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 - Laurence Binyon, Lyric Poems[2]
- Robert Browning, Asolando
- Bliss Carman (Canadian) and Richard Hovey (American), Songs from Vagabondia[3]
- John Davidson, Ballads and Songs,[2] including "Thirty Bob a Week"
- Edmund Gosse, In Russet and Silver[2]
- Selwyn Image, Poems and Carols[2]
- Ben King, Verse (second edition, 1898)
- AE, pen name of George William Russell, Homeward[2]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Astrophel and Other Poems
- Katharine Tynan, Cuckoo Songs[2]
- William Watson, Odes and Other Poems[2]
- Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx[2]
- W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire
[edit] Other in English - Henry Lawson, Short Stories in Prose and Verse, Australia[5]
- Arthur Stringer, Watchers of Twilight, and Other Poems, Canada
- Kerala Varma Valia Koyittampuran, Mayura Sandesam, a sandesa kavya ("message poem") written on the model of Kalidasa's Meghaduta, India, Sanskrit[6]
- W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire
[edit] Works published in other languages [edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 10 – Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥 (died 1924), Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gained attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet
- June 16 – Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (died 1976), Japanese haiku poet in the Taishō and Showa periods (surname: Ogiwara)
- August 31 – Charles Reznikoff, American poet and part of the Objectivist poetry movement
- October 4 – Jun Tsuji 辻 潤 (died 1944), Japanese author, poet, essayist, musician and bohemian (surname: Tsuji)
- October 14 – E. E. Cummings (died 1962), American
- October 22 – Paul Grano (died 1975), Australian poet and journalist
- December 26 – Jean Toomer, American poet and novelist, part of the Harlem Renaissance
[edit] Deaths  Grave of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 24 – Constance Fenimore Woolson (born 1840), American novelist, short-story writer and poet; a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper
- July 17 – Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (born 1818), French poet of the Parnassian movement
- April 18 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (born 1838), Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist
- May 16 – Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷, pen-name of Kitamura Montaro (born 1868), Japanese, late Meiji period poet, essayist and a founder of the modern Japanese romantic literary movement (surname: Kitamura)
- August 25 – Celia Thaxter (born 1835), American poet and story writer
- October 7 – Oliver Wendell Holmes (born 1809), American physician, professor and poet
- December 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson (born 1850), Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer.of a brain haemorrhage, in Samoa
- December 29 – Christina Rossetti (born 1830, English poet, of cancer
[edit] See also - ^ Current Biography 1942, p. 280
- ^ a b c d e f g h Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ^ a b c d 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)
- ^ "Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)", article, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition, retrieved May 13, 2009. Archived 2009-05-16.
- ^ a b 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
- ^ 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
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