1897 in poetry
This article covers 1897 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published in English
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Jean Blewett, Heart Songs
- Bliss Carman, Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea, Canadian author published in the United States
- William Henry Drummond, The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems, employing dialect
- Frederick George Scott, ''The Unnamed Lake and Other Poems''
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Alfred Austin, The Conversion of Winkelmann, and Other Poems
- Hilaire Belloc, More Beasts
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, publishing under the pen name "Anodos", Fancy's guerdon
- Olive Custance, Opals
- John Davidson, New Ballads
- Ernest Dowson, The Pierrot of the Minute: A dramatic phantasy
- Lionel Johnson, Ireland, with Other Poems
- Henry Newbolt, Admirals All, and Other Verses, including "Vitaï Lampada", and "Drake's Drum"
- George William Russell, publishing under the pen name "Æ", The Earth Breath, and Other Poems
- Dora Sigerson, The Fairy Changeling, and Other Poems
- Arthur Symons, Amoris Victima
- Francis Thompson, New Poems
- Theodore Watts-Dunton, ''The Coming of Love''
United States">American poetry">United States
- Richard Maurice Burke, Walt Whitman: Man and Poet, nonfiction
- Bliss Carman, Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea, Canadian author published in the United States
- James Whitcomb Riley, Neighborly Poems
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Children of the Night, including "Reuben Bright"
- John B. Tabb, Lyrics
- Yone Noguchi, Seen and Unseen, or, Monologues of a Homeless Snail and ''The Voice of the Valley''
Other in English
- Barcroft Boake, Where the Dead Men Lie, and Other Poems, Australia
- John Le Gay Brereton, Sweetheart Mine: Lyrics of Love and Friendship, Australia
- G. Sigerson, editor and translator from Gaelic, Bards of Gael and Gall, Ireland
- Isaac Tambyah, editor, A Garland of Ceylon Verse 1837-1897, Colombo: Ceylon Printing Works, 132 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- Francis Jammes, La Naissance du poète
- Stéphane Mallarmé:
- * Divagations
- * Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard is published in Cosmopolis magazine
- Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, a verse drama
Other languages
- Stefan George, Das Jahr der Seele ; German
Births
- August 11 - Louise Bogan, American poet and critic; wife of Raymond Holden
- May 5 - Kenneth Burke, major American literary theorist and philosopher
- October 10 - Shigeji Tsuboi 壺井繁治, Japanese poet
- November 7 - Ruth Pitter, English poet and decorative painter
- November 11 - Nima Yooshij, Persian poet
- November 15 - Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer, best known as an art critic and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque; younger brother of Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell
- John Ferrar Holms, British critic
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- May 4 — Isabella Banks, English poet and novelist
- July 20 — Jean Ingelow, English poet and novelist
- September 14 — James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician who translated poetry from the original French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek; author of The Laws of Verse, in which he attempted to codify a set of laws for prosody in poetry
- December 22 - William Gay, Scots-born Australian poet
- date not known - Velutteri Keshavan Vaidyar, Indian, Malayalam-language poet