- 1909 in poetry
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in2?=in literature
cp=19th century
c=20th century
cf=21st century
yp1=1906
yp2=1907
yp3=1908
year=1909
ya1=1910
ya2=1911
ya3=1912
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d=1900s
da=1910s
dn1=1910s
dn2=1920s
dn3=1930s|Events
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Andrew Cecil Bradley , Oxford Lectures on Poetry
* Founding of the Poetry Recital Society (now the Poetry Society)
*T.E. Hulme leaves thePoets' Club , and starts meeting withF.S. Flint and other poets in a new group which Hulme referred to as the 'Secession Club'; they meet at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in London'sSoho district to discuss plans to reform contemporary poetry throughfree verse and the tanka andhaiku and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage from poems. In April,Ezra Pound is introduced to the group and joins it.Works published
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Thomas Hardy , "Time's Laughingstocks"
*George Meredith , "Last Poems"
*Ezra Pound :
** "Personae"Ackroyd, Peter, "Ezra Pound", Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121]
** "Exultations"
*Robert Service , "Ballads of a Cheechako"
*John Millington Synge , "Poems and Translations"
* ThePoets' Club publishes two anthologies: "For Christmas MDCCCCVIII" (January 1909) and "The Book of the Poets' Club" (December) including the first examples ofImagist poetry
*William Carlos Williams , "Poems"Births
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February 14 —A.M. Klein (died 1972) Ukrainian-born Canadian poet, essayist and author of short stories
*February 28 —Stephen Spender (died 1995), English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes ofsocial injustice and theclass struggle
*May 1 —Yannis Ritsos , Greek
*May 9 —Robert Garioch (died 1981), a Scots-language poet, translator, and key member in the literary revival of the language in the mid-20th century
*July 27 —Charles Brasch (died 1973), a New Zealand poet, literary editor, arts patron and founding editor of the literary journal Landfall
*October 12 —Dorothy Livesay (died 1996), Canadian poet
* date not known —John Glassco (Canada)Deaths
* John Davidson
* Romesh Chunder Dutt (India)
*George Essex Evans (Australia)
*Richard Watson Gilder
*William Reed Huntington
*June 24 —Sarah Orne Jewett , 59, American novelist,short story writer, and poet
*George Cabot Lodge
*George Meredith
*Algernon Charles Swinburne
*John Millington Synge
*John Bannister Tabb (US)Awards and honors
ee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry References
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