1901 in poetry

1901 in poetry

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Events

* a small plaque is set on the Statue of Liberty to display Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "The New Colossus"
* The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sully Prudhomme, a French poet and essayist.

Works published

* Thomas Hardy, "Poems of the Past and Present"
* George Meredith, "A Reading of Life"

Births

* January 16 — Laura Riding Jackson (died 1991), American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
* March 27 — Kenneth Slessor (died 1971), Australian newspaper journalist and poet
* May 1 — Sterling Brown (died p1989) African-American teacher, poet, writer on folklore, and literary critic
* August 20 — Salvatore Quasimodo, (died 1968), Italian poet
* Date not known:
** J. C. Beaglehole (died 1971), New Zealand
** Adrian Hanbury Bell
** Ignatius Campbell South African poet
** Andreas Empeirikos, Greek

Deaths

* June 10 — Robert Williams Buchanan, 59, Scots poet, novelist and dramatist
* July 20 — William Cosmo Monkhouse, 61, English poet and critic
* December 23 — William Ellery Channing, 73, American Transcendentalist poet
* date not known:
** Sarah Carmichael
** Albery Whitman

Awards and honors

ee also

* List of years in poetry
* Poetry


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