1887 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• January 10 – Robinson Jeffers (died 1962), American poet and playwright
• February 3 – Georg Trakl (died 1914), German
• February 11 – Shinobu Orikuchi 折口 信夫, also known as Chōkū Shaku 釋 迢空 (died 1953), Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist and poet; a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he established an academic field named "Orikuchiism" (折口学, Orikuchigaku?), a mix of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics, and Shintō religion (surname: Orikuchi)
• May 13 – Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (died 1964), Showa period poet, playwright and screenwriter (surname: Nagata)
• May 15 – Edwin Muir (died 1959 in poetry) British poet, novelist and noted translator
• May 16 – Jakob van Hoddis (died 1942), German
• May 31 - Saint-John Perse (died 1975), French diplomat, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1960
• June 20 – Kurt Schwitters (died 1947), German
• June 22 – Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (died 1975), English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist
• June 28 – Orrick Glenday Johns (died 1946), American poet
• August 3 – Rupert Brooke (died 1915), English poet
• August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (died 1917), Irish poet, sometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds"; killed in action near Ypres, Belgium during World War I
• September 1 – Blaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser (died 1961), a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916
• September 7 – Edith Sitwell (died 1964) English poet and critic
• September 21 – Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams, (died 1975), Welsh poet, translator and academic
• September 16 – Hans Arp (died 1966), German
• October 30 – Georg Heym (died 1912), German poet
• November 15 – Marianne Moore (died 1972 in poetry), American Modernist poet and writer
• December 6 – Minakami Takitarō 水上滝太郎 pen name of Abe Shōzō (died 1940), Japanese, Showa period poet, novelist, literary critic and essayist (surname: Minakami)
• December 30 – K.M. Munshi (died 1971), Indian Gujarati-language novelist, playwright, writer, politician and lawyer

• Also:
  • Skipwith Cannell (died 1957), American poet associated with the Imagist group (pronounce his last name with the stress on the second syllable)
  • Margaret Curran, (died 1962), Australian poet, editor and journalist
  • Elizabeth Daryush (died 1977 in poetry), English poet; daughter of Robert Bridges
  • Pierre Jean Jouve (died 1976), French poet and novelist
  • Frederick T. Macartney, (died 1980), Australian
  • Alphonse Métérié (died 1967), French newspaper editor, teacher, and poet
  • Ramanayan Pathak (died 1955), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and husband of Heeraben Pathak
  • Sukumar Ray (সুকুমার রায়) (died 1923) humorous poet, short-story writer and playwright, Indian, Gujarati-language poet and dramatist
  • Jatindranath Sengupta (died 1954), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer