Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Holy Grail, and Other Poems, with "The Coming of Arthur," "The Holy Grail," "Pelleas and Ettarre," and "The Passing of Arthur" (published this year, although the book states "1870"; see also Idylls of the King1859,
1870,
1889, "The Last Tournament"
1871, Gareth and Lynette1872, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias1885)[1]
June 10 –
Arthur Shearly Cripps (died
1952),
English Anglican priest, short story writer and poet spending most of his life in Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe)
Balawantrai Thakore (died
1952), the first
Imagist and formalist poet in
Indian,
Gujarati-language literature; introduced into Gujarati the sonnet and prithvi meter, "which is closest to English blank verse", according to The Handbook of Twentieth-Century Indian Literature[7]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
^
abcdefCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN0-19-860634-6
^
abcdefLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
^Wagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Holy Grail, and Other Poems, with "The Coming of Arthur," "The Holy Grail," "Pelleas and Ettarre," and "The Passing of Arthur" (published this year, although the book states "1870"; see also Idylls of the King1859,
1870,
1889, "The Last Tournament"
1871, Gareth and Lynette1872, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias1885)[1]
June 10 –
Arthur Shearly Cripps (died
1952),
English Anglican priest, short story writer and poet spending most of his life in Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe)
Balawantrai Thakore (died
1952), the first
Imagist and formalist poet in
Indian,
Gujarati-language literature; introduced into Gujarati the sonnet and prithvi meter, "which is closest to English blank verse", according to The Handbook of Twentieth-Century Indian Literature[7]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
^
abcdefCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN0-19-860634-6
^
abcdefLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
^Wagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967