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

[edit] Events

[edit] Works published

• Charles Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris/Petits Poémes en Prose (Paris Spleen)
• W. S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems
• Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Holy Grail and Other Poems, with "The Coming of Arthur," "The Holy Grail," "Pelleas and Ettarre," and "The Passing of Arthur"

[edit] Births

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

• February 11 – Else Lasker-Schüler (died 1945), German
• May 12 – Frank Morton (died 1923), Australian
• May 23 – Olivia Bush, née Ward, later Banks, American
• July 8 – William Vaughn Moody (died 1910), American
• August 10 – Laurence Binyon (died 1943), English poet, dramatist, and art scholar
• October 6 – Bo Bergman (died 1967)
• November 15 – Charlotte Mew (died 1928), British
• December 1 – George Sterling (died 1926), American
• December 22 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American
• December 30 – Stephen Leacock (died 1952)
• Date not known:
  • Arthur Shearly Cripps (died 1945) English Anglican priest, short story writer, and poet who spent most of his life in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
  • Arnold Wall (died 1966), New Zealand
  • E. J. Brady (died 1952), Australian
  • Will H. Ogilvie (died 1963), Australian
  • Marie E. J. Pitt (died 1948), Australian
  • David McKee Wright (died 1928), Australian

[edit] Deaths

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

• November 3 - Andreas Kalvos
• date not known - Charlotte Alington Barnard

[edit] See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry