1901 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- A small plaque is set on the Statue of Liberty to display Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "The New Colossus"
- The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sully Prudhomme, a French poet and essayist.
Works published in English
Canada
- Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States[1]
- William Henry Drummond, Johnnie Courteau and other Poems.[2]
- Charles Mair, Tecumseh: A Drama, and Canadian Poems, published in Toronto[3]
United Kingdom
- Jane Barlow, Ghost-Bereft, with Other Stories and Studies in Verse[4]
- C. S. Calverley, Complete Works (posthumous)[4]
- John Davidson
- Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present (published November 1901; book states "1902")[4][5]
- The Garden of Kama(U.K. title), India's Love Lyrics (U.S. title).
- George Meredith, A Reading of Life with Other Poems[4]
- Lady Margaret Sackville, Poems
United States
- Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States[1]
- medieval Hebrew poetrypublished in the United States
- Edwin Markham, Lincoln and Other Poems[1]
- William Vaughn Moody, Poems[1]
- George Santayana, A Hermit of Carmel and Other Poems[1]
Other in English
- Joseph Furtado, Poems, Bombay; India, Indian poetry in English[6]
- Australia
Works published in other languages
- Hayim Nahman Bialik, שירים, Hebrew published in Warsaw
- Peru[7]
- German[8]
- Francis Jammes, Le Deuil des primevères, France[9]
- Gujarati)[10]
- Gujarati)[10]
- Georgian
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 6 – Austrian medical doctor, journalist, radio broadcaster, translator, poet, anti-fascist resistance fighter and Communist Party official[11]
- January 16 – poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
- January 29 – German
- January 30 – German
- March 4? – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo or Rebearivelo (died 1937), Madagascar native and French-language poet
- March 5 – Israeli, Hebrew-language poet
- March 27 – Kenneth Slessor (died 1971), Australian newspaper journalist and poet
- April 20 – Michel Leiris, French author and poet
- April 29 – Hirohito (died 1989), Emperor of Japan and poet
- May 1 – Sterling Brown (died 1989) African-American teacher, poet, writer on folklore and literary critic
- May 30 – Israel
- June 3 – G. Sankara Kurup (died 1978), Indian Malayalam-language poet
- June 10 – Eric Maschwitz (died 1969), English entertainer, writer, broadcaster, broadcasting executive and poet
- June 13 – New Zealandhistorian and poet
- July 1 – Russian Constructivistpoet
- July 26 – Russian-born poet, novelist, playwright, critic and academic living in Europe from 1922 to 1950, then in the United States
- August 5 – Margarita Abella Caprile (died 1960), Argentine poet
- August 12 – American
- August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo (died 1968), Italian poet
- September 2 – Greek
- September 23 – Czech, Nobel Prize-winning poet and journalist
- September 28 – Australian[12]
- September 29 – Lanza del Vasto (died 1981), French poet and novelist
- October 2 – Roy Campbell (died 1957), South African poet and translator
- October 4 – Adrian Bell (died 1980), English rural writer and crossword compiler[5]
- Also:
- Germanwriter
- German
- Sankara Kurup (died 1978), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[13]
- German
- Arabiclanguage poet
- Russian
- Louis Paul, born Leroi Placet (approximate date of birth; died 1970), American fiction writer
- Russian
- Shinkichi Takahashi (died 1987), Japanese Dadaist poet
Deaths
- June 10 – Robert Williams Buchanan, 59, Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
- July 20 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, 61 (born 1840), English poet and critic
- July 23/24 – Greekpoet
- October 18 – Nicholas Flood Davin, 61 (born 1840), Irish-born Canadian lawyer, journalist, politician and poet
- November 10 – Sarah Carmichael (born 1838), American poet[5]
- December 23 – Transcendentalistpoet
- Also:
- Albery Allson Whitman (born 1851), African American poet and orator[5]
Awards and honors
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See also
- 20th-century French literature
- 20th century in poetry
- 20th century in literature
- List of years in literature
- Poetry
- Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- Victorian literature
- Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). "Preface". Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. New York: Oxford University Press. p. vi.
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.
- ^ Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ^ Latham, David (2005). "Mair, Charles". In Cook, Ramsay; Bélanger, Réal (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XV (1921–1930) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d 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
- ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ "Santos Chocano". Ale.uji.es. Archived from the original on 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ^ "Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
- ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3, retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ "Walter Fischer, 1901–1978". UeLEX.
- ^ "Moore, Tom Inglis (1901–1978)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
- ^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009