- 1903 in poetry
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yp3=1902
year=1903
ya1=1904
ya2=1905
ya3=1906
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da=1910s
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dn2=1920s
dn3=1930s|Events
Works published
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Thomas Traherne , "Poetical Works" (posthumous)
*W. B. Yeats :
** "In the Seven Woods ", poemsMac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, "W. B. Yeats", Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, p. 81]
** "Ideas of Good and Evil", essays, including essays onEdmund Spenser ,Percy Shelley andWilliam Blake (criticism)Awards and honors
Births
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January 9 —Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903–January 9, 1946), African-American poet
*April 3 —Peter Huchel (died 1981), German
*November 6 —Carl Rakosi , American poet
*December 4 —A. L. Rowse (died 1997), British poet, historian and Shakespeare scholar and biographer
*December 31 —Lorine Niedecker (died 1970) the only woman associated with theObjectivist poets
* date not known —William Plomer (died 1973), South African novelist, poet and literary editorDeaths
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March 20 —Charles Godfrey Leland , 78, American humorist, folklorist and poet
*July 11 —William Ernest Henley , 52, British poet, critic, and editor
* date not known:
**Isa Craig
**David Mills (poet) Notes
ee also
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List of years in poetry
*Poetry
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