1908 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

March - Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. In April, he moves to Venice, where in July he self-publishes his first collection of poems, A Lume Spento. In August he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920 and in December publish A Quinzaine for this Yule.
Summer - The Marlowe Society stages a production at the New Theatre, Cambridge, of Milton's masque Comus directed by Rupert Brooke.
Renée Vivien attempts suicide by overdose of laudanum at the Savoy Hotel in London.

Founding in London of the Poets' Club, a group comprising mainly amateurs who meet monthly for most of the year.
Late in the year - T. E. Hulme reads to the Poets' Club his paper, A Lecture on Modern Poetry, a concise statement of his influential advocacy of free verse.

William Wilfred Campbell, Poetical Tragedies including "Mordred", "Daulac", "Morning" and "Hildebrand"
William Henry Drummond, The Great Fight: Poems and Sketches. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.

Lascelles Abercrombie, Interludes and Poems
Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children
William Henry Davies, Nature Poems and Others
Edmund Gosse, The Autumn Garden
Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: Part 3
Minnie Louise Haskins, The Desert, including the poem The Gate of the Year
Edith Nesbit, Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism
Stephen Phillips, New Poems
Ezra Pound, A Quinzaine for this Yule, American poet published in the United Kingdom
Katharine Tynan, Experiences, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

William Stanley Braithwaite, The House of Falling Leaves with Other Poems
Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom and Italy:
* A Lume Spento, Pound's first poetry collection published at his own expense in Venice
* A Quinzaine for this Yule, London
George Sterling, ''A Wine of Wizardry and Other Poems''

John Le Gay Brereton, Sea and Sky, Australia
Katharine Tynan, Experiences, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Albert D. Watson, The Wing of the Wild-Bird
William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

C. Subrahamania Bharati, Cutecakitankal, Indian, Tamil-language
José Santos Chocano, Fiat Lux, Peru
Louis-Joseph Doucet, Chanson du passant; French language;, Canada
Albert Ferland, Le Canada chanté, in four volumes, published from this year to 1910, French language, Canada
Kahlil Gibran, Al-Arwah al-Mutamarrida, Lebanese-born Arabic poet in the United States
Maria Konopnicka, Rota, Polish

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

February 4 - Julian Bell, English poet, and a member of a family whose notable members include his parents, Clive and Vanessa Bell; his aunt, Virginia Woolf; his younger brother, writer Quentin Bell; and writer and painter Angelica Garnett, his half-sister
March 8 - Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh, Indian-born Bahraini poet
April 2 - Ronald McCuaig, Australian poet and writer
April 15 - Denis Devlin, Irish modernist poet and career diplomat
April 24 - George Oppen, American poet, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in poetry
May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet
June 14 - Kathleen Jessie Raine, English poet, critic and scholar
August 19 - Josephine Jacobsen, American poet, short story writer and critic
September 9 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator
October 9 - Harry Hooton, Australian poet and anarchist
October 12 - Paul Engle, American poet, writer, editor and novelist
November 28 - Mary Oppen, American activist, artist, photographer and writer
November 30
* Buddhadeb Bosu, Bengali poet
* Eric Irvin, Australian

January 15 - James Ryder Randall, American journalist and poet
January 16 - Edmund Clarence Stedman, American poet, critic, essayist, banker and scientist
February 22 - Eliza A. Pittsinger, American, "The California Poetess"
May 23 - François Coppée, French writer, le poète des humbles
May 27 - Alexander Posey, Native American poet, humorist, journalist and politician
June 23 - Kunikida Doppo 國木田獨歩, Japanese Meiji period romantic poet and one of the novelists who pioneered naturalism in Japan
September 21 - Ernest Fenollosa, American orientalist
October 21 - Charles Eliot Norton, American scholar and man of letters