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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish
Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

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Events

  • George Plimpton
    George Plimpton
    George Ames Plimpton was an American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review.-Early life:...

    , Peter Matthiessen
    Peter Matthiessen
    Peter Matthiessen is a two-time National Book Award-winning American novelist and non-fiction writer, as well as an environmental activist...

     and Harold L. Humes
    Harold L. Humes
    Harold Louis Humes, Jr. was known as HL Humes in his books, and usually as "Doc" Humes in life. He was the originator of The Paris Review literary magazine, author of two novels in the late 1950s, and a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London, and New York in the 1950s and early...

     found The Paris Review.
  • Nuovi Argomenti
    Nuovi Argomenti
    Nuovi Argomenti is an influential Italian literary magazine which was founded in 1953 by Alberto Carrocci and Alberto Moravia in Rome; soon they were joined by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Following the deaths of Pasolini and Carrocci they were replaced by Attilio Bertolucci and Enzo Siciliano...

    , an influential Italian
    Italian poetry
    -Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....

     literary magazine, founded by Alberto Carrocci and Alberto Moravia
    Alberto Moravia
    Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism....

     in Rome.
  • The October issue of Atlantic Monthly magazine in the United States publishes "Perspectives of India", anthologizing poems from India
    Indian poetry
    Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

    .

Works published in English

Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately:

Canada
Canadian poetry
- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

  • Robert Finch
    Robert Finch (poet)
    Robert Duer Claydon Finch was a Canadian poet and academic. He twice won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, for his poetry.-Life:...

    , A Century has Roots.
  • Irving Layton
    Irving Layton
    Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies. As T...

    , Love the Conqueror Worm. Toronto: Contact Press.
  • Douglas Le Pan, The Net and the Sword, Canada
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

  • E. J. Pratt
    E. J. Pratt
    Edwin John Dove Pratt, FRSC , who published as E. J. Pratt, was "the leading Canadian poet of his time." He was a Canadian poet originally from Newfoundland who lived most of his life in Toronto, Ontario...

    , The Titanic, Canada
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

  • Raymond Souster
    Raymond Souster
    Raymond Holmes Souster, OC is a Canadian poet whose writing career spans almost 70 years. He has published more than 50 volumes of his own verse, and edited or co-edited a dozen volumes of others' poetry...

    , Shake Hands with the Hangman: Poems 1940-52 Toronto: Contact Press.

India
Indian poetry
Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

, in English
Indian Poetry in English
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...

  • Nissim Ezekiel
    Nissim Ezekiel
    ' was an Indian Jewish poet, playwright, editor and art-critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian writing in English....

    , Sixty Poems ( Poetry in English
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

     ), Bombay
  • Harindranath Chattopadhyaya:
    • I Sing of Man and Other Poems ( Poetry in English
      English language
      English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

       ), Bombay: People's Publishing House
    • Spring in Winter ( Poetry in English
      English language
      English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

       ), Delhi
      Delhi
      Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

      : Atma Ram

  • Manjeri Sundaraman Manjeri, Rhapsody in Red ( Poetry in English
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

     ),
  • Romen, The Golden Apocalypse, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
  • Sri Aurobindo
    Sri Aurobindo
    Sri Aurobindo , born Aurobindo Ghosh or Ghose , was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. He joined the Indian movement for freedom from British rule and for a duration became one of its most important leaders, before developing his own vision of human progress...

    , The Future Poetry, essays on literary criticism, drawing on the author's (also published) views of art and life, (first appeared in the Arya, 1917–1920; later expanded with the author's letters on art, literature and poetry in the Centenary Library edition, Volume 9, 1971
    1971 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* This Magazine founded by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten...

    )

United Kingdom
English poetry
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • Charles Causley
    Charles Causley
    Charles Stanley Causley, CBE, FRSL was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer. His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall....

    , Survivor's Leave
  • Sir John Betjeman, A Few Late Chrysanthemums
  • Louis MacNeice
    Louis MacNeice
    Frederick Louis MacNeice CBE was an Irish poet and playwright. He was part of the generation of "thirties poets" which included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis; nicknamed "MacSpaunday" as a group — a name invented by Roy Campbell, in his Talking Bronco...

    , Autumn Sequel
  • John Heath-Stubbs
    John Heath-Stubbs
    John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE was an English poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius .- Biography :...

    , New Poems
  • John Heath-Stubbs
    John Heath-Stubbs
    John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE was an English poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius .- Biography :...

     and David Wright
    David Wright (poet)
    David John Murray Wright was an author and "an acclaimed South African-born poet".-Biography:Wright was born in Johannesburg, South Africa 23 February 1920 of normal hearing....

    . editors, The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology of Verse in Britain 1900-1950
    Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse
    The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology of Verse in Britain 1900-1950 was a poetry anthology edited by John Heath-Stubbs and David Wright, and first published in 1953 by Faber and Faber. A selection in self-conscious contrast to the Faber Book of Modern Verse, it did not attempt to...

    , a selection in self-conscious contrast to the Faber Book of Modern Verse
    Faber Book of Modern Verse
    The Faber Book of Modern Verse was a poetry anthology, edited in its first edition by Michael Roberts, and published in 1936 by Faber and Faber. There was a second edition edited by Anne Ridler, and a third edition edited by Donald Hall. The selection was of poems in English printed after 1910,...

  • R.S. Thomas, The Minister

Poets in the anthology Images of Tomorrow

John Heath-Stubbs
John Heath-Stubbs
John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs OBE was an English poet and translator, known for his verse influenced by classical myths, and the long Arthurian poem Artorius .- Biography :...

 edited this volume, published in the United Kingdom, which included poems from these writers:
Dannie Abse
Dannie Abse
Daniel Abse, better known as Dannie Abse , is a Welsh poet.-Early years:Abse was born in Cardiff, Wales to a Jewish family. He is the younger brother of politician and reformer Leo Abse and the eminent psychoanalyst, Wilfred Abse...

 – Drummond Allison
Drummond Allison
Drummond Allison was an English war poet of World War II.He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After Sandhurst training, he became an intelligence officer in the East Surrey Regiment. He served in North Africa and Italy, where...

 – Eurasia Anderson  - William Bell – Thomas Blackburn – Maurice Carpenter  - Alex Comfort
Alex Comfort
Alexander Comfort, MB BChir, PhD, DSc was a medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer, best known for The Joy of Sex, which played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution...

 – Yorke Crompton – N. K. Cruikshank – Keith Douglas
Keith Douglas
Keith Castellain Douglas , was an English poet noted for his war poetry during World War II and his wry memoir of the Western Desert Campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. He was killed during the invasion of Normandy.-Poetry:...

 – George Every
George Every
Brother George Every SSM was a British historian, theologian and writer on Christian mythology, and poet.He was a member of the Anglican religious community the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham, Nottinghamshire from 1929 to 1973...

 – John Fairfax
John Fairfax
John Fairfax , English-born journalist, is notable for the incorporation of the major newspapers of modern day Australia.-Early life:...

 – G. S. Fraser
G. S. Fraser
George Sutherland Fraser was a Scottish poet, literary critic and academic. He was born in Glasgow, later moving with his family to Aberdeen. He went to the University of St. Andrews....

 – John Gibbs
John Gibbs
Lt. John Gibbs is an American settler and member of the Virginia House of Burgesses.John Gibbs was born in England with a large family and spent some of his life in the country. He arrived on the ship Supply at Jamestown...

 – W. S. Graham
W. S. Graham
William Sydney Graham was a Scottish poet who is often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic group of poets. Graham's poetry was mostly overlooked in his lifetime but, partly due to the support of Harold Pinter, his work has enjoyed a revival in recent years...

  - F. Pratt Green – J. C. Hall
J. C. Hall
J. C. Hall is a Canadian author currently writing in the fantasy genre.Hall was born in Hong Kong and educated in England. She lived and worked in Vancouver for ten years before moving to Toronto...

 – Michael Hamburger
Michael Hamburger
Michael Hamburger OBE was a noted British translator, poet, critic, memoirist, and academic. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and W. G. Sebald from German, and his work in literary criticism...

 – John Heath-Stubbs – Glyn Jones – Sidney Keyes
Sidney Keyes
Sidney Arthur Kilworth Keyes was an English poet of World War II.- Early years :Keyes was born on 27 May 1922. He attended Tonbridge School for his secondary education and later, for his tertiary, the University of Oxford...

 – Francis King
Francis King
Francis Henry King, CBE was a British novelist, poet and short story writer.He was born in Adelboden, Switzerland, brought up in India and educated at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford. During World War II he was a conscientious objector, and left Oxford to work on the land...

 – James Kirkup
James Kirkup
James Falconer Kirkup, FRSL was a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer. He was brought up in South Shields, and educated at South Shields Secondary School and Durham University. He wrote over 30 books, including autobiographies, novels and plays...

 – Norman Nicholson
Norman Nicholson
Norman Cornthwaite Nicholson OBE, , was an English poet, known for his association with the Cumberland town of Millom...

 – I. R. Orton – Michael Paffard – Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Jessie Raine was a British poet, critic, and scholar writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Platonism and Neoplatonism, she was a founder member of the Temenos Academy.-Life:Raine was...

 – Anne Ridler
Anne Ridler
Anne Barbara Ridler OBE was a British poet, and Faber and Faber editor, selecting the Faber A Little Book of Modern Verse with T. S. Eliot . Her Collected Poems were published in 1994...

 – Walter Roberts
Walter Roberts
Walter Roberts is a former American football wide receiver and kick return specialist in the National Football League for the Cleveland Browns, the New Orleans Saints, and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at San Jose State University. A fast runner, he was nicknamed "the...

 – W. R. Rodgers
W. R. Rodgers
William Robert Rodgers , known as Bertie, and born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was probably best known as a poet, but was also a prose essayist, a book reviewer, a radio broadcaster and script writer, a lecturer and, latterly, a teacher, as well as a former Presbyterian minister.-Early life:He...

 – Joseph Rykwert
Joseph Rykwert
Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, and is widely regarded as the most important architectural historian and critic of his generation. He has spent most of his working life in the United Kingdom and America...

 – John Smith
John Smith (poet)
-Early years:Born in Toronto, Ontario, Smith earned a degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Toronto. He then studied philosophy in London, and later returned to Toronto to earn an MA in English.-Career:...

 – Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
Dame Muriel Spark, DBE was an award-winning Scottish novelist. In 2008 The Times newspaper named Spark in its list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".-Early life:...

 – Derek Stanford
Derek Stanford
Derek Stanford FRSL was a British writer, known as a biographer, essayist and poet. He was educated at Upper Latymer School, Hammersmith, London.As a conscientious objector during World War II he served in the Non-combatant Corps...

 – J. Ormond Thomas – W. Price Turner – John Wain
John Wain
John Barrington Wain was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group "The Movement". For most of his life, Wain worked as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio. He seems to have married in 1947, since C. S...

 – John Waller
Sir John Waller, 7th Baronet
Sir John Stanier Waller, 7th Baronet was an English author, poet and journalist. He was one of the group of Cairo poets during World War II...

  – Vernon Watkins
Vernon Watkins
Vernon Phillips Watkins , was a British poet, and a translator and painter. He was a close friend of Dylan Thomas, who described him as "the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English"....

 – Gordon Wharton
Gordon Wharton
Gordon Wharton is a British poet.He left school aged 14 and says that anything he knows now was self-taught...

  - Margaret Willy – David Wright
David Wright (poet)
David John Murray Wright was an author and "an acclaimed South African-born poet".-Biography:Wright was born in Johannesburg, South Africa 23 February 1920 of normal hearing....


United States

  • Conrad Aiken
    Conrad Aiken
    Conrad Potter Aiken was an American novelist and poet, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play and an autobiography.-Early years:...

    , Collected Poems
  • John Ashbery
    John Ashbery
    John Lawrence Ashbery is an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. But Ashbery's work still proves controversial...

    , Turandot and Other Poems
  • W. H. Auden
    W. H. Auden
    Wystan Hugh Auden , who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,The first definition of "Anglo-American" in the OED is: "Of, belonging to, or involving both England and America." See also the definition "English in origin or birth, American by settlement or citizenship" in See also...

    , "The Shield of Achilles" poem first published; his poetry book of the same name will be published in 1955
    1955 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Group, a British poetry movement, starts meeting in London with gatherings taking place once a week, on Friday evenings, at first at Hobsbaum's flat and later at the house of Edward Lucie-Smith...

  • Joseph Payne Brennan
    Joseph Payne Brennan
    Joseph Payne Brennan was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. He lived most of his life in New Haven, Connecticut, and worked at the Yale Library for over 40 years....

    , The Humming Stair (Big Mountain Press/Alan Swallow imprint)
  • Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley
    Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...

    , American published in Europe:
    • The Kind of Act of
    • The Immoral Proposition
  • E. E. Cummings
    E. E. Cummings
    Edward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. cummings , was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright...

    , i — six nonlectures from his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard University was established in 1925 as an annual lectureship in "poetry in the broadest sense" and named for the university's former professor of fine arts. Distinguished creative figures and scholars in the arts, including painting,...

     of 1951-1952 (Harvard University Press
    Harvard University Press
    Harvard University Press is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Its current director is William P...

    )
  • Richard Eberhart
    Richard Eberhart
    Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total...

    , Undercliff: Poems 1946–1953
  • Jean Garrigue
    Jean Garrigue
    Jean Garrigue was an American poet born in Evansville, Indiana and wrote as an expatriate from Europe in 1953, 1957, and 1962. She eventually settled in [Greenwich Village]. The Ego and the Centaur was Garrigue’s first full-length publication. She was a professor at Queens College, Smith College...

    , The Monument Rose
  • Kenneth Koch
    Kenneth Koch
    Kenneth Koch was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77...

    , Poems
  • Charles Olson
    Charles Olson
    Charles Olson , was a second generation American modernist poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance...

    :
    • In Cold Hell, In Thicket, published in Origin
      Origin (magazine)
      Origin magazine, is an American poetry magazine that was founded in 1951 by Cid Corman. The magazine provided an early platform for the work of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, Theodore Enslin and other important, ground-breaking poets, who collectively created an alternative to academic...

      as its eighth issue
    • Mayan Letters, letters to the poet Robert Creeley
      Robert Creeley
      Robert Creeley was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P...

      , report on the author's research into Mayan hieroglyphs
      Maya script
      The Maya script, also known as Maya glyphs or Maya hieroglyphs, is the writing system of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica, presently the only Mesoamerican writing system that has been substantially deciphered...

       and discuss Olson's ideas on "objectism" in poetry. (criticism)
  • Ezra Pound
    Ezra Pound
    Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...

    , translator, The Translations of Ezra Pound
  • George Santayana
    George Santayana
    George Santayana was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States and identified himself as an American. He wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters...

    , The Poet's Testament, verse drama
  • Mary Sarton, The Land of Silence
  • Karl Shapiro
    Karl Shapiro
    Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.-Biography:...

    , Poems 1940-1953, New York: Random House
  • W. D. Snodgrass, Heart's Needle, New York: Knopf
  • Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein
    Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:...

    , Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces (1913–1927, fiction and verse
  • Wallace Stevens
    Wallace Stevens
    Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut.His best-known poems include "Anecdote of the Jar",...

    , Collected Poems
  • Melvin Tolson, Libretto for the Republic of Liberia
  • David Wagoner
    David Wagoner
    David Russell Wagoner is an American poet who has written many poetry collections and ten novels. Two of his books have been nominated for National Book Awards....

    , Dry Sun, Dry Wind
  • Robert Penn Warren
    Robert Penn Warren
    Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935...

    , Brother to Dragons

Other in English

  • James K. Baxter
    James K. Baxter
    James Keir Baxter was a poet, and is a celebrated figure in New Zealand society.-Biography:Baxter was born in Dunedin to Archibald Baxter and Millicent Brown and grew up near Brighton. He was named after James Keir Hardie, a founder of the British Labour Party. His father had been a conscientious...

    , The Fallen House, New Zealand
    New Zealand literature
    New Zealand literature is essentially literature in English that is either written by New Zealanders, or migrants, dealing with New Zealand themes or places and is primarily a 20th Century creation...

  • Nissim Ezekiel
    Nissim Ezekiel
    ' was an Indian Jewish poet, playwright, editor and art-critic. He was a foundational figure in postcolonial India's literary history, specifically for Indian writing in English....

    , Sixty Poems, verses written from 1945 to 1951; India
    Indian poetry
    Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...


Canada
Canadian poetry
- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

, in French

  • Jean-Guy Pilon
    Jean-Guy Pilon
    Jean-Guy Pilon, OC, CQ, FRSC is a Quebec poet.Born in Saint-Polycarpe, Quebec, he received a law degree from the Université de Montréal in 1954.-Honours:* In 1967, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada....

    , La fiancée du matin: poèmes, Montréal: Éditions Amicitia

France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

  • Yves Bonnefoy
    Yves Bonnefoy
    Yves Bonnefoy is a French poet and essayist. Bonnefoy was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire, the son of a railroad worker and a teacher....

    , Du mouvement et de l'immobilité de douve
  • Rene-Guy Cadou, Helene ou le regne vegetal, Volume 2 (see Volume 1 1952
    1952 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s began at Downing College, Cambridge University, Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends — Tony Davis and Neil Morris...

    ), published posthumously (died 1951
    1951 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Poet Cid Corman began Origin magazine in response to the failure of a magazine that Robert Creeley had planned. The magazine typically featured one writer per issue and ran, with breaks, until the...

    )
  • Maurice Chappaz
    Maurice Chappaz
    Maurice Chappaz was a French-language Swiss poet and writer. He published more than 40 books and won several literary awards, including his country's most notable award, the Grand Prix Schiller, in 1997....

    , Testament du Haut-Rhône, Swiss, French-language
  • Andrée Chedid
    Andrée Chedid
    Andrée Chedid was a French poet and novelist of Lebanese descent.-Life:Chedid was born in Cairo on 20 March 1920. When she was ten, she was sent to a boarding school, where she learned English and French. At fourteen, she left for Europe. She then returned to Cairo to go...

    , Textes pour le vivant
  • Jean Follain
    Jean Follain
    Jean Follain, was a French author, poet and corporate lawyer. In the early days of his career he was a member of the "Sagesse" group. Follain was a friend of Max Jacob, André Salmon, Jean Paulhan, Pierre Pussy, Armen Lubin, and Pierre Reverdy...

    , Territoires
  • Philippe Jaccottet
    Philippe Jaccottet
    Philippe Jaccottet is a poet and translator who publishes in French.After completing his studies in Lausanne, he lived several years in Paris. In 1953, came to live in the town of Grignan in Provence...

    , L'Effraie et autres poèmes, the author's first book of poetry to appear in France; publisher: Gallimard
  • Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse
    Saint-John Perse was a French poet, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was also a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the USA until 1967.-Biography:Alexis Leger was...

    , Vents

Kannada
Kannada poetry
Kannada poetry is poetry written in the Kannada language spoken in Karnataka. Karnataka is the land that gave birth to eight Jnanapeeth award winners, the highest honour bestowed for Indian literature...

  • R. S. Mugali
    R. S. Mugali
    Ram Shri Mugali was awarded the Sahitya Akademi in 1956 for his poetic work “Kannada Sahitya Charitre” in Kannada. Professor Mugali’s poetic nickname was “Rasik Ranga”. He was the president of the 44th Kannada Sahitya Sammelana held in Siddganga of Tumkur talukMugali was born in a village called...

    , Kannada Sahitya Caritre, a history of Kannada literature, written in that language, up to the 19th century
  • Siddayya Puranika, Jalapata, lyrics
  • Virasaiva Sahitya Mttu Itihasa, literary history of "Veerashaiva" literature in three volumes

Kashmiri

  • Amir Shah Kreri, Zafar Nama, a masnavi
    Masnavi
    The Masnavi, Masnavi-I Ma'navi or Mesnevi , also written Mathnawi, Ma'navi, or Mathnavi, is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the celebrated Persian Sufi saint and poet. It is one of the best known and most influential works of both Sufism and Persian literature...

    commemorating an episode of Islamic conquest and based on a Persian original; the poem became very popular in some rural areas
  • Mohammad Amin Kamil, Saqi Nama, a masnavi
    Masnavi
    The Masnavi, Masnavi-I Ma'navi or Mesnevi , also written Mathnawi, Ma'navi, or Mathnavi, is an extensive poem written in Persian by Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, the celebrated Persian Sufi saint and poet. It is one of the best known and most influential works of both Sufism and Persian literature...

  • Rasul Bath ("most probably the same person known now as Rasul Pompur", according to Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das), Ab e Hayat
  • Rahman Rahi, Sanavany Saz
  • Rasa Javidani, Tuhfa-e bahar, the Urdu
    Urdu poetry
    Urdu poetry is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different types and forms. Borrowing much from the Persian language, it is today an important part of Pakistani and North Indian culture....

    -language poet's first book of Kashmiri-language poems

Malayalam
Malayalam poetry
There are two types of meters used in Malayalam poetry, the classical Sanskrit based and Tamil based ones.- Sanskrit Meters :Sanskrit meters are primarily based on trisyllabic feet. The short sound is called a laghu, a long sound is called a guru. A guru is twice as long as a laghu...

  • Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai
    Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai
    Elamkulam Pillai was a historian and scholar from Kerala, India, who through his works enriched the field of historical research of Kerala-Early life and career:...

    , Unninilisandesam, commentary on a 14th-century Manipravala poem
  • K. Kittunni Nayar, Mahakavi Vallattol, biography of the poet Vallathol
  • Ulloor Paramesvara Ayyar, Kerala Sahitya Caritram, in 1995, Indian academic Sisir Kumar Das called this book the "most comprehensive history of the Malayalam and Sanskrit literatures of Kerala"; published posthumously, in five volumes, starting this year, with the last volume coming out in 1955
    1955 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Group, a British poetry movement, starts meeting in London with gatherings taking place once a week, on Friday evenings, at first at Hobsbaum's flat and later at the house of Edward Lucie-Smith...


Other languages of the Indian subcontinent

  • Ananta Pattanayak, Santisikhar, Oriya
  • Felix Paul Noronha, writing in the Konkani dialect of the Marathi
    Marathi poetry
    -Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...

     language:
    • Kaviyam Jhelo
    • Kristanu Puranatli Vinchovan
  • Ghulan Rabbani Taban, editor, Shikast-i zindan, Urdu
    Urdu poetry
    Urdu poetry is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different types and forms. Borrowing much from the Persian language, it is today an important part of Pakistani and North Indian culture....

    -language poems about the independence struggle in India and other Asian countries
  • Kripal Singh Kasel and Parminder Singh
    Parminder Singh
    Parminder Singh is an Indian footballer who is currently playing for Mohun Bagan in the I-League as a Defender.He is a product of SAIL football academy.-External links:...

    , Punjabi Sahit Di Utpatti Te Vikas, history of Punjabi literature, written in that language
  • Lekhnath Poudyal, Tarun-Tapasi, a poem on contemporary affairs written mostly in the Sikharini meter; considered the magnum opus of the author, who calls it a navya kavya; Nepali
  • Nagarjun
    Nagarjun
    Nagarjun was a major Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as Janakavi- the People's Poet.-Early life and education:Born Vaidya Nath Mishra, in 1911, into a Maithil Brahmin family...

    , Yug Dhara, poems on current affairs; Hindi
  • Narayan
    Narayan
    Narayan may refer to:*Narayana, an Indian name, an important Sanskrit name for Vishnu*Narayanan, an Indian name*Narain, an Indian name- People :*Aditya Narayan, Indian television show host*Anand Narayan, Indian television personality...

    , also known as "Shyam
    Shyam
    Shyam may refer to:*a name of Krishna*Shyam , a Hindi film actor*Shyam , an Indian music composer from Kerala*Shyam , a Tamil Journalist, Father of Investigative Journalistm from Tamilnadu, India...

    ", Rupa maya, a sequence of 16 sonnets on the myth of Visvamitra and Menaka
    Menaka
    In Hindu mythology, Menaka is considered one of the most beautiful of the heavenly Apsaras.She was sent by Indra, the king of the Devas, to break the severe penance undertaken by Vishwamitra. She successfully incited Vishwamitra's lust and passion when he saw her swimming naked in a lake near a...

    ; Sindhi
    Sindhi poetry
    Sindhi language poetry continues an oral tradition of a thousand years. The verbal verses were based on folk stories. Sindhi is one of the oldest languages of the Indus Valley having own literary colour both in poetry and prose. Sindhi poetry is very rich in thoughts as well as contain variety of...

  • Nanuram Samskarta, Samay Vayaro, in blank verse; Rajasthani
  • Nidudavolu Venkatarao
    Nidudavolu Venkatarao
    Nidudavolu Venkatarao is a famous Telugu writer and research scholar.-Life sketch:He was born to Nidudavolu Sundaram Pantulu and Jogamma on January 3, 1903 in Vizianagaram town in Andhra Pradesh, India. He was married to Sitalakshmi and had five sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Sundareswara...

    , Telugu Kavula Caritra, biographical information about many Telugu
    Telugu poetry
    Telugu poetry is verse originating in the southern provinces of India, predominantly from modern Andhra Pradesh and some corners of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.- Origins :...

     poets (see also a larger work of the same nature, Daksina Desiyandhra Vangmayamu 1954
    1954 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Robert Creeley founds and edits the Black Mountain Review...

    )
  • Nilmani Phookan
    Nilmani Phookan
    Nilmani Phookan is an Indian poet in Assamese language and an academic. His work replete with symbolism, is inspired by French symbolism and is representative of the genre in Assamese poetry...

    , Surya Heno Nami Aahe Eyi Nadiadi, Rangiya, Assam: Prakashan Ghar, Assamese
    Assamese Poetry
    Assamese poetry, poetry in Assamese language.-History:Sanskrit literature, the fountain head of most of the Indian literature, supplied not only the themes of medieval Assamese literature, but also has inspired many a writer of modern Assamese literature to undertake creative writings in context of...

    -language
  • Priyakant Maniar, Pratik, the author's first book of verses; 65 poems Gujarati
  • Shri Shrimat Kumar Vyas, editor, Alagojo, anthology of poems by Rajasthani authors
  • Sudhindra Nath Datta, Sambarta, called "[o]ne of the major works in modern Bengali poetry
    Bengali poetry
    Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic traditions such as Buddhism and Jainism...

    ", according to Sisir Kumar Das

Awards and honors

  • Canada:
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

     Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: The Net and the Sword, Douglas LePan
    Douglas LePan
    Douglas Valentine LePan, OC, FRSC was a Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature.Born in Toronto, Ontario, LePan was educated at the University of Toronto, at Harvard , and at Merton College, Oxford University...


United Kingdom
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....

  • King's Gold Medal for Poetry
    Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
    The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry is awarded for a book of verse published by someone in any of the Commonwealth realms. Originally the award was open only to British subjects living in the United Kingdom, but in 1985 the scope was extended to include people from the rest of the Commonwealth realms...

    : Arthur Waley
    Arthur Waley
    Arthur David Waley CH, CBE was an English orientalist and sinologist.-Life:Waley was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, as Arthur David Schloss, son of the economist David Frederick Schloss...


United States

  • American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: Marianne Moore
    Marianne Moore
    Marianne Moore was an American Modernist poet and writer noted for her irony and wit.- Life :Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri, in the manse of the Presbyterian church where her maternal grandfather, John Riddle Warner, served as pastor. She was the daughter of mechanical engineer and inventor...

  • National Book Award for Poetry
    National Book Award for Poetry
    The National Book Award for Poetry has been given since 1950 and is part of the National Book Awards, which are given annually for outstanding literary works by American citizens...

    : Archibald MacLeish
    Archibald MacLeish
    Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...

    , Collected Poems: 1917-1952
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
    The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. However, special citations for poetry were presented in 1918 and 1919.-Winners:...

    : Archibald MacLeish
    Archibald MacLeish
    Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...

    : Collected Poems 1917-1952
  • Bollingen Prize
    Bollingen Prize
    The Bollingen Prize for Poetry, which is currently awarded every two years by Beinecke Library of Yale University, is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.-Inception and controversy:The...

    : Archibald MacLeish
    Archibald MacLeish
    Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...

     and William Carlos Williams
    William Carlos Williams
    William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania...

  • Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Robert Frost
    Robert Frost
    Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and...


Births

  • January 7 – Dionne Brand
    Dionne Brand
    Dionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009.-Biography:...

    , Canadian
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

     poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago
    Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...

     before moving to Canada
  • January 12 – David Brooks, Australian
  • February 18 – Peter Robinson
    Peter Robinson (poet)
    Peter Robinson is a British poet born in Salford, Lancashire.-Life and career:...

    , English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • February 27 – Brad Leithauser
    Brad Leithauser
    Brad E. Leithauser is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher. After serving as the Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College and visiting professor at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, he is now on faculty at The...

    , American
  • July 29 – Frank McGuinness
    Frank McGuinness
    Professor Frank McGuinness is an award-winning Irish playwright and poet. As well as his own works, which include Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, he is recognised for a "strong record of adapting literary classics, having translated the plays of Racine, Sophocles, Ibsen and...

    , Irish
    Irish poetry
    The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

     playwright, translator and poet
  • August 10 – Mark Doty
    Mark Doty
    Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested...

    , American
  • November 19 – Tony Hoagland
    Tony Hoagland
    Anthony Dey Hoagland is an American poet and writer. His poetry collection 2003, What Narcissism Means to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a...

    , American
  • Also:
    • Alison Brackenbury
      Alison Brackenbury
      -Life:She studied at Oxford. She now lives in Gloucestershire.Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Stand,-Works:* * * -Reviews:Singing in the Dark is Alison Brackenbury's seventh collection of poetry...

      , English
      English poetry
      The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

    • Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen
      Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen
      Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen is an Iraqi Australian poet, journalist and translator writing mainly in ArabicAdeeb Kamal Ad-Deen studied Economics and English Literature at the Baghdad University and has a Diploma of Interpreting from the Adelaide Institute of TAFE in South Australia.He has published 12...

      , Iraq
      Iraq
      Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

      i, Arabic-language
      Arabic poetry
      Arabic poetry is the earliest form of Arabic literature. Present knowledge of poetry in Arabic dates from the 6th century, but oral poetry is believed to predate that. Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed, or measured, and prose, with the former greatly preceding the latter...

       poet living in Australia
    • Antonis Fostieris
      Antonis Fostieris
      Antonis Fostieris is a Greek poet. He read Law at the University of Athens and History of Law at Sorbonne, Paris. Since 1981, he has co-edited along with Thanassis Niarchos the prestigious literary periodical Η λέξη....

      , Greek
    • Jane Hirshfield
      Jane Hirshfield
      Jane Hirshfield is an American poet.-Biography:Jane Hirshfield was born in New York City and received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University in the school's first graduating class to include women. She later studied at the San Francisco Zen Center, including three years of monastic...

      , American poet and translator
    • Chris Mansell
      Chris Mansell
      Chris Mansell is an Australian poet and publisher.Born in Sydney, Chris Mansell grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales and in Lae, Papua New Guinea, later studying economics at the University of Sydney...

      , Australian (a woman)
    • Ian McBryde
      Ian McBryde
      Ian McBryde is an Australian poet. He was born in 1953 in Toronto, Canada but has been a long time Australian resident. In addition to writing poetry, he has also painted and sketched, and spent time as a drummer in progressive jazz-rock bands.-Books:...

      , Canadian
      Canadian poetry
      - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

      -born poet living in Australia
    • Gjertrud Schnackenberg
      Gjertrud Schnackenberg
      Gjertrud Schnackenberg is an American poet.-Life:Schnackenberg graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1975. She lectured at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Washington University, and was Writer-in-Residence at Smith College and visiting fellow at St...

      , American

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • April 6 – Idris Davies
    Idris Davies
    Idris Davies was a Welsh poet. He was born in Rhymney, near Caerphilly in South Wales, the Welsh-speaking son of colliery chief winderman Evan Davies and his wife Elizabeth Ann. Davies became a poet, originally writing in Welsh, but later writing exclusively in English...

    , Welsh
    Welsh poetry
    Welsh poetry may refer to poetry in the Welsh language, Anglo-Welsh poetry, or other poetry written in Wales or by Welsh poets.-History:Wales has one of the earliest literary traditions in Northern Europe, stretching back to the days of Aneirin Welsh poetry may refer to poetry in the Welsh...

     poet, originally writing in Cymraeg, but later writing exclusively in English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

    .
  • May 28 – Hori Tatsuo
    Hori Tatsuo
    was a writer, poet, and translator in Showa period Japan.-Early life:Hori was born in Tokyo, and was a graduate of Tokyo Imperial University. While still a student, he contributed translations of modern French poets to a literary journal called Roba, which was sponsored by poet Murō Saisei...

     堀 辰雄 (born 1904
    1904 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre....

    ), Showa period
    Showa period
    The , or Shōwa era, is the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of the Shōwa Emperor, Hirohito, from December 25, 1926 through January 7, 1989.The Shōwa period was longer than the reign of any previous Japanese emperor...

     writer, poet and translator (surname: Hori)
  • July 16 – Hilaire Belloc
    Hilaire Belloc
    Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist...

    , 82, humorous poet, essayist and travel writer whose "cautionary tales", humorous poems with a moral, are the most widely known of his writings, from burns resulting from a fall into a fireplace
  • September 1 – Bernard O'Dowd
    Bernard O'Dowd
    Bernard Patrick O'Dowd was an Australian activist, educator, poet, journalist, and author of several law books and poetry books. O'Dowd worked as an assistant-librarian and later Chief Parliamentary Draughtsman in the Supreme Court at Melbourne for 48 years;he was also a co-publisher and writer...

     (born 1866
    1866 in poetry
    * John Greenleaf Whittier:** Snow-Bound, United States** "Abraham Davenport", poem published in The Atlantic Monthly in May , about an incident involving Abraham Davenport-France:* Théodore de Banville, Les Exilés...

    ) Co-founder of paper Tocsin, Australian

  • September 3 – Shinobu Orikuchi
    Shinobu Orikuchi
    , also known as , was a Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet. As a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he established an original academic field named , which is a mixture of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics, and Shintō...

     折口 信夫, also known as Chōkū Shaku 釋 迢空 (born 1887
    1887 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, posthumously published ....

    ), ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist and poet; a disciple of Kunio Yanagita
    Kunio Yanagita
    was a Japanese scholar who is often known as the father of Japanese native folkloristics, or minzokugaku.He was born in Fukusaki, Hyōgo Prefecture. After graduating with a degree in law from Tokyo Imperial University, he became employed as a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce...

    , he established an academic field named , a mix of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics, and Shintō
    Shinto
    or Shintoism, also kami-no-michi, is the indigenous spirituality of Japan and the Japanese people. It is a set of practices, to be carried out diligently, to establish a connection between present day Japan and its ancient past. Shinto practices were first recorded and codified in the written...

     religion (surname: Orikuchi)
  • November 9 – Dylan Thomas
    Dylan Thomas
    Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 January 2008. who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself...

    , 39, Welsh
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     poet, from a cerebral incident;
  • November 30 – Francis Picabia
    Francis Picabia
    Francis Picabia was a French painter, poet, and typographist, associated with both the Dada and Surrealist art movements.- Early life :...

    , painter, poet

  • Also:
    • Jyoti Prasad Agarwala
      Jyoti Prasad Agarwala
      Jyoti Prasad Agarwala was a great Assamese playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker from Assam. He was considered as Assamese cultural icon, deeply revered for his creative vision and output and is popularly called the Rupkonwar of Assamese culture...

       (born 1903
      1903 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Bliss Carman, From the Green Book of Bards* E. Pauline Johnson, also known as "Tekahionwake", Canadian Born...

      ), playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker; Indian
      Indian poetry
      Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

      , writing in Assamese
      Assamese Poetry
      Assamese poetry, poetry in Assamese language.-History:Sanskrit literature, the fountain head of most of the Indian literature, supplied not only the themes of medieval Assamese literature, but also has inspired many a writer of modern Assamese literature to undertake creative writings in context of...

    • Helena Jane Coleman
    • George Herbert Clarke
    • Louis Lavater (born 1867
      1867 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Charles Heavysege, "Jezebel," New Dominion Monthly - United Kingdom :...

      ), Australian
    • Mokichi Saitō (born 1882
      1882 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* William Allingham, Evil May-Day...

      ), Taishō period
      Taisho period
      The , or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912 to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Taishō Emperor. The health of the new emperor was weak, which prompted the shift in political power from the old oligarchic group of elder statesmen to the Diet...

       poet of the Araragi school, and a psychiatrist; father of novelist Kita Morio (surname: Saitō)

See also

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