1902 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

• H.D. meets and befriends Ezra Pound
• Times Literary Supplement begins publication^[1]

• James B. Dollard, also known as "Father Dollard", Irish Mist and Sunshine^[2]
• Anna Frances McCollum, Flower Legends and other Poems^[2]
• Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, Tangled in Stars^[2]

• Alfred Austin, A Tale of True Love and Other Poems
• Maurice Baring, The Black Prince and Other Poems (published this year; book states "1903")^[1]
• Walter De la Mare (publishing under the pen name "Walter Ramal"),^[1] Songs of Childhood^[3]
• Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and Present^[3] actually published last year, although the book states "1902"^[3]
• 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"^[3]
• Alice Meynell, Later Poems^[1]
• Henry Newbolt, The Sailing of the Long Ships, and Other Poems^[1]
• 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^[4]
• Alfred Noyes, The Loom of Years^[1]
• Dora Sigerson, The Woman Who Went to Hell, and Other Ballads and Lyrics^[1]
• W. B. Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan^[3]

• Elizabeth Akers Allen, The Sunset Song^[5]
• Madison Cawein, Kentucky Poems^[5]
• John William De Forest, Poem: Medley and Palestrina^[5]
• Ellen Glasgow, The Freeman and Other Poems^[5]
• James Whitcomb Riley, The Book of Joyous Children^[5]
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, Captain Craig^[5]
• Trumbull Stickney, Dramatic Verses^[5]
• John B. Tabb, Later Lyrics^[5]

• 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^[4]

• Francis Jammes, Clairières dans le ciel, France^[6]
• Chanda Jha, Gitasaptasati; India, Maithili-language^[7]
• Else Lasker-Schüler, Styx, German
• Ștefan Petică, Fecioara în alb. Când vioarele tăcură. Moartea visurilor, Romanian
• Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images, German

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 10 – Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (d. 1980)
• February 1 – 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 – Kay Boyle (died 1992, award-winning American poet, writer, educator and political activist
• February 22 – R. D. Fitzgerald (died 1987), Australian
• April 1 – Maria Polydouri (died 1930), Greek
• May 12 – Clementina Suárez (died 1991), Honduran
• July 3 – Yoshino Hideo (吉野秀雄) (died 1967), Japanese Shōwa period tanka poet
• July 19 – Ada Verdun Howell (died 1981), Australian
• July 28 – Kenneth Fearing (died 1961), American poet and writer
• August 19 – Ogden Nash (died 1971), American poet best known for pithy and funny light verse.
• August 24 – Felipe Alfau (died 1999), Spanish-American poet, translator and author
• September 20 – Stevie Smith (died 1971), British poet and novelist
• September 25 – Chen Xiaocui (suicide 1967), Chinese poet, fiction writer, translator and painter
• October 13 – Arna Bontemps (died 1973), American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
• November 1 – Nordahl Grieg (killed in action 1943), Norwegian poet and author.
• November 8 – A. J. M. Smith (died 1980), Canadian
• November 20 – Nazim Hikmet (died 1963), Turkish poet, dramatist and Communist
• December 6 – Michael Roberts (died 1948), English poet, writer, critic, broadcaster and teacher
• December 10 – Dulce María Loynaz (died 1997), Cuban
• December 22 – Evelyn Eaton (died 1983), Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet and academic

• January 20 – Aubrey Thomas De Vere, 88, Irish poet and critic
• April 1 – 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 – Bret Harte, 66, American author and poet, best remembered for accounts of pioneering life in California
• June 29 – Brunton Stephens (born 1835), Australian
• September 6 – Philip James Bailey, 86, English poet
• September 19 – Masaoka Shiki (正岡 子規), pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori (正岡 常規), who changed his name to Noboru (升) (born 1867), 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 (born 1867), English poet, essayist, and critic

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