1902 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Hilda Doolittle meets and befriends Ezra Pound
- Times Literary Supplement begins publication[1]
[edit] Works published
[edit] Canada
- James B. Dollard, also known as "Father Dollard", Irish Mist and Sunshine[2]
- Anna Frances McCollum, Flower Legends and other Poems[2]
- Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, Tangled in Stars[2]
[edit] United Kingdom
- Alfred Austin, A Tale of True Love and Other Poems
- Maurice Baring, The Black Prince and Other Poems (published this year; book states "1903")[1]
- Walter De la Mare (publishing under the pen name "Walter Ramal"),[1] Songs of Childhood[3]
- Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and Present[3] actually published last year, although the book states "1902"[3]
- John Edward Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads, including "I must go down to the sea again"[3]
- Alice Meynell, Later Poems[1]
- Henry Newbolt, The Sailing of the Long Ships, and Other Poems[1]
- Adela Florence Cory Nicolson, editor, The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[4]
- Alfred Noyes, The Loom of Years[1]
- Dora Sigerson, The Woman Who Went to Hell, and Other Ballads and Lyrics[1]
- W.B. Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan[3]
[edit] Other
- Adela Florence Cory Nicolson, editor, The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[4]
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 1 – Langston Hughes (died 1967), African-American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance
- February 19 – Kay Boyle (died 1992, award-winning American poet, writer, educator, and political activist
- February 22 – R. D. Fitzgerald (died 1987), Australian
- April 1 – Maria Polydouri (died 1930), Greek
- July 3 – Yoshino Hideo 吉野秀雄 (died 1967), Japanese Showa period tanka poet
- July 19 – Ada Verdun Howell (died 1981), Australian
- July 28 – Kenneth Fearing (died 1961), American poet and writer
- August 19 – Ogden Nash(died 1971), American poet best known for pithy and funny light verse.
- September 20 – Stevie Smith (died 1971), British poet and novelist
- October 13 – Arna Bontemps (died 1973), American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
- November 20 – Nazim Hikmet (died 1963), Turkish poet, dramatist, and Communist
- December 6 – Michael Roberts, (died 1948), English poet, writer, critic, broadcaster, and teacher
- December 22 – Evelyn Eaton (died 1983), Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet and academic
- Also:
- Felipe Alfau (died 1999), Spanish-American poet, translator and author
- A. J. Smith (writer), Canada[3]
[edit] Deaths
- January 5 – Stella Gibbons (died 1989), English novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer
- January 20 – Aubrey Thomas De Vere, 88, Irish poet and critic
- April 1 Thomas Dunn English (born 1819), American politician, poet, author, songwriter who was elected to the United States House of Representatives and had a feud with Edgar Allan Poe
- May 6 – Bret Harte, 66, American author and poet, best remembered for accounts of pioneering life in California
- June 29 – Brunton Stephens (born 1835), Australian
- September 6 – Philip James Bailey, 86, English poet
- September 19 – Masaoka Shiki 正岡 子規, pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori 正岡 常規, who changed his name to Noboru 升 (born 1867), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player
- September 29 – William McGonagall, Scottish weaver, actor, and poet comically renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language
- October 4 – Lionel Pigot Johnson, 35 (born 1867), English poet, essayist, and critic
- date not known – Albery A. Whitman[3]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] See also
- 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
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g 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
- ^ a b Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
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