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1907 in poetry

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Contents

Events

  • Hélène van Zuylen leaves her partner, English-born French poet Renée Vivien, for another woman.

    • Canada

  • Peter McArthur, The Prodigal and other Poems
  • Robert W. Service, The Songs of a Sourdough
  • Arthur Stringer, The Woman in the Rain, and Other Poems
  • Arthur Wentworth, Hamilton Eaton, The Lotus of the Nile 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
  • Padraic Colum, Wild Earth
  • John Davidson, God and Mammon
  • W. H. Davies, New Poems
  • James Elroy Flecker, The Bridge of Fire
  • Ford Madox Ford:
  • An English Girl
  • From Inland, and Other Poems
  • James Joyce, Chamber Music
  • Alfred Noyes, The Hill of Dreams
  • Robert W. Service, The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, also titled Songs of a Sourdough, including "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
  • 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

    • 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 Showa period novelist and poet
  • February 1 – Günter Eich (died 1972) German poet, dramatist, and author
  • February 21 – W. H. Auden (died 1973), United Kingdom and United States
  • April 29 – Chūya Nakahara 中原 中也 (died 1937), Japanese early Shōwa period poet
  • May 4 – Lincoln Kirstein (died 1996), United States
  • June 2 – John Lehmann (died 1987), English poet, writer and editor
  • July 21 – Alec Derwent Hope (died 2000), Australia
  • September 12 – Louis MacNeice (died 1963), United States
  • September 15 – Gunnar Ekelöf (died 1968), Sweden
  • October 21 – Nikos Engonopoulos (died 1985), Greek
  • October 28 – John Hewitt (died 1987), Irish
  • November 28 – Mary Oppen (died 1990), American, activist, artist, photographer and writer
  • 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 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

    • References

    1907 in poetry Wikipedia
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