1904 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1904 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France ).
Events
Works published in English
John Davidson , The Testament of a Prime Minister [ 2] Ford Madox Ford , The Face of the Night [ 2] Thomas Hardy , The Dynasts: A drama of the Napoleonic Wars 1906 ) and Part III (1908 )[ 2] [ 3] Henry Newbolt , Songs of the Sea [ 2] Alfred Noyes , Poems [ 2] Edwin Arnold , Indian Poetry AE (George William Russell), The Divine Vision, and Other Poems [ 2] Christina Rossetti , Poetical Works , edited by W. M. Rossetti[ 3] Algernon Charles Swinburne , A Channel Passage, and Other Poems [ 3] William Watson , For England [ 2]
Other in English
Works published in other languages
Alexander Blok , Stikhi o prekrasnoi Dame ("Verses to the Beautiful Lady"), Russia , an early work of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry Constantine P. Cavafy , Waiting for the Barbarians Greece José Santos Chocano , Los cantos del Pacífico ("The Songs of the Pacific"), Peru [ 7] Sophus Claussen , Djavlerier ("Diableries"), Denmark [ 8] Zinaida Gippius , «Собрание стихов. 1889–1903» ("Collected Poems, 1889–1903"), Russia Pamphile Lemay , Les gouttelettes , sonnet sequence, French language, Canada [ 9] Saint-John Perse , pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger, Images à Crusoé , published when the author is 17 years old, France [ 10] Charles Van Lerberghe , La Chanson d'Ève , France [ 11] Swami Vivekananda , Nachuk Tahate Shyama India , Bengali [ 12]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 21 – Richard P. Blackmur (died 1965 ), American poet and critic
January 23 – Louis Zukofsky (died 1978 ), American poet and co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets
February 2 – A. R. D. Fairburn (died 1957 ), New Zealander [ 3]
February 9 – Kikuko Kawakami 川上 喜久子 (died 1985 ), Japanese Shōwa period novelist, short-story writer and poet, a woman
March 1 – Margaret Steuart Pollard , née Gladstone (died 1996 ), English oriental scholar, bard of the Cornish Gorsedd , philanthropist and eccentric[ 13]
April 5 – Richard Eberhart (died 2005 ), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and a National Book Award in 1977
April 27 – Cecil Day-Lewis (died 1972 ), Anglo-Irish poet, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and mystery writer
May 13 – Earle Birney (died 1995 ), Canadian poet and two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (in 1942 and 1945 )
May 20 – Nagai Tatsuo 永井龍男, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (died 1990 ), Japanese Shōwa period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist
May 26 – Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (died 1983 ), Turkish
June 8 – Alice Rahon (died 1987 ), French -born Mexican surrealist poet and painter
June 13 – John K. Ewers (died 1978 ), Australian
July 5 – Harold Acton (died 1994 ), Anglo-Italian writer, scholar and dilettante
July 12 – Pablo Neruda (died 1973 ), Chilean writer and Communist politician
August 15 – Subedar Mahmoodmiya Mohammad Imam , popularly known as "Asim Randeri " (died 2009 ), Indian , Gujarati -language ghazal poet[ 14]
October 21 – Patrick Kavanagh (died 1967 ), Irish poet and novelist
October 29 – Audrey Alexandra Brown (died 1998 ), Canadian [ 3]
December 21 – Johannes Edfelt (died 1997 ), Swedish poet
December 28 – Hori Tatsuo 堀 辰雄 (died 1953 ), Japanese Shōwa period writer, poet and translator
December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born this year or 1903 (sources disagree) – 1951 ), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman)
Also:
Deaths
January 3 – Larin Paraske , 70 (born 1833 ), Finnish Izhorian oral poet and rune-singer
January 8 – John Farrell (born 1851 ), Australian
March 24 – Sir Edwin Arnold , 71, English poet and journalist
July 6 – Abai Qunanbaiuly , 58 (born 1845 ), Kazakh poet, composer, philosopher and cultural reformer
October 4 – Adela Florence Nicolson , 39, English poet writing under the pseudonym "Laurence Hope", of suicide
October 11 – Trumbull Stickney , 40, American classical scholar and poet, from a brain tumor
October 17 – Ștefan Petică , 27 (born 1877 ), Romanian Symbolist poet and writer, of tuberculosis
Awards and honors
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See also
Notes
^ a b c Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets
^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ a b c d e 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 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)
^ Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2 Sahitya Akademi , ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9 , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
^ Datta, Amaresh, and others, Encyclopaedia of Indian literature ISBN 81-260-1194-7 , ISBN 978-81-260-1194-0
^ Web page titled "José Santos Chocano" Archived 2012-08-23 at the Wayback Machine at the Jaume University website, retrieved August 29, 2011
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics , 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature , "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
^ Brée, Germaine , Twentieth-Century French Literature , translated by Louise Guiney, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983^ Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century , Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
^ Originally published in Vivekodayam
^ Bagnall, Polly; Beck, Sally (2015). Ferguson's Gang: The Remarkable Story of the National Trust Gangsters . London: Pavilion Books. ISBN 9781909881716 ^ "http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Surat_Ghazal_poet_Asim_Randeri_dies/articleshow/4089304.cms" , article, February 6, 2009, The Times of India ^ "McKellar, John Alexander Ross (1904-1932)" . Australian Dictionary of Biography . Retrieved 2007-10-02 .
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