1886 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 1 – Kinoshita Rigen 木下利玄, pen-name of Kinoshita Toshiharu (died 1925), Japanese, Meiji- and Taishō-period tanka poet
• January 3 – John Gould Fletcher (died 1950), an American Imagist poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry
• February 2 – William Rose Benêt (died 1950), American poet, writer, and editor; older brother of Stephen Vincent Benét
• February 13 – Ricardo Güiraldes (died 1927), Argentine gauchesque poet and author
• February 22 – Hugo Ball (died 1927), German poet and Dada artist
• May 7 – Gottfried Benn (died 1956), German essayist, novelist and expressionist poet
• May 20 – Chieko Takamura (died 1938) Japanese
• September 8 – Siegfried Sassoon (died 1967), English poet and author
• September 10 – Hilda Doolittle, aka H.D., (died 1961) American poet
• September 20 – Charles Williams (died 1945), English writer and poet, and a member of the loose literary circle called the Inklings
• October 8 – Yoshii Isamu 吉井勇 (died 1960), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period tanka poet and playwright
• October 12 – Abd Al-Rahman Shokry (died 1958), Egyptian poet, member of the Divan school of poetry
• October 24 – Delmira Agustini (died 1914), Uruguayan
• October 30 – Zoë Rumbold Akins (died 1958), American playwright, poet, and author
• November 1 – Sakutarō Hagiwara 萩原 朔太郎 (died 1942), Japanese, Taishō and early Showa period literary critic and free-verse poet called the "father of modern colloquial poetry in Japan"
• December 6 – Joyce Kilmer (died 1918 near Seringes, France), American journalist and poet whose best-known work is "Trees" (1913)
• Date not known:
  • Frances Cornford (died 1960), English
  • Misao Fujimura, 藤村操 (died 1903), Japanese philosophy student and poet, largely remembered for the poem he carved into a tree before committing suicide as a teenager over an unrequited love; the boy and the poem were sensationalized by Japanese newspapers after his death
  • John Henry Gray