1902 in poetry

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Events

• Hilda Doolittle meets and befriends Ezra Pound
• Times Literary Supplement begins publication[1]

Works published in English

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

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• 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.
• 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 1 – Nordahl Grieg (killed in action 1943), Norwegian poet and author.
• November 8 – A. J. M. Smith (died 1980), Canadian poet.
• 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
• Undated – Felipe Alfau (died 1999), Spanish-American poet, translator and author

Deaths

• 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

Awards and honors

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
• Silver Age of Russian Poetry
• 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. Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
3. 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
4. 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.
5. 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)
6. Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
7. Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", p 645, 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 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008.