1902_in_poetry

1902 in poetry

Events

Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and Present
Walter De la Mare, Songs of Childhood
John Edward Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads, including "I must go down to the sea again"
W.B. Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan

February 1 — Langston Hughes (died 1967), African-American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance
February 19 — Kay Boyle (died 1992, award-winning American poet, writer, educator, and political activist
August 19 — Ogden Nash(died 1971), American poet best known for pithy and funny light verse.
September 20 — Stevie Smith (died 1971), British poet and novelist
October 13 — Arna Bontemps (died 1973), American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
November 20 — Nazim Hikmet (died 1963), Turkish poet, dramatist, and Communist
date not known:
- Felipe Alfau (died 1999), Spanish-American poet, translator and author
- Kenneth Fearing (died 1961), American poet and writer
- Michael William Edward Roberts, Michael Roberts
- A. J. Smith (writer)
- Maria Polydouri, Greek

January 20 — Aubrey Thomas De Vere, 88, Irish poet and critic
May 6 — Bret Harte, 66, American author and poet, best remembered for accounts of pioneering life in California
September 6 — Philip James Bailey, 86, English poet
September 29 — William McGonagall, Scottish weaver, actor, and poet comically renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language
October 4 — Lionel Pigot Johnson, 35, English poet, essayist, and critic
date not known:
- Thomas Dunn English
- Albery A. Whitman