1898 in Poetry - Births

Births

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

• February 6 – Melvin B. Tolson (died 1966), African American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, trade unionist and politician
• February 9 – Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉 (died 1927), Japanese (surname: Yagi)
• February 18 – Luis Muñoz Marín (died 1980), Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician
• March 9 – Fuyue Anzai 安西 冬衛 (died 1965), Japanese, poet and co-founder of the magazine Shi To Shiron ("Poetry and Poetics"), surname: Anzai
• March 20 – Luis Palés Matos (died 1959), Puerto Rican poet
• April 10 – Horace Gregory (died 1982), American poet, translator, literary critic and academic; husband of poet and editor Marya Zaturenska
• April 26 – Vicente Aleixandre (died 1984), Spanish poet
• June 4 – Harry Crosby (died 1929), American publisher and poet (died 1929)
• June 5 – Federico García Lorca (died 1936), Spanish poet
• July 17 – Richard Harry Graves (died 1971), Australian
• July 22 – Stephen Vincent Benét (died 1943), American author, poet, short story writer and novelist
• August 15 – Jan Brzechwa (died 1966), Polish poet
• August 28 – Malcolm Cowley (died 1989), American novelist, poet, literary critic, and journalist
• October 22 – Edgell Rickword (died 1982), English poet, critic, journalist, literary editor and a leading communist intellectual in the 1930s

• Also:
  • Harindranath Chattopadhyana
  • Govinda Krishna Chettur
  • Philip Child
  • William Soutar, Scots poet