Pogrom
a Russian word which first B. C. The chief poets of Rome came late on the scene, Vergil be- gained current usage in the English ing born 70 B. C., and Homer 65 language in 1903, when Russian ruffians, B. C. Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of instigated by the higher higher authorities, English poetry, died A. D. Oct. 25, 1400; made an attack on the Jewish quarter of "Kishinev, in Russian Bessarabia, killing fifty persons and injuring some hun- John Barbour, author of the "Bruce" (1373), was the first Scotch poet. Of the English poets of high genius were Chaucer in the 14th, Shakespeare and Spenser in the 16th century, Milton and Dryden in the 17th, Pope and Cowper in the 18th, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, etc., in the 19th. Of Scotch poets, Burns in the 18th century. Of American poets, Longfellow, Poe, Bryant, Whittier and many others, all living in the 19th century. For poetry of the 20th century, the United States see the works rns Amy Lowell, Untermeyer, Forest, Pound, Sandburg, etc.