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Hopkins,Wreck of the Deutschland (c. 1875)

Dickinson, Poems (1890)

Whitman, Leaves of Grass (9^th ed.) (1892)

Housman, A Shropshire Lad (1896)

Hardy, Wessex Poems (1898)

Pound, Personae (1909)

A Boy’s Will; North of Boston (1914)

Mountain Interval (1916)

Yeats, The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

Eliot, The Wasteland; Robinson, Collected Poems (1922)

New Hampshire; Williams, Spring and All; Stevens, Harmonium; Cummings, Tulips and Chimneys (1923)

Hughes, The Weary Blues (1926)

West-Running Brook (1928)

Thomas, 18 Poems (1934)

A Further Range (Pulitzer, 1936)

A Witness Tree (1942)

A Masque of Reason; Brooks, A Street in Bronzeville (1945)

Pound, Cantos (1948)

Ginsberg, Howl (1956)

In the Clearing (1962)

1870

1965

Frost born in San Francisco (Mar. 26, 1874)

Frost’s father dies; family moves East (1885)

Frost marries Elinor White (1892?;1895)

Frosts move to Derry, NH (1900)

Frost and family live in England (1912—15)

World War I (1914—18)

Russian Revolution; U.S. enters World War I (1917)

Prohibition ratified in U.S. (1919)

Harlem Renaissance flourishes(1920s)

Lindbergh crosses Atlantic (1927)

Stock market crash (1929); start of Great Depression

Nazis gain control of Germany (1933)

Spanish Civil War (1936—39)

Elinor Frost dies (1938)

World War II (1939—45); Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and U.S. enters war (1941)

U.S. drops atomic bomb on Japan (1945)

Germany divided (1949)

Korean War (1950—53)

Cuban Revolution (1959)

Frost recites "Gift Outright" at Kennedy’s inauguration; Berlin Wall erected (1961)

Cuban Missile crisis (1962)

Frost dies Jan. 29; Kennedy assassinated (1963)