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.

Works published in English

Canada

• Peter McArthur, The Prodigal and other Poems
• 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
• Arthur Stringer, The Woman in the Rain, and Other Poems
• Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The Lotus of the Nile and Other Poems
• Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, The Last Robin: Lyrics and Sonnets

United Kingdom

• Gordon Bottomley, Chambers of Imagery
• Joseph Campbell, The Gilly of Christ
• Ethel Carnie, Rhymes from the Factory
• Padraic Colum, Wild Earth
• John Davidson, God and Mammon
• W. H. Davies, New Poems
• Ernest Dowson (died 1900), Cynara: a Little Book of Verse
• James Elroy Flecker, The Bridge of Fire
• Ford Madox Ford:
• An English Girl
• From Inland, and Other Poems
• James Joyce, Chamber Music, 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
• Dora Sigerson, Collected Poems

United States

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

Works published in other languages

France

• Paul Claudel:
• Art poétique
• Connaissance de l'Est ("Knowledge of the East"), expanded from the original 1900 edition
• Partage de midi
• 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
• Renée Vivien, pen name of Pauline Tarn, Flambeaux éteints ("Extinguished Torches")

Other languages

• Delmira Agustini, El libro blanco, Uruguay
• Stefan George, Der siebente Ring ("The Seventh Ring"); German
• Peider Lansel, Primulas, Romansh language, Switzerland
• Antonio Machado, Soledades, galerías, y otros poemas ("Solitudes, Galleries, and Other Poems"); Spain
• 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 17 – Parvin E'tesami (died 1941), Persian
• March 18 – Luis Gabriel Portillo (died 1993), Spanish Republican professor and poet
• April 29 – ChÅ«ya 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

See also

• 20th century in poetry
• 20th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• French literature of the 20th century
• Silver Age of Russian Poetry
• Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
• Poetry

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