1901 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- a small plaque is set on the Statue of Liberty to display Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "The New Colossus"
- The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sully Prudhomme, a French poet and essayist.
Works published in English
- Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States[1]
- William Henry Drummond, Johnnie Courteau and other Poems, Canada[2]
- Charles Mair, Tecumseh: A Drama, and Canadian Poems, published in Toronto[3]
- Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and Present[4]
- Jane Barlow, Ghost-Bereft, with Other Stories and Studies in Verse[5]
- Laurence Hope (pseud. of Adela Nicolson), India's Love Lyrics (U.K. title), The Garden of Kama (U.S. title).
- C. S. Calverley, Complete Works (posthumous)[5]
- John Davidson, United Kingdom:
- Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present (published November 1901; book states "1902")[5]
- George Meredith, A Reading of Life with Other Poems[5]
- Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States[1]
- Edwin Markham, Lincoln and Other Poems[1]
- William Vaughn Moody, Poems[1]
- George Santayana, A Hermit of Carmel and Other Poems[1]
Other in English
- Joseph Furtado, Poems, Bombay; India, Indian poetry in English[6]
- Louise Mack, Dreams in Flower, Australia
Works published in other languages
- Stefan George, Die Fibel, poems written from 1886–1889; German[7]
- Francis Jammes, Le Deuil des primevères, France[8]
- Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Kavyarasika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)[9]
- Beheramji Malabari, Kavyarasika (Indian writing in Gujarati)[9]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 16 – Laura Riding Jackson (died 1991), American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
- March 4 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo or "Jean-Joseph Rebearivelo" (died 1937), Madagascar native and French-language poet
- March 27 – Kenneth Slessor (died 1971), Australian newspaper journalist and poet
- April 20 – Michel Leiris, French author and poet
- May 1 – Sterling Brown (died 1989) African-American teacher, poet, writer on folklore, and literary critic
- May 30 – Itsik Manger (or "Itzig Manger") איציק מאַנגער (died 1969), Yiddish poet and playwright born in Ukraine, a resident in Romania and Poland, then an immigrant to Israel
- June 10 – Eric Maschwitz (died 1969) English entertainer, writer, broadcaster, broadcasting executive and poet
- July 26 – Nina Berberova, Нина Николаевна Берберова (died 1993), Russian-born poet, novelist, playwright, critic and academic who lived in Europe from 1922 to 1950, then in the United States
- August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo, (died 1968), Italian poet
- September 23 – Jaroslav Seifert (died 1986) Czech, Nobel Prize-winning poet and journalist
- September 29 – Lanza del Vasto (died 1981), French poet and novelist
- October 2 – Roy Campbell (died 1957), South African poet and translator
- Also:
- Heinrich Anacker (died 1971), German
- Yocheved Bat-Miriam (died 1979), Russian-born, Israeli, Hebrew-language poet
- J. C. Beaglehole (died 1971), New Zealand
- Adrian Hanbury Bell[4]
- Andreas Empeirikos (died 1975), Greek
- Robert Francis (died 1987), American
- Heinz Helmerking (died 1964), German
- Kilian Kerst (died 1981), German
- Sankara Kurup (died 1978), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[10]
- Ruth Lechlitner, American
- Hans Lorber (died 1973), German
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Lugovskoy (or "Lugovskoi") (died 1957)
- T. Inglis Moore (died 1979), Australian[11]
- Amin Nakhla, (died 1976)
- Hans Erich Nossack (died 1977), German
- Irina Odoyevtseva, also "Odoevtseva" also "Iraida Gustavovna Beinlke Ivanova" (died 1990)
- Louis Paul (died 1970)
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Smolensky or "Smolenskii", (died 1961)
- Shinkichi Takahashi, (died 1987)
Deaths
- June 10 – Robert Williams Buchanan, 59, Scots poet, novelist and dramatist
- July 20 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, 61 (born 1840), English poet and critic
- October 18 – Nicholas Flood Davin, 61 (born 1840), Irish-born Canadian lawyer, journalist, politician and poet
- December 23 – William Ellery Channing, 73, American Transcendentalist poet
- Also:
Awards and honors
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See also
- 20th century in poetry
- 20th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- Victorian 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
- ^ a b c d e 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)
- ^ Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ^ Latham, David, "MAIR, CHARLES", article, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, retrieved June 13, 2010
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ "Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
- ^ 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
- ^ a b 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
- ^ 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
- ^ "Moore, Tom Inglis (1901–1978)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
