1902 in poetry

This article covers 1902 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

Alfred Austin, A Tale of True Love and Other Poems
Maurice Baring, The Black Prince and Other Poems
Olive Custance, Rainbows
Walter De la Mare, 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''

Adela Florence Cory Nicolson, editor, The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 10 – Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator
February 1 – Langston Hughes, African-American jazz poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer and newspaper columnist best known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance
February 19 – Kay Boyle, Australian
April 1 – Maria Polydouri, Greek
May 12 – Clementina Suárez, Honduran
July 3 – Yoshino Hideo 2=吉野秀雄, Japanese Shōwa period tanka poet
July 19 – Ada Verdun Howell, Australian
July 28 – Kenneth Fearing, American poet and writer
August 19 – Ogden Nash, American poet best known for pithy and funny light verse.
August 24 – Felipe Alfau, Spanish-American poet, translator and author
September 20 – Stevie Smith, British poet and novelist
September 25 – Chen Xiaocui, Chinese poet, fiction writer, translator and painter
October 13 – Arna Bontemps, American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
November 1 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet and author.
November 8 – A. J. M. Smith, Canadian
November 20 – Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poet, dramatist and Communist
December 6 – Michael Roberts, English poet, writer, critic, broadcaster and teacher
December 10 – Dulce María Loynaz, Cuban
December 22 – Evelyn Eaton, Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet and academic

January 20 – Aubrey Thomas De Vere, 88, Irish poet and critic
April 1 – Thomas Dunn English, 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 – Bret Harte, 66, American author and poet, best remembered for accounts of pioneering life in California
June 29 – Brunton Stephens, Australian
September 6 – Philip James Bailey, 86, English poet
September 19 – Masaoka Shiki 2=正岡子規, pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori 2=正岡常規, who changed his name to Noboru 2=升, Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player
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