1900 in poetry

Works published in English

Australia">Australian poetry">Australia

• Henry Lawson, Verses, Popular and Humorous, Angus & Robertson
• Bernard O'Dowd, "Australia"
• George Essex Evans, "Ode for Commonwealth Day"

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• William Wilfred Campbell, Beyond the Hills of Dream. Toronto.
• Archibald Lampman, The Poems of Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott ed.,.
• Alexander McLachlan, Poetical Works of Alexander McLachlan.
• Frederick George Scott, Poems Old and New.
• Francis Sherman, A Canadian Calendar: XII Lyrics. Havana, Cuba.

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• G. K. Chesterton:
• * Graybeards at Play
• * The Wild Knight and Other Poems
• Ford Madox Ford, Poems for Pictures and for Notes of Music
• W. E. Henley, For England's Sake
• Charles Murray, Hamewith, Scots
• Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor, Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900
• Lady Margaret Sackville, ''Floral Symphony''

United States">American poetry">United States

• Gelett Burgess, Goops and How to Be Them
• Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines
• George Moses Horton's Poetical Works
• George Santayana, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
• Ridgely Torrence, ''The House of a Hundred Lights''

Other in English

• W. B. Yeats, The Shadowy Waters, Ireland

Works published in other languages

• Konstantin Balmont, Burning Buildings, his 5th collection of poetry and the one that makes him famous in Russia.
• Natalie Clifford Barney, Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes, American writing in French and published in Paris
• Paul Claudel, Connaissance de l'Est, France
• Stefan George, Hymnen, Pilgerfahrten, and Algabal, a one-volume edition published in Berlin by Georg Bondi which first makes George's work available to the public at large; German
• Marie-Madeleine, Auf Kypros, Germany
• Gregorio Martínez Sierra, Flores de escarcha, Spain
• C. R. Reddy, Musalamma Maranam, Indian, Telugu-language poem written in traditional metrical form but with a modern outlook, a landmark work in Telugu poetry
• Paul Valéry, Album de vers anciens, published starting in 1890 and ending this year; France

Births

• January 31 – Marie Luise Kaschnitz, German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet
• February 19 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, diplomat and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963
• February 26 – Halina Konopacka, Polish-born discus thrower and poet
• March 3 – Basil Bunting, British modernist poet
• March 4 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo or "Rebearivelo", Malagassy, French-language poet
• April 1 – Alexandru A. Philippide, Romanian poet
• April 19 – Richard Hughes, British poet, novelist, playwright and writer
• May 11 – Rose Ausländer maiden name and pen name of Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer, German poet and writer
• May 27 – Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet
• May 30 – Itsik Manger, Yiddish poet and playwright
• June 10:
• * Eric Maschwitz English poet, entertainer, writer, broadcaster and broadcasting executive
• * Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind German writer, poet, journalist and translator
• July 4 – Robert Desnos, French surrealist poet
• July 22 — Edward Dahlberg, American novelist, writer and poet
• August 12 – Robert Francis, American
• August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959
• August 23 – Tatsuji Miyoshi 三好達治, Japanese Shōwa period literary critic, editor and poet
• September 23 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, poet and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984
• October 17 – Yvor Winters American literary critic and poet
• October 20 – Jack Lindsay, Australian
• December 7 – Christian Matras, Faroese poet and linguist
• December 21 – Oda Schaefer, German
• Also:
• * Paula Ludwig, German

Deaths

• January 19 – William Larminie, 50, Irish poet and folklorist
• January 20 – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist and poet
• January 23 – Richard Watson Dixon, 76, English poet and divine
• January 29 – John Ruskin, 80, English art critic and social critic
• January 31 – John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, 55, nemesis of Oscar Wilde
• February 21 – Henry Duff Traill, 67, British author, poet and journalist
• February 23 – Ernest Dowson, 32, English poet associated with the Decadent movement
• February 24 – Richard Hovey, 35, American composer, poet and artist
• June 5 – Stephen Crane, 28, American novelist, poet and journalist
• August 13 – Vladimir Solovyov, 47, Russian philosopher and poet
• August 24 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, classical philologist and poet
• October 20 – Naim Frashëri, 54, Albanian poet and writer
• November 30 – Oscar Wilde, 46, Irish playwright, novelist, poet and short story writer
• Also:
• * Ludwig Jacobowski, German