1908 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 |
| Years in literature: | 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 19th century 20th century 21st century |
| Centuries: | 19th century · 20th century · 21st century |
| Decades: | 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s |
| Years: | 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. After spending several months in Venice he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920.
[edit] The Poets' Club
- Founding in London of the Poets' Club, a group comprised mainly amateurs which met monthly for most of the year.
- Late in the year — T.E. Hulme reads to the Poets' Club his paper, A Lecture on Modern Poetry, a concise statement of his influential advocacy of free verse
[edit] Works published
- William Stanley Braithwaite, The House of Falling Leaves with Other Poems
- William Henry Davies, Nature Poems and Others
- Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: Part 3 [1]
- Ezra Pound, A Lume Spento[2]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Births
- April 24 - George Oppen, American poet. Won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in poetry (d. 1984)
- May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
- Julian Bell
- Dennis Devlin (Ireland)
- Paul Engle (US)
- Josephine Jacobsen (Canada)
- Kathleen Jessie Raine
[edit] Deaths
- October 21 - Charles Eliot Norton, 80, scholar and man of letters
- Ernest Fenollosa
- Alexander L. Posey
- James Ryder Randall
- Edmund Clarence Steadman
[edit] Notes
- ^ Part three of Hardy's epic trilogy of the Napoleonic War
- ^ Pound's first poetry collection (the title translates as "a dim light") published at his own expense in Venice
