Timeline
1852
Emily Dickinson's poetry first appears in print
December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886
b. Amherst, MA ; d. Amherst, MA
1855
Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass
May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892
b. West Hills, NY ; d. Camden, NJ
1900
REALISM (1870 – 1910)
First issue of The Smart Set
March 1900 – July 1930
New York, NY
1909
Yone Noguchi
Yone Noguchi publishes The Pilgrimage, a book that likely influenced the development of Imagism.
1912
MODERNISM (1910 – 1945)
First issue of Poetry magazine
October, 1912
1913
IMAGISM (1912 – 1917)
"In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound
October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972
b. Hailey, ID ; d. Venice, Italy
1914
Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons
February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946
b. Allegheny, PA ; d. Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Des Imagistes: An Anthology
Edited by Ezra Pound
1915
MODERNISM (1910 – 1945)
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965
b. St, Lois, MS ; d. London, England
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963
b. San Francisco, CA ; d. Boston, MA
Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey publishes her first book, Verse, establishing the American cinquain as a modern poetic form.
1917
MODERNISM (1910 – 1945)
Sara Teasdale's Love Songs
August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933
b. St. Louis ; d. New York, NY
1919
IMAGISM (1912 – 1917)
Carl Sandburg's Corn Husker
January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967
b. Galesburg, IL ; d. Flat Rock, NC
1922
First Pulitzer Prize in Poetry awarded to Edwin Arlington Robinson's Collected Poems
The first Pulitzer Prize poetry jury met in New Haven on Feb. 11, 1922.
"The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot
September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965
b. St, Lois, MS ; d. London, England
MODERNISM (1910 – 1945)
Belle Turnbull
Belle Turnbull publishes her first book Goldboat, a novel in verse set in a small Colorado mining town.
1923
Wallace Stevens's Harmonium
October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955
b. Reading, PA ; d. Hartford, CT
William Carlos Williams's Spring and All
September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963
b. Rutherford, NJ ; d. Rutherford, NJ
Edna St. Vincent Millay’s The Ballad of the Harp Weaver / A Few Figs from Thistles
February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950
b. Rockland, ME ; d. Austerlitz, NY
1924
Robert Frost's New Hampshire
January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967
b. Galesburg, IL ; d. Flat Rock, NC
1925
MODERNISM (1910 – 1945)
Wallace Stevens's Harmonium
October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955
b. Reading, PA ; d. Hartford, CT
William Carlos Williams's Spring and All
September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963
b. Rutherford, NJ ; d. Rutherford, NJ