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Events

Works published

• John Masefield, Ballads and Poems
• Ezra Pound, Provenca¹
• W.B. Yeats, The Green Helmet and other Poems²

Awards and honors

Births

• January 11 — Nikos Kavadias, Greek
• October 30 — Miguel Hernández (died 1942), Spanish poet
• November 14 — Norman MacCaig (died 1996) Scottish poet
• November 20 — Pauli Murray (Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray; died 1985), African American civil-rights advocate, feminist, lawyer, writer, poet, teacher, and ordained Episcopal priest
• December 19 — Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet
• December 27 — Charles Olson (died 1970), American poet
• December 30 — Paul Bowles (died 1999), American poet, author, composer, translator
• Date not known — Nathan Alterman (died 1970), Israeli poet, journalist, and translator

Deaths

• October 17 - Julia Ward Howe, 91, American poet best known as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
• date not known:
  • Augusta Bristol
  • Gilbert Brooke (Singapore)
  • James Lister Cuthbertson
  • William Vaughn Moody, American dramatist and poet
  • Arthur Munby, British diarist, poet, and lawyer
  • Anna Waring

Notes

1. ^ Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
2. ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, p. 83

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry