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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events edit

H.D. meets and befriends Ezra Pound
Times Literary Supplement begins publication^[1]

Works published in English edit

Canada edit

James B. Dollard, also known as "Father Dollard", Irish Mist and Sunshine^[2]
Anna Frances McCollum, Flower Legends and other Poems^[2]
Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, Tangled in Stars^[2]

United Kingdom edit

Alfred Austin, A Tale of True Love and Other Poems
Maurice Baring, The Black Prince and Other Poems (published this year; book states "1903")^[1]
Walter De la Mare (publishing under the pen name "Walter Ramal"),^[1] Songs of Childhood^[3]
Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and Present^[3] actually published last year, although the book states "1902"^[3]
Thomas MacDonagh, Through the Ivory Gate, Irish poet published in Ireland
John Edward Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads, including "I must go down to the sea again"^[3]
Alice Meynell, Later Poems^[1]
Henry Newbolt, The Sailing of the Long Ships, and Other Poems^[1]
Laurence Hope, editor, The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom^[4]
Alfred Noyes, The Loom of Years^[1]
Dora Sigerson, The Woman Who Went to Hell, and Other Ballads and Lyrics^[1]
W. B. Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan^[3]

United States edit

Elizabeth Akers Allen, The Sunset Song^[5]
Madison Cawein, Kentucky Poems^[5]
John William De Forest, Poem: Medley and Palestrina^[5]
Ellen Glasgow, The Freeman and Other Poems^[5]
James Whitcomb Riley, The Book of Joyous Children^[5]
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Captain Craig^[5]
Trumbull Stickney, Dramatic Verses^[5]
John B. Tabb, Later Lyrics^[5]

Other in English edit

Adela Florence Cory Nicolson, editor, The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom^[4]

Works published in other languages edit

Francis Jammes, Clairières dans le ciel, France^[6]
Chanda Jha, Gitasaptasati; India, Maithili-language^[7]
Else Lasker-Schüler, Styx, German
Ștefan Petică, Fecioara în alb. Când vioarele tăcură. Moartea visurilor, Romanian
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images, German

Births edit

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 10 – Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (d. 1980)
February 1 – Langston Hughes (died 1967), African-American jazz poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer and newspaper columnist best known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance
February 19 – Kay Boyle (died 1992, award-winning American poet, writer, educator and political activist
February 22 – R. D. Fitzgerald (died 1987), Australian
April 1 – Maria Polydouri (died 1930), Greek
May 12 – Clementina Suárez (died 1991), Honduran
July 3 – Yoshino Hideo (吉野秀雄) (died 1967), Japanese Shōwa period tanka poet
July 19 – Ada Verdun Howell (died 1981), Australian
July 28 – Kenneth Fearing (died 1961), American poet and writer
August 19 – Ogden Nash (died 1971), American poet best known for pithy and funny light verse.
August 24 – Felipe Alfau (died 1999), Spanish-American poet, translator and author
September 20 – Stevie Smith (died 1971), British poet and novelist
September 25 – Chen Xiaocui (suicide 1967), Chinese poet, fiction writer, translator and painter
October 13 – Arna Bontemps (died 1973), American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
November 1 – Nordahl Grieg (killed in action 1943), Norwegian poet and author.
November 8 – A. J. M. Smith (died 1980), Canadian
November 20 – Nazim Hikmet (died 1963), Turkish poet, dramatist and Communist
December 6 – Michael Roberts (died 1948), English poet, writer, critic, broadcaster and teacher
December 10 – Dulce María Loynaz (died 1997), Cuban
December 22 – Evelyn Eaton (died 1983), Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet and academic

Deaths edit

January 20 – Aubrey Thomas De Vere, 88, Irish poet and critic
April 1 – Thomas Dunn English (born 1819), American politician, poet, author, songwriter who was elected to the United States House of Representatives and had a feud with Edgar Allan Poe
May 6 – Bret Harte, 66, American author and poet, best remembered for accounts of pioneering life in California
June 29 – Brunton Stephens (born 1835), Australian
September 6 – Philip James Bailey, 86, English poet
September 19 – Masaoka Shiki (正岡子規), pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori (正岡常規), who changed his name to Noboru (升) (born 1867), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player
September 29 – William McGonagall, Scottish weaver, actor, and poet comically renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language
October 4 – Lionel Pigot Johnson, 35 (born 1867), English poet, essayist, and critic

Awards and honors edit

Notes edit

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b ^c Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Web page titled "A Time-Line of Poetry in English" at the Representative Poetry Online website of the University of Toronto, retrieved December 20, 2008
^ ^a ^b Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
^ Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", p 645, in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008.