1848 in poetry
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Romesh Chunder Dutt, born this year
1920 in poetry
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1848 in poetry
…January 6 (December 25, 1847 O.S.) – Hristo Botev (killed 1876), Bulgarian revolutionary and poet February 17 – Louisa Lawson, née Albury (died 1920), Australian poet, writer, publisher and feminist; mother of Henry Lawson August 13 – Romesh Chunder Dutt (died 1909), Indian poet writing in English…
Photograph of William Butler Yeats taken this year
E.E. Cummings' unusual style can be seen in his poem "Buffalo Bill's/ defunct" from the January 1920 issue use of Dust
Grave of William Dean Howells, buried in Cambridge, Massachusetts