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Poetry timeline
20-year-old Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes one of his best-known collections, Twenty Love Poems
US poet E.A. Robinson publishes a narrative poem, The Man Who Died Twice, about the dissipation of artistic talent
Italian poet Eugenio Montale publishes his first collection, Bones of the Cuttlefish
Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders
Dorothy Parker has a best-seller with her first collection of verse, Enough Rope
W.B. Yeats's new volume of poems, The Tower, includes 'Sailing to Byzantium'
Stephen V. Benét publishes a verse narrative of the Civil War under the title John Brown's Body
García Lorca wins fame with his book of poems Gypsy Ballads
Blind Fireworks is Ulster writer Louis MacNeice's first collection of poems
English author W.H. Auden's first collection of poetry is published with the simple title Poems
The US poet Ogden Nash has an immediate success with his first volume of poems, Hard Lines
US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico
Pablo Neruda increases his international reputation with a collection of surrealist poems, Residencia en la tierra ('Residence on earth')
The Pylon group of British poets get their name from Stephen Spender's poem 'The Pylons'
19-year-old Mexican poet Octavio Paz publishes his first collection, Wild Moon
A collection of Constantine Cavafy's poems is published in Alexandria in an undated edition
Delmore Schwartz publishes his first book of poems, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
T.S. Eliot gives cats a poetic character in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
US poet Ezra Pound, in Italy during the war, broadcasts Fascist propaganda aimed at the United States
US poet Randall Jarrell publishes his first collection, Blood for a Stranger
Boston writer Robert Lowell publishes his first book of poems, Land of Unlikeness
The separate poems forming T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets are brought together for the first time as a single volume, published in New York
Robert Lowell's second collection, Lord Weary's Castle, contains 'The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket' and 'Mr Edwards and the Spider'
Ezra Pound, charged with treason for his wartime broadcasts, begins twelve years in a US hospital for the criminally insane
US poet Elizabeth Bishop publishes her first collection of poems, North and South
