🚀 go-pugleaf

SO I'm six-plus months late...oh well.


Besides, in the case of Isaac Watts, at least, some celebrations will
take place more than two weeks after the anniversary itself.


You can see more at Wikipedia - just choose any year you like, then
click on "Literature."


550th anniversary
Sept: Lodovico Ariosto


500th
Sept: Pierre de Ronsard


350th
Jan: Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon
April: Oliver Goldsmith
July: Isaac Watts


300th
April: Immanuel Kant
July Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock


250th
Aug: Robert Southey


200th (death anniversary)
April: George Gordon, Lord Byron


200th
Jan: Wilkie Collins
Mar: William Allingham
July: Alexadre Dumas fils
Sept: Phoebe Cary
Sept: Richard Doyle
Dec: Rev. George MacDonald


150th
Jan: Thornton W. Burgess
Jan: Laura Adams Armer
Jan: Robert Service
Jan: W. Somerset Maugham
Feb: Hugo von Hoffmannsthal
Feb: Gertrude Stein
Feb: Amy Lowell
Feb: Elsa Beskow
March: Robert Frost
May: Maud Lindsay
May: G.K. Chesterton
Nov: Clarence Day
Nov: Winston Churchill
Nov: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Dec: C.B. Falls
Dec: Holbrook Jackson


100th (death anniversaries)
Jan: Peter Newell
May: E. Nesbit
July: Palmer Cox
Oct: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dec: Gene Stratton-Porter


100th anniversaries of children's books:


Tales of Silver Lands (Newbery winner the following year)
The Poppy-Seed Cakes
The Boxcar Children