1870 in Poetry - Births

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• March 4 – Thomas Sturge Moore (died 1944), English poet, author, playwright, artist and long-term friend of W.B. Yeats
• July 1 – Inoue Kenkabō 井上剣花坊 pen name of Inoue Koichi (died 1934), Japanese, late Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period journalist and writer of senryū (short, humorous verse); surname: Inoue
• July 27 – Hilaire Belloc (died 1953), English writer whose "cautionary tales" (humorous poems with a moral) are the most widely known of his writing
• October 10 – Louise Mack (died 1935), Australian poet, journalist and novelist
• October 22 – Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (died 1945), a minor Uranian poet best remembered as a lover of the writer Oscar Wilde
• November 1 – Christopher Brennan (died 1932), Australian

• Also:
  • Botadkar (died 1924), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
  • Eva Selena Gore-Booth, Irish
  • Va. Ba. Patavardhan (died 1921), Indian, Marathi-language critic and poet
  • Helen Power (died 1957), Australian