1901 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Sully Prudhomme, first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

• 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

Canada

• 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

• Jane Barlow, Ghost-Bereft, with Other Stories and Studies in Verse^[4]
• C. S. Calverley, Complete Works (posthumous)^[4]
• John Davidson
  • The Testament of a Man Forbid^[4]
  • The Testament of a Vivisector^[4]
• Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present (published November 1901; book states "1902")^[4][5]
• George Meredith, A Reading of Life with Other Poems^[4]
• Adela Florence Nicolson writing as "Laurence Hope", India's Love Lyrics (U.K. title), The Garden of Kama (U.S. title).

United States

• 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

• 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 1886–1889; 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]

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
• 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
  • Ruth Lechlitner (died 1989), American
  • 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 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 who lived 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 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^[11]
  • Hans Lorber (died 1973), German
  • T. Inglis Moore (died 1979), Australian^[12]
  • 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

• 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]

See also

• 20th-century French literature
• 20th century in poetry
• 20th century in literature
• List of years in literature
• Poetry
  • List of years in 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

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