Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France
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).
Events
*
Picasso's portrait of
Gertrude Stein
Works published in English
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...
*
Jean Blewett, ''The Cornflower and Other Poems''
[Garvin, John William, editor]
''Canadian Poets''
(anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
*
Helena Coleman
Helena Coleman (April 27, 1860 — December 7, 1953) was a Canadian poet, music teacher, and writer.
Early life
Helena Jane Coleman was born in Newcastle, Ontario, the daughter of the Rev. Francis Coleman, a Methodist minister, and his second w ...
, ''Songs and Sonnets''
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* Sophia Almon Hensley, ''The Heart of a Woman''.
* J. D. Logan, ''Preludes, Sonnets and Other Verses''][
* Duncan Campbell Scott, ''Via Borealis'', Toronto: William Tyrrell & Co.][
* ]Frederick George Scott
Frederick George Scott (7 April 1861 – 19 January 1944) was for the first part of his life an Anglican priest and a Canadian poet to whom the Canadian literary establishment gave the epithet "Poet of the Laurentians." He was associated with ...
, ''The Hymn of Empire, and Other Poems''[
]
United Kingdom
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* 'Æ' (George William Russell
George William Russell (10 April 1867 – 17 July 1935), who wrote with the pseudonym Æ (often written AE or A.E.), was an Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and Irish nationalist. He was also a writer on mysticism, and a centra ...
), ''By Still Waters''
* Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the ...
, ''The Rushlight''[
* John Davidson, ''Holiday, and Other Poems''][
* ]Walter de la Mare
Walter John de la Mare (; 25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for a highly acclaimed selection of ...
, ''Poems''[
* C. M. Doughty, ''The Dawn in Britain'']
* Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...
. ''The Dynasts, II''[
* Douglas Hyde, editor and translator into English from ]Gaelic
Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Ca ...
, ''The Religious Songs of Connacht'', Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
[Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; ''et al.'', ed. (1993). ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics''. Princeton University Press; MJF Books. "Irish Poetry" article, "Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic" section, p. 633.]
* Thomas MacDonagh
Thomas Stanislaus MacDonagh ( ga, Tomás Anéislis Mac Donnchadha; 1 February 1878 – 3 May 1916) was an Irish political activist, poet, playwright, educationalist and revolutionary leader. He was one of the seven leaders of the Easter Rising o ...
, ''The Golden Joy'', Irish poet published in Ireland
* Harold Monro, ''Poems''[
* Alfred Noyes:
** ''Drake''][
** " The Highwayman", a ballad
* Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall, Twixt Earth and Stars''][
* ]Arthur Symons
Arthur William Symons (28 February 186522 January 1945) was a British poet, critic and magazine editor.
Life
Born in Milford Haven, Wales, to Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy. In 1884 ...
, ''The Fool of the World, and Other Poems''[
* ]W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
, ''Poems, 1899-1905'', Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[
]
United States
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* Gelett Burgess, ''Are You a Bromide?''[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)]
* William Ellery Leonard
William Ellery Leonard (January 25, 1876, in Plainfield, New Jersey – May 2, 1944, in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American poet, playwright, translator, and literary scholar.
Early life
William Ellery Channing Leonard was born on the family ho ...
, ''Sonnets and Poems''[
* Horace L. Traubel, ''With Walt Whitman in Camden'', five volumes, published from this year to ]1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
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]
Other in English
* W. F. Alexander and A. E. Currie, editors, '' New Zealand Verse'', anthology[Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "New Zealand Poetry" article, "Anthologies" section, p 837]
* W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
, ''Poems, 1899-1905'', Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
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[
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Works published in other languages
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
* Francis Jammes
Francis Jammes (; 2 December 1868, in Tournay, Hautes-Pyrénées – 1 November 1938, in Hasparren, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) was a French and European poet. He spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his po ...
:
** ''Clairières dans le Ciel''[Rees, William]
''The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations''
p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992, , retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009
** ''L'Eglise habillée de feuilles''[Web page title]
at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
* Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, ''Les Sept Solitudes''[Auster, Paul, editor, ''The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets'', New York: Random House, 1982 ]
Other
* José Santos Chocano
José Santos Chocano Gastañodi (May 14, 1875 – December 13, 1934), more commonly known by his pseudonym "El Cantor de América" (), was a Peruvian poet, writer and diplomat, whose work was widely praised across Europe and Latin America. Conside ...
, ''Alma América, pról. de Miguel se Unamuno'', Peru
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[Web page title]
"José Santos Chocano"
at the Jaume University website, retrieved August 29, 2011
* Amelia Denis de Icaza
Amelia Denis de Icaza (November 28, 1836 – July 16, 1911) was a Panamanian romantic poet. She was the first Panamanian woman to publish her poetry.
Biography
Born in Panama City in 1836, her father was of French origin and her mother Panamanian ...
, " Al Cerro Ancón" ("Ancon Hill
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"), Panama
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* , ''Stikhotvoreniia'' ("Poems"), Russia
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* Alfred Garneau, ''Poésies'', posthumously published; French language; Canada
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* Marie Heiberg
Marie Heiberg (10 September 1890 – 15 February 1942) was an Estonian poet. When she was only about 15 years old she wrote her first poems which were acclaimed for their youthful freshness. Heiberg spent the last twenty years of her life in a me ...
, ''Mure-lapse laulud'' ("Songs of a Problem Child"), Estonia
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* Johannes V. Jensen
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 "for the rare strength and fert ...
, ''Digte'', Denmark
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* Mikhail Kuzmin
Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin (russian: Михаи́л Алексе́евич Кузми́н) ( – March 1, 1936) was a Russian poet, musician and novelist, a prominent contributor to the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.
Biography
Born into a noble fam ...
, ''Alexandrian Songs'', Russia
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* Govardhanram N. Tripathi, ''Kavi Dayramno Aksharadeh'', an appraisal of the works of poet Kavi Dayramno Aksharadeh (Indian
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, writing in Gujarati
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) (criticism)
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* January 5 – Takashi Matsumoto 松本たかし(died 1956
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January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
), Japanese Shōwa period
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* Hirohito (1901–1989), the 124th Emperor of Japan, known posthumously as Emperor Shōwa
* Showa Corporation, a Japanese suspension and shock manufacturer, affiliated with the Honda keiretsu
Japanese eras
* Jōwa (Heian ...
professional haiku poet in the ''Shippo-kai'' haiku circle, then, starting in 1929, in the Hototogisu group also including Kawabata Bosha; founder of literary magazine, ''Fue'' ("Flute") in 1946
* January 6 – Eberhard Wolfgang Möller
Eberhard Wolfgang Möller (6 January 1906 – 1 January 1972) was a German dramatist and poet.
Biography
Möller was born on 6 January 1906 in Berlin. His first two published works appeared in 1929, the First World War drama ''Douaumont'', and ''K ...
, (died 1972
Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, me ...
), German
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playwright and poet
* January 19 – Robin Hyde (died 1939
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history.
Events
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* January 1
** Third Reich
*** Jews are forbidden to ...
), New Zealand
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* February 22 – Humayun Kabir (died 1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
) Bengali
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poet, educationist, politician, writer and philosopher
* April 13 – Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...
(died 1989
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), Irish poet, playwright and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
)
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, year = 1901
, ...
in 1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
* May 10 – Robert Guy Howarth (died 1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...
), Australian scholar, literary critic and poet
* May 11 – Charles Tory Bruce (died 1971 *
The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.
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), Canadian
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writer[
* May 17 – ]Frederic Prokosch
Frederic Prokosch (May 17, 1906 – June 2, 1989) was an American writer, known for his novels, poetry, memoirs and criticism. He was also a distinguished translator.
Biography
Prokosch was born in Madison, Wisconsin, into an intellectual family ...
(died 1989
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), American
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novelist, poet, memoirist and critic
* June 12 – Sandro Penna
Sandro Penna (June 12, 1906 – January 21, 1977) was an Italian poet.
Biography
Born in Perugia, Penna lived in Rome for most of his life.
He never had a regular job, contributing to several newspapers and writing almost only poetry. His first ...
(died 1977
Events January
* January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
* January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic R ...
), Italian
* June 22 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh (died 2001
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), American
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poet and wife of Charles Lindbergh
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* June 27 – Vernon Watkins
Vernon Phillips Watkins (27 June 1906 – 8 October 1967) was a Welsh poet and translator. His headmaster at Repton was Geoffrey Fisher, who became Archbishop of Canterbury. Despite his parents being Nonconformists, Watkins' school experiences ...
(died 1967
Events
January
* January 1 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
* January 5
** Spain and Romania sign an agreement in Paris, establishing full consular and ...
), Welsh
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poet writing in English
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* August 8 – Jesse Stuart (died 1984
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January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
), American
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short story writer, poet and novelist
* August 28 – John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman (; 28 August 190619 May 1984) was an English poet, writer, and broadcaster. He was Poet Laureate from 1972 until his death. He was a founding member of The Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture, ...
(died 1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
), English
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poet laureate, writer and broadcaster
* September 2 – Ronald Bottrall
(Francis James) Ronald Bottrall (2 September 1906, Camborne, Cornwall – 25 June 1989) was a Cornish poet. He was praised highly by F.R. Leavis, Anthony Burgess and Martin Seymour-Smith, and deprecated by Ian Hamilton and Martin Amis.
Bottral ...
(died 1989
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), English
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* September 16 – Stanley Burnshaw
Stanley Burnshaw (June 20, 1906 – September 16, 2005) was an American poet, primarily known for his ontology ''The Seamless Web'' (1970). His style was particularly writing political poems, prose, editorials, etc. Aside from political poetry ...
(died 2005
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), American
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poet, critic, novelist, playwright, publisher, editor, translator and scholar
* September 20 – Ishizuka Tomoji
was the pen-name of Ishizuka Tomoji (written in different ''kanji'' (石塚友次)), a Japanese ''haiku'' poet and novelist active during the Shōwa period of Japan.
Early life
Ishizuka was born in rural Kitakanbara District, Niigata Prefecture ...
石塚友二 the kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...
(Japanese writing) is a pen name
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A pen na ...
of Ishizuka Tomoji, which is written with the different kanji 石塚友次, but in English there is no difference (died 1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
), Japanese Shōwa period
Shōwa may refer to:
* Hirohito (1901–1989), the 124th Emperor of Japan, known posthumously as Emperor Shōwa
* Showa Corporation, a Japanese suspension and shock manufacturer, affiliated with the Honda keiretsu
Japanese eras
* Jōwa (Heian ...
haiku
is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a ''kigo'', or se ...
poet and novelist
* September 27 – William Empson (died 1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
), English
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literary critic and poet
* October 16 – Cleanth Brooks (died 1994
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) influential American literary critic and professor; author of ''Understanding Poetry''
* November 12 – George Hill Dillon (died 1968
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide.
Events January–February
* January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
* Januar ...
), American
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poet and winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize
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in poetry
* November 23 (November 10 O.S.) – Betti Alver
Elisabet "Betti" Alver ( in Jõgeva – 19 June 1989 in Tartu), was one of Estonia's most notable poets. She was among the first generation to be educated in schools of an independent Estonia. She went to grammar school in Tartu.
Writing
S ...
(died 1989
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), Estonia
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* December 23 – Edasseri Govindan Nair
Edasseri Govindan Nair ( ml, ഇടശ്ശേരി ഗോവിന്ദൻ നായർ; 23 December 1906 – 16 October 1974) was an Indian poet and playwright of Malayalam literature. Known as one of the major poets of Malayalam, Edasseri ...
(died 1974
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...
), Indian
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* South Asia ...
, Malayalam
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-language poet
* Also:
** Ken Barratt, Australian poet and magazine editor
** Mary Finnin, Australian
** James Picot (died 1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
), Australian
** A. J. Wood, Australian
Deaths
* February 9 – Paul Laurence Dunbar (born 1872
Events
January–March
* January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years.
* February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...
), American
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* February 27 – Colm de Bhailís
Colm de Bhailís (2 May 1796 – 27 February 1906) was an Irish poet, songwriter, stonemason and centenarian who lived to be 109 years old.
Biography
De Bhailís was from Lettermullen, Connemara. A stonemason who traveled extensively througho ...
(born 1796
Events
January–March
* January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.)
* February 1 – The capital ...
, ''sic.''), Irish
* March 1 – Lettie S. Bigelow (born 1849
Events
January–March
* January 1 – France begins issue of the Ceres series, the nation's first postage stamps.
* January 5 – Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The Austrian army, led by Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, enters in th ...
), American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
* March 31 – James McIntyre (born 1826
Events January–March
* January 15 – The French newspaper ''Le Figaro'' begins publication in Paris, initially as a weekly.
* January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island o ...
), Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
called "the Cheese Poet"
* date not known – Martha Griffith Browne, American
American(s) may refer to:
* American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America"
** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America
** American ancestry, pe ...
abolitionist, novelist and poet[
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Awards and honors
See also
* 20th century in poetry
* 20th century in literature
Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000).
In terms of the Euro-American tradition, the main periods are captured in the bipartite division, Modernist literature and Postmodern lite ...
* List of years in poetry
This article gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order). These pages supplement the List of years in literature pages with a focus on events in the history of poetry.
21st century in poetry
2020s
* 2023 in poetry
* 2022 ...
* List of years in literature
* French literature of the 20th century
20th-century French literature is literature written in French from 1900 to 1999. For literature made after 1999, see the article Contemporary French literature. Many of the developments in French literature in this period parallel changes in t ...
* Silver Age of Russian Poetry
Silver Age (Сере́бряный век) is a term traditionally applied by Russian philologists to the last decade of the 19th century and first two or three decades of the 20th century. It was an exceptionally creative period in the history of ...
* Young Poland
Young Poland ( pl, Młoda Polska) was a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the earlier ideas of Positivism. Young Pola ...
(''Młoda Polska'') a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa.
** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River.
* January 2
** The steamship ...
to 1918
This year is noted for the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, as well as for the Spanish flu pandemic that killed 50–100 million people worldwide.
Events
Below, the events ...
* Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
Notes
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Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
20th-century poetry
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