Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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Events
Works published in English
- 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
- 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]
- 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]
- Ambrose Bierce, Shapes of Clay[11]
- Willa Cather, Shapes of Clay[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]
Awards and honors
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:
- Raymond Herbert McGrath (died 1977), Australian poet
- Rafael Méndez Dorich (died 1973), Peruvian poet[18]
Deaths
- 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
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