1920 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • May 11 – William Dean Howells, 83, American literary critic, author and poet
  • June 5 – Julia A. Moore, 72, American poetaster, famed for her notoriously bad poetry
  • December 21 – Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, 56, Somali poet, religious and nationalist leader who for 20 years led armed resistance to the British, Italian, and Ethiopian forces in Somalia and used his patriotic poetry to rally his supporters
  • Also:
    • Charles Carryl
    • Ernest Hartley Coleridge (born 1846), English scholar and poet, grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    • Devendranath Sen (born 1855), Indian, Bengali-language poet
    • Divakarla Tirupti Shastri (born 1872), Indian, Telugu-language poet; one of the two poets in the due known in Telugu literature as "Triupati Vankata Kavulu"
    • Eknath Pandurang Randalkar (born 1887), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator from Sanskrit, English, Bengali and Gujarati poetry
    • Louise Imogen Guiney (born 1861), American poet
    • Jammuneshwar Khataniyar (born 1899), Indian, Assamese-language poet; a woman
    • Mian Hidayatulla, birth year not known, Indian, Punjabi-language poet
    • Nagesh Vishwanath Pai, also spelled "Nagesh Vishvanath Pai" (born 1860), Indian poet and fiction writer Marathi-language poet
    • Dollie Radford (born 1858), English poet and writer
    • Vishvanatha Dev Varma, (born 1850), Indian, Sanskrit-language poet

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