1904 in poetry

1904 in poetry

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Events

* Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre.

Works published

* Constantine P. Cavafy, "Waiting for the Barbarians"
* Thomas Hardy, "The Dynasts", I, followed by II (1906) and III (1908)
* Christina Rossetti, "Poetical Works", edited by W. M. Rossetti
* Algernon Charles Swinburne, "A Channel Passage, and Other Poems"
* W. B. Yeats, "In the Seven Woods", including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass"

Births

* January 23 — Louis Zukofsky (died 1978, American poet and co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets
* April 5 — Richard Eberhart (died 2005), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and a National Book Award in 1977
* April 27 — Cecil Day-Lewis (died 1972) Anglo-Irish poet, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and mystery writer
* May 13 — Earle Birney (died 1995), Canadian poet and two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (in 1942 and 1945)
* July 5 — Harold Acton (died 1994) was an Anglo-Italian writer, scholar and dilettante
* July 12 — Pablo Neruda (died 1973) Chilean writer and Communist politician
* December 21 — Johannes Edfelt (died 1997), Swedish poet
* date not known:
** A. Alexandra Brown (Canada)
** Arthur R. D. Fairburn (New Zealand)
** Mary Elizabeth Frye

Deaths

* March 24 — Sir Edwin Arnold, 71, English poet and journalist
* October 4 — Adela Florence Nicolson, 39, English poet who wrote under the pseudonym "Laurence Hope", of suicide
* October 11 — Trumbull Stickney, 40, American classical scholar and poet, from a brain tumor

Awards and honors

ee also

* List of years in poetry
* Poetry


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