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Events
Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein
Works published in English
Canada
Jean Blewett, The Cornflower and Other PoemsGarvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
Helena Coleman, Songs and Sonnets
Sophia Almon Hensley, The Heart of a Woman.Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994.
J. D. Logan, Preludes, Sonnets and Other Verses
Duncan Campbell Scott, Via Borealis, Toronto: William Tyrrell & Co.
Frederick George Scott, The Hymn of Empire, and Other Poems
United Kingdom
'Æ' (George William Russell), By Still WatersCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Joseph Campbell, The Rushlight
John Davidson, Holiday, and Other Poems
Walter de la Mare, Poems
C. M. Doughty, The Dawn in Britainhttps://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/timeline/#heading9 A Time-Line of Poetry in English Representative Poetry Online University of Toronto 2008-12-20
Thomas Hardy. The Dynasts, II
Douglas Hyde, editor and translator into English from Gaelic, The Religious Songs of Connacht, IrelandPreminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al., ed. (1993). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press; MJF Books. "Irish Poetry" article, "Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic" section, p. 633.
Thomas MacDonagh, The Golden Joy, Irish poet published in Ireland
Harold Monro, Poems
Alfred Noyes:
Drake
"The Highwayman", a ballad
Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall, 'Twixt Earth and Stars
Arthur Symons, The Fool of the World, and Other Poems
W. B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States
Gelett Burgess, Are You a Bromide?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)
William Ellery Leonard, Sonnets and Poems
Horace L. Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, five volumes, published from this year to 1964
Other in English
W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, New Zealand Verse, anthologyPreminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
W. B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
France
Francis Jammes:
Clairières dans le CielRees, 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
L'Eglise habillée de feuillesWeb page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les Sept SolitudesAuster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 0-394-52197-8
Other
José Santos Chocano, Alma América, pról. de Miguel se Unamuno, PeruWeb page titled "José Santos Chocano" https://web.archive.org/web/20120823025830/http://www.ale.uji.es/chocano.htm 2012-08-23 at the Jaume University website, retrieved August 29, 2011
Amelia Denis de Icaza, "Al Cerro Ancón" ("Ancon Hill"), Panama
Vera Figner, Stikhotvoreniia ("Poems"), Russia
Alfred Garneau, Poésies, posthumously published; French language; CanadaStory, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
Marie Heiberg, Mure-lapse laulud ("Songs of a Problem Child"), EstoniaHeiberg Marie Mure-lapse laulud 1906 Noor Eesti https://books.google.com/books?id=lCgKmQEACAAJ
Johannes V. Jensen, Digte, Denmark"Danish Poetry" article, p 272, in Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
Mikhail Kuzmin, Alexandrian Songs, Russia
Govardhanram N. Tripathi, Kavi Dayramno Aksharadeh, an appraisal of the works of poet Kavi Dayramno Aksharadeh (Indian, writing in Gujarati) (criticism)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
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 5 – Takashi Matsumoto 松本たかし(died 1956), Japanese Shōwa period professional haiku poet in the Shippo-kai haiku circle, then, starting in 1929, in the Hototogisu group also including Kawabata Bosha; founder of literary magazine, Fue ("Flute") in 1946
January 6 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, (died 1972), German playwright and poet
January 19 – Robin Hyde (suicide 1939), New Zealand
February 22 – Humayun Kabir (died 1969) Bengali poet, educationist, politician, writer and philosopher
April 13 – Samuel Beckett (died 1989), Irish poet, playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969
May 10 – Robert Guy Howarth (died 1974), Australian scholar, literary critic and poetStuart Lee 1996 A140571b Howarth, Robert Guy (1906-1974) 2018-03-07
May 11 – Charles Tory Bruce (died 1971), Canadian writer
May 17 – Frederic Prokosch (died 1989), American novelist, poet, memoirist and critic
June 12 – Sandro Penna (died 1977), Italian
June 22 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh (died 2001), American poet and wife of Charles Lindbergh
June 27 – Vernon Watkins (died 1967), Welsh poet writing in English
August 8 – Jesse Stuart (died 1984), American short story writer, poet and novelist
August 28 – John Betjeman (died 1984), English poet laureate, writer and broadcaster
September 2 – Ronald Bottrall (died 1989), English
September 16 – Stanley Burnshaw (died 2005), American poet, critic, novelist, playwright, publisher, editor, translator and scholar
September 20 – Ishizuka Tomoji 石塚友二 the kanji (Japanese writing) is a pen name of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji 石塚友次, but in English there is no difference (died 1984), Japanese Shōwa period haiku poet and novelist
September 27 – William Empson (died 1984), English literary critic and poet
October 16 – Cleanth Brooks (died 1994) influential American literary critic and professor; author of Understanding Poetry
November 12 – George Hill Dillon (died 1968), American poet and winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
November 23 (November 10 O.S.) – Betti Alver (died 1989), Estonia
December 23 – Edasseri Govindan Nair (died 1974), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
Also:
Ken Barratt, Australian poet and magazine editor
Mary Finnin, AustralianMary Finnin Oldpoetry.com http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Mary_Finnin 2007-05-20
James Picot (died 1944), AustralianPicot, James (Jim) (1906–1944) Australian Dictionary of Biography https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/picot-james-jim-11391 2007-10-03
A. J. Wood, Australian
Deaths
February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar (born 1872), American
February 27 – Colm de Bhailís (born 1796, sic.), Irish
March 1 – Lettie S. Bigelow (born 1849), American
March 31 – James McIntyre (born 1826), Canadian called "the Cheese Poet"
date not known – Martha Griffith Browne, American abolitionist, novelist and poet
See also
Poetry
20th century in poetry
20th century in literature
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
French literature of the 20th century
Silver Age of Russian Poetry
Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
Poetry
Notes
Category:20th-century poetry
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