1902 in poetry

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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]

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]

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]

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]

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^ ^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.