1909 in poetry
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| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 |
| Years in literature: | 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 |
| 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: | 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- Andrew Cecil Bradley, Oxford Lectures on Poetry
- Founding of the Poetry Recital Society (now the Poetry Society)
- T.E. Hulme leaves the Poets' Club, and starts meeting with F.S. Flint and other poets in a new group which Hulme referred to as the 'Secession Club'; they meet at the Eiffel Tower restaurant in London's Soho district to discuss plans to reform contemporary poetry through free verse and the tanka and haiku and the removal of all unnecessary verbiage from poems. In April, Ezra Pound is introduced to the group and joins it.
[edit] Works published
- Thomas Hardy, Time's Laughingstocks
- George Meredith, Last Poems
- Ezra Pound:
- Robert Service, Ballads of a Cheechako
- John Millington Synge, Poems and Translations
- The Poets' Club publishes two anthologies: For Christmas MDCCCCVIII (January 1909) and The Book of the Poets' Club (December) including the first examples of Imagist poetry
- William Carlos Williams, Poems
[edit] Births
- February 14 — A.M. Klein (died 1972) Ukrainian-born Canadian poet, essayist and author of short stories
- February 28 — Stephen Spender (died 1995), English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle
- May 1 — Yannis Ritsos, Greek
- May 9 — Robert Garioch (died 1981), a Scots-language poet, translator, and key member in the literary revival of the language in the mid-20th century
- July 27 — Charles Brasch (died 1973), a New Zealand poet, literary editor, arts patron and founding editor of the literary journal Landfall
- October 12 — Dorothy Livesay (died 1996), Canadian poet
- date not known — John Glassco (Canada)
[edit] Deaths
- John Davidson
- Romesh Chunder Dutt (India)
- George Essex Evans (Australia)
- Richard Watson Gilder
- William Reed Huntington
- June 24 — Sarah Orne Jewett, 59, American novelist,short story writer, and poet
- George Cabot Lodge
- George Meredith
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- John Millington Synge
- John Banister Tabb (US)
