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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published in English
Canada
- George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, posthumously published (by his brother).[1]
- Sarah Anne Curzon, Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812: A Drama, and Other Poems.[2]
- Susie Frances ed. The Canadian Birthday Book, poetry anthology. (Toronto: Robinson).[3]
- William Douw Lighthall, Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure. ("Witness" Printing House).[4]
- Thomas O'Hagan, A Gate of birginas, Canada[1]
United Kingdom
- William Allingham, Rhymes for Young Folk[5]
- Robert Browning, Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day[5]
- Richard Le Gallienne, My Lady's Sonnets[5]
- George Meredith, Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life[5]
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods[5]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Jubilee[5]
- Katharine Tynan, Shamrocks, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[5]
United States
- Charles Follen Adams, Dialect Ballads
- Bronson Alcott, New Connecticut[6]
- Arlo Bates, Sonnets in Shadow[6]
- Palmer Cox, The Brownies: Their Book, children's fictional poetry[6]
- Emma Lazarus, By The Waters of Babylon[6]
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Branch of May[6]
- James Whitcomb Riley, Afterwhiles[6]
Other in English
- Henry Lawson, "A Song for the Republic", the author's first published poem, in The Bulletin, October 1 issue; Australia[7]
- Katharine Tynan, Shamrocks, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[5]
- William Butler Yeats, editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, an anthology, Dublin, Ireland[8]
Works published in other languages
Caricature of the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé
French language
- François Coppée, Arriere-saison; France[9]
- Louis-Honoré Fréchette, La légende d'un peuple, the author's best-known work, about episodes of Canadian history; French Canadian author published in Paris, France[10]
- Stéphane Mallarmé; France:
Other languages
- Narasinghrao, Kusumamala, his first collection of poems, "considered a definite advance in modern Gujarati poetry because of its novel use of poetic diction", according to A handbook of Indian Literature"[12]
- Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Narada Samvadam, Indian, Telugu-language long poem condemning banal, rule-minded poetry[13] (surname: Veeresalingam)
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 – Robinson Jeffers (died 1962), American poet and playwright
- February 3 – Georg Trakl (suicide 1914), 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)
- May 13 – Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (died 1964), Showa period poet, playwright and screenwriter (surname: Nagata)
- May 15 – Edwin Muir (died 1959), Scottish poet, novelist and translator
- May 16 – Jakob van Hoddis (died 1942), German
- May 31 - Saint-John Perse (died 1975), French diplomat, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1960
- June 20 – Kurt Schwitters (died 1947), German
- June 22 – Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (died 1975), English 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 – Blaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser (died 1961), Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916
- September 7 – Edith Sitwell (died 1964), English poet and critic
- September 21 – Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams (died 1975), Welsh poet, translator and academic
- September 16 – Hans Arp (died 1966), German
- September 27 – Frederick Macartney (died 1980), Australian
- October 11 – Pierre Jean Jouve (died 1976), French poet and novelist
- October 30 – Georg Heym (drowned 1912), German poet
- November 15 – Marianne Moore (died 1972), American Modernist poet and writer
- December 6 – Minakami Takitarō 水上滝太郎 pen name of Abe Shōzō (died 1940), Japanese, Showa period poet, 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 – K.M. Munshi (died 1971), Indian Gujarati-language novelist, playwright, writer, politician and lawyer
- Also:
- Skipwith Cannell (died 1957), American poet associated with the Imagist group (pronounce his last name with the stress on the second syllable)
- Margaret Curran (died 1962), Australian poet, editor and journalist
- Alphonse Métérié (died 1967), French newspaper editor, teacher and poet[14]
- Ramanayan Pathak (died 1955), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and husband of Heeraben Pathak[12]
- Sukumar Ray (সুকুমার রায়) (died 1923), Indian, Gujarati-language humorous poet, short-story writer and playwright
- Jatindranath Sengupta (died 1954), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 27 – Edward Rowland Sill, American
- October 12 – Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, born Dinah Maria Mulock, also referred to as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik (born 1826), English 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ↑ Search results: Sarah Anne Curzon, Open Library, Web, May 9, 2011.
- ↑ Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison," Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets, Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
- ↑ "William Douw Lighthall," RootsWeb, Ancestry.com, Web, Apr.29, 2011.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 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)
- ↑ "Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)", article, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition, retrieved May 13, 2009. Archived 2009-05-16.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "FRANCOIS EDOUARD JOACHIM COPPEE", article in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 edition, as published at the "LoveToKnow 1911 Classic Encyclopedia" website, retrieved February 7, 2010
- ↑ Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Blackmore, E. H., and A. M. Blackmore, translators, Stéphane Malarmé Collected Poems and Other Verse, "Chronology" page xxxv, 2006, New York (this edition): Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-280362-7, retrieved February 6, 2010 via Google Books
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, 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
- ↑ Brée, Germaine, Twentieth-Century French Literature, translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983
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