Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published - Alfred Austin, A Tale of True Love and Other Poems
- Maurice Baring, The Black Prince and Other Poems (published this year; book states "1903")[1]
- Walter De la Mare (publishing under the pen name "Walter Ramal"),[1] Songs of Childhood[3]
- Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and Present[3] actually published last year, although the book states "1902"[3]
- John Edward Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads, including "I must go down to the sea again"[3]
- Alice Meynell, Later Poems[1]
- Henry Newbolt, The Sailing of the Long Ships, and Other Poems[1]
- Adela Florence Cory Nicolson, editor, The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom[4]
- Alfred Noyes, The Loom of Years[1]
- Dora Sigerson, The Woman Who Went to Hell, and Other Ballads and Lyrics[1]
- W.B. Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan[3]
[edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - February 1 – Langston Hughes (died 1967), African-American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance
- February 19 – Kay Boyle (died 1992, award-winning American poet, writer, educator, and political activist
- February 22 – R. D. Fitzgerald (died 1987), Australian
- April 1 – Maria Polydouri (died 1930), Greek
- July 3 – Yoshino Hideo 吉野秀雄 (died 1967), Japanese Showa period tanka poet
- July 19 – Ada Verdun Howell (died 1981), Australian
- July 28 – Kenneth Fearing (died 1961), American poet and writer
- August 19 – Ogden Nash(died 1971), American poet best known for pithy and funny light verse.
- September 20 – Stevie Smith (died 1971), British poet and novelist
- October 13 – Arna Bontemps (died 1973), American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
- November 20 – Nazim Hikmet (died 1963), Turkish poet, dramatist, and Communist
- December 6 – Michael Roberts, (died 1948), English poet, writer, critic, broadcaster, and teacher
- December 22 – Evelyn Eaton (died 1983), Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet and academic
[edit] Deaths - January 5 – Stella Gibbons (died 1989), English novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer
- January 20 – Aubrey Thomas De Vere, 88, Irish poet and critic
- April 1 Thomas Dunn English (born 1819), American politician, poet, author, songwriter who was elected to the United States House of Representatives and had a feud with Edgar Allan Poe
- May 6 – Bret Harte, 66, American author and poet, best remembered for accounts of pioneering life in California
- June 29 – Brunton Stephens (born 1835), Australian
- September 6 – Philip James Bailey, 86, English poet
- September 19 – Masaoka Shiki 正岡 子規, pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori 正岡 常規, who changed his name to Noboru 升 (born 1867), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player
- September 29 – William McGonagall, Scottish weaver, actor, and poet comically renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language
- October 4 – Lionel Pigot Johnson, 35 (born 1867), English poet, essayist, and critic
- date not known – Albery A. Whitman[3]
[edit] Awards and honors [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 Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g Web page titled "A Time-Line of Poetry in English" at the Representative Poetry Online website of the University of Toronto, retrieved December 20, 2008
- ^ a b Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
- ^ 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.
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