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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works published 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also

Events

Awards

Works published

• Robert Browning, Jocoseria
• Emma Lazarus writes "The New Colossus" in aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the New York Statue of Liberty
• George Meredith, Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Century of Roundels
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion

Births

• February 18 — Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek
• August 11 — Ernst Stadler (died 1914), German poet
• William Baylebridge (Australia)
• Charles Badger Clark (US)
• T.E. Hulme (died 1917 in World War I), influential English poetry critic
• Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy
  • date not known — Alfred Kreymborg, (died 1966), American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist
• Marjorie Pickthall (Canada)
• William Carlos Williams

Deaths

• June 14 — Charles Timothy Brooks, 96, American poet and translator
• Edward Fitzgerald, 74, English poet and translator, best known for his translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

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