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Encyclopedia > 1905 in poetry
Years in poetry: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
Years in literature: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
Decades in poetry: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Centuries in poetry: 19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries: 19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years: 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908

Contents

// Hilda Doolittle meets and befriends Ezra Pound 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... // William Butler Yeats leaves Ireland for an extended stay in the United States on a lecture tour Thomas Traherne, Poetical Works (posthumous) W. B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods, Ideas of Good and Evil January 9 — Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903–January 9, 1946), African-American poet November 6 — Carl... // Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre. ... // Picassos portrait of Gertrude Stein Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman, a ballad C. M. Doughty, The Dawn in Britain Thomas Hardy. ... // W.B. Yeats in Dublin on 24 January, 1908 Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. ... See also: 1901 in literature, other events of 1902, 1903 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1902 in literature, other events of 1903, 1904 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1903 in literature, other events of 1904, 1905 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1904 in literature, other events of 1905, 1906 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1905 in literature, other events of 1906, 1907 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1906 in literature, other events of 1907, 1908 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1907 in literature, other events of 1908, 1909 in literature, list of years in literature. ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries in poetry. ... Category: ... Category: ... Category: ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... The 21st century is the present century of the Anno Domini (common) era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... // The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ... // Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... // First flight by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903. ... // Events and trends The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th Century. ... The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... The 1930s (years from 1930-1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... This page indexes the individual years pages. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Year 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Events

  • Ezra Pound presents Hilda Doolittle (the poet "H.D.") with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book
  • March — art student Vachel Lindsay goes into the streets of New York City and tries to sell or give away copies of one of his poems. The take: 13 cents. His reaction: Ecstasy. "Now let there be here recorded my conclusions from one evening, one hour of peddling poetry. I am so rejoiced over it and so uplifted I am going to do it many times. It sets the heart trembling with happiness. The people like poetry as well as the scholars, or better."[1]

Ezra Pound in 1913. ... H.D. in the mid 1910s Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961), better known by the pen name H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. ... Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (November 10, 1879 - December 5, 1931), an American poet born in Springfield, Illinois, became known as the Prairie Troubador. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ...

Works published

E. C. Bentley (July 10, 1875 – March 30, 1956), was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics. ... A Clerihew (or clerihew) is a very specific kind of humorous verse, typically with the following properties: The first line consists solely (or almost solely) of a well-known persons name The verse is humorous and usually whimsical, showing the subject from an unusual point of view; but it... Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867-23 February 1900), an English poet who was associated with the Decadent Movement, was born at Lee, south-east of London. ... Dr. Duncan Campbell Scott Source: Library and Archives Canada, PA-165842 Duncan Campbell Scott (August 2, 1862-December 19, 1947) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. ... Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. ...

Births

Brian Coffey (June 8, 1905 - April 14, 1995) was an Irish poet and publisher. ... Idris Davies 1905-1953 was a Welsh poet, writing in English. ... Geoffrey Grigson (2nd March 1905 - 1985) was an English writer. ... Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 - 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet. ... Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (born July 29, 1905) is a noted American poet who served two years (1974–1976) as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000. ... Kenneth Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) was an American poet, translator and critical essayist. ... Rex Warner (March 9, 1905 - June 24, 1986) was an English classicist, writer and translator. ... Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and was one of the founders of The New Criticism. ...

Deaths

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... // Directed two seminal dramatisations of epic poems by Heathcote Williams in the early nineties. ... Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American politician elected from Illinois as the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 – September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. ... Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ...

Awards and honors

Notes

  1. ^ "Vachel Lindsay" essay, Richard Ellman and Robert O'Clair, editors, Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 1973, page 257, which cites Ruggles, Eleanor, The West-Going Heart, A Life of Vachel Lindsay (New York, 1959), page 97

See also

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