1907 in poetry

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

Events April – The New York Times and The Washington Post print a lengthy interview with the new British ambassador, James Bryce, in which he remarks that the United States lacks great poets."The Demand for Dramatic Genius Was Never Before So Great, Yet We Have No Great Dramatist, Says Ambassador James Bryce". Washington Post April 28, 1907, magazine section p. 3.; "Bryce Talks of Art: British Ambassador Declares Age Needs Great Poets”. Washington Post April 29, 1907. p. 2.; “Our Need Is Poets, Says James Bryce”. New York Times April 29, 1907. pp. 1–2. August – George Sterling's fantasy-horror poem "A Wine of Wizardry" is published in the September-dated Cosmopolitan magazine with an afterword by Ambrose Bierce, 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 Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The Lotus of the Nile and Other Poems Peter McArthur, The Prodigal and other PoemsGarvin, John William, ed. (1916). Canadian Poets (anthology). McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart. Retrieved via Google Books 2009-06-05. 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 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 – 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

1907 in poetry

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