1901 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Events
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
- William Henry Drummond, Johnnie Courteau and other Poems.
- Charles Mair, Tecumseh: A Drama, and Canadian Poems, published in Toronto
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Jane Barlow, Ghost-Bereft, with Other Stories and Studies in Verse
- C. S. Calverley, Complete Works
- John Davidson
- * The Testament of a Man Forbid
- * The Testament of a Vivisector
- Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present
- Laurence Hope, The Garden of Kama, India's Love Lyrics.
- George Meredith, A Reading of Life with Other Poems
- Lady Margaret Sackville, Poems
United States">American poetry">United States
- Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
- Nina Davis, translator, Songs of Exile by Hebrew Poets, English translator of medieval Hebrew poetry published in the United States
- Edwin Markham, Lincoln and Other Poems
- William Vaughn Moody, Poems
- George Santayana, A Hermit of Carmel and Other Poems
Other in English
- Joseph Furtado, Poems, Bombay; India, Indian poetry in English
- 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, Peru
- Stefan George, Die Fibel, poems written from 1886–1889; German
- Francis Jammes, Le Deuil des primevères, France
- Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Kavyarasika
- Beheramji Malabari, Kavyarasika,
- Vazha-Pshavela, The Snake-eater, Georgian
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 16 - Laura Riding Jackson, American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
- January 29 - Heinrich Anacker, German
- January 30 - Hans Erich Nossack, German
- March 4? - Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo or Rebearivelo, Madagascar native and French-language poet
- March 5 - Yocheved Bat-Miriam, Russian-born, Israeli, Hebrew-language poet
- March 27 - Kenneth Slessor, Australian newspaper journalist and poet
- April 20 - Michel Leiris, French author and poet
- April 29 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan and poet
- May 1 - Sterling Brown African-American teacher, poet, writer on folklore and literary critic
- May 30 - Itsik Manger איציק מאַנגער, Yiddish poet and playwright born in Ukraine, a resident in Romania and Poland, then an immigrant to Israel
- June 3 - G. Sankara Kurup, Indian Malayalam-language poet
- June 10 - Eric Maschwitz, English entertainer, writer, broadcaster, broadcasting executive and poet
- June 13 - J. C. Beaglehole, New Zealand historian and poet
- July 1 - Vladimir Lugovskoy , Russian Constructivist poet
- July 26 - Nina Berberova, Нина Николаевна Берберова, 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, Argentine poet
- August 12 - Robert Francis, American
- August 20 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet
- September 2 - Andreas Embirikos, Greek
- September 23 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech, Nobel Prize-winning poet and journalist
- September 28 - T. Inglis Moore, Australian
- September 29 - Lanza del Vasto, French poet and novelist
- October 2 - Roy Campbell, South African poet and translator
- October 4 - Adrian Bell, English rural writer and crossword compiler
- Also:
- * Heinz Helmerking, German writer
- * Kilian Kerst, German
- * Sankara Kurup, Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- * Hans Lorber, German
- * Amin Nakhla, Lebanese, Arabic language poet
- * Irina Odoyevtseva, also "Odoevtseva" also "Iraida Gustavovna Beinlke Ivanova", Russian
- * Louis Paul, born Leroi Placet, American fiction writer
- * Vladimir Aleksandrovich Smolensky or "Smolenskii", Russian
- * Shinkichi Takahashi, Japanese Dadaist poet
Deaths
- June 10 - Robert Williams Buchanan, 59, Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
- July 20 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, 61, English poet and critic
- July 23/24 - Andreas Laskaratos, Greek poet
- October 18 - Nicholas Flood Davin, 61, Irish-born Canadian lawyer, journalist, politician and poet
- November 10 - Sarah Carmichael, American poet
- December 23 - William Ellery Channing, 73, American Transcendentalist poet
- Also:
- * Albery Allson Whitman, African American poet and orator
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