1907 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- George Sterling's fantasy-horror poem "A Wine of Wizardry" is published, setting off a months-long nationwide controversy and making Sterling notorious.
- Hélène van Zuylen leaves her partner, English-born French poet Renée Vivien, for another woman.
Works published in English
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Peter McArthur, The Prodigal and other Poems
- Robert W. Service, Songs of a Sourdough, including "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", Scottish-born poet resident in Canada
- Arthur Stringer, The Woman in the Rain, and Other Poems
- Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The Lotus of the Nile and Other Poems
- Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, ''The Last Robin: Lyrics and Sonnets''
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Gordon Bottomley, Chambers of Imagery
- Joseph Campbell, The Gilly of Christ
- Ethel Carnie, Rhymes from the Factory
- Padraic Colum, Wild Earth
- John Davidson, God and Mammon
- W. H. Davies, New Poems
- Ernest Dowson, Cynara: a Little Book of Verse
- James Elroy Flecker, The Bridge of Fire
- Ford Madox Ford:
- * An English Girl
- * From Inland, and Other Poems
- James Joyce, Chamber Music, Irish writer resident in continental Europe, published in England
- Terence MacSwiney, The Music of Freedom, Irish poet
- Alfred Noyes, The Hill of Dreams
- Dora Sigerson, ''Collected Poems''
United States">American poetry">United States
- Witter Bynner, An Ode to Harvard and Other Poems
- Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer, Prejudice Unveiled
- Sara Teasdale, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems
- George Sterling, "A Wine of Wizardry"
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- Paul Claudel:
- * Art poétique
- * Connaissance de l'Est, expanded from the original 1900 edition
- * Partage de midi
- * Processionnal pour saluer le siècle nouveau
- Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Les Reposoirs de la procession, published starting in 1893 and ending this year
- Renée Vivien, pen name of Pauline Tarn, ''Flambeaux éteints''
Other languages
- Delmira Agustini, El libro blanco, Uruguay
- Stefan George, Der siebente Ring ; German
- Peider Lansel, Primulas, Romansh language, Switzerland
- Antonio Machado, Soledades, galerías, y otros poemas ; Spain
- Gregorio Martínez Sierra, La casa de primavera, Spain
- Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems, German
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 24 – Francis Brabazon, Australian
- January 30 – Jun Takami 高見順 pen-name of Takama Yoshioa, Japanese Shōwa period novelist and poet
- February 1 – Günter Eich, German poet, dramatist and author
- February 21 – W. H. Auden, English-born United States
- March 18 – Luis Gabriel Portillo, Spanish Republican professor and poet
- April 29 – Chūya Nakahara 中原 中也, Japanese early Shōwa period poet
- April 30 – Jacob Hiegentlich, gay Dutch Jewish writer, also writing poetry in German
- May 4 – Lincoln Kirstein, American cultural figure
- June 2 – John Lehmann, English poet, writer and editor
- June 7 – Mascha Kaléko, German-language poet
- July 21 – Alec Derwent Hope, Australian
- August 16 – Edward James, English poet and patron of the arts and of surrealism
- September 12 – Louis MacNeice, Irish-born
- September 15 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Sweden
- October 21 – Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek
- October 28 – John Hewitt, Irish
- December 14 – R. N. Currey, South African-born English
- December 20 – John Joseph Thompson, Australian
- Also:
- * Susan McGowan, Australian
- * Vaughan Morgan, New Zealand
Deaths
- March 19 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, United States
- April 6 – William Henry Drummond, Canada
- April 23 – André Theuriet, French poet and novelist
- July 7 – Annie Louisa Walker, English and Canadian novelist and poet
- July 15 – Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist and poet, executed
- July 31 – Francis Miles Finch, United States lawyer and poet
- August 25 – Mary Elizabeth Coleridge,, English novelist, poet and teacher who wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos ; great-grandniece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and great niece of Sara Coleridge
- September 6 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and essayist; 1st Nobel Prize winner
- September 8 – Iosif Vulcan, Romanian magazine editor, poet, playwright, novelist and cultural figure
- November 13 – Francis Thompson, English
- November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish dramatist, poet and painter
- Also – John Arthur Phillips, Canadian