Overview of the events of 1872 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1872 in poetry
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Births
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- February 22 – John Shaw Neilson (died 1942), Australian
- June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar (died 1906), African American
- July 8 – Sasaki Nobutsuna 佐佐木信綱 (died 1963), Japanese, Shōwa period tanka poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods (surname: Sasaki)
- August 15 – Sri Aurobindo (Bengali: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo) (died 1950), Indian nationalist, poet, Yogi and spiritual Guru writing mostly in English[11]
- October 10 – Arthur Talmage Abernethy (died 1956), American poet, journalist, theologian and minister; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1948–1953
- October 18 (October 6 O.S.) – Mikhail Kuzmin (died 1936), Russian poet, novelist and composer
- November 7 – Leonora Speyer (died 1956), American poet and violinist
- November 30 – John McCrae (died on active service in World War I 1918), Canadian war poet, physician, author, artist and soldier best known for the poem "In Flanders Fields"
- December 6 – Arthur Henry Adams (died 1936), Australian
- Also:
- Hafiz Ibrahim (died 1932), Egyptian poet called "the poet of the Nile"
- Divakarla Tirupti Shastri (died 1920), Indian, Telugu-language poet; one of the two poets in the due known in Telugu literature as "Triupati Vankata Kavulu"[12]
Deaths
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