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1901 in poetry
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1901 poetry literature
This article covers 1901 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
thumb|Sully Prudhomme, first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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
William Henry Drummond, Johnnie Courteau and other Poems.Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
Charles Mair, Tecumseh: A Drama, and Canadian Poems, published in TorontoLatham David Mair, Charles 15 http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mair_charles_15E.html
United Kingdom
Jane Barlow, Ghost-Bereft, with Other Stories and Studies in VerseCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
C. S. Calverley, Complete Works (posthumous)
John Davidson
The Testament of a Man Forbid
The Testament of a Vivisector
Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present (published November 1901; book states "1902")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
Laurence Hope, The Garden of Kama (U.K. title), India's Love Lyrics (U.S. title).
George Meredith, A Reading of Life with Other Poems
Lady Margaret Sackville, Poems
United States
Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United StatesLudwig, Richard M. Nault, Clifford A. Jr. Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 https://archive.org/details/annalsofamerican00ludw registration 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. Preface vi
Nina Davis, translator, Songs of Exile by Hebrew Poets, English translator of medieval Hebrew poetry published in the United States
Edwin Markham, Lincoln and Other Poems
William Vaughn Moody, Poems
George Santayana, A Hermit of Carmel and Other Poems
Other in English
Joseph Furtado, Poems, Bombay; India, Indian poetry in EnglishNaik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, 0-391-03286-0, 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
Louise Mack, Dreams in Flower, Australia
Works published in other languages
Hayim Nahman Bialik, שירים, Hebrew published in Warsaw
José Santos Chocano, El fin de Satán y otros poemas (The End of Satan' and Other Poems), Peruhttp://www.ale.uji.es/chocano.htm Santos Chocano Ale.uji.es 2014-08-24 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120823025830/http://www.ale.uji.es/chocano.htm 2012-08-23
Stefan George, Die Fibel, poems written from 1886 to 1889; German"Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
Francis Jammes, Le Deuil des primevères, FranceRees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations, p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992, 978-0-14-042385-3, retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009
Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Kavyarasika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)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, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
Beheramji Malabari, Kavyarasika, (Indian writing in Gujarati)
Vazha-Pshavela, The Snake-eater, Georgian
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 6 – Walter Fischer (died 1978), Austrian medical doctor, journalist, radio broadcaster, translator, poet, anti-fascist resistance fighter and Communist Party officialUeLEX https://uelex.de/uebersetzer/fischer-walter/ Walter Fischer, 1901–1978
January 16 – Laura Riding Jackson (died 1991), American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
January 29 – Heinrich Anacker (died 1971), German
January 30 – Hans Erich Nossack (died 1977), German
March 4? – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo or Rebearivelo (died 1937), Madagascar native and French-language poet
March 5 – Yocheved Bat-Miriam (died 1979), Russian-born, 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 – Itsik Manger (or "Itzig Manger") איציק מאַנגער (died 1969), Yiddish poet and playwright born in Ukraine, a resident in Romania and Poland, then an immigrant to 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 – J. C. Beaglehole (died 1971), New Zealand historian and poet
July 1 – Vladimir Lugovskoy (or "Lugovskoi") (died 1957), Russian Constructivist poet
July 26 – Nina Berberova, Нина Николаевна Берберова (died 1993), 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 – Robert Francis (died 1987), American
August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo (died 1968), Italian poet
September 2 – Andreas Embirikos (died 1975), Greek
September 23 – Jaroslav Seifert (died 1986), Czech, Nobel Prize-winning poet and journalist
September 28 – T. Inglis Moore (died 1978), AustralianMoore, Tom Inglis (1901–1978) Australian Dictionary of Biography https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/moore-tom-inglis-11159 2007-10-02
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
Also:
Heinz Helmerking (died 1964), German writer
Kilian Kerst (died 1981), German
Sankara Kurup (died 1978), Indian, Malayalam-language poetPaniker, 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
Hans Lorber (died 1973), German
Amin Nakhla (died 1976), Lebanese, Arabic language poet
Irina Odoyevtseva, also "Odoevtseva" also "Iraida Gustavovna Beinlke Ivanova" (more probably born 1895; died 1990), Russian
Louis Paul, born Leroi Placet (approximate date of birth; died 1970), American fiction writer
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Smolensky or "Smolenskii" (died 1961), 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 – Andreas Laskaratos (born 1811), Greek poet
October 18 – Nicholas Flood Davin, 61 (born 1840), Irish-born Canadian lawyer, journalist, politician and poet
November 10 – Sarah Carmichael (born 1838), American poet
December 23 – William Ellery Channing, 73, American Transcendentalist poet
Also:
Albery Allson Whitman (born 1851), African American poet and orator
See also
Poetry
20th-century French literature
20th century in poetry
20th century in literature
List of years in literature
Poetry
List of years in 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
Category:20th-century poetry
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