1885 in Poetry - Births

Births

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• January 6 – Humbert Wolfe (died 1940), English poet, writer and civil servant
• January 20 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo (died 1926), Japanese, late Meiji period and Taishō period poet
• January 25 – Hakushū Kitahara 北原 白秋, pen-name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原 隆吉 (died 1942), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period tanka poet
• April 21 – Mitsuko Shiga 四賀光子, pen-name of Mitsu Ota (died 1956), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period tanka poet, a woman
• April 26 – Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏, commonly referred to as "Dakotsu", pen names of Takeji Iida 飯田 武治 (died 1962), Japanese, haiku poet; trained under Takahama Kyoshi
• May 12 – Saneatsu Mushanokōji 武者小路 実篤 實篤, sometimes known as "Mushakōji Saneatsu"; other pen-names included "Musha" and "Futo-o" (died 1976), Japanese, late Taishō period and Showa period novelist, playwright, poet, artist and philosopher
• May 13 – Hideo Nagata 長田秀雄 (died 1949), Japanese, Showa period poet, playwright and screenwriter
• July 1 – Dorothea Mackellar (died 1968), Australian poet and fiction writer
• August 18 – Nettie Palmer, (died 1964), Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic; wife of Vance Palmer
• August 24 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (died 1928), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
• August 28 – Vance Palmer, (died 1959), Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic; husband of Nettie Palmer
• September 11 – D. H. Lawrence (died 1930), English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic
• October 30 – Ezra Pound, poet (died 1972), American poet and editor
• December 19 – F. S. Flint (died 1960), English poet, translator and prominent member of the Imagist group

• Also:
• Govindagraj, also known as "Ram Ganes" Gadkari (died 1919), Indian, Marathi-language poet, playwright and humorist
• Ghulam Ahmad Mahjur (died 1952), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet