Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, posthumously published (by his brother).
Sarah Anne Curzon, Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812: A Drama, and Other Poems.
Susie Frances ed. The Canadian Birthday Book, poetry anthology. (Toronto: Robinson).
William Douw Lighthall, Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure. ("Witness" Printing House).
Thomas O'Hagan, A Gate of birginas, Canada
William Allingham, Rhymes for Young Folk
Robert Browning, Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day
Richard Le Gallienne, My Lady's Sonnets
George Meredith, Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life
Constance Naden, "A modern apostle; The elixir of life; The story of Clarice, and other poems ".
Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods
Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Jubilee
Katharine Tynan, Shamrocks, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Charles Follen Adams, Dialect Ballads
Bronson Alcott, New Connecticut
Arlo Bates, Sonnets in Shadow
Palmer Cox, The Brownies: Their Book, children's fictional poetry
Emma Lazarus, By The Waters of Babylon
Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Branch of May
James Whitcomb Riley, Afterwhiles
Henry Lawson, "A Song for the Republic", the author's first published poem, in The Bulletin, October 1 issue; Australia
Katharine Tynan, Shamrocks, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
William Butler Yeats, editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, an anthology, Dublin, Ireland
François Coppée, Arriere-saison; France
Louis-Honoré Fréchette, La légende d'un peuple, the author's best-known work, about episodes of Canadian history; French Canadian author published in Paris, France
Stéphane Mallarmé; France:
Poésies ("Poetical Works"), in a deluxe, limited edition published in October
Album de vers et de prose ("Selected Verse and Prose"), published in December
Narasinghrao, Kusumamala, his first collection of poems, "considered a definite advance in modern Gujarati poetry because of its novel use of poetic diction", according to A handbook of Indian Literature"
Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Narada Samvadam, Indian, Telugu-language long poem condemning banal, rule-minded poetry (surname: Veeresalingam)
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 10 – Robinson Jeffers (died 1962), American poet and playwright
February 3 – Georg Trakl (suicide 1914), German
February 11 – Shinobu Orikuchi 折口 信夫, also known as Chōkū Shaku 釋 迢空 (died 1953), Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist and poet; a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he establishes an academic field named "Orikuchiism" (折口学, Orikuchigaku), a mix of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics and Shintō religion (surname: Orikuchi)
March 9 – Ion Buzdugan, born Ivan Alexandrovici Buzdâga (died 1967), Bessarabian-Romanian poet, folklorist and politician
May 13 – Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (died 1964), Showa period poet, playwright and screenwriter (surname: Nagata)
May 15 – Edwin Muir (died 1959), Scottish poet, novelist and translator
May 16 – Jakob van Hoddis (died 1942), German
May 31 - Saint-John Perse (died 1975), French diplomat, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1960
June 20 – Kurt Schwitters (died 1947), German
June 22 – Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (died 1975), English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist
June 28 – Orrick Glenday Johns (died 1946), American poet
August 3 – Rupert Brooke (died on active service off Skyros, 1915), English poet
August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (killed in action near Ypres in Belgium, 1917), Irish poet, "poet of the blackbirds"
September 1 – Blaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser (died 1961), Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916
September 7 – Edith Sitwell (died 1964), English poet and critic
September 21 – Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams (died 1975), Welsh poet, translator and academic
September 16 – Hans Arp (died 1966), German
September 27 – Frederick Macartney (died 1980), Australian
October 11 – Pierre Jean Jouve (died 1976), French poet and novelist
October 30 – Georg Heym (drowned 1912), German poet
November 15 – Marianne Moore (died 1972), American Modernist poet and writer
December 6 – Minakami Takitarō 水上滝太郎 pen name of Abe Shōzō (died 1940), Japanese, Showa period poet, novelist, literary critic and essayist (surname: Minakami)
December 8 – Elizabeth Daryush (died 1977), English poet, daughter of Robert Bridges
December 27 – Edward Andrade (died 1971), English physicist and poet.
December 30 – K.M. Munshi (died 1971), Indian Gujarati-language novelist, playwright, writer, politician and lawyer
Also:
Skipwith Cannell (died 1957), American poet associated with the Imagist group (pronounce his last name with the stress on the second syllable)
Margaret Curran (died 1962), Australian poet, editor and journalist
Alphonse Métérié (died 1967), French newspaper editor, teacher and poet
Ramanayan Pathak (died 1955), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and husband of Heeraben Pathak
Sukumar Ray (সুকুমার রায়) (died 1923), Indian, Gujarati-language humorous poet, short-story writer and playwright
Jatindranath Sengupta (died 1954), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 27 – Edward Rowland Sill, American
October 12 – Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, born Dinah Maria Mulock, also referred to as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik (born 1826), English novelist and poet
November 19 – Emma Lazarus (born 1849), American poet who wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus", associated with the Statue of Liberty, where it is engraved on a plaque
date not known – Isabella Valancy Crawford (born 1850), Canadian, from heart failure
