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 [edit] Ireland - D. Hyde, editor and translator from the Gaelic, The Love Songs of Connacht, Ireland[1]
- William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction[2]
- William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and Edwin John Ellis, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch[3]
[edit] United Kingdom - Wilfred Scawen Blunt, published anonymously, Griselda[2]
- Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing under the pen name "Michael Field", Underneath the Bough[2]
- Robert Bridges, The Humours of the Court: a Comedy; and Other Poems[2]
- Thomas Edward Brown, Old John, and Other Poems
- John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues, first series (see also Fleet Street Eclogues 1896)[2]
- W. E. Henley, London Voluntaries; The Song of the Sword; and Other Verses[2]
- George MacDonald, Poetical Works[2]
- Alice Meynell, Poems[2]
- Francis Thompson, Poems,[2] including "The Hound of Heaven"
- William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction[2]
- William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, and Edwin John Ellis, editors, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch[3]
[edit] Other in English [edit] Works published in other languages [edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - February 26 – Ivor Richards (died 1979), English literary critic
- March 6 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (died 1965), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet (surname: Takahashi)
- March 18 – Wilfred Owen (died 1918), English poet and soldier
- July 26 – George Grosz (died 1959), German artist and poet
- April 19 – John Addington Symonds (born 1840), English poet and literary critic
- August 22 – Dorothy Parker (died 1967), American writer and poet
- September 28 – Giannis Skarimpas (died 1984), Greek
- October 26 – Thomas MacGreevy (died 1967), Irish poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland
- November 3 – Arthur Bourinot (died 1969), Canadian poet and lawyer
- December 4 – Sir Herbert Edward Read (born 1968), English anarchist poet, and critic of literature and art
- December 6 – Sylvia Townsend Warner (died 1978) English novelist and poet
[edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] See also - ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Irish Poetry" article, "Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic" section, p 633
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archive: William Butler Yeats (W. B. Yeats) (1865 - 1939)" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 22, 2008
- ^ a b c d e f 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)
- ^ a b Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations, p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992, ISBN 978-0140423853, retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009
- ^ Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", 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 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ 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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