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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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Events
- Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre.
- The National Monthly in Canada publishes an article by Arthur Stringer on Charles G. D. Roberts titled "The Father of Canadian Poetry", a title which stuck to Roberts, an influential poet, long afterward.[1]
Works published
United Kingdom
- John Davidson, The Testament of a Prime Minister[2]
- Ford Madox Ford, The Face of the Night[2]
- Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A drama of the Napoleonic Wars, Part I, followed by Part II (1906) and Part III (1908)[3][2]
- Henry Newbolt, Songs of the Sea[2]
- Alfred Noyes, Poems[2]
- AE (George William Russell), The Divine Vision, and Other Poems[2]
- Christina Rossetti, Poetical Works, edited by W. M. Rossetti[3]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Channel Passage, and Other Poems[3]
- William Watson, For England[2]
- W. B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods, including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass";[3] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States
- Florence Earle Coates (1850-1927), Mine and Thine[4]
- Joel Chandler Harris, The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus[5]
- Josephine Preston Peabody, Pan, A Choric Idyl[5]
- Carl Sandburg, In Reckless Ecstasy[5]
- John B. Tabb, The Rosary in Rhyme[5]
Other
- Constantine P. Cavafy, Waiting for the Barbarians, Greece
- Sophus Claussen, Djavlerier ("Diableries"), Denmark[6]
- Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, Between the Light, Canada[1]
- Saint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger, Images à Crusoé, published when the author was 17 years old; France[7]
- W. B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods, including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass";[3] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, The Radiant Road, Canada[1]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 23 – Louis Zukofsky (died 1978, American poet and co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets
- February 9 – Kikuko Kawakami 川上 喜久子 (died 1985), Japanese Showa period novelist, short-story writer and poet, a woman
- April 5 – Richard Eberhart (died 2005), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and a National Book Award in 1977
- April 27 – Cecil Day-Lewis (died 1972) Anglo-Irish poet, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and mystery writer
- May 13 – Earle Birney (died 1995), Canadian poet and two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (in 1942 and 1945)
- May 20 – Nagai Tatsuo 永井龍男, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (died 1990), Japanese Showa period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist
- July 5 – Harold Acton (died 1994) was an Anglo-Italian writer, scholar and dilettante
- July 12 – Pablo Neruda (died 1973) Chilean writer and Communist politician
- August 15 – Subedar Mahmoodmiya Mohammad Imam, popularly known as "Asim Randeri" (died 2009), Indian, Gujarati-language ghazal poet[8]
- October 21 – Patrick Kavanagh (died 1967), Irish poet and novelist
- October 29 – Audrey Alexandra Brown (died 1998), Canadian
- December 21 – Johannes Edfelt (died 1997), Swedish poet
- December 28 – Hori Tatsuo 堀 辰雄 (died 1953), Japanese Showa period writer, poet and translator
- December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born this year or 1903 (sources disagree) – 1951), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman)
- Also:
- A. Alexandra Brown, Canadian[3]
- John K. Ewers (died 1978), Australian
- Arthur R. D. Fairburn, New Zealander[3]
- J. A. R. McKellar (died 1932), Australian[9]
- Premendra Mitra (died 1988) Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction
Deaths
- January 8 – John Farrell (born 1851), Australian
- March 24 – Sir Edwin Arnold, 71, English poet and journalist
- October 4 – Adela Florence Nicolson, 39, English poet who wrote under the pseudonym "Laurence Hope", of suicide
- October 11 – Trumbull Stickney, 40, American classical scholar and poet, from a brain tumor
Awards and honors
See also
- 20th century in poetry
- 20th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- French literature of the 20th century
- Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
- Poetry
Notes
- ^ 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 f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g 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
- ^ "Cover and inside look into a first edition copy of Mine and Thine (1904)". Archived from the original on 2009-07-26. http://www.webcitation.org/5iZFHAzOK. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
- ^ a b c d 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)
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Bree, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
- ^ "http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Surat_Ghazal_poet_Asim_Randeri_dies/articleshow/4089304.cms", article, February 6, 2009, The Times of India, retrieved February 13, 2009
- ^ "McKellar, John Alexander Ross (1904-1932)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100292b.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
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