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Events

Works published

United Kingdom

• Robert Bridges, Now in Wintry Delights
• W. E. Henley, A Song of Speed
• Rudyard Kipling, The Five Nations
• John Masefield, Ballads
• Yone Noguchi, From the Eastern Sea
• Alfred Noyes, The Flower of Old Japan
• AE (George William Russell), The Nuts of Knowledge
• Thomas Traherne, The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne (posthumous)
• W. B. Yeats:
  • In the Seven Woods, poems
  • Ideas of Good and Evil, essays, including essays on Edmund Spenser, Percy Shelley and William Blake (criticism)

Other

• Kavi Dalpatram Nanalal, Katlank Kavyo, Indian poet writing in Gujarati

Awards and honors

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• April 3 – Peter Huchel (died 1981), German
• May 30 – Countee Cullen (died 1946), African-American poet
• October 5 – Yaho Kitabatake 北畠 八穂 (died 1982), Japanese Showa period poet and children's fiction writer
• November 6 – Carl Rakosi, American poet
• November 15:
  • Tatsuko Hoshino 星野立子 (died 1984), Japanese Showa period haiku poet and travel writer; founded Tamamo, a haiku magazine exclusively for women; in the Hototogisu literary circle; haiku selector for Asahi Shimbun newspaper; contributed to haiku columns in various newspapers and magazines (a woman)
  • Jinzai Kiyoshi 神西清 (died 1957) Japanese Showa period novelist, translator, literary critic, poet and playwright
• December 4 – A. L. Rowse (died 1997), British poet, historian and Shakespeare scholar and biographer
• December 31:
  • December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born this year or 1904 (sources disagree); died 1951), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman)
  • Lorine Niedecker (died 1970) the only woman associated with the Objectivist poets

• 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

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

• Also:
  • Isa Craig, Scots
  • David Mills (poet), Canadian

See also

• 20th century in poetry
• 20th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• French literature of the 20th century
• Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
• Poetry

Notes

1. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. ^ 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
3. ^ 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
4. 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
5. 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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