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[edit]
- 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[edit]
Canada[edit]
- 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.[2]
- Charles Mair, Tecumseh: A Drama, and Canadian Poems, published in Toronto[3]
United Kingdom[edit]
- Jane Barlow, Ghost-Bereft, with Other Stories and Studies in Verse[4]
- C. S. Calverley, Complete Works (posthumous)[4]
- John Davidson
- Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present (published November 1901; book states "1902")[4][5]
- Laurence Hope, The Garden of Kama (U.K. title), India's Love Lyrics (U.S. title).
- George Meredith, A Reading of Life with Other Poems[4]
- Lady Margaret Sackville, Poems
United States[edit]
- Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States[1]
- Nina Davis, translator, Songs of Exile by Hebrew Poets, English translator of medieval Hebrew poetry published in the United States
- 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[edit]
- Joseph Furtado, Poems, Bombay; India, Indian poetry in English[6]
- Louise Mack, Dreams in Flower, Australia
Works published in other languages[edit]
- Hayim Nahman Bialik, שירים, Hebrew published in Warsaw
- José Santos Chocano, El fin de Satán y otros poemas (The End of Satan' and Other Poems), Peru[7]
- Stefan George, Die Fibel, poems written from 1886 to 1889; German[8]
- Francis Jammes, Le Deuil des primevères, France[9]
- Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Kavyarasika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)[10]
- Beheramji Malabari, Kavyarasika, (Indian writing in Gujarati)[10]
- Vazha-Pshavela, The Snake-eater, Georgian
Births[edit]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 6 – Walter Fischer (died 1978), Austrian medical doctor, journalist, radio broadcaster, translator, poet, anti-fascist resistance fighter and Communist Party official[11]
- January 16 – Laura Riding Jackson (died 1991), American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
- January 29 – Heinrich Anacker (died 1971), German
- January 30 – Hans Erich Nossack (died 1977), German
- March 4? – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo or Rebearivelo (died 1937), Madagascar native and French-language poet
- March 5 – Yocheved Bat-Miriam (died 1979), Russian-born, Israeli, Hebrew-language poet
- March 27 – Kenneth Slessor (died 1971), Australian newspaper journalist and poet
- April 20 – Michel Leiris, French author and poet
- April 29 – Hirohito (died 1989), Emperor of Japan 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 3 – G. Sankara Kurup (died 1978), Indian Malayalam-language poet
- June 10 – Eric Maschwitz (died 1969), English entertainer, writer, broadcaster, broadcasting executive and poet
- June 13 – J. C. Beaglehole (died 1971), New Zealand historian and poet
- July 1 – Vladimir Lugovskoy (or "Lugovskoi") (died 1957), Russian Constructivist poet
- July 26 – Nina Berberova, Нина Николаевна Берберова (died 1993), Russian-born poet, novelist, playwright, critic and academic living in Europe from 1922 to 1950, then in the United States
- August 5 – Margarita Abella Caprile (died 1960), Argentine poet
- August 12 – Robert Francis (died 1987), American
- August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo (died 1968), Italian poet
- September 2 – Andreas Embirikos (died 1975), Greek
- September 23 – Jaroslav Seifert (died 1986), Czech, Nobel Prize-winning poet and journalist
- September 28 – T. Inglis Moore (died 1978), Australian[12]
- September 29 – Lanza del Vasto (died 1981), French poet and novelist
- October 2 – Roy Campbell (died 1957), South African poet and translator
- October 4 – Adrian Bell (died 1980), English rural writer and crossword compiler[5]
- Also:
- Heinz Helmerking (died 1964), German writer
- Kilian Kerst (died 1981), German
- Sankara Kurup (died 1978), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[13]
- Hans Lorber (died 1973), German
- Amin Nakhla (died 1976), Lebanese, Arabic language poet
- Irina Odoyevtseva, also "Odoevtseva" also "Iraida Gustavovna Beinlke Ivanova" (more probably born 1895; died 1990), Russian
- Louis Paul, born Leroi Placet (approximate date of birth; died 1970), American fiction writer
- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Smolensky or "Smolenskii" (died 1961), Russian
- Shinkichi Takahashi (died 1987), Japanese Dadaist poet
Deaths[edit]
- June 10 – Robert Williams Buchanan, 59, Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
- July 20 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, 61 (born 1840), English poet and critic
- July 23/24 – Andreas Laskaratos (born 1811), Greek poet
- October 18 – Nicholas Flood Davin, 61 (born 1840), Irish-born Canadian lawyer, journalist, politician and poet
- November 10 – Sarah Carmichael (born 1838), American poet[5]
- December 23 – William Ellery Channing, 73, American Transcendentalist poet
- Also:
- Albery Allson Whitman (born 1851), African American poet and orator[5]
Awards and honors[edit]
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See also[edit]
- 20th-century French literature
- 20th century in poetry
- 20th century in literature
- List of years in literature
- Poetry
- Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- Victorian literature
- Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). "Preface". Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. New York: Oxford University Press. p. vi.
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.
- ^ Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ^ Latham, David (2005). "Mair, Charles". In Cook, Ramsay; Bélanger, Réal (eds.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. XV (1921–1930) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0-391-03286-0, ISBN 978-0-391-03286-6), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ "Santos Chocano". Ale.uji.es. Archived from the original on 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
- ^ "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 978-0-14-042385-3, 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 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ "Walter Fischer, 1901–1978". UeLEX.
- ^ "Moore, Tom Inglis (1901–1978)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
- ^ 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