1874 in Poetry - Births

Births

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• January 16 – Robert William Service (died 1958) a Scots-Canadian poet who wrote "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
• February 3 – Gertrude Stein (died 1946), American writer, poet and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France
• February 9 – Amy Lowell (died 1925), American poet of the imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
• February 22 – Kyoshi Takahama 高浜 虚子, pen name of Kiyoshi Takahama (died 1959), Japanese, Shōwa period poet; close disciple of Masaoka Shiki (surname: Takahama)
• March 26 – Robert Frost (died 1963), American poet
• April 27 – Maurice Baring (died 1945), English poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer, and war correspondent
• May 29 – G. K. Chesterton (died 1936), influential English writer, journalist, poet, biographer, Christian apologist short story writer and novelist
• June 20 – Trumbull Stickney (died 1904), American classical scholar and poet best known for his sonnets
• August 19 – A. H. Reginald Buller (died 1944), a British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust who also wrote limericks, some of which were published in Punch
• September 8 – Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎 (died 1947), Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist, and literary critic in both English and Japanese; father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi
• November 30 – Lucy Maud Montgomery (died 1942), Canadian author and poet best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables

• Date not known:
  • Ursula Bethell (died 1945) (New Zealand)
  • Gordon Bottomley (died 1948), English poet known particularly for his verse dramas
  • Kalapi (died 1900), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
  • R. H. Long (died 19487), Australian
  • Ridgely Torrence (died 1950), American
  • J. W. Gordon (Jim Grahame) (died 1949), Australian
  • Stanley de Vere Alexander Julius
  • uncertain year of birth – Josephine Peabody, American poet and playwright