1902 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1902 in poetry From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
- H.D. meets and befriends Ezra Pound
- Times Literary Supplement begins publication[1]
Canada
- James B. Dollard, also known as "Father Dollard", Irish Mist and Sunshine[2]
- Anna Frances McCollum, Flower Legends and other Poems[2]
- Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, Tangled in Stars[2]
United Kingdom
- 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]
- Thomas MacDonagh, Through the Ivory Gate, Irish poet published in Ireland
- 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]
- Laurence Hope, 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]
United States
- Elizabeth Akers Allen, The Sunset Song[5]
- Madison Cawein, Kentucky Poems[5]
- John William De Forest, Poem: Medley and Palestrina[5]
- Ellen Glasgow, The Freeman and Other Poems[5]
- James Whitcomb Riley, The Book of Joyous Children[5]
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, Captain Craig[5]
- Trumbull Stickney, Dramatic Verses[5]
- John B. Tabb, Later Lyrics[5]
Other in English
- 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]
Works published in other languages
- Francis Jammes, Clairières dans le ciel, France[6]
- Chanda Jha, Gitasaptasati; India, Maithili-language[7]
- Else Lasker-Schüler, Styx, German
- Ștefan Petică, Fecioara în alb. Când vioarele tăcură. Moartea visurilor, Romanian
- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images, German
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 – Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (d. 1980)
- February 1 – Langston Hughes (died 1967), African-American jazz 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
- May 12 – Clementina Suárez (died 1991), Honduran
- July 3 – Yoshino Hideo (吉野秀雄) (died 1967), Japanese Shōwa 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.
- August 24 – Felipe Alfau (died 1999), Spanish-American poet, translator and author
- September 20 – Stevie Smith (died 1971), British poet and novelist
- September 25 – Chen Xiaocui (suicide 1967), Chinese poet, fiction writer, translator and painter
- October 13 – Arna Bontemps (died 1973), American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
- November 1 – Nordahl Grieg (killed in action 1943), Norwegian poet and author.
- November 8 – A. J. M. Smith (died 1980), Canadian
- 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 10 – Dulce María Loynaz (died 1997), Cuban
- December 22 – Evelyn Eaton (died 1983), Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet and academic
- 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
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