1908 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. After spending several months in Venice he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920.
[edit] The Poets' Club
- Founding in London of the Poets' Club, a group comprised mainly amateurs which met monthly for most of the year.
- Late in the year — T.E. Hulme reads to the Poets' Club his paper, A Lecture on Modern Poetry, a concise statement of his influential advocacy of free verse
[edit] Works published in English
[edit] United Kingdom
- Lascelles Abercrombie, Interludes and Poems[1]
- Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children[1]
- William Henry Davies, Nature Poems and Others[1]
- Edmund Gosse, The Autumn Garden[1]
- Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: Part 3 [2]
- Minnie Louise Haskins, The Desert, including the poem The Gate of the Year
- Edith Nesbit, Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism[1]
- Stephen Phillips, New Poems
- Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom:
- A Quinzaine for this Yule, London[3]
- Katharine Tynan, Experiences, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[1]
- William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[4][1]
[edit] United States
- William Stanley Braithwaite, The House of Falling Leaves with Other Poems
- Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom:
- A Lume Spento, Pound's first poetry collection (the title translates as "a dim light") published at his own expense in Venice
- A Quinzaine for this Yule, London[3]
[edit] Other in English
- John Le Gay Brereton, Sea and Sky, Australia
- Wilfred Campbell, Poetical Tragedies, including "Mordred", "Daulac", "Morning" and "Hildebrand[5]
- Katharine Tynan, Experiences, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[1]
- Albert D. Watson, The Wing of the Wild-Bird[5]
- William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[4][1]
[edit] Works published in other languages
- Albert Ferland, Le Canada Chante, French language, Canada[6]
- Louis Joseph Doucet, La Chanson du Passant, French language, Canada[6]
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 4 – Julian Bell (died 1937), English poet, and a member of a family whose notable members included his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell; his aunt, Virginia Woolf; his younger brother, the writer Quentin Bell; and the writer and painter Angelica Garnett, his half-sister
- April 2 – Ronald McCuaig (died 1993), Australian[7]
- April 15 – Denis Devlin (died 1959) Irish modernist poet and a career diplomat
- April 24 – George Oppen (died 1984), American poet; winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
- May 25 – Theodore Roethke (died 1963), American poet
- June 14 – Kathleen Jessie Raine (died 2003), a English poet, critic and scholar
- August 19 – Josephine Jacobsen (died 2003), American poet, short story writer, and critic
- September 1 – Eve Langley (died 1974), Australian novelist and poet
- September 9 – Cesare Pavese (died 1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator
- October 9 – Harry Hooton (died 1961), Australian poet and anarchist
- October 12 – Paul Engle (died 1991) American poet, writer, editor, and novelist
- date not known – Eric Irvin (died 1992), Australian[8]
[edit] Deaths
- June 23 – Kunikida Doppo 國木田 獨歩 (born 1871), Japanese Meiji period romantic poet and one of the novelists who pioneered naturalism in Japan
- October 21 – Charles Eliot Norton, 80, scholar and man of letters
[edit] See also
- 20th century in poetry
- 20th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- French literature of the 20th century
- Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
- Poetry
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Part three of Hardy's epic trilogy of the Napoleonic War
- ^ a b Ackroyd, Peter, Ezra Pound, Thames and Hudson Ltd., London, 1980, "Bibliography" chapter, p 121
- ^ a b Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, p. 82
- ^ a b Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian Poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
- ^ a b "French-Canadian Literature", article, in Chisholm, Hugh, editor, The Britannica Year Book 1913, London and New York, retrieved via Google Books, June 28, 2009
- ^ "McCuaig, Ronald". AustLit Database. http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A%23%7DF. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
- ^ "MS 8786/Papers of Eric Irvin (1908-1992)". National Library of Australia. http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms8786. Retrieved on 2007-05-21.
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