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1907 in poetry
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1907 poetry literature
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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.http://www.valkyria.ca/renee_vivien_page.html Valkyria The Renée Vivien Translation Project Melanie Davis 2015-12-04 2022-01-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20220123005748/https://www.valkyria.ca/renee_vivien_page.html dead
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 ImageryCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
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 PoemsLudwig, Richard M. Nault, Clifford A. Jr. Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 https://archive.org/details/annalsofamerican00ludw registration 1986 New York Oxford University Press If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year. Preface vi
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 poétiqueHartley, Anthony The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century Baltimore Penguin Books 1967
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, Uruguayhttp://www.ale.uji.es/agustini.htm Delmira Agustini Universitat Jaume Modernismo en España e Hispanoamérica 2011-09-01 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110902004757/http://www.ale.uji.es/agustini.htm 2011-09-02
Stefan George, Der siebente Ring ("The Seventh Ring"); Germanhttp://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Stefan_George.aspx#1G2-3404702441 Stefan George Encyclopedia of World Biography 2004 2010-02-23
Peider Lansel, Primulas, Romansh language, Switzerland
Antonio Machado, Soledades, galerías, y otros poemas ("Solitudes, Galleries, and Other Poems"); SpainDebicki Andrew P. https://books.google.com/books?id=-ILdirPqzlgC Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond 12 University Press of Kentucky Lexington 1995 978-0-8131-0835-3 2009-11-21
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
See also
Poetry
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
Notes
Category:20th-century poetry
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