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Today in history

  • 1845

    Thomas Hood – Hood died in 1845 at the age of just 45. His wife, Jane, who also suffered from poor health, passed away just 18 months after him. [London, United Kingdom]

  • 1895

    Ruben Dario – On the 3rd of May 1895 Dario's mother Rosa Sarmiento pases away [Buenos Aires, Argentina]

  • 1915

    John McCrae – On May the 3rd 1915 McCrae writes "In Flanders Field" while still at the battlefront [Ypres, Belgium]

  • 1924

    Yehuda Amichai – Yehuda Amichai was born in Wurzberg, Germany in 1924 to a Jewish Orthodox family and grew up speaking Hebrew and German. [Wurzberg, Germany]

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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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