, playwright, actor
 * 1571 in poetry
 * 1570 in poetry

1560s

 * 1569 in poetry
 * 1568 in poetry
 * 1567 in poetry
 * 1566 in poetry
 * 1565 in poetry
 * 1564 in poetry Birth of William Shakespeare English poet, playwright, and genius, Christopher Marlowe English poet
 * 1563 in poetry
 * 1562 in poetry
 * 1561 in poetry
 * 1560 in poetry

1550s

 * 1559 in poetry
 * 1558 in poetry
 * 1557 in poetry
 * 1556 in poetry
 * 1555 in poetry
 * 1554 in poetry Miles Huggarde, The Assault of the Sacrament of the Altar; Henry Howard, The Fourth Boke of Virgill, Intreating of the Love Betweene Aeneas & Dido; Sir David Lindsay, The Monarche
 * 1553 in poetry Anonymous, Pierce the Ploughmans Crede; Gavin Douglas, translator, Aeneid, The Palis of Honoure, second, revised edition (publication year conjectural)
 * 1552 in poetry Birth of Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh; Works: Thomas Churchyard, A Myrrour for Man
 * 1551 in poetry Robert Crowley, published anonymously, Philargyrie of Greate Britayne; or, The Fable of the Great Giant
 * 1550 in poetry Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women; Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes; John Heywood, An Hundred Epigrammes; William Langland (attributed), Piers Plowman, the B text

1540s

 * 1549 in poetry
 * 1548 in poetry
 * 1547 in poetry
 * 1546 in poetry
 * 1545 in poetry
 * 1544 in poetry
 * 1543 in poetry
 * 1542 in poetry
 * 1541 in poetry
 * 1540 in poetry

1530s

 * 1539 in poetry
 * 1538 in poetry
 * 1537 in poetry
 * 1536 in poetry
 * 1535 in poetry
 * 1534 in poetry
 * 1533 in poetry
 * 1532 in poetry
 * 1531 in poetry
 * 1530 in poetry

1520s

 * 1529 in poetry
 * 1528 in poetry
 * 1527 in poetry
 * 1526 in poetry
 * 1525 in poetry
 * 1524 in poetry Birth of Pierre de Ronsard
 * 1523 in poetry
 * 1522 in poetry
 * 1521 in poetry
 * 1520 in poetry

1510s

 * 1519 in poetry
 * 1518 in poetry
 * 1517 in poetry
 * 1516 in poetry
 * 1515 in poetry
 * 1514 in poetry
 * 1513 in poetry
 * 1512 in poetry
 * 1511 in poetry
 * 1510 in poetry

1500s

 * 1509 in poetry
 * 1508 in poetry
 * 1507 in poetry
 * 1506 in poetry
 * 1505 in poetry
 * 1504 in poetry
 * 1503 in poetry
 * 1502 in poetry
 * 1501 in poetry Judita - Marko Marulić
 * 1500 in poetry La Araucana - Alonso de Ercilla

1490s

 * 1499 in poetry La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
 * 1498 in poetry
 * 1497 in poetry
 * 1496 in poetry
 * 1495 in poetry
 * 1494 in poetry
 * 1493 in poetry
 * 1492 in poetry
 * 1491 in poetry
 * 1490 in poetry

1480s

 * 1489 in poetry
 * 1488 in poetry
 * 1487 in poetry
 * 1486 in poetry
 * 1485 in poetry
 * 1484 in poetry
 * 1483 in poetry
 * 1482 in poetry
 * 1481 in poetry
 * 1480 in poetry

1470s

 * 1479 in poetry
 * 1478 in poetry
 * 1477 in poetry
 * 1476 in poetry
 * 1475 in poetry
 * 1474 in poetry
 * 1473 in poetry
 * 1472 in poetry
 * 1471 in poetry
 * 1470 in poetry

1460s

 * 1469 in poetry
 * 1468 in poetry
 * 1467 in poetry
 * 1466 in poetry
 * 1465 in poetry
 * 1464 in poetry
 * 1463 in poetry c. Death of François Villon
 * 1462 in poetry
 * 1461 in poetry
 * 1460 in poetry

1450s

 * 1459 in poetry
 * 1458 in poetry
 * 1457 in poetry
 * 1456 in poetry
 * 1455 in poetry
 * 1454 in poetry
 * 1453 in poetry
 * 1452 in poetry
 * 1451 in poetry
 * 1450 in poetry

1440s

 * 1449 in poetry
 * 1448 in poetry
 * 1447 in poetry
 * 1446 in poetry
 * 1445 in poetry
 * 1444 in poetry
 * 1443 in poetry
 * 1442 in poetry
 * 1441 in poetry
 * 1440 in poetry

1430s

 * 1439 in poetry
 * 1438 in poetry
 * 1437 in poetry
 * 1436 in poetry
 * 1435 in poetry
 * 1434 in poetry
 * 1433 in poetry
 * 1432 in poetry
 * 1431 in poetry c. Birth of François Villon
 * 1430 in poetry

1420s

 * 1429 in poetry
 * 1428 in poetry
 * 1427 in poetry
 * 1426 in poetry
 * 1425 in poetry
 * 1424 in poetry
 * 1423 in poetry
 * 1422 in poetry
 * 1421 in poetry
 * 1420 in poetry

1410s

 * 1419 in poetry
 * 1418 in poetry
 * 1417 in poetry
 * 1416 in poetry
 * 1415 in poetry
 * 1414 in poetry
 * 1413 in poetry
 * 1412 in poetry
 * 1411 in poetry
 * 1410 in poetry

1400s

 * 1409 in poetry
 * 1408 in poetry
 * 1407 in poetry
 * 1406 in poetry
 * 1405 in poetry
 * 1404 in poetry
 * 1403 in poetry
 * 1402 in poetry
 * 1401 in poetry
 * 1400 in poetry Death of Geoffrey Chaucer

1390s

 * 1399 in poetry
 * 1398 in poetry
 * 1397 in poetry
 * 1396 in poetry
 * 1395 in poetry
 * 1394 in poetry
 * 1393 in poetry
 * 1392 in poetry
 * 1391 in poetry
 * 1390 in poetry

1380s

 * 1389 in poetry Death of Hafez
 * 1388 in poetry
 * 1387 in poetry
 * 1386 in poetry
 * 1385 in poetry
 * 1384 in poetry
 * 1383 in poetry
 * 1382 in poetry
 * 1381 in poetry
 * 1380 in poetry

1370s

 * 1379 in poetry
 * 1378 in poetry
 * 1377 in poetry
 * 1376 in poetry
 * 1375 in poetry John Barbour's The Brus
 * 1374 in poetry
 * 1373 in poetry
 * 1372 in poetry
 * 1371 in poetry
 * 1370 in poetry

1360s

 * 1369 in poetry
 * 1368 in poetry
 * 1367 in poetry
 * 1366 in poetry
 * 1365 in poetry
 * 1364 in poetry
 * 1363 in poetry
 * 1362 in poetry
 * 1361 in poetry
 * 1360 in poetry Approximate date of the Mocedades de Rodrigo

1350s

 * 1359 in poetry
 * 1358 in poetry
 * 1357 in poetry
 * 1356 in poetry
 * 1355 in poetry
 * 1354 in poetry
 * 1353 in poetry
 * 1352 in poetry
 * 1351 in poetry
 * 1350 in poetry

1340s

 * 1349 in poetry
 * 1348 in poetry
 * 1347 in poetry
 * 1346 in poetry
 * 1345 in poetry
 * 1344 in poetry
 * 1343 in poetry (c.) Birth of Geoffrey Chaucer, known as father of English poetry (died 1400)
 * 1342 in poetry
 * 1341 in poetry
 * 1340 in poetry

1330s

 * 1339 in poetry
 * 1338 in poetry
 * 1337 in poetry
 * 1336 in poetry
 * 1335 in poetry
 * 1334 in poetry
 * 1333 in poetry
 * 1332 in poetry
 * 1331 in poetry
 * 1330 in poetry

1320s

 * 1329 in poetry
 * 1328 in poetry
 * 1327 in poetry
 * 1326 in poetry
 * 1325 in poetry Birth of Hafez, Persian poet
 * 1324 in poetry
 * 1323 in poetry
 * 1322 in poetry
 * 1321 in poetry
 * 1320 in poetry

1310s

 * 1319 in poetry
 * 1318 in poetry
 * 1317 in poetry
 * 1316 in poetry
 * 1315 in poetry
 * 1314 in poetry
 * 1313 in poetry
 * 1312 in poetry
 * 1311 in poetry
 * 1310 in poetry

1300s

 * 1309 in poetry
 * 1308 in poetry
 * 1307 in poetry
 * 1306 in poetry
 * 1305 in poetry
 * 1304 in poetry
 * 1303 in poetry
 * 1302 in poetry
 * 1301 in poetry
 * 1300 in poetry Kebra Nagast, Sundiata Keita in oral form

1290s

 * 1299 in poetry
 * 1298 in poetry
 * 1297 in poetry
 * 1296 in poetry
 * 1295 in poetry
 * 1294 in poetry
 * 1293 in poetry
 * 1292 in poetry
 * 1291 in poetry Death of Saadi
 * 1290 in poetry

1280s

 * 1289 in poetry
 * 1288 in poetry
 * 1287 in poetry The Jewang Un'gi by Yi Seung-hyu
 * 1286 in poetry
 * 1285 in poetry
 * 1284 in poetry
 * 1283 in poetry
 * 1282 in poetry
 * 1281 in poetry
 * 1280 in poetry

1270s

 * 1279 in poetry
 * 1278 in poetry
 * 1277 in poetry
 * 1276 in poetry
 * 1275 in poetry
 * 1274 in poetry
 * 1273 in poetry
 * 1272 in poetry
 * 1271 in poetry
 * 1270 in poetry

1260s

 * 1269 in poetry
 * 1268 in poetry
 * 1267 in poetry
 * 1266 in poetry
 * 1265 in poetry
 * 1264 in poetry
 * 1263 in poetry
 * 1262 in poetry
 * 1261 in poetry
 * 1260 in poetry

1250s

 * 1259 in poetry
 * 1258 in poetry
 * 1257 in poetry
 * 1256 in poetry
 * 1255 in poetry
 * 1254 in poetry
 * 1253 in poetry
 * 1252 in poetry
 * 1251 in poetry
 * 1250 in poetry

1240s

 * 1249 in poetry
 * 1248 in poetry
 * 1247 in poetry
 * 1246 in poetry
 * 1245 in poetry
 * 1244 in poetry
 * 1243 in poetry
 * 1242 in poetry
 * 1241 in poetry
 * 1240 in poetry

1230s

 * 1239 in poetry
 * 1238 in poetry
 * 1237 in poetry
 * 1236 in poetry
 * 1235 in poetry
 * 1234 in poetry
 * 1233 in poetry
 * 1232 in poetry
 * 1231 in poetry
 * 1230 in poetry

1220s

 * 1229 in poetry
 * 1228 in poetry
 * 1227 in poetry
 * 1226 in poetry
 * 1225 in poetry
 * 1224 in poetry
 * 1223 in poetry
 * 1222 in poetry
 * 1221 in poetry
 * 1220 in poetry

1210s

 * 1219 in poetry
 * 1218 in poetry
 * 1217 in poetry
 * 1216 in poetry
 * 1215 in poetry
 * 1214 in poetry
 * 1213 in poetry
 * 1212 in poetry
 * 1211 in poetry
 * 1210 in poetry Birth of Saadi, Persian poet

1200s

 * 1209 in poetry
 * 1208 in poetry Estimated date of the Gesta Danorum
 * 1207 in poetry
 * 1206 in poetry
 * 1205 in poetry
 * 1204 in poetry
 * 1203 in poetry
 * 1202 in poetry
 * 1201 in poetry
 * 1200 in poetry

1190s

 * 1199 in poetry
 * 1198 in poetry
 * 1197 in poetry
 * 1196 in poetry
 * 1195 in poetry Approximate date of El Cantar de mio Cid
 * 1194 in poetry
 * 1193 in poetry
 * 1192 in poetry
 * 1191 in poetry
 * 1190 in poetry Approximate date of The Tale of Igor's Campaign

1180s

 * 1189 in poetry
 * 1188 in poetry
 * 1187 in poetry
 * 1186 in poetry
 * 1185 in poetry
 * 1184 in poetry
 * 1183 in poetry
 * 1182 in poetry
 * 1181 in poetry
 * 1180 in poetry

1170s

 * 1179 in poetry
 * 1178 in poetry
 * 1177 in poetry
 * 1176 in poetry
 * 1175 in poetry
 * 1174 in poetry
 * 1173 in poetry
 * 1172 in poetry
 * 1171 in poetry
 * 1170 in poetry

1160s

 * 1169 in poetry
 * 1168 in poetry
 * 1167 in poetry
 * 1166 in poetry
 * 1165 in poetry
 * 1164 in poetry
 * 1163 in poetry
 * 1162 in poetry
 * 1161 in poetry
 * 1160 in poetry

1150s

 * 1159 in poetry
 * 1158 in poetry
 * 1157 in poetry
 * 1156 in poetry
 * 1155 in poetry
 * 1154 in poetry
 * 1153 in poetry
 * 1152 in poetry
 * 1151 in poetry
 * 1150 in poetry

1140s

 * 1149 in poetry
 * 1148 in poetry
 * 1147 in poetry
 * 1146 in poetry
 * 1145 in poetry
 * 1144 in poetry
 * 1143 in poetry
 * 1142 in poetry
 * 1141 in poetry
 * 1140 in poetry

1130s

 * 1139 in poetry
 * 1138 in poetry
 * 1137 in poetry
 * 1136 in poetry
 * 1135 in poetry
 * 1134 in poetry
 * 1133 in poetry
 * 1132 in poetry
 * 1131 in poetry
 * 1130 in poetry

1120s

 * 1129 in poetry
 * 1128 in poetry
 * 1127 in poetry
 * 1126 in poetry
 * 1125 in poetry
 * 1124 in poetry
 * 1123 in poetry
 * 1122 in poetry
 * 1121 in poetry
 * 1120 in poetry

1110s

 * 1119 in poetry
 * 1118 in poetry
 * 1117 in poetry
 * 1116 in poetry
 * 1115 in poetry
 * 1114 in poetry
 * 1113 in poetry
 * 1112 in poetry
 * 1111 in poetry
 * 1110 in poetry

1100s

 * 1109 in poetry
 * 1108 in poetry
 * 1107 in poetry
 * 1106 in poetry
 * 1105 in poetry
 * 1104 in poetry
 * 1103 in poetry
 * 1102 in poetry
 * 1101 in poetry
 * 1100 in poetry The Knight in the Panther's Skin by Shota Rustaveli

1090s

 * 1099 in poetry
 * 1098 in poetry
 * 1097 in poetry
 * 1096 in poetry
 * 1095 in poetry
 * 1094 in poetry
 * 1093 in poetry
 * 1092 in poetry
 * 1091 in poetry
 * 1090 in poetry

1080s

 * 1089 in poetry
 * 1088 in poetry
 * 1087 in poetry
 * 1086 in poetry
 * 1085 in poetry
 * 1084 in poetry
 * 1083 in poetry
 * 1082 in poetry
 * 1081 in poetry
 * 1080 in poetry

1070s

 * 1079 in poetry
 * 1078 in poetry
 * 1077 in poetry
 * 1076 in poetry
 * 1075 in poetry
 * 1074 in poetry
 * 1073 in poetry
 * 1072 in poetry
 * 1071 in poetry
 * 1070 in poetry

970s

 * 977 - The Shahnameh by Ferdowsi

900s

 * Earliest possible date of Lebor Gabála Érenn

600s

 * 600 – Venantius Fortunatus born (c. 530 – c. 600), Latin poet and hymnodist from Northern Italy
 * 615 – Saint Columbanus (born 543), Hiberno-Latin poet and writer
 * 625 – Maymun Ibn Qays Al-a'sha born (died 625)
 * 661 – Labīd died this year (born 560); Arabic poet

500s

 * 500 – Procopius born about this year (died 565)
 * 505 – Blossius Aemilius Dracontius born about this year (born 455) of Carthage, a Latin poet
 * 521
 * July 17 – Magnus Felix Ennodius died (born 474 – July 17, 521), Bishop of Pavia and poet, writing in Latin
 * November – Jacob of Serugh died (born 451), writing in Syriac
 * 530 – Venantius Fortunatus born (c. 530 – c. 600), Latin poet and hymnodist from Northern Italy
 * 534 – Taliesin born about this year (died c. 599), the earliest identified Welsh poet
 * 536 – Agathias born about this year (died 582/594); Ancient Greek poet and historian
 * 539 – Chilperic I born (died September 584) Frankish king of Neustria and a Latin poet
 * 543 – Saint Columbanus (died 615), Hiberno-Latin poet and writer
 * 544 – Arator declaims his poem De Actibus Apostolorum in the Church of San Pietro-in-Vinculi
 * 554 – 'Abid ibn al-Abris died about this year; Arabic poet
 * 560:
 * Samaw'al ibn 'Adiya died about this year; Jewish poet writing in Arabic
 * Labīd born this year (died 661); Arabic poet
 * 565 – Procopius died (born about 500)
 * 570 – Maymun Ibn Qays Al-a'sha born (died 625)
 * 580 – Antara Ibn Shaddad died about this year; Arabic poet
 * 584
 * (September) – Chilperic I died (born 539) Frankish king of Neustria and a Latin poet
 * Amr ibn Kulthum died about this year; Arabic poet
 * 599 – Taliesin died about this year (born c. 534), the earliest identified Welsh poet

400s

 * Unknown – Compilation of the Mahavamsa by Buddhist monks
 * 451 – Jacob of Serugh born (died November 521), writing in Syriac
 * 455 – Blossius Aemilius Dracontius born about this year (died c. 505) of Carthage, a Latin poet
 * 474 – Magnus Felix Ennodius (died July 17, 521), Bishop of Pavia and poet, writing in Latin

Poetry before the 5th century

 * 4th century in poetry
 * 3rd century in poetry
 * 2nd century in poetry
 * 1st century in poetry
 * 1st century BC in poetry
 * 2nd century BC in poetry
 * 3rd century BC in poetry
 * 4th century BC in poetry
 * 5th century BC in poetry
 * 6th century BC in poetry
 * 7th century BC in poetry

Before 1000 BC in poetry

 * 11th century BC – earliest works in the Classic of Poetry
 * c. 1500 BC – Earliest possible date for composition of the "family poems" in the Rig Veda
 * c. 23rd century BC – Enheduanna, The Exaltation of Inanna and the Temple Hymns
 * c. 26th century BC – Kesh Temple Hymn