1904 in poetry

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

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• 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 and Part III
• Henry Newbolt, Songs of the Sea
• Alfred Noyes, Poems
• Edwin Arnold, Indian Poetry
• AE, 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''

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• Florence Earle Coates, 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, 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, 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, Peru
• Sophus Claussen, Djavlerier, Denmark
• Zinaida Gippius, «Собрание стихов. 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

• January 21 – Richard P. Blackmur, American poet and critic
• January 23 – Louis Zukofsky, American poet and co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets
• February 2 – A. R. D. Fairburn, New Zealander
• February 9 – Kikuko Kawakami 川上 喜久子, Japanese Shōwa period novelist, short-story writer and poet, a woman
• March 1 – Margaret Steuart Pollard, née Gladstone, English oriental scholar, bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, philanthropist and eccentric
• April 5 – Richard Eberhart, American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and a National Book Award in 1977
• April 27 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and mystery writer
• May 13 – Earle Birney, Canadian poet and two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature
• May 20 – Nagai Tatsuo 永井龍男, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry, Japanese Shōwa period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist
• May 26 – Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish
• June 8 – Alice Rahon, French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter
• June 13 – John K. Ewers, Australian
• July 5 – Harold Acton, Anglo-Italian writer, scholar and dilettante
• July 12 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean writer and Communist politician
• August 15 – Subedar Mahmoodmiya Mohammad Imam, popularly known as "Asim Randeri", Indian, Gujarati-language ghazal poet
• October 18 – Hayyim Schirmann, Russian-born Israeli professor of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry
• October 21 – Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet and novelist
• October 29 – Audrey Alexandra Brown, Canadian
• December 21 – Johannes Edfelt, Swedish poet
• December 28 – Hori Tatsuo 堀 辰雄, Japanese Shōwa period writer, poet and translator
• December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子, Japanese novelist, writer and poet
• Also:
• * J. A. R. McKellar, Australian
• * Premendra Mitra, Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction
• * Alexander Vvedensky, Russian avant-garde poet

Deaths

• January 3 – Larin Paraske, 70, Finnish Izhorian oral poet and rune-singer
• January 8 – John Farrell, Australian
• March 24 – Sir Edwin Arnold, 71, English poet and journalist
• July 6 – Abai Qunanbaiuly, 58, Kazakh poet, composer, philosopher and cultural reformer
• October 4 – Adela Florence Nicolson, 39, English poet writing under the pseudonym "Laurence Hope", of suicide
• October 11 – Trumbull Stickney, 40, American classical scholar and poet, from a brain tumor
• October 17 – Ștefan Petică, 27, Romanian Symbolist poet and writer, of tuberculosis