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Events
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Works published
British Australia
- Australia[1]
British India
- Gujarati poetry because of its novel use of poetic diction", according to A handbook of Indian Literature"[2]
- poem condemning banal, rule-minded poetry[3]
Canada
- George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, English, posthumously published (by his brother).[4]
- Louis-Honoré Fréchette, La légende d'un peuple, French, the author's best-known work, about episodes of Canadian history; French Canadian author published in Paris[5]
- Sarah Anne Curzon, Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812: A Drama, and Other Poems, English.[6]
- Susie Frances ed. The Canadian Birthday Book, English, poetry anthology. (Toronto: Robinson).[7]
- William Douw Lighthall, Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure, English. ("Witness" Printing House).[8]
France
- François Coppée, Arriere-saison; French[9]
- Stéphane Mallarmé; all in French:
Ireland
United Kingdom
- William Allingham, Rhymes for Young Folk, English.[12]
- Robert Browning, Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day, English.[12]
- Richard Le Gallienne, My Lady's Sonnets[12]
- George Meredith, Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life, English.[12]
- Constance Naden, A modern apostle; The elixir of life; The story of Clarice, and other poems, English.[13]
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods, English.[12]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Jubilee, English.[12]
- Katharine Tynan, Shamrocks, English, published in the United Kingdom by an Irish poet.[12]
United States
- Charles Follen Adams, Dialect Ballads, English
- Amos Bronson Alcott, New Connecticut, English[14]
- Arlo Bates, Sonnets in Shadow, English[14]
- Palmer Cox, The Brownies: Their Book, English, children's fictional poetry[14]
- Emma Lazarus, By The Waters of Babylon, English[14]
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Branch of May, English[14]
- James Whitcomb Riley, Afterwhiles, English[14]
Awards and honors
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 – Robinson Jeffers (died 1962), American poet and playwright
- February 3 – German
- February 11 – Shinobu Orikuchi 折口 信夫, also known as Chōkū Shaku 釋 迢空 (died 1953), Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist and poet; a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he establishes an academic field named "Orikuchiism" (折口学, Orikuchigaku), a mix of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics and Shintō religion (surname: Orikuchi)
- March 9 – Ion Buzdugan, born Ivan Alexandrovici Buzdâga (died 1967), Bessarabian-Romanian poet, folklorist and politician
- May 10 – Dutch
- May 13 – Shōwa periodpoet, playwright and screenwriter (surname: Nagata)
- May 15 – Scottishpoet, novelist and translator
- May 16 – German
- May 31 - Nobel Prize for literature in 1960
- June 20 – German
- June 22 – Sir evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist
- June 28 – Orrick Glenday Johns (died 1946), American poet
- August 3 – Rupert Brooke (died on active service off Skyros, 1915), English poet
- August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (killed in action near Ypres in Belgium, 1917), Irish poet, "poet of the blackbirds"
- September 1 – Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a Frenchcitizen in 1916
- September 7 – Edith Sitwell (died 1964), English poet and critic
- September 21 – Sir poet, translator and academic
- September 16 – German
- September 27 – Australian
- October 11 – Pierre Jean Jouve (died 1976), French poet and novelist
- October 30 – Germanpoet
- November 15 – Marianne Moore (died 1972), American Modernist poet and writer
- December 6 – Shōwa periodpoet, novelist, literary critic and essayist (surname: Minakami)
- December 8 – Elizabeth Daryush (died 1977), English poet, daughter of Robert Bridges
- December 27 – Edward Andrade (died 1971), English physicist and poet.
- December 30 – Gujarati-language novelist, playwright, writer, politician and lawyer
- Also:
- Imagistgroup (pronounce his last name with the stress on the second syllable)
- Australianpoet, editor and journalist
- Alphonse Métérié (died 1967), French newspaper editor, teacher and poet[16]
- Gujarati-language poet and husband of Heera Pathak[2]
- Gujarati-language humorous poet, short-story writer and playwright
- Gujarati-language poet and writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 27 – Edward Rowland Sill, American
- July 15 – Adrien Rouquette (born 1813), American poet and missionary
- October 12 – novelist and poet
- November 19 – Emma Lazarus (born 1849), American poet who wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus", associated with the Statue of Liberty, where it is engraved on a plaque
- date not known – Isabella Valancy Crawford (born 1850), Canadian, from heart failure
See also
- 19th century in poetry
- 19th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- Victorian literature
- French literature of the 19th century
- Symbolist poetry
- Poetry
Notes
- ^ "Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)", article, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition, retrieved May 13, 2009. Archived 2009-05-16.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Natarajan, Nalini and Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Chapter 11: "Twentieth-Century Telugu Literature" by G. K. Subbarayudu and C. Vijayasree, pp 306-328, retrieved via Google Books, January 4, 20089
- ^ a b Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ^ Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
- ^ Search results: Sarah Anne Curzon, Open Library, Web, May 9, 2011.
- ^ Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison," Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets Archived 2011-01-06 at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
- ^ "William Douw Lighthall," RootsWeb, Ancestry.com, Web, Apr.29, 2011.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 101–102.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-280362-7, retrieved February 6, 2010 via Google Books
- ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, p 30
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ See The Complete Poetical Works of Constance Naden. London: Bickers & Son. 1894.
- ^ a b c d e f 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)
- ^ Hills, William Henry; Luce, Robert (1889). The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers. Vol. 2 (Public domain ed.). Writer Publishing Company. pp. 17–.
- ^ Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983