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

Works published in English

Australia

• Henry Lawson, Verses, Popular and Humorous, Angus & Robertson^[1]
• Bernard O'Dowd, "Australia"
• George Essex Evans, "Ode for Commonwealth Day"

Canada

• William Wilfred Campbell, Beyond the Hills of Dream. Toronto.^[2]
• Archibald Lampman, The Poems of Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott ed., (Toronto: Morang).^[3]
• Alexander McLachlan, Poetical Works of Alexander McLachlan.^[4]
• Frederick George Scott, Poems Old and New.^[5]
• Francis Sherman, A Canadian Calendar: XII Lyrics. Havana, Cuba.^[6]

United Kingdom

• G. K. Chesterton:
  • Graybeards at Play^[7]
  • The Wild Knight and Other Poems^[7]
• Ford Madox Ford, Poems for Pictures and for Notes of Music^[7]
• W. E. Henley, For England's Sake^[8]
• Charles Murray, Hamewith, Scots
• Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor, Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900^[8]
• Lady Margaret Sackville, Floral Symphony

United States

• Gelett Burgess, Goops and How to Be Them^[9]
• Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines^[8]
• George Moses Horton's Poetical Works^[8]
• George Santayana, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion^[9]
• Ridgely Torrence, The House of a Hundred Lights^[9]

Other in English

• W. B. Yeats, The Shadowy Waters, Ireland^[8]

Works published in other languages

• Konstantin Balmont, Burning Buildings (Gorya′schye zda′niya), his 5th collection of poetry and the one that makes him famous in Russia.^[10]
• Natalie Clifford Barney, Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes, American writing in French and published in Paris
• Paul Claudel, Connaissance de l'Est ("Knowledge of the East"), (expanded edition published in 1907) France^[11]
• Stefan George, Hymnen, Pilgerfahrten, and Algabal, a one-volume edition published in Berlin by Georg Bondi which first makes George's work available to the public at large; German^[12]
• Marie-Madeleine, Auf Kypros, Germany
• Gregorio Martínez Sierra, Flores de escarcha ("Frost Flowers"), Spain
• C. R. Reddy, Musalamma Maranam, Indian, Telugu-language poem written in traditional metrical form but with a modern outlook, a landmark work in Telugu poetry^[13]
• Paul Valéry, Album de vers anciens, published starting in 1890 and ending this year; France^[14]

Births

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

• January 31 – Marie Luise Kaschnitz (died 1974), German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet
• February 19 – Giorgos Seferis (died 1971), Greek poet, diplomat and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963
• February 26 – Halina Konopacka (died 1989), Polish-born discus thrower and poet
• March 3 – Basil Bunting (died 1985), British modernist poet
• March 4 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo or "Rebearivelo" (died 1937), Malagassy, French-language poet
• April 1 – Alexandru A. Philippide (died 1979), Romanian poet
• April 19 – Richard Hughes (died 1976), British poet, novelist, playwright and writer
• May 11 – Rose Ausländer maiden name and pen name of Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer (died 1988), German poet and writer
• May 30 – Itsik Manger (or "Itzig Manger") (died 1969)
• June 10:
  • Eric Maschwitz (died 1969) English poet, entertainer, writer, broadcaster and broadcasting executive
  • Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind (died 1970) German writer, poet, journalist and translator
• July 4 – Robert Desnos (died 1945), French surrealist poet
• July 22 — Edward Dahlberg (died 1977), American novelist, writer and poet
• August 12 – Robert Francis (died 1987), American
• August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo (died 1968), Italian poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959
• August 23 – Tatsuji Miyoshi 三好達治 (died 1964), Japanese Shōwa period literary critic, editor and poet
• September 23 – Jaroslav Seifert (died 1986), Czech writer, poet and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984
• October 17 – Yvor Winters (died 1968) American literary critic and poet
• October 20 – Jack Lindsay (died 1990), Australian
• December 21 – Oda Schaefer (died 1988), German^[15]
• Also:
  • Emil Barth (poet) (died 1958), German
  • Adolf Beiss (died 1981), German
  • Otto Heuschele (died 1996), German^[15]
  • Ernest G. Moll (died 1997), Australian^[16]
  • Hermann Kesten (poet) (died 1996), German
  • Paula Ludwig (died 1974), German
  • Eckart Peterich (died 1968), German
  • Friedrich Rasche (died 1965), German^[15]

Deaths

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

• January 19 – William Larminie, 50 (born 1849), Irish poet and folklorist
• January 20 – R. D. Blackmore (born 1825), English novelist and poet
• January 23 – Richard Watson Dixon, 76 (born 1833), English poet and divine
• January 29 – John Ruskin, 80 (born 1819), English art critic and social critic
• January 31 – John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, 55 (born 1844), nemesis of Oscar Wilde
• February 21 – Henry Duff Traill, 67 (born 1842), British author, poet and journalist
• February 23 – Ernest Dowson, 32 (born 1867), English poet associated with the Decadent movement
• February 24 – Richard Hovey, 35 (born 1864), American composer, poet and artist
• June 5 – Stephen Crane, 28 (born 1871), American novelist, poet and journalist
• August 13 (O.S. July 31) – Vladimir Solovyov, 47 (born 1853), Russian philosopher and poet
• August 24 – Friedrich Nietzsche (born 1844), German philosopher, classical philologist and poet
• October 20 – Naim Frashëri, 54 (born 1846), Albanian poet and writer
• November 30 – Oscar Wilde, 46 (born 1854), Irish playwright, novelist, poet and short story writer
• Also:
  • Ludwig Jacobowski (born 1868), German