Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published - Kavi Dalpatram Nanalal, Katlank Kavyo, Indian poet writing in Gujarati[5]
- William Henry Drummond, Phil-o'-Rum's Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres; Canada[6]
- E. Pauline Johnson, also known as "Tekahionwake", Canadian Born; Canada[6]
- Yone Noguchi, From the Eastern Sea
- Bernard O'Dowd, Dawnward?, Australia
- Nagesh Vishwanath Pai (also has been spelled "Nagesh Vishwvanath Pai"[7]), The Angel of Misfortune: A Fairy Tale, A Metrical Romance in Ten Books, Bombay: W. N. Mulgaokar and Co.India, Indian poetry in English[8]
- Banjo Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda", Australia's most widely known bush ballad
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
[edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - Also:
- Jyoti Prasad Agarwala (died 1953), playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker; Indian, writing in Assamese
- Atul Chandra Hazarika (died 1986), poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society; Indian, writing in Assamese
- Raymond Herbert McGrath (died 1977), Australian
- William Plomer (died 1973), South African novelist, poet and literary editor
- Sanjayan, pen name of M. R. Nayar (died 1943), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[9]
[edit] Deaths - March 20 – Charles Godfrey Leland, 78, American humorist, folklorist and poet
- May 22 – Misao Fujimura, 藤村操 (born 1886), Japanese philosophy student and poet, largely remembered for the poem he carved into a tree before committing suicide over an unrequited love; made famous by Japanese newspapers after his death (see picture at right)
- July 11 – William Ernest Henley, 52 (died 1903), British poet, critic, and editor
- October 30 – Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎 紅葉, pen name of Ozaki Tokutaro 尾崎 徳太郎 (born 1868), Japanese novelist, essayist and haiku poet
[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 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 c d Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, p. 81
- ^ 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)
- ^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ a b Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 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
- ^ Most sources give "1903" as the year of publication, including Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), and a Web page titled "South Asian literature in English,/ Pre-independence era" at the "University Libraries/ University of Washington" website, both retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009, although "1904" is given 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. Archived 2009-06-15.
- ^ 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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