Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published in English - Francis James Child, editor, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, an anthology published in five volumes from this year to 1898[2]
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Decorative Plaques[2]
- Emma Lazarus writes "The New Colossus" in aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the New York Statue of Liberty
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, posthumously published[2]
- James Whitcomb Riley, The Old Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems[2]
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The Bay of Seven Islands[2]
- Jones Very, Poems, published posthumously[2]
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion[2]
[edit] Works published in other languages [edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 6 – Khalil Gibran (died 1931), Lebanese American poet and artist
- February 18 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek
- March 13 – Kōtarō Takamura 高村 光太郎 (died 1956), Japanese poet and sculptor; son of sculptor Kōun Takamura
- June 27 – Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (died 1929), English Anglican priest and poet
- August 11 – Ernst Stadler (died 1914), German poet
- September 16 – T.E. Hulme (died 1917 in World War I), influential English poetry critic
- September 17 – William Carlos Williams, American
- December 12 – William Baylebridge (died 1942)), Australian poet and short-story writer
- Date not known:
- Ethel Anderson, (died 1958), Australian
- Charles Badger Clark, American
- Arthur Davison Ficke, American
- Alfred Kreymborg, (died 1966), American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist
- Jessie Litchfield, (died 1956), Australian
- Marjorie Pickthall, Canadian
- K. V. Simon, (died 1943), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[4]
[edit] Deaths Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] See also - ^ a b c d e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ 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)
- ^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0140423853
- ^ 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
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