This article covers 1902 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
- Alfred Austin, A Tale of True Love and Other Poems
- Maurice Baring, The Black Prince and Other Poems (published this year; book states "1903")
- Olive Custance, Rainbows
- Walter De la Mare (publishing under the pen name "Walter Ramal"), Songs of Childhood
- Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and Present actually published last year, although the book states "1902"
- Thomas MacDonagh, Through the Ivory Gate, Irish poet published in Ireland
- John Edward Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads, including "I must go down to the sea again"
- Alice Meynell, Later Poems
- Henry Newbolt, The Sailing of the Long Ships, and Other Poems
- Laurence Hope, editor, The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Alfred Noyes, The Loom of Years
- Dora Sigerson, The Woman Who Went to Hell, and Other Ballads and Lyrics
- W. B. Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan
Other in English
Works published in other languages
- Francis Jammes, , France
- Chanda Jha, ; India, Maithili-language
- Else Lasker-Schüler, Styx, German
- ÃÂtefan PeticÃÂ, , Romanian
- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images, German
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 â DobriÃ
¡a CesariÃÂ, Croatian poet and translator (d. 1980)
- February 1 â Langston Hughes (died 1967), African-American jazz poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer and newspaper columnist best known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance
- February 19 â Kay Boyle (died 1992, award-winning American poet, writer, educator and political activist
- February 22 â R. D. Fitzgerald (died 1987), Australian
- April 1 â Maria Polydouri (died 1930), Greek
- May 12 â Clementina Suárez (died 1991), Honduran
- July 3 â Yoshino Hideo (died 1967), Japanese ShÃ
Âwa period tanka poet
- July 19 â Ada Verdun Howell (died 1981), Australian
- July 28 â Kenneth Fearing (died 1961), American poet and writer
- August 19 â Ogden Nash (died 1971), American poet best known for pithy and funny light verse.
- August 24 â Felipe Alfau (died 1999), Spanish-American poet, translator and author
- September 20 â Stevie Smith (died 1971), British poet and novelist
- September 25 â Chen Xiaocui (suicide 1967), Chinese poet, fiction writer, translator and painter
- October 13 â Arna Bontemps (died 1973), American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
- November 1 â Nordahl Grieg (killed in action 1943), Norwegian poet and author.
- November 8 â A. J. M. Smith (died 1980), Canadian
- November 20 â Nazim Hikmet (died 1963), Turkish poet, dramatist and Communist
- December 6 â Michael Roberts (died 1948), English poet, writer, critic, broadcaster and teacher
- December 10 â Dulce MarÃÂa Loynaz (died 1997), Cuban
- December 22 â Evelyn Eaton (died 1983), Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet and academic
Deaths
- January 20 â Aubrey Thomas De Vere, 88, Irish poet and critic
- April 1 â Thomas Dunn English (born 1819), American politician, poet, author, songwriter who was elected to the United States House of Representatives and had a feud with Edgar Allan Poe
- May 6 â Bret Harte, 66, American author and poet, best remembered for accounts of pioneering life in California
- June 29 â Brunton Stephens (born 1835), Australian
- September 6 â Philip James Bailey, 86, English poet
- September 19 â Masaoka Shiki , pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori , who changed his name to Noboru (born 1867), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player
- September 29 â William McGonagall, Scottish weaver, actor, and poet comically renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language
- October 4 â Lionel Pigot Johnson, 35 (born 1867), English poet, essayist, and critic
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