1907 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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.^[1]

Works published in English

Canada

Peter McArthur, The Prodigal and other Poems^[2]
Robert W. Service, Songs of a Sourdough (published in the United States as The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses), including "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", Scottish-born poet resident in Canada^[2]
Arthur Stringer, The Woman in the Rain, and Other Poems^[2]
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The Lotus of the Nile and Other Poems^[2]
Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, The Last Robin: Lyrics and Sonnets^[2]

United Kingdom

Gordon Bottomley, Chambers of Imagery^[3]
Joseph Campbell, The Gilly of Christ^[3]
Ethel Carnie, Rhymes from the Factory
Padraic Colum, Wild Earth^[3]
John Davidson, God and Mammon^[3]
W. H. Davies, New Poems^[3]
Ernest Dowson (died 1900), Cynara: a Little Book of Verse
James Elroy Flecker, The Bridge of Fire^[3]
Ford Madox Ford:
- An English Girl^[3]
- From Inland, and Other Poems^[3]
James Joyce, Chamber Music,^[3] Irish writer resident in continental Europe, published in England
Terence MacSwiney (as Cuireadóir), The Music of Freedom, Irish poet
Alfred Noyes, The Hill of Dreams^[3]
Dora Sigerson, Collected Poems^[3]

United States

Witter Bynner, An Ode to Harvard and Other Poems^[4]
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer, Prejudice Unveiled
Sara Teasdale, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems^[4]
George Sterling, "A Wine of Wizardry"

Works published in other languages

France

Paul Claudel:
- Art poétique^[5]
- Connaissance de l'Est ("Knowledge of the East"), expanded from the original 1900 edition
- Partage de midi^[5]
- Processionnal pour saluer le siècle nouveau ("Processional for the New Century")
Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Les Reposoirs de la procession, published starting in 1893 and ending this year^[5]
Renée Vivien, pen name of Pauline Tarn, Flambeaux éteints ("Extinguished Torches")

Other languages

Delmira Agustini, El libro blanco, Uruguay^[6]
Stefan George, Der siebente Ring ("The Seventh Ring"); German^[7]
Peider Lansel, Primulas, Romansh language, Switzerland
Antonio Machado, Soledades, galerías, y otros poemas ("Solitudes, Galleries, and Other Poems"); Spain^[8]
Gregorio Martínez Sierra, La casa de primavera ("The House of Spring"), Spain
Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems (Neue Gedichte), German

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 24 – Francis Brabazon (died 1984), Australian
January 30 – Jun Takami 高見順 pen-name of Takama Yoshioa (died 1965), Japanese Shōwa period novelist and poet
February 1 – Günter Eich (died 1972), German poet, dramatist and author
February 21 – W. H. Auden (died 1973), English-born United States
March 18 – Luis Gabriel Portillo (died 1993), Spanish Republican professor and poet
April 29 – Chūya Nakahara 中原中也 (died 1937), Japanese early Shōwa period poet
April 30 – Jacob Hiegentlich (suicide 1940), gay Dutch Jewish writer, also writing poetry in German
May 4 – Lincoln Kirstein (died 1996), American cultural figure
June 2 – John Lehmann (died 1987), English poet, writer and editor
June 7 – Mascha Kaléko (died 1975), German-language poet
July 21 – Alec Derwent Hope (died 2000), Australian
August 16 – Edward James (died 1984), English poet and patron of the arts and of surrealism
September 12 – Louis MacNeice (died 1963), Irish-born
September 15 – Gunnar Ekelöf (died 1968), Sweden
October 21 – Nikos Engonopoulos (died 1985), Greek
October 28 – John Hewitt (died 1987), Irish
December 14 – R. N. Currey (died 2001), South African-born English
December 20 – John Joseph Thompson (died 1968), Australian
Also:
- Susan McGowan (died 2003), Australian
- Vaughan Morgan (died 1987), New Zealand

Deaths

March 19 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich (born 1836), United States
April 6 – William Henry Drummond (born 1854), Canada
April 23 – André Theuriet (born 1833), French poet and novelist
July 7 – Annie Louisa Walker (born 1836), English and Canadian novelist and poet
July 15 – Qiu Jin (born 1875), Chinese revolutionary, feminist and poet, executed
July 31 – Francis Miles Finch (born 1827), United States lawyer and poet
August 25 – Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (born 1861), English novelist, poet and teacher who wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos (taken from George MacDonald); great-grandniece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and great niece of Sara Coleridge
September 6 – Sully Prudhomme (born 1839), French poet and essayist; 1st Nobel Prize winner
September 8 – Iosif Vulcan (born 1841), Romanian magazine editor, poet, playwright, novelist and cultural figure
November 13 – Francis Thompson (born 1859), English
November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański (born 1869), Polish dramatist, poet and painter
Also – John Arthur Phillips (born 1842), Canadian

Awards and honors

Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudyard Kipling

Notes

^ Davis, Melanie. "The Renée Vivien Translation Project". Valkyria. Archived from the original on 2022-01-23. Retrieved 2015-12-04.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Garvin, John William, ed. (1916). Canadian Poets (anthology). McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. Retrieved via Google Books 2009-06-05.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ ^a ^b Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). "Preface". Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. New York: Oxford University Press. p. vi. If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hartley, Anthony, ed. (1967). The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Penguin Books.
^ "Delmira Agustini". Modernismo en España e Hispanoamérica. Universitat Jaume. Archived from the original on 2011-09-02. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
^ "Stefan George". Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2004. Retrieved 2010-02-23.
^ Debicki, Andrew P. (1995). Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3. Retrieved 2009-11-21.

[1] Davis, Melanie. "The Renée Vivien Translation Project". Valkyria. Archived from the original on 2022-01-23. Retrieved 2015-12-04.

[gwgcp-2] Garvin, John William, ed. (1916). Canadian Poets (anthology). McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. Retrieved via Google Books 2009-06-05.

[cocel-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

[rmlaal-4] Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). "Preface". Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. New York: Oxford University Press. p. vi. If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year.

[ahpbf-5] Hartley, Anthony, ed. (1967). The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Penguin Books.

[6] "Delmira Agustini". Modernismo en España e Hispanoamérica. Universitat Jaume. Archived from the original on 2011-09-02. Retrieved 2011-09-01.

[7] "Stefan George". Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2004. Retrieved 2010-02-23.

[apdsp20c-8] Debicki, Andrew P. (1995). Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-8131-0835-3. Retrieved 2009-11-21.

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1907 in poetry

Events

Works published in English

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Works published in other languages

France

Other languages

Births

Deaths

Awards and honors

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