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 poetsc. 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 daysDecember 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 LibraryJ. D. Logan, Songs of the Makers of Canada, and Other Homeland LyricsArthur Stringer, Irish Poems. New York: Mitchell Kennerley.Rupert Brooke, Poems 1911G. K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White HorseElizabeth Daryush, CharitesseE. V. Knox, The Brazen LyrePatrick MacGill, Songs of a NavvyJohn Masefield, The Everlasting MercyHarold Monro, Before Dawn (poems and impressions)Stephen Phillips, The New InfernoEzra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United KingdomKatharine Tynan, New PoemsAnna Wickham, Songs of John OlandFranklin P. Adams, Tobogganing on ParnassusEzra Pound, Canzoni, London; American author published in the United KingdomGeorge Sterling, The House of OrchidsSara Teasdale, Helen of TroyVictor Daley, Wine and Roses, posthumously published, AustraliaJ. 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 yearGuillaume 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, FranceChemin de CroixLéon-Paul Fargue, TancrèdeFrancis Jammes, Les Géorgiques chrétiennes ("Christian Georgics"), three volumes, published from this year to 1912Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz-Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Les ÉlémentsSaint-John Perse, Éloges, Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française; FranceIncluding 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 GucchaSisu MangalApurba NaibedyaGurajada 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 languageTirupati Venkata Kavulu, Pandavodyoga Vijayam, Telugu-language verse drama based on the Mahabharatha tales (surname: Tirupathi)Constantine P. Cavafy, Itaka and The Gods Abandon Antony, GreeceJosé María Eguren, Simbólicas,, PeruGeorg Heym, Der Krieg and Der ewige Tag, GermanyElse Lasker-Schüler, Meine Wunder, GermanyAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry: James Whitcomb RileyNobel Prize for Literature: Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck, Belgian poet, playwright, and essayistDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Audrey Wurdemann (died 1960), American poet, youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for PoetryJanuary 7 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz (died 1984), Pakistani poetFebruary 1 – Robert Gittings (died 1992), English writer, biographer, radio producer, playwright and poetFebruary 8 – Elizabeth Bishop (died 1979), American poet, Pulitzer Prize winnerFebruary 13 – Faiz Ahmad Faiz (died 1984), Indian, Urdu-language poet, teacher, army officer, journalist, trade unionist and broadcasterFebruary 16 – Hal Porter (died 1984), Australian writer, novelist, playwright and poetFebruary 28 – Amir Hamzah (died 1946), Indonesian poet styled a national heroMarch 1 – Ian Mudie (died 1976), AustralianApril 7 – Hervé Bazin, full name: Jean-Pierre Hervé-Bazin (died 1966), French novelist and poetMay 2 – Ben Belitt (died 2003), American poetMay 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 InstituteMay 29 – Leah Goldberg (died 1970), Israeli poet writing in HebrewJune 11 – Josephine Miles (died 1985), American poet and literary criticJune 17 – Allen Curnow (died 2001), New Zealand poetJune 20 – Sufia Kamal (died 1999), Bengali poet, writer, organizer, feminist and activistJune 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 academicJuly 19 – Mervyn Peake (died 1968), writer, artist, illustrator and poetAugust 25 – J. V. Cunningham (died 1985), American poet, literary critic and teacherSeptember 3 – Ernst Meister (died 1979), GermanSeptember 9Paul Goodman (died 1972), American poetAle Ahmad Suroor (died 2002), Indian Urdu-language poetOctober 11 – Changampuzha Krishna Pillai (died 1948), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translatorOctober 13 – Millosh Gjergj Nikolla ('Migjeni') (died 1938), Albanian poet and writerOctober 26 – Sorley Maclean (died 1996), Scottish poetNovember 2 – Odysseus Elytis (died 1996), GreekNovember 5 – Vailoppilli Sreedhara Menon (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poetNovember 23 – William Hart-Smith (died 1990), AustralianDecember 13 – Kenneth Patchen (died 1972) American poet and novelistAlso:C. B. Christesen (died 2003), AustralianRobert Clark, AustralianPatrice de La Tour du Pin (died 1975), FrenchSreedhara Menon, Vailoppillil (died 1985), Indian, Malayalam-language poetSamsher Bahadur Singh (died 1993), Indian, Hindi-language poet, essayist and artistTenneti Suri (died in 1959), Indian, Telugu-language poet, novelist, translator and journalistBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 22 – Frances Harper (born 1825), African-American abolitionist, poet and authorApril 11 – Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (born 1835), English civil servant, literary historian and poetMay 29 – W. S. Gilbert (born 1836), English comic poet and librettistJuly 16 – Amelia Denis de Icaza (born 1836), Panamanian romantic poet in NicaraguaAugust 7 – Elizabeth Akers Allen (born 1832), American author, journalist and poetDecember 29 – Rosamund Marriott Watson, writing as Graham R. Tomson (born 1860), English poetAlso:Jwala Prasad Barq (born 1863), Indian, Urdu-languagepoet and translatorEknath Ganesh Bhandare (born 1863), Indian, Marathi-language poet, translator and station-masterAbdul 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" 
