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.