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Works published

United Kingdom

William Allingham, Rhymes for Young FolkCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

Robert Browning, Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day

Richard Le Gallienne, My Lady's Sonnets

George Meredith, Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life

Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods

Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Jubilee

Katharine Tynan, Shamrocks, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

United States

Charles Follen Adams, Dialect Ballads

Bronson Alcott, New ConnecticutLudwig, 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)

Arlo Bates, Sonnets in Shadow

Palmer Cox, The Brownies: Their Book, children's fictional poetry

Emma Lazarus, By The Waters of Babylon

Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Branch of May

James Whitcomb Riley, Afterwhiles

Other

George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, posthumously published (by his brother); CanadaGarvin, John William, editor, (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009

Henry Lawson, "A Song for the Republic", the author's first published poem, in The Bulletin, October 1 issue; Australia, article, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition, retrieved May 13, 2009. 2009-05-16.

Narasinghrao, Kusumamala, his first collection of poems, "considered a definite advance in modern Gujarati poetry because of its novel use of poetic diction", according to A handbook of Indian Literature"

Thomas O'Hagan, A Gate of Flowers, Canada

Katharine Tynan, Shamrocks, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Narada Samvadam, Indian, Telugu-language long poem condemning banal, rule-minded poetryNatarajan, Nalini and Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, , Chapter 11: "Twentieth-Century Telugu Literature" by G. K. Subbarayudu and C. Vijayasree, pp 306-328, retrieved via Google Books, January 4, 20089 (surname: Veeresalingam)

William Butler Yeats, editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, an anthology, Dublin, Ireland

Awards and honors

Births

Caricature of the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 10 – Robinson Jeffers (died 1962), American poet and playwright
February 3 – Georg Trakl (died 1914), German
February 11 – Shinobu Orikuchi 折口信夫, also known as Chōkū Shaku 釋迢空 (died 1953), Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist and poet; a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he established an academic field named , a mix of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics, and Shintō religion (surname: Orikuchi)
May 13 – Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (died 1964), Showa period poet, playwright and screenwriter (surname: Nagata)
May 15 – Edwin Muir (died 1959 in poetry) British poet, novelist and noted translator
May 16 – Jakob van Hoddis (died 1942), German
June 20 – Kurt Schwitters (died 1947), German
June 22 – Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (died 1975 in poetry), English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist
June 28 – Orrick Glenday Johns (died 1946), American poet
August 3 – Rupert Brooke (died 1915), English poet
August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (died 1917), Irish poet, sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds"; killed in action near Ypres, Belgium during World War I
September 1 – Blaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser (died 1961), a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916
September 7 – Edith Sitwell (died 1964) English poet and critic
September 21 – Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams, (died 1975), Welsh poet, translator and academic
September 16 – Hans Arp (died 1966), German
October 30 – Georg Heym (died 1912), German poet
November 15 – Marianne Moore (died 1972 in poetry), American Modernist poet and writer
December 6 – Minakami Takitarō 水上滝太郎 pen name of Abe Shōzō (died 1940), Japanese, Showa period poet, novelist, literary critic and essayist (surname: Minakami)
December 30 – K.M. Munshi (died 1971), Indian Gujarati-language novelist, playwright, writer, politician and lawyer
Also:
* Skipwith Cannell (died 1957), American poet associated with the Imagist group (pronounce his last name with the stress on the second syllable)
* Margaret Curran, (died 1962), Australian poet, editor and journalist
* Elizabeth Daryush (died 1977 in poetry), English poet; daughter of Robert Bridges
* Pierre Jean Jouve (died 1976), French poet and novelist
* Frederick T. Macartney, (died 1980), Australian

* Ramanayan Pathak (died 1955),, Indian, Gujarati-language poet and husband of Heeraben PathakMohan, Sarala Jag, (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

* Sukumar Ray (সুকুমার রায়) (died 1923) humorous poet, short-story writer and playwright, Indian, Gujarati-language poet and dramatist

* Jatindranath Sengupta (died 1954), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

February 27 – Edward Rowland Sill, American

October 12 – Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, born Dinah Maria Mulock, also referred to as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik (born 1826), English novelist and poet

November 19 – Emma Lazarus (born 1849), American poet who wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus", associated with the Statue of Liberty, where it is engraved on a plaque

December 24 – Leonard Bacon (born 1802), American Congregationalist preacher, writer and hymnist

date not known – Isabella Valancy Crawford (born 1850), Canadian, from heart failure