— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If—, first published this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
July 7 – Charles Thomas Wooldridge is hanged at Reading Gaol in England for uxoricide, inspiring fellow-prisoner C.3.3. Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897).
William Morris publishes the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer's works
John Le Gay Brereton:
Perdita, A Sonnet Record
The Song of Brotherhood and Other Verses
Edward Dyson, Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines
Henry Lawson:
In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses
"The Teams"
Banjo Paterson:
The Man from Snowy River
"Mulga Bill's Bicycle"
Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, More Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
Charles G. D. Roberts, The Book of the Native
Charles Sangster, Our Norland. Toronto: Copp Clark, n.d.
Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger, Canada
Francis Sherman
In Memorabilia Mortis. Boston: Copeland and Day.
Matins. Boston: Copeland and Day.
Hilaire Belloc:
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
Verses and Sonnets
Laurence Binyon, First Book of London Visions (see also Second Book of London Visions 1899)
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, publishing under the pen name "Anodos", Fancy's Following (see also Fancy's Guerdon 1897)
Ernest Christopher Dowson, Verses, including "Non Sum Qualis Eram"
A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, including "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty"
Laurence Houseman, Green Arras
Rudyard Kipling, The Seven Seas
Alice Meynell, Other Poems
Henry Newbolt, "Drake's Drum", published in the St. John's Gazette (first published in book form in Admirals All, and Other Verses 1897)
John Cowper Powys, Odes, and Other Poems
Arthur Quiller-Couch, Poems and Ballads
Christina Rossetti, New Poems, edited by W. M. Rossetti
Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel, and Other Verses
Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Tale of Balen
William Watson, The Purple East
Thomas Bailey Aldrich:
Judith and Holofernes
Later Lyrics
Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, More Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
Emily Dickinson, Poems: Third Series
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of Lowly Life
Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Quiet Road
Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Torrent and theNight Before
Nérée Beauchemin, Les floraisons matutinales; the author's first published collection; French language; Trois-Rivières, Canada
José Santos Chocano, Azahares, Peru
Richard Dehmel, Weib und Welt ("Woman and World"), German
Narasinghrao, Hridayaveena containing khandakavyas, garbis (religious, ethical and romantic lyrics), and poems about nature and women (Indian, writing in Gujarati)
Tekkan Yosano, Tozai namboku ("East-west, north-south"), tanka poetry, Japan
Awards and honors
Alfred Austin made Poet Laureate
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 26 – Walter D'Arcy Cresswell (died 1960), New Zealand
February 26 – Andrei Zhdanov (died 1948), a Soviet official who persecuted poets, writers and artists under the Zhdanov doctrine
May 9 – Austin Clarke (died 1974), Irish poet, playwright and judge
August 27 – Kenji Miyazawa 宮沢 賢治 (died 1933), Japanese, early Shōwa period poet and author of children's literature (surname: Miyazawa)
September 22 – Uri Zvi Grinberg (died 1981), Jewish
October 30 – Kostas Karyotakis (died 1928), Greek
December 1 – Teiko Tomita (died 1990), Japanese-born American poet who wrote in Japanese
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 8 – Paul Verlaine (born 1844), French
March 20 – Alexander McLachlan (born 1818), Scottish-born Canadian
May 11 – Henry Cuyler Bunner (born 1855), American novelist and poet
October 3 – William Morris (born 1834), English poet, writer, designer and socialist
October 29 – Thomas Edward Brown (born 1830), Manx poet writing in English
November 26
Mathilde Blind (born 1841), German-born British poet writing in English
Coventry Patmore (born 1823), English
