1910 in poetry
— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If—, first published this year in Rewards and Fairies
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
Oxford Poetry founded as a literary magazine by publisher Basil Blackwell in England.Works published
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- The Rev. James B. Dollard, also known as "Father Dollard", Poems
- Frederick George Scott, also known as "F. G. Scott", Collected Poems
- Tom MacInnes, In Amber Lands, mostly a reprint of Lonesome Bar and Other Poems 1909
- "Yukon Bill", Derby Days in the Yukon.
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Hilaire Belloc, Verses
- Frances Cornford, Poems
- W. H. Davies, Farewell to Posey, and Other Pieces
- James Elroy Flecker, Thirty-Six Poems
- Ford Madox Ford, Songs from London
- Wilfrid Gibson, Daily Bread
- Laurence Hope, editor, Indian Love Lyrics, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies, short stories and poems, including If—
- Thomas MacDonagh, Songs of Myself, Irish poet published in Ireland
- John Masefield, Ballads and Poems
- Lady Margaret Sackville, editor, A Book of Verse by Living Women
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- * The Green Helmet and other Poems
- * ''Poems: Second Series''
United States">American poetry">United States
These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double –
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
- Charles Follen Adams, Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems
- Franklin Pierce Adams, Baseball's Sad Lexicon, also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain; a popular baseball poem
- Robert Underwood Johnson, Saint-Gaudens, an Ode
- John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
- Ezra Pound:
- * Provenca
- * The Spirit of Romance
- Edward Arlington Robinson, The Town Down the River, Charles Scrabbler's Sons
- George Santayana, Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe, criticism
- George Sterling, “The Black Vulture,”
Other in English
- Joseph Furtado, Lays of Old Goa, Indian poetry in English
- Laurence Hope, editor, Indian Love Lyrics, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Henry Lawson, The Skyline Riders and other Verses, Australia
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- * The Green Helmet and other Poems
- * ''Poems: Second Series''
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- Paul Claudel, Cinq Grandes Odes, France
- Jean Cocteau, Le prince frivole
- Alphonse Métérié, Carnets
- Charles Péguy, Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d'Arc
- Saint-John Perse, ''Elèges''
Other languages
- Delmira Agustini, Cantos de la mañana, Uruguay
- Ernst Enno, Hallid laulud, Estonia
- Gurajada Appa Rao, Mutyala Saralu, Indian poetry, Telugu-language
- Takuboku Ishikawa, Ichiakuno suna, Japanese
- Maria Konopnicka, Pan Balcer w Brazylii, Polish
- Peider Lansel, editor, La musa ladina, anthology of Romansh language Swiss poets
- Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, Bengali
Awards and honors
- Newdigate Prize – Charles Bewley, "Atlantis"
- Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse Composition – Ronald Knox
Births
- January 11 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek
- March 21 – Elizabeth Riddell, Australian
- August 14 – Nathan Alterman, Israeli poet, journalist and translator
- August 30 – Màrius Torres, Catalan Spanish poet
- October 30 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet
- November 10 – Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish poet writing in the Irish language
- November 14 – Norman MacCaig Scottish poet
- November 20 – Pauli Murray, African American civil-rights advocate, feminist, lawyer, writer, poet, teacher and ordained Episcopal priest
- November 21? – Frank Eyre, English-born Australian publisher
- December 19 – Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet
- December 27 – Charles Olson, American poet
- December 30 – Paul Bowles, American poet, author, composer and translator
- Also – R. D. Murphy, Australian poet
Deaths
- January 18 – James Cuthbertson, Australian
- January 29 – Arthur Munby, English diarist, poet and lawyer
- April 19 – Anna Laetitia Waring, Welsh-born poet and hymnodist
- October 17:
- *William Vaughn Moody, American dramatist and poet
- * Julia Ward Howe, 91, American poet best known as the author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
- November 13 – Isabel Richey, American
- December 30 – Thomas Edward Spencer, Australian
- Also:
- * Augusta Bristol, American
- * Gilbert Brooke, Singapore