Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre. The National Monthly in Canada publishes an article by Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer on Charles G. D. Roberts titled "The Father of Canadian Poetry", a title which sticks to Roberts, an influential poet, long afterward.
Works published in English
United Kingdom
John Davidson, The Testament of a Prime Minister
Ford Madox Ford, The Face of the Night
Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A drama of the Napoleonic Wars, Part I, followed by Part II (1906) and Part III (1908) Henry Newbolt, Songs of the Sea Alfred Noyes, Poems Edwin Arnold, Indian Poetry AE (George William Russell), The Divine Vision, and Other Poems Christina Rossetti, Poetical Works, edited by W. M. Rossetti Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Channel Passage, and Other Poems William Watson, For England
United States
Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927), Mine and Thine
Joel Chandler Harris, The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus
Josephine Preston Peabody, Pan, A Choric Idyl
Carl Sandburg, In Reckless Ecstasy
John B. Tabb, The Rosary in Rhyme
Other in English
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, Between the Light, Canada
Nagesh Vishwanath Pai (also spelled "Nagesh Vishwvanath Pai"), Angel of Misfortune, India, Indian poetry in English Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, The Radiant Road, Canada
Works published in other languages
Alexander Blok, Stikhi o prekrasnoi Dame ("Verses to the Beautiful Lady"), Russia, an early work of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry Constantine P. Cavafy, Waiting for the Barbarians, Greece José Santos Chocano, Los cantos del Pacífico ("The Songs of the Pacific"), Peru Sophus Claussen, Djavlerier ("Diableries"), Denmark Zinaida Gippius, «Собрание стихов. 1889–1903» ("Collected Poems, 1889–1903"), Russia Pamphile Lemay, Les gouttelettes, sonnet sequence, French language, Canada Saint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger, Images à Crusoé, published when the author is 17 years old, France Charles Van Lerberghe, La Chanson d'Ève, France Swami Vivekananda, Nachuk Tahate Shyama, India, Bengali
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 21 – Richard P. Blackmur (died 1965), American poet and critic January 23 – Louis Zukofsky (died 1978), American poet and co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets February 2 – A. R. D. Fairburn (died 1957), New Zealander February 9 – Kikuko Kawakami 川上 喜久子 (died 1985), Japanese Shōwa period novelist, short-story writer and poet, a woman April 5 – Richard Eberhart (died 2005), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and a National Book Award in 1977 April 27 – Cecil Day-Lewis (died 1972), Anglo-Irish poet, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and mystery writer May 13 – Earle Birney (died 1995), Canadian poet and two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (in 1942 and 1945) May 20 – Nagai Tatsuo 永井龍男, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (died 1990), Japanese Shōwa period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist May 26 – Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (died 1983), Turkish June 8 – Alice Rahon (died 1987), French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter June 13 – John K. Ewers (died 1978), Australian July 5 – Harold Acton (died 1994), Anglo-Italian writer, scholar and dilettante July 12 – Pablo Neruda (died 1973), Chilean writer and Communist politician August 15 – Subedar Mahmoodmiya Mohammad Imam, popularly known as "Asim Randeri" (died 2009), Indian, Gujarati-language ghazal poet October 21 – Patrick Kavanagh (died 1967), Irish poet and novelist October 29 – Audrey Alexandra Brown (died 1998), Canadian December 21 – Johannes Edfelt (died 1997), Swedish poet December 28 – Hori Tatsuo 堀 辰雄 (died 1953), Japanese Shōwa period writer, poet and translator December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born this year or 1903 (sources disagree) – 1951), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman) Also: J. A. R. McKellar (died 1932), Australian Premendra Mitra (died 1988), Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction Alexander Vvedensky (died 1941), Russian avant-garde poet