1888 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• March 30 – Julian Grenfell (died 1915), English soldier and poet
• June 13 – Fernando Pessoa (died 1935), Portuguese poet and writer
• April 30 – John Crowe Ransom (died 1974), American poet, essayist, social and political theorist and academic
• June 8 – Senge Motomaro 千家元麿 (died 1948), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet (surname: Senge)
• June 22 — Alan Seeger (died 1916), American poet
• August 1 – Aline Kilmer (died 1941), American poet, children's book author and essayist; wife of Joyce Kilmer
• September 26 — T. S. Eliot (died 1965), American-born English poet, playwright, editor, critic and writer
• October 1 – Ryuko Kawaji 川路柳虹, pen-name of Kawaki Makoto (died 1959), Japanese, Showa period poet and literary critic (surname: Kawaji)
• October 14 — Katherine Mansfield (died 1923), New Zealand poet
• October 16 — Eugene O'Neill (died 1953), American playwright
• date not known – Nilkanth Sharma Dal (died 1970), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet