# 1901 in poetry

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

## Events

* A small plaque is set on the Statue of Liberty to display Emma Lazarus' 1883 poem, "The New Colossus"
* The first Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Sully Prudhomme, a French poet and essayist.

## Works published in English
### Canada

* Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
* William Henry Drummond, Johnnie Courteau and other Poems.
* Charles Mair, Tecumseh: A Drama, and Canadian Poems, published in Toronto

### United Kingdom

* Jane Barlow, Ghost-Bereft, with Other Stories and Studies in Verse
* C. S. Calverley, Complete Works (posthumous)
* John Davidson
** The Testament of a Man Forbid
** The Testament of a Vivisector
* Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and the Present (published November 1901; book states "1902")
* Laurence Hope, The Garden of Kama (U.K. title), India's Love Lyrics (U.S. title).
* George Meredith, A Reading of Life with Other Poems
* Lady Margaret Sackville, Poems

### United States

* Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
* Nina Davis, translator, Songs of Exile by Hebrew Poets, English translator of medieval Hebrew poetry published in the United States
* Edwin Markham, Lincoln and Other Poems
* William Vaughn Moody, Poems
* George Santayana, A Hermit of Carmel and Other Poems

### Other in English

* Joseph Furtado, Poems, Bombay; India, Indian poetry in English
* Louise Mack, Dreams in Flower, Australia

## Works published in other languages

* Hayim Nahman Bialik, שירים, Hebrew published in Warsaw
* José Santos Chocano, El fin de Satán y otros poemas (The End of Satan' and Other Poems), Peru
* Stefan George, Die Fibel, poems written from 1886 to 1889; German
* Francis Jammes, Le Deuil des primevères, France
* Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Kavyarasika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)
* Beheramji Malabari, Kavyarasika, (Indian writing in Gujarati)
* Vazha-Pshavela, The Snake-eater, Georgian

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 6 – Walter Fischer (died 1978), Austrian medical doctor, journalist, radio broadcaster, translator, poet, anti-fascist resistance fighter and Communist Party official
* January 16 – Laura Riding Jackson (died 1991), American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
* January 29 – Heinrich Anacker (died 1971), German
* January 30 – Hans Erich Nossack (died 1977), German
* March 4? – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo or Rebearivelo (died 1937), Madagascar native and French-language poet
* March 5 – Yocheved Bat-Miriam (died 1979), Russian-born, Israeli, Hebrew-language poet
* March 27 – Kenneth Slessor (died 1971), Australian newspaper journalist and poet
* April 20 – Michel Leiris, French author and poet
* April 29 – Hirohito (died 1989), Emperor of Japan and poet
* May 1 – Sterling Brown (died 1989) African-American teacher, poet, writer on folklore and literary critic
* May 30 – Itsik Manger (or "Itzig Manger") איציק מאַנגער (died 1969), Yiddish poet and playwright born in Ukraine, a resident in Romania and Poland, then an immigrant to Israel
* June 3 – G. Sankara Kurup (died 1978), Indian Malayalam-language poet
* June 10 – Eric Maschwitz (died 1969), English entertainer, writer, broadcaster, broadcasting executive and poet
* June 13 – J. C. Beaglehole (died 1971), New Zealand historian and poet
* July 1 – Vladimir Lugovskoy (or "Lugovskoi") (died 1957), Russian Constructivist poet
* July 26 – Nina Berberova, Нина Николаевна Берберова (died 1993), Russian-born poet, novelist, playwright, critic and academic living in Europe from 1922 to 1950, then in the United States
* August 5 – Margarita Abella Caprile (died 1960), Argentine poet
* August 12 – Robert Francis (died 1987), American
* August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo (died 1968), Italian poet
* September 2 – Andreas Embirikos (died 1975), Greek
* September 23 – Jaroslav Seifert (died 1986), Czech, Nobel Prize-winning poet and journalist
* September 28 – T. Inglis Moore (died 1978), Australian
* September 29 – Lanza del Vasto (died 1981), French poet and novelist
* October 2 – Roy Campbell (died 1957), South African poet and translator
* October 4 – Adrian Bell (died 1980), English rural writer and crossword compiler
* Also:
** Heinz Helmerking (died 1964), German writer
** Kilian Kerst (died 1981), German
** Sankara Kurup (died 1978), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
** Hans Lorber (died 1973), German
** Amin Nakhla (died 1976), Lebanese, Arabic language poet
** Irina Odoyevtseva, also "Odoevtseva" also "Iraida Gustavovna Beinlke Ivanova" (more probably born 1895; died 1990), Russian
** Louis Paul, born Leroi Placet (approximate date of birth; died 1970), American fiction writer
** Vladimir Aleksandrovich Smolensky or "Smolenskii" (died 1961), Russian
** Shinkichi Takahashi (died 1987), Japanese Dadaist poet

## Deaths

* June 10 – Robert Williams Buchanan, 59, Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist
* July 20 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, 61 (born 1840), English poet and critic
* July 23/24 – Andreas Laskaratos (born 1811), Greek poet
* October 18 – Nicholas Flood Davin, 61 (born 1840), Irish-born Canadian lawyer, journalist, politician and poet
* November 10 – Sarah Carmichael (born 1838), American poet
* December 23 – William Ellery Channing, 73, American Transcendentalist poet
* Also:
** Albery Allson Whitman (born 1851), African American poet and orator