Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- Hilda Doolittle meets and befriends Ezra Pound
- Times Literary Supplement begins publication
Works published in English
Canada
- James B. Dollard, also known as "Father Dollard", Irish Mist and Sunshine
- Anna Frances McCollum, Flower Legends and other Poems
- Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, Tangled in Stars
United Kingdom
- Alfred Austin, A Tale of True Love and Other Poems
- Maurice Baring, The Black Prince and Other Poems (published this year; book states "1903")
- Walter De la Mare (publishing under the pen name "Walter Ramal"), Songs of Childhood
- Thomas Hardy, Poems of the Past and Present actually published last year, although the book states "1902"
- John Edward Masefield, Salt-Water Ballads, including "I must go down to the sea again"
- Alice Meynell, Later Poems
- Henry Newbolt, The Sailing of the Long Ships, and Other Poems
- Adela Florence Cory Nicolson, editor, The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Alfred Noyes, The Loom of Years
- Dora Sigerson, The Woman Who Went to Hell, and Other Ballads and Lyrics
- W.B. Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan
United States
- Elizabeth Akers, The Sunset Song
- Madison Cawein, Kentucky Poems
- John William De Forest, Poem: Medley and Palestrina
- Ellen Glasgow, The Freeman and Other Poems
- James Whitcomb Riley, The Book of Joyous Children
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, Captain Craig
- Trumbull Stickney, Dramatic Verses
- John B. Tabb, Later Lyrics
Other in English
- Adela Florence Cory Nicolson, editor, The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
- Francis Jammes, Clairières dans le ciel, France
- Chanda Jha, Gitasaptasati; India, Maithili-language
- Else Lasker-Schüler, Styx, German
- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images, German
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 1 â€" Langston Hughes (died 1967), African-American jazz poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his role in the Harlem Renaissance
- February 19 â€" Kay Boyle (died 1992, award-winning American poet, writer, educator, and political activist
- February 22 â€" R. D. Fitzgerald (died 1987), Australian
- April 1 â€" Maria Polydouri (died 1930), Greek
- July 3 â€" Yoshino Hideo å‰é‡Žç§€é›„ (died 1967), Japanese Showa period tanka poet
- July 19 â€" Ada Verdun Howell (died 1981), Australian
- July 28 â€" Kenneth Fearing (died 1961), American poet and writer
- August 19 â€" Ogden Nash (died 1971), American poet best known for pithy and funny light verse.
- September 20 â€" Stevie Smith (died 1971), British poet and novelist
- October 13 â€" Arna Bontemps (died 1973), American poet and member of the Harlem Renaissance
- November 1 â€" Nordahl Grieg (killed in action 1943), Norwegian poet and author.
- November 8 â€" A. J. M. Smith (died 1980), Canadian poet.
- November 20 â€" Nazim Hikmet (died 1963), Turkish poet, dramatist, and Communist
- December 6 â€" Michael Roberts, (died 1948), English poet, writer, critic, broadcaster, and teacher
- December 22 â€" Evelyn Eaton (died 1983), Canadian novelist, short-story writer, poet and academic
- Undated â€" Felipe Alfau (died 1999), Spanish-American poet, translator and author
Deaths
- January 5 â€" Stella Gibbons (died 1989), English novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer
- January 20 â€" Aubrey Thomas De Vere, 88, Irish poet and critic
- April 1 â€" Thomas Dunn English (born 1819), American politician, poet, author, songwriter who was elected to the United States House of Representatives and had a feud with Edgar Allan Poe
- May 6 â€" Bret Harte, 66, American author and poet, best remembered for accounts of pioneering life in California
- June 29 â€" Brunton Stephens (born 1835), Australian
- September 6 â€" Philip James Bailey, 86, English poet
- September 19 â€" Masaoka Shiki æ£å²¡ åè¦, pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori æ£å²¡ 常è¦, who changed his name to Noboru å‡ (born 1867), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player
- September 29 â€" William McGonagall, Scottish weaver, actor, and poet comically renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language
- October 4 â€" Lionel Pigot Johnson, 35 (born 1867), English poet, essayist, and critic
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 (MÅ‚oda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
- Poetry