1902 in poetry
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[edit] Events
Hilda Doolittle meets and befriends Ezra Pound
[edit] Works published
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
[edit] Births
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
[edit] Deaths
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:
