Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford (from which the poet was expelled in 1811), designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford
Founding of Vangiya Sahitya Parishad in Bengal
William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs.
Bliss Carman, Low Tide at Grand Pré
Mary Jane Katzmann, Frankincense and Myrrh: Selections from the poems of the late Mrs. William Lawson (M.J.K.L.). Harry Piers and Constance Fairbanks ed. Halifax.
Thomas O'Hagan, In Dreamland and Other Poems
Charles G. D. Roberts, Songs of the Common Day
Duncan Campbell Scott, The Magic House and Other Poems
James Elgin Wetherell, ed. Later Canadian Poems
Ireland
Douglas Hyde, editor and translator from the Gaelic, The Love Songs of Connacht, Ireland
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and Edwin John Ellis, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch
Wilfred Scawen Blunt, published anonymously, Griselda
Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing under the pen name "Michael Field", Underneath the Bough
Robert Bridges, The Humours of the Court: a Comedy; and Other Poems
Thomas Edward Brown, Old John, and Other Poems
John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues, first series (see also Fleet Street Eclogues 1896)
W. E. Henley, London Voluntaries; The Song of the Sword; and Other Verses
George MacDonald, Poetical Works
Alice Meynell, Poems
Francis Thompson, Poems, including "The Hound of Heaven"
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, and Edwin John Ellis, editors, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch
Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pre, Canadian author published in the United States
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Oak and Ivy
Hamlin Garland, Prairie Songs
Louise Imogen Guiney, A Roadside Harp
Harriet Monroe, The Columbian Ode
James Whitcomb Riley, Poems Here at Home
Henry Lawson, "Saint Peter", Australia
Banjo Paterson, "The Geebung Polo Club", first published in The Antipodean, Australia
Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1892 and 1894); France
Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Les Reposoirs de la procession, published starting this year and ending in 1907; France
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 17 – Evelyn Scott (died 1963), American writer and poet
January 18 – Jorge Guillén (died 1984), Spanish
February 11 – Nan Shepherd (died 1981), Scottish novelist and poet
February 26 – Ivor Richards (died 1979), English literary critic
March 4 – Ewart Alan Mackintosh (killed in action 1917), English war poet of Scottish ancestry
March 6 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (died 1965), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet (surname: Takahashi)
March 18 – Wilfred Owen (killed in action 1918), English poet and soldier
March 26 – Richard Church (died 1972), English poet
July 26 – George Grosz (died 1959), German artist and poet
August 22 – Dorothy Parker (died 1967), American writer, poet and wit
September 6 or 16 – Robert Nichols (died 1944), English war poet
September 28 – Giannis Skarimpas (died 1984), Greek
October 26
Miloš Crnjanski, (died 1977) Serbian poet and novelist
Thomas MacGreevy (died 1967), Irish poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland
November 3 – Arthur Bourinot (died 1969), Canadian poet and lawyer
December 4 – Herbert Read (born 1968), English anarchist poet and critic of literature and art
December 6 – Sylvia Townsend Warner (died 1978), English novelist and poet
December 30 – Gerald Bullett (died 1958), English writer and poet
Also – Dharanidhar Sharma Koirala (died 1980), Indian, Nepali-language poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 23 – Phillips Brooks (born 1835), American Episcopal clergyman and author
January 15 – Fanny Kemble (born 1809), English author, poet, playwright and actress
April 19 – John Addington Symonds (born 1840), English poet and literary critic
August 5 – Sarah T. Bolton, née Barrett (born 1814), American poet
December 5 – Matsudaira Katamori 松平容保 (born 1836), Japanese samurai and poet in the last days of the Edo period and the early to mid Meiji period (surname: Matsudaira)
December 9 – Charles Sangster (born 1822), Canadian poet
Also:
Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (born 1844), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry
