1903 in poetry
This article covers 1903 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published in English
Australia">Australian poetry">Australia
- Gün Gencer, General Poems: Australia facing the dawn and its result, published by the author, printed in Sydney by R.T. Kelly
- Allen Gilfillen, A Day, Melbourne: Melville and Mullen, drama and poetry
- Lilian Wooster Greaves, Poems by Lilian, Newtown, New South Wales: G. Baker Walker
- Bernard O'Dowd, Dawnward?, Australia
- Banjo Paterson, "Waltzing Matilda", Australia's most widely known bush ballad
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Bliss Carman, From the Green Book of Bards
- E. Pauline Johnson, also known as "Tekahionwake", Canadian Born
- Charles G. D. Roberts, ''The Book of the Rose''
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Robert Bridges, Now in Wintry Delights
- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, The Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchilsea, edited by Myra Reynolds
- W. E. Henley, A Song of Speed
- Rudyard Kipling, The Five Nations
- Thomas MacDonagh, April and May, Irish poet published in Ireland
- John Masefield, Ballads
- Alfred Noyes, The Flower of Old Japan
- 'Æ', The Nuts of Knowledge, lyrical poems old and new
- Thomas Traherne, The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- * In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass"
- * Ideas of Good and Evil, essays, including essays on Edmund Spenser, Percy Shelley and William Blake
United States">American poetry">United States
- Ambrose Bierce, Shapes of Clay
- Willa Cather, Shapes of Clay
- H. L. Mencken, Ventures into Verse
- Josephine Preston Peabody, The Singing Leaves
- George Sterling, The Testimony of the Suns
- J. T. Trowbridge, ''Poetical Works''
Other in English
- Yone Noguchi, From the Eastern Sea
- N. W. Pai, The Angel of Misfortune: A Fairy Tale, A Metrical Romance in Ten Books, Bombay: W. N. Mulgaokar and Co.India, Indian poetry in English
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- * In the Seven Woods, being poems of the Irish heroic age including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass"
- * Ideas of Good and Evil, essays, including essays on Edmund Spenser, Percy Shelley and William Blake
Works published in other languages
- Konstantin Balmont, Будем как Солнце, Russia
- Paul Claudel, Art poétique, criticism; France
- Kavi Dalpatram Nanalal, Katlank Kavyo, Indian, Gujarati-language
- Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Anciennetés, France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- April 3 – Peter Huchel, German poet
- May 25 – Ewart Milne, Irish poet and radical
- May 30 – Countee Cullen, African-American poet
- June 13 – Sanjayan, pen name of M. R. Nayar, Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- June 17 – Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, playwright, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker; Indian, writing in Assamese
- September 9 – Atul Chandra Hazarika, poet, dramatist, children's story writer and translator; called "Sahitycharjya" by an Assamese literary society; Indian, writing in Assamese
- October 5 – Yaho Kitabatake 北畠 八穂, Japanese Shōwa period poet and children's fiction writer
- November 6 – Carl Rakosi, German-born American poet
- November 15:
- * Tatsuko Hoshino 星野立子, Japanese Shōwa period haiku poet and travel writer; founded Tamamo, a haiku magazine exclusively for women; in the Hototogisu literary circle; haiku selector for Asahi Shimbun newspaper; contributed to haiku columns in various newspapers and magazines
- * Jinzai Kiyoshi 神西清 Japanese Shōwa period novelist, translator, literary critic, poet and playwright
- December 4 – A. L. Rowse, English poet, historian and Shakespeare scholar and biographer
- December 10 – William Plomer, South African-born novelist, poet and literary editor
- December 31:
- * Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子, Japanese novelist, writer and poet
- * Lorine Niedecker the only woman associated with the Objectivist poets
- Also:
- * Raymond Herbert McGrath, Australian poet
- * Rafael Méndez Dorich, Peruvian poet
Deaths
- March 20 – Charles Godfrey Leland, American humorist, folklorist and poet
- May 8 – David Mills, Canadian politician and poet
- May 22 – Misao Fujimura, 藤村操, Japanese philosophy student and poet, largely remembered for the poem he carved into a tree before committing suicide over an unrequited love; made famous by Japanese newspapers after his death
- July 11 – W. E. Henley, English poet, critic and editor
- September 3 – Joseph Skipsey "The Pitman Poet", English collier and poet
- October 30 – Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎 紅葉, pen name of Ozaki Tokutarō 尾崎 徳太郎, Japanese novelist, essayist and haiku poet
- December – Isa Craig, Scottish-born poet