Poets Calendar 2025-2026

One poet per week, each appearing only once, featuring birth or death anniversaries

Week 1: September 21-27, 2025

Virgil (15 Oct 70 BCE – 21 Sept 19 BCE, Rome)
Major Work: "Aeneid" (19 BCE)
📅 Death Anniversary: September 21

Week 2: September 28 - October 4, 2025

T.S. Eliot (26 Sept 1888 – 4 Jan 1965, U.S./England)
Major Work: "The Waste Land" (1922)
📅 Birth Anniversary: September 26

Week 3: October 5-11, 2025

Wallace Stevens (2 Oct 1879 – 2 Aug 1955, U.S.)
Major Work: "Harmonium" (1923)
📅 Birth Anniversary: October 2

Week 4: October 12-18, 2025

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (6 Aug 1809 – 6 Oct 1892, England)
Major Work: "In Memoriam A.H.H." (1850)
📅 Death Anniversary: October 6

Week 5: October 19-25, 2025

Sir Philip Sidney (30 Nov 1554 – 17 Oct 1586, England)
Major Work: "Astrophel and Stella" (1591)
📅 Death Anniversary: October 17

Week 6: October 26 - November 1, 2025

Arthur Rimbaud (20 Oct 1854 – 10 Nov 1891, France)
Major Work: "Illuminations" (1886)
📅 Birth Anniversary: October 20

Week 7: November 2-8, 2025

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340s – 25 Oct 1400, England)
Major Work: "The Canterbury Tales" (1387–1400)
📅 Death Anniversary: October 25

Week 8: November 9-15, 2025

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 Oct 1772 – 25 July 1834, England)
Major Work: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798)
📅 Birth Anniversary: October 21

Week 9: November 16-22, 2025

John Keats (31 Oct 1795 – 23 Feb 1821, England)
Major Work: "Odes" (1819)
📅 Birth Anniversary: October 31

Week 10: November 23-29, 2025

Ezra Pound (30 Oct 1885 – 1 Nov 1972, U.S.)
Major Work: "The Cantos" (begun 1917, published 1925–1969)
📅 Birth Anniversary: October 30

Week 11: November 30 - December 6, 2025

John Milton (9 Dec 1608 – 8 Nov 1674, England)
Major Work: "Paradise Lost" (1667)
📅 Death Anniversary: November 8

Week 12: December 7-13, 2025

Dylan Thomas (27 Oct 1914 – 9 Nov 1953, Wales)
Major Work: "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (1951)
📅 Death Anniversary: November 9

Week 13: December 14-20, 2025

Marianne Moore (15 Nov 1887 – 5 Feb 1972, U.S.)
Major Work: "Collected Poems" (1951)
📅 Birth Anniversary: November 15

Week 14: December 21-27, 2025

William Cowper (26 Nov 1731 – 25 Apr 1800, England)
Major Work: "The Task" (1785)
📅 Birth Anniversary: November 26

Week 15: December 28, 2025 - January 3, 2026

William Blake (28 Nov 1757 – 12 Aug 1827, England)
Major Work: "Songs of Innocence and Experience" (1794)
📅 Birth Anniversary: November 28

Week 16: January 4-10, 2026

Horace (8 Dec 65 BCE – 27 Nov 8 BCE, Rome)
Major Work: "Odes" (23 BCE)
📅 Birth Anniversary: December 8

Week 17: January 11-17, 2026

Christina Rossetti (5 Dec 1830 – 29 Dec 1894, England)
Major Work: "Goblin Market" (1862)
📅 Birth Anniversary: December 5

Week 18: January 18-24, 2026

Rainer Maria Rilke (4 Dec 1875 – 29 Dec 1926, Austria/Germany)
Major Work: "Duino Elegies" (1923)
📅 Birth Anniversary: December 4

Week 19: January 25-31, 2026

Emily Dickinson (10 Dec 1830 – 15 May 1886, U.S.)
Major Work: Poems (first posthumous edition 1890, written 1850s–1880s)
📅 Birth Anniversary: December 10

Week 20: February 1-7, 2026

Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 Dec 1889, England)
Major Work: "Men and Women" (1855)
📅 Death Anniversary: December 12

Week 21: February 8-14, 2026

Heinrich Heine (13 Dec 1797 – 17 Feb 1856, Germany)
Major Work: "Book of Songs" (1827)
📅 Birth Anniversary: December 13

Week 22: February 15-21, 2026

Thomas Gray (26 Dec 1716 – 30 July 1771, England)
Major Work: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751)
📅 Birth Anniversary: December 26

Week 23: February 22-28, 2026

Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 13 Jan 1599, England)
Major Work: "The Faerie Queene" (1590, 1596)
📅 Death Anniversary: January 13

Week 24: March 1-7, 2026

Paul Verlaine (30 Mar 1844 – 8 Jan 1896, France)
Major Work: "Romances sans paroles" (1874)
📅 Death Anniversary: January 8

Week 25: March 8-14, 2026

Lord Byron (22 Jan 1788 – 19 Apr 1824, England)
Major Work: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" (1812–1818)
📅 Birth Anniversary: January 22

Week 26: March 15-21, 2026

W.B. Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 Jan 1939, Ireland)
Major Work: "The Tower" (1928)
📅 Death Anniversary: January 28

Week 27: March 22-28, 2026

Robert Frost (26 Mar 1874 – 29 Jan 1963, U.S.)
Major Work: "North of Boston" (1914)
📅 Death Anniversary: January 29

Week 28: March 29 - April 4, 2026

Langston Hughes (1 Feb 1902 – 22 May 1967, U.S.)
Major Work: "The Weary Blues" (1926)
📅 Birth Anniversary: February 1

Week 29: April 5-11, 2026

Sylvia Plath (27 Oct 1932 – 11 Feb 1963, U.S.)
Major Work: "Ariel" (1965, posthumous)
📅 Death Anniversary: February 11

Week 30: April 12-18, 2026

Heinrich Heine (13 Dec 1797 – 17 Feb 1856, Germany)
Major Work: "Book of Songs" (1827)
📅 Death Anniversary: February 17

Week 31: April 19-25, 2026

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 Mar 1806 – 29 June 1861, England)
Major Work: "Sonnets from the Portuguese" (1850)
📅 Birth Anniversary: March 6

Week 32: April 26 - May 2, 2026

William Carlos Williams (17 Sept 1883 – 4 Mar 1963, U.S.)
Major Work: "Spring and All" (1923)
📅 Death Anniversary: March 4

Week 33: May 3-9, 2026

Stéphane Mallarmé (18 Mar 1842 – 9 Sept 1898, France)
Major Work: "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" (1897)
📅 Birth Anniversary: March 18

Week 34: May 10-16, 2026

Ovid (20 Mar 43 BCE – 17 CE, Rome)
Major Work: "Metamorphoses" (8 CE)
📅 Birth Anniversary: March 20

Week 35: May 17-23, 2026

Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892, U.S.)
Major Work: "Leaves of Grass" (1855)
📅 Death Anniversary: March 26

Week 36: May 24-30, 2026

Paul Verlaine (30 Mar 1844 – 8 Jan 1896, France)
Major Work: "Romances sans paroles" (1874)
📅 Birth Anniversary: March 30

Week 37: May 31 - June 6, 2026

Andrew Marvell (31 Mar 1621 – 16 Aug 1678, England)
Major Work: "To His Coy Mistress" (written c. 1650s)
📅 Birth Anniversary: March 31

Week 38: June 7-13, 2026

John Donne (1572 – 31 Mar 1631, England)
Major Work: "Holy Sonnets" (1633)
📅 Death Anniversary: March 31

Week 39: June 14-20, 2026

William Wordsworth (7 Apr 1770 – 23 Apr 1850, England)
Major Work: "Lyrical Ballads" (1798, with Coleridge)
📅 Birth Anniversary: April 7

Week 40: June 21-27, 2026

Charles Baudelaire (9 Apr 1821 – 31 Aug 1867, France)
Major Work: "Les Fleurs du mal" (1857)
📅 Birth Anniversary: April 9

Week 41: June 28 - July 4, 2026

Seamus Heaney (13 Apr 1939 – 30 Aug 2013, Ireland)
Major Work: "Death of a Naturalist" (1966)
📅 Birth Anniversary: April 13

Week 42: July 5-11, 2026

William Shakespeare (26 Apr 1564 – 23 Apr 1616, England)
Major Work: "Sonnets" (1609)
📅 Birth Anniversary: April 26

Week 43: July 12-18, 2026

William Cowper (26 Nov 1731 – 25 Apr 1800, England)
Major Work: "The Task" (1785)
📅 Death Anniversary: April 25

Week 44: July 19-25, 2026

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744, England)
Major Work: "Essay on Man" (1733–34)
📅 Birth Anniversary: May 21

Week 45: July 26 - August 1, 2026

Dante Alighieri (c. 21 May–20 June 1265 – 14 Sept 1321, Florence)
Major Work: "Divine Comedy" (1320/1321)
📅 Birth Anniversary: May 21 (estimated range)

Week 46: August 2-8, 2026

Langston Hughes (1 Feb 1902 – 22 May 1967, U.S.)
Major Work: "The Weary Blues" (1926)
📅 Death Anniversary: May 22

Week 47: August 9-15, 2026

Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892, U.S.)
Major Work: "Leaves of Grass" (1855)
📅 Birth Anniversary: May 31

Week 48: August 16-22, 2026

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744, England)
Major Work: "Essay on Man" (1733–34)
📅 Death Anniversary: May 30

Week 49: August 23-29, 2026

Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889, England)
Major Work: "Poems" (1918, posthumous)
📅 Death Anniversary: June 8

Week 50: August 30 - September 5, 2026

W.B. Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 Jan 1939, Ireland)
Major Work: "The Tower" (1928)
📅 Birth Anniversary: June 13

Week 51: September 6-12, 2026

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 Mar 1806 – 29 June 1861, England)
Major Work: "Sonnets from the Portuguese" (1850)
📅 Death Anniversary: June 29

Week 52: September 13-19, 2026

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 Aug 1792 – 8 July 1822, England)
Major Work: "Prometheus Unbound" (1820)
📅 Death Anniversary: July 8

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This calendar features 52 of the most important poets in Western literary history, with exactly one poet per week, each appearing only once, matched to their birth or death anniversaries.