Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
c. April 8 – English poet Lascelles Abercrombie and his family move to live near Dymock in rural Gloucestershire, first of the Dymock poets
c. August – Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, who writes under the pen name "Guillaume Apollinaire", is suspected in the theft of the Mona Lisa from The Louvre museum in Paris and imprisoned for six days
December 16 – The Copyright Act in the United Kingdom consolidates copyright law in the British Empire and confirms the six libraries in each of which a copy of every book published in the U.K. must be deposited by the publisher: the British Museum Library (London); the Bodleian Library (Oxford); the Advocates Library (Edinburgh); the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Trinity College, Dublin; and Cambridge University Library
J. D. Logan, Songs of the Makers of Canada, and Other Homeland Lyrics
Arthur Stringer, Irish Poems. New York: Mitchell Kennerley.
Rupert Brooke, Poems 1911
G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse
Elizabeth Daryush, Charitesse
E. V. Knox, The Brazen Lyre
Patrick MacGill, Songs of a Navvy
John Masefield, The Everlasting Mercy
Harold Monro, Before Dawn (poems and impressions)
Stephen Phillips, The New Inferno
Ezra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United Kingdom
Katharine Tynan, New Poems
Anna Wickham, Songs of John Oland
Franklin P. Adams, Tobogganing on Parnassus
Ezra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United Kingdom
George Sterling, The House of Orchids
Sara Teasdale, Helen of Troy
Victor Daley, Wine and Roses, posthumously published, Australia
J. N. Gupta, The Life and Works of Romesh Chunder Dutt, (Dutt (1848–1920) is an Indian poet writing in English), published in New York and London this year
Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée, Paris: Deplanche; his first book of poetry (see also "Events" section, above)
Paul Claudel:
L'Otage, France
Chemin de Croix
Léon-Paul Fargue, Tancrède
Francis Jammes, Les Géorgiques chrétiennes ("Christian Georgics"), three volumes, published from this year to 1912
Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les Éléments
Saint-John Perse, Éloges, Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française; France
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Devendranath Sen, Indian, Bengali-language poet:
Golap Guccha
Sisu Mangal
Apurba Naibedya
Gurajada Appa Rao, Lavanaraju Kala, Telugu-language narrative poem written in a new, four-line stanzaic form (surname: Gurajada)
S. G. Narasimhachar, Presita Priya Samagama translation from the original English of The Hermit by Oliver Goldsmith, Indian, Kannada language
Tirupati Venkata Kavulu, Pandavodyoga Vijayam, Telugu-language verse drama based on the Mahabharatha tales (surname: Tirupathi)
Constantine P. Cavafy, Itaka and The Gods Abandon Antony, Greece
José María Eguren, Simbólicas,, Peru
Georg Heym, Der Krieg and Der ewige Tag, Germany
Else Lasker-Schüler, Meine Wunder, Germany
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: James Whitcomb Riley
Nobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Audrey Wurdemann (died 1960), American poet, youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
January 7 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz (died 1984), Pakistani poet
February 1 – Robert Gittings (died 1992), English writer, biographer, radio producer, playwright and poet
February 8 – Elizabeth Bishop (died 1979), American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner
February 13 – Faiz Ahmad Faiz (died 1984), Indian, Urdu-language poet, teacher, army officer, journalist, trade unionist and broadcaster
February 16 – Hal Porter (died 1984), Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poet
February 28 – Amir Hamzah (died 1946), Indonesian poet styled a national hero
March 1 – Ian Mudie (died 1976), Australian
April 7 – Hervé Bazin, full name: Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin (died 1966), French novelist and poet
May 2 – Ben Belitt (died 2003), American poet
May 13 – N. V. Krishna Warrier (died 1989), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, critic and scholar who introduces new types of long narrative poems and satires; editor of weekly Mathrubhumi; director of Kerala Bhasa Institute
May 29 – Leah Goldberg (died 1970), Israeli poet writing in Hebrew
June 11 – Josephine Miles (died 1985), American poet and literary critic
June 17 – Allen Curnow (died 2001), New Zealand poet
June 20 – Sufia Kamal (died 1999), Bengali poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activist
June 30 – Czesław Miłosz (died 2004), Polish poet, prose writer and translator.
July 12 – Umashankar Joshi (died 1988), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist, poet, critic, short-story writer, playwright, travel writer and academic
July 19 – Mervyn Peake (died 1968), writer, artist, illustrator and poet
August 25 – J. V. Cunningham (died 1985), American poet, literary critic and teacher
September 3 – Ernst Meister (died 1979), German
September 9
Paul Goodman (died 1972), American poet
Ale Ahmad Suroor (died 2002), Indian Urdu-language poet
October 11 – Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (died 1948), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator
October 13 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla ('Migjeni') (died 1938), Albanian poet and writer
October 26 – Sorley Maclean (died 1996), Scottish poet
November 2 – Odysseus Elytis (died 1996), Greek
November 5 – Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
November 23 – William Hart-Smith (died 1990), Australian
December 13 – Kenneth Patchen (died 1972) American poet and novelist
Also:
C. B. Christesen (died 2003), Australian
Robert Clark, Australian
Patrice de La Tour du Pin (died 1975), French
Sreedhara Menon, Vailoppillil (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
Samsher Bahadur Singh (died 1993), Indian, Hindi-language poet, essayist and artist
Tenneti Suri (died in 1959), Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, translator and journalist
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 22 – Frances Harper (born 1825), African-American abolitionist, poet and author
April 11 – Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (born 1835), English civil servant, literary historian and poet
May 29 – W. S. Gilbert (born 1836), English comic poet and librettist
July 16 – Amelia Denis de Icaza (born 1836), Panamanian romantic poet in Nicaragua
August 7 – Elizabeth Akers Allen (born 1832), American author, journalist and poet
December 29 – Rosamund Marriott Watson, writing as Graham R. Tomson (born 1860), English poet
Also:
Jwala Prasad Barq (born 1863), Indian, Urdu-languagepoet and translator
Eknath Ganesh Bhandare (born 1863), Indian, Marathi-language poet, translator and station-master
Abdul Ahad Nadim (born 1840), Indian, Urdu-language poet, writer of "nats" (devotional lyrics addressed to the Prophet) in the traditional variety of the Kashmiri '"Vatsun"
