1897 in poetry

This article covers 1897 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Works published in English

Canada

• Jean Blewett, Heart Songs
• Bliss Carman, Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea, Canadian author published in the United States
• William Henry Drummond, The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems, employing dialect
• Frederick George Scott, The Unnamed Lake and Other Poems

United Kingdom

• Alfred Austin, The Conversion of Winkelmann, and Other Poems
• Hilaire Belloc, More Beasts (for Worse Children) (see The Bad Child's Book of Beasts 1896)
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, publishing under the pen name "Anodos", Fancy's guerdon (see also Fancy's Following 1896)
• Olive Custance, Opals
• John Davidson, New Ballads
• Ernest Dowson, The Pierrot of the Minute: A dramatic phantasy
• Lionel Johnson, Ireland, with Other Poems
• Henry Newbolt, Admirals All, and Other Verses, including "Vitaï Lampada", and "Drake's Drum" (first published in the St. John's Gazette 1896)
• George William Russell, publishing under the pen name "Æ", The Earth Breath, and Other Poems
• Dora Sigerson, The Fairy Changeling, and Other Poems
• Arthur Symons, Amoris Victima
• Francis Thompson, New Poems
• Theodore Watts-Dunton, The Coming of Love

United States

• Richard Maurice Burke, Walt Whitman: Man and Poet, nonfiction
• Bliss Carman, Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea, Canadian author published in the United States
• James Whitcomb Riley, Neighborly Poems
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Children of the Night, including "Reuben Bright"
• John B. Tabb, Lyrics
• Yone Noguchi, Seen and Unseen, or, Monologues of a Homeless Snail and The Voice of the Valley

Other in English

• Barcroft Boake (suicide 1892), Where the Dead Men Lie, and Other Poems, Australia
• John Le Gay Brereton, Sweetheart Mine: Lyrics of Love and Friendship, Australia
• G. Sigerson, editor and translator from Gaelic, Bards of Gael and Gall, Ireland
• Isaac Tambyah, editor, A Garland of Ceylon Verse 1837-1897, Colombo: Ceylon Printing Works, 132 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English

Works published in other languages

France

• Francis Jammes, La Naissance du poète ("The Birth of the Poet")
• Stéphane Mallarmé:
• Divagations
• Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ("A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance") is published in ' magazine (not published in book form until 1914)
• Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, a verse drama