Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Sisters' Tragedy[2]
- Nathaniel Ames, The Essays, Humor, and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, published posthumously[2]
- Emily Dickinson, Poems: Second Series[2]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, fiction, nonfiction and poetry[2]
- Herman Melville, Timoleon[2]
- Harriet Monroe, Valeria and Other Poems[2]
- Frank Norris, Yvernelle: A Tale of Feudal France[2]
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Handful of Lavender[2]
[edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 15 – Osip Mandelstam (died 1938), Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school
- April 9 – Lesbia Harford (died 1927), Australian
- May 21 – John Peale Bishop (died 1944), American poet and writer
- August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (killed in action in World War I, 1917), Irish poet,
- November 23 – Masao Kume 久米正雄 who wrote under the pen-name Santei (died 1952), Japanese, late Taishō period and early Showa period playwright, novelist and haiku poet (surname: Kume)
- December 9 – Maksim Bahdanovič (died 1917), Belarusian poet, journalist and literary critic
- December 10 – Nelly Sachs (died 1970), German-Swedish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
[edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - July 24 – Douglas Smith Huyghue (born 1816), Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist
- August 12 – James Russell Lowell, 72, American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist
- August 14 – John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (born 1820), American clergyman and hymnist
- September 28 – Herman Melville, 82, American novelist, essayist and poet
- November 10 – Arthur Rimbaud, French
[edit] See also - ^ 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 d e f g h 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)
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ 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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