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
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abcdefgCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN0-19-860634-6
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abcGarvin, John William, editor,
Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
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abcdeWeb page titled
"A Time-Line of Poetry in English" at the Representative Poetry Online website of the University of Toronto, retrieved December 20, 2008
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abJoshi, Irene, compiler,
"Poetry Anthologies"Archived 2009-08-30 at the
Wayback Machine, "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
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abcdefghLudwig, 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)
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
^
abcdefgCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN0-19-860634-6
^
abcGarvin, John William, editor,
Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
^
abcdeWeb page titled
"A Time-Line of Poetry in English" at the Representative Poetry Online website of the University of Toronto, retrieved December 20, 2008
^
abJoshi, Irene, compiler,
"Poetry Anthologies"Archived 2009-08-30 at the
Wayback Machine, "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
^
abcdefghLudwig, 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)