# 1902 in poetry

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

## Events

* H.D. meets and befriends Ezra Pound
* Times Literary Supplement begins publication

## Works published in English
### Canada

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

### United Kingdom

* Alfred Austin, A Tale of True Love and Other Poems
* Maurice Baring, The Black Prince and Other Poems (published this year; book states "1903")
* Walter De la Mare (publishing under the pen name "Walter Ramal"), 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

### United States

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

### Other in English

* 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

### Works published in other languages

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

## Births

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

## Deaths

* 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