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.

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''

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''

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''

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

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