This article covers 1904 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
- John Davidson, The Testament of a Prime Minister
- Ford Madox Ford, The Face of the Night
- Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A drama of the Napoleonic Wars, Part I, followed by Part II (1906) and Part III (1908)
- Henry Newbolt, Songs of the Sea
- Alfred Noyes, Poems
- Edwin Arnold, Indian Poetry
- AE (George William Russell), The Divine Vision, and Other Poems
- Christina Rossetti, Poetical Works, edited by W. M. Rossetti
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Channel Passage, and Other Poems
- William Watson, For England
Other in English
Works published in other languages
- Alexander Blok, Stikhi o prekrasnoi Dame ("Verses to the Beautiful Lady"), Russia, an early work of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry
- Constantine P. Cavafy, Waiting for the Barbarians, Greece
- José Santos Chocano, Los cantos del PacÃÂfico ("The Songs of the Pacific"), Peru
- Sophus Claussen, Djavlerier ("Diableries"), Denmark
- Zinaida Gippius, ëáþñÃÂðýøõ ÃÂÃÂøÃÂ
þò. 1889âÂÂ1903û ("Collected Poems, 1889âÂÂ1903"), Russia
- Pamphile Lemay, Les gouttelettes, sonnet sequence, French language, Canada
- Saint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger, Images àCrusoé, published when the author is 17 years old, France
- Charles Van Lerberghe, La Chanson d'ÃÂve, France
- Swami Vivekananda, Nachuk Tahate Shyama, India, Bengali
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 21 â Richard P. Blackmur (died 1965), American poet and critic
- January 23 â Louis Zukofsky (died 1978), American poet and co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets
- February 2 â A. R. D. Fairburn (died 1957), New Zealander
- February 9 â Kikuko Kawakami å·Â丠åÂÂä¹Â
å (died 1985), Japanese ShÃ
Âwa period novelist, short-story writer and poet, a woman
- March 1 â Margaret Steuart Pollard, née Gladstone (died 1996), English oriental scholar, bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, philanthropist and eccentric
- April 5 â Richard Eberhart (died 2005), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and a National Book Award in 1977
- April 27 â Cecil Day-Lewis (died 1972), Anglo-Irish poet, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and mystery writer
- May 13 â Earle Birney (died 1995), Canadian poet and two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (in 1942 and 1945)
- May 20 â Nagai Tatsuo æ°¸äºÂé¾Âç·, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (died 1990), Japanese ShÃ
Âwa period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist
- May 26 â Necip Fazñl Kñsakürek (died 1983), Turkish
- June 8 â Alice Rahon (died 1987), French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter
- June 13 â John K. Ewers (died 1978), Australian
- July 5 â Harold Acton (died 1994), Anglo-Italian writer, scholar and dilettante
- July 12 â Pablo Neruda (died 1973), Chilean writer and Communist politician
- August 15 â Subedar Mahmoodmiya Mohammad Imam, popularly known as "Asim Randeri" (died 2009), Indian, Gujarati-language ghazal poet
- October 18 â Hayyim Schirmann (died 1981), Russian-born Israeli professor of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry
- October 21 â Patrick Kavanagh (died 1967), Irish poet and novelist
- October 29 â Audrey Alexandra Brown (died 1998), Canadian
- December 21 â Johannes Edfelt (died 1997), Swedish poet
- December 28 â Hori Tatsuo å  è¾°é (died 1953), Japanese ShÃ
Âwa period writer, poet and translator
- December 31 â Fumiko Hayashi æÂ èÂÂç¾Âå (born this year or 1903 (sources disagree) â 1951), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman)
- Also:
- J. A. R. McKellar (died 1932), Australian
- Premendra Mitra (died 1988), Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction
- Alexander Vvedensky (died 1941), Russian avant-garde poet
Deaths
- January 3 â Larin Paraske, 70 (born 1833), Finnish Izhorian oral poet and rune-singer
- January 8 â John Farrell (born 1851), Australian
- March 24 â Sir Edwin Arnold, 71, English poet and journalist
- July 6 â Abai Qunanbaiuly, 58 (born 1845), Kazakh poet, composer, philosopher and cultural reformer
- October 4 â Adela Florence Nicolson, 39, English poet writing under the pseudonym "Laurence Hope", of suicide
- October 11 â Trumbull Stickney, 40, American classical scholar and poet, from a brain tumor
- October 17 â ÃÂtefan PeticÃÂ, 27 (born 1877), Romanian Symbolist poet and writer, of tuberculosis
See also
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