- Source: 1905 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
March – Art student Vachel Lindsay goes into the streets of New York City and tries to sell or give away copies of one of his poems. The take: 13 cents. His reaction: Ecstasy. "Now let there be here recorded my conclusions from one evening, one hour of peddling poetry. I am so rejoiced over it and so uplifted I am going to do it many times. It sets the heart trembling with happiness. The people like poetry as well as the scholars, or better."
December 15 – The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
Ezra Pound presents H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), fellow American poet, with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book.
Works published in English
= Canada
=Wilfred Campbell, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Campbell
James Capon, Roberts and the Influences of His Time, critical work on Charles G. D. Roberts
Isabella Valancy Crawford, The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford, John W. Garvin ed., posthumously published
William Henry Drummond, The Voyageur and other Poems
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton:
Acadian Ballads, and De Soto's Last Dream
Poems of the Christian Year
Duncan Campbell Scott, New World Lyrics and Ballads, including "The Forsaken", Canada
= United Kingdom
=Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Biography for Beginners with the first publication of the clerihew
Robert Bridges, Demeter
Joseph Campbell, The Garden of Bees
W. H. Davies, The Soul's Destroyer, and Other Poems
Ernest Dowson, The Poems of Ernest Dowson
R. C. Dutt, editor, Indian Poetry: Selected and Rendered Into English, London: J.M. Dent and Co., 163 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
Violet Jacob, Verses, Scottish poet
Frederic Manning, The Vigil of Brunhild, verse drama based on Norse mythology
Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold
Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne
Arthur Symons, A Book of Twenty Songs
Katharine Tynan, Innocencies
Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis" (posthumous)
= United States
=Madison Cawein, Vale of Tempe
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
Trumbull Stickney, Poems
John Hall Wheelock, with Van Wyck Brooks, Verses by Two Undergraduates
= Other in English
=R. C. Dutt, editor, Indian Poetry: Selected and Rendered Into English, London: J.M. Dent and Co., 163 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
Francis Jammes, Tristesses, France
Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold, Indian poet writing in English, published in Britain (text available online)
Violet Teague - Night Fall in the Ti-Tree, Australian Artist's book containing poetry
Works published in other languages
= Indian subcontinent
=Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Vilasika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)
Brij Raj, Vagdevi, Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brij Bhasha
Kavi Dalpatram Nanalal, ' 'Vasantotsav' ', Gujarati language, India
= Other languages and such
=Paul Claudel, France
Poèmes de la Sexagésime
"Vers d'Exil", poems published in L'Ermitage magazine
Gjergj Fishta, Lahuta e Malcís ("The Highland Lute"), begins publication, Albania
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours (Das Stunden-Buch), Germany
Octavian Goga - Poezii
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 3 – Padraic Fallon (died 1974), Irish
January 6 – Idris Davies (died 1956), Welsh poet writing first in that language, later in English
January 10 – R. A. K. Mason (died 1971), New Zealander
February 15 (February 2 O.S.) – Musa Cälil (executed 1944), Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter
March 2 – Geoffrey Grigson (died 1985), American
March 9:
Peter Quennell (died 1993), English
Rex Warner (died 1986), Irish
March 13 – Brian Howard (suicide 1958), English poet, writer and "bright young thing"
March 18 – Alfred Bailey (died 1997), Canadian poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian and academic administrator
March 21 – Phyllis McGinley (died 1978), American
April 10 – Norma Davis (died 1945), Australian
April 17 – Carlos Oquendo de Amat (died 1936), Peruvian poet, author of 5 Meters of Poems (1927)
April 22 – Robert Choquette (died 1991) Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat
April 24 – Robert Penn Warren (died 1989), American poet, critic, novelist and academic
May 15 – Annadashankar Roy (died 2002), Bengali poet
June 8 – Brian Coffey (died 1995), Irish poet and publisher
June 25 – Jun'ichi Yoda 与田凖 (died 1997), Japanese Shōwa period poet and children's book author
July 29 – Stanley Kunitz (died 2006), American poet
August 28 – Len Fox (died 2004), Australian writer, social activist and painter
November 4 – Xavier Abril (died 1990), Peruvian poet and critic
November 10 – Kurt Eggers (killed in action 1943), German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright
November 13 – Mary Elizabeth Frye (died 2004), American housewife, florist, author of the poem "Do not stand at my grave and weep"
December 22 – Kenneth Rexroth (died 1982), American poet
December 31 – Frank Marshall Davis (died 1987), American poet
Also:
Winifred Maitland Shaw, Australian
Ibrahim Touqan إبراهيم طوقان (died 1941), Palestinian, Arab-language
Deaths
July 1 – John Hay, 66 (born 1838), American statesman, diplomat, author, poet, journalist and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln
September 18 – George MacDonald, 80 (born 1824), Scottish-born author, poet and Christian minister known mostly for his fantasy stories
October 13 – Violet Fane (Mary, Baroness Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb), 62 (born 1843), English
October 28 – Alphonse Allais, 51 (died 1905), French humorist
December 29 – Victor Daley, 47 (born 1858), Irish-born Australian
Awards and honors
See also
20th century in poetry
20th century in literature
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
French literature of the 20th century
Silver Age of Russian Poetry
Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
Poetry