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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
Australia
- Gün Gencer, General Poems: Australia facing the dawn and its result, published by the author, printed in Sydney by R.T. Kelly[1]
- Allen Gilfillen, A Day, Melbourne: Melville and Mullen, drama and poetry[2]
- Lilian Wooster Greaves, Poems by Lilian, Newtown, New South Wales: G. Baker Walker[3]
- Bernard O'Dowd, Dawnward?, Australia
- Banjo Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda", Australia's most widely known bush ballad
Canada
- Bliss Carman, From the Green Book of Bards[4]
- E. Pauline Johnson, also known as "Tekahionwake", Canadian Born[5]
- Charles G. D. Roberts, The Book of the Rose[4]
United Kingdom
- Robert Bridges, Now in Wintry Delights[6]
- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (died 1720), The Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchilsea, edited by Myra Reynolds
- W. E. Henley, A Song of Speed[6]
- Rudyard Kipling, The Five Nations[6]
- Thomas MacDonagh, April and May, Irish poet published in Ireland
- John Masefield, Ballads[6]
- Alfred Noyes, The Flower of Old Japan[6]
- 'Æ' (George William Russell), The Nuts of Knowledge, lyrical poems old and new[6][7][8]
- Thomas Traherne (died 1674), The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne[6][9]
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass"[7][8][9][10]
- Ideas of Good and Evil, essays, including essays on Edmund Spenser, Percy Shelley and William Blake (criticism)[10]
United States
- Ambrose Bierce, Shapes of Clay[11]
- Willa Cather, Shapes of Clay[11]
- W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk[11]
- H. L. Mencken, Ventures into Verse[11]
- Josephine Preston Peabody, The Singing Leaves[11]
- George Sterling, The Testimony of the Suns[11]
- J. T. Trowbridge, Poetical Works[11]
Other in English
- Yone Noguchi, From the Eastern Sea
- N. W. Pai, The Angel of Misfortune: A Fairy Tale, A Metrical Romance in Ten Books, Bombay: W. N. Mulgaokar and Co.India, Indian poetry in English[12]
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass"[7][8][9][10]
- Ideas of Good and Evil, essays, including essays on Edmund Spenser, Percy Shelley and William Blake (criticism)[10]
Works published in other languages
- Konstantin Balmont, Будем как Солнце (Budem kak Solntse), Russia[13]
- Paul Claudel, Art poétique, criticism; France[14]
- Kavi Dalpatram Nanalal, Katlank Kavyo, Indian, Gujarati-language[15]
- Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Anciennetés, France[16]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 3 – Peter Huchel (died 1981), German poet
- May 25 – Ewart Milne (died 1987), Irish poet and radical
- May 30 – Countee Cullen (died 1946), African-American poet
- June 13 – Sanjayan, pen name of M. R. Nayar (died 1943), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[17]
- June 17 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (died 1953), playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker; Indian, writing in Assamese
- September 9 – Atul Chandra Hazarika (died 1986), poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society; Indian, writing in Assamese
- October 5 – Yaho Kitabatake 北畠 八穂 (died 1982), Japanese Shōwa period poet and children's fiction writer
- November 6 – Carl Rakosi, American poet
- November 15:
- Tatsuko Hoshino 星野立子 (died 1984), Japanese Shōwa period haiku poet and travel writer; founded Tamamo, a haiku magazine exclusively for women; in the Hototogisu literary circle; haiku selector for Asahi Shimbun newspaper; contributed to haiku columns in various newspapers and magazines (a woman)
- Jinzai Kiyoshi 神西清 (died 1957) Japanese Shōwa period novelist, translator, literary critic, poet and playwright
- December 4 – A. L. Rowse (died 1997), English poet, historian and Shakespeare scholar and biographer
- December 10 – William Plomer (died 1973), South African-born novelist, poet and literary editor
- December 31:
- Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born this year or 1904 (sources disagree); died 1951), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman)
- Lorine Niedecker (died 1970) the only woman associated with the Objectivist poets
- Also:
Deaths
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Tree on which Misao Fujimura wrote his final poem
- March 20 – Charles Godfrey Leland, 78, American humorist, folklorist and poet
- May 8 – David Mills (born 1831), Canadian politician and poet[9]
- May 22 – Misao Fujimura, 藤村操 (born 1886), Japanese philosophy student and poet, largely remembered for the poem he carved into a tree before committing suicide over an unrequited love; made famous by Japanese newspapers after his death (see picture at right)
- July 11 – W. E. Henley, 52, English poet, critic and editor
- October 30 – Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎 紅葉, pen name of Ozaki Tokutarō 尾崎 徳太郎 (born 1868), Japanese novelist, essayist and haiku poet
- December – Isa Craig (born 1831), Scottish-born poet[9]
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
Notes
- ^ Arnold, John, et al., eds, The Bibliography of Australian Literature: F-J, 2004, St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, p. 146
- ^ Arnold, John, et al., eds, The Bibliography of Australian Literature: F-J, 2004, St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, p. 161
- ^ Arnold, John, et al., eds, The Bibliography of Australian Literature: F-J, 2004, St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, p. 222
- ^ a b Web page titled "CONFEDERATION VOICES: Seven Canadian Poets By JOHN COLDWELL ADAMS"], at the Canadian Poetry website, retrieved August 8, 2010
- ^ 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 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ a b c "Dun Emer & Cuala Press". University of Florida.
- ^ a b c Miller, Liam (1974). The Dun Emer Press. New York: The Typophiles.
- ^ a b c d e "A Time-Line of Poetry in English". Representative Poetry Online. University of Toronto. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
- ^ a b c d Mac Liammoir, Michael; Boland, Eavan (1971). W. B. Yeats. Thames and Hudson Literary Lives. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 81.
- ^ a b c d e f g 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)
- ^ Most sources give "1903" as the year of publication, including Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), and a Web page titled "South Asian literature in English,/ Pre-independence era" Archived 2009-06-19 at WebCite at the "University Libraries/ University of Washington" website, both retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009, although "1904" is given in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008. Archived 2009-06-15.
- ^ С. Венгеров. "Константин Дмитриевич Бальмонт". Русский биографический словарь. Archived from the original on 2011-08-18. Retrieved 2010-06-01.
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ 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
- ^ Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
- ^ Paniker, 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
- ^ Web page titled ["Rafael Méndez Dorich," http://www.revistasolnegro.com/sol%20negro/mendezdorich1.htm Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine] Sol Negro website, retrieved August 20, 2011