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 - AE (George William Russell), By Still Waters[2]
- Joseph Campbell, The Rushlight[2]
- John Davidson, Holiday, and Other Poems[2]
- Walter de la Mare, Poems[2]
- C. M. Doughty, The Dawn in Britain[3]
- Thomas Hardy. The Dynasts, II[3]
- D. Hyde, editor and translator into English from Gaelic, The Religious Songs of Connacht, Ireland[4]
- Alfred Noyes:
- Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall, 'Twixt Earth and Stars[2]
- Arthur Symons, The Fool of the World, and Other Poems[2]
- W. B. Yeats, Poems, 1899-1905, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[2]
[edit] Other in English [edit] Works published in other languages [edit] Other languages [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 5 – Takashi Matsumoto 松本たかし(died 1956), Japanese Showa period professional haiku poet in the Shippo-kai haiku circle, then, starting in 1929, in the Hototogisu group that also included Kawabata Bosha; founded a literary magazine, Fue ("Flute") in 1946
- January 19 – Robin Hyde (died 1939), New Zealand
- April 13 – Samuel Beckett (died 1989), poet, playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969
- May 17 – Frederic Prokosch, American (died 1989), American novelist, poet, memoirist and critic
- June 22 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh (died 2001), American poet and wife of Charles Lindbergh
- June 27 – Vernon Watkins (died 1967), Welsh poet writing in English
- August 8 – Jesse Stuart (died 1984), American short story writer, poet, and novelist
- August 28 – John Betjeman (died 1984), English poet, writer and broadcaster
- September 2 – Ronald Bottrall (died 1989), English
- September 16 – Stanley Burnshaw, American (died 2005), American poet, critic, novelist, playwright, publisher, editor, translator and scholar
- September 20 – Ishizuka Tomoji 石塚友二 the kanji (Japanese writing) is a pen name of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji 石塚友次, but in English there is no difference (died 1984), Japanese Showa period haiku poet and novelist
- September 27 – Sir William Empson (died 1984), English literary critic and poet
- October 16 – Cleanth Brooks (died 1994) influential American literary critic and professor; author of Understanding Poetry
- November 12 – George Hill Dillon (died 1968), American poet and winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
- December 23 – Edasseri Govindan Nair (died 1974), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
[edit] Deaths [edit] Awards and honors [edit] See also - ^ a b c d e 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 h i Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d 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
- ^ 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 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)
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ Auster, Paul, editor, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets, New York: Random House, 1982 ISBN 0394521978
- ^ 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
- ^ "Mary Finnin". Oldpoetry.com. n. d.. http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Mary_Finnin. Retrieved 2007-05-20.
- ^ "Picot, James (Jim) (1906–1944)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150714b.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-03.
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