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Today in history

  • 1631

    Richard Lovelace – On May the 5th 1631 Lovelace is made Gentleman Wayter Extraordinary to the king [London, United Kingdom]

  • 1784

    Samuel Johnson – On the 5th of May 1784 Johnson travels to Oxford with Boswell [Oxford, United Kingdom]

  • 1816

    John Keats – Keats published his first poem O Solitude in The Examiner. He then decided to devote more of his time to writing poetry than his up coming medical exams. [London, United Kingdom]

  • 1885

    Robert Frost – Frost's father was a teacher and later an editor of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin (which later merged with The San Francisco Examiner), and an unsuccessful candidate for city tax collector. [San Francisco, California, United States]

  • 1914

    Robinson Jeffers – On the 5th of May 1914 Jeffers daughter Maev is born [La Jolla, California, United States]

  • 1951

    Marriott Edgar – Marriott Edgar died in Battle in Sussex in 1951. [Battle, Sussex, United Kingdom]

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7th Century Poem Found / Poet’s Love Letters Found – Poetry News Roundup 1st May

This weeks poetry news round up takes a look at two important discoveries of literary significance. Seventh-century Poem Found in Rome Library A 1,200-year-old lost copy of a manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn has been found in the National Central Library of Rome by scholars from Dublin. The poem, which is a copy of the earliest surviving poem written in the English language, was written by a cattle herder in Northumbria. ...


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