1874 in poetry
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God grant that the reader, emboldened and having become at present as fierce as what he is reading, find, without loss of bearings, his way, his wild and treacherous passage through the desolate swamp
Title page of Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
1944 in poetry
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1874 in poetry
…American writer, poet and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature; spends most of her life in France February 7 – Olive Custance (died 1944), English poet February 9 – Amy Lowell (died 1925), American poet of the imagist school, posthumous winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926…
Canadian poet E. J. Pratt in 1944