Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
January 8 – Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London. American poets Robert Frost and Ezra Pound will eventually meet there.
September 8 – W. B. Yeats' poem "September 1913" is published in The Irish Times during the Dublin Lock-out.
Ezra Pound travels to London to meet W. B. Yeats, whom he considers "the only poet worthy of serious study"; from that year until 1916, the two men winter in the Stone Cottage at Ashdown Forest, with Pound nominally acting as secretary to the older poet.
January and March – Three poems of Hilda Doolittle appear in the January issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, submitted by Ezra Pound, the magazine's "foreign editor" and a close associate of Doolittle. The March 1913 issue of the magazine also contained Pound's "A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste" and F. S. Flint's essay Imagisme. This publication history means that this London-based movement has its first readership in the United States.
The New Freewoman, a literary magazine, begins publication in June but becomes defunct in December. Dora Marsden owns it; Rebecca West edits it at first, then Ezra Pound takes over as editor; it succeeds The Freewoman and will be succeeded by The Egoist.
Founding of The Glebe a literary magazine edited by Alfred Kreymborg and Man Ray; it will cease publication in 1914 after 10 issues.
Ezra Pound, having heard about The Glebe from Kreymborg's friend John Cournos, sends Kreymborg the manuscript of Des Imagistes in the summer and this famous first anthology of Imagism is published as the fifth issue of The Glebe.
Jose Martínez Ruiz, commonly known as Azorín, comes up with the name "Generation of '98" this year, referring to the novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War (1898) and alluding to the moral, political, and social crisis produced by Spain's defeat in that war. Writing mostly after 1910, the group reinvigorates Spanish letters, revives literary myths and breaks with classical schemes of literary genres. In politics, members of the movement often justify radicalism and rebellion.
Wallace Stevens and his wife, Elsie, rent a New York City apartment from sculptor Adolph Weinman, who makes a bust of Elsie, whose image later is used on the artist's 1916-1945 Mercury dime design.
November 14 – Rabindranath Tagore is awarded the Nobel prize in literature.
December 15 – Ezra Pound (in London) writes to James Joyce (in Trieste) requesting some of his recent poems for The Egoist.
Norbert von Hellingrath begins publishing Friedrich Hölderlin's complete works (Sämtliche Werke: historisch-kritische Ausgabe, the "Berliner Ausgabe"), restoring his work to literary prominence.
Tom MacInnes, The Rhymes of a Rounder
Marjorie Pickthall, The Drift of Pinions
Varna Sheard, The Miracle and Other Poems
Albert D. Watson, Love and the Universe, the Immortals and Other Poems
Laurence Binyon, Auguries
Joseph Campbell, Irishry
W. H. Davies, Foliage
Walter de la Mare, Peacock Pie: a book of rhymes
John Drinkwater, Cromwell, and Other Poems
Radclyffe Hall, Songs of Three Counties, and Other Poems
D. H. Lawrence, Love Poems and Others
Richard Le Gallienne, The Lonely Dancer, and Other Poems, English poet living at this time in the United States
John Masefield, Dauber
Alfred Noyes, Tales of the Mermaid Tavern
George William Russell ("Æ"), Collected Poems (expanded editions published in 1919, 1926 and 1935)
Siegfried Sassoon, The Daffodil Murderer
Dora Sigerson, Madge Linsey, and Other Poems
J. C. Squire, The Three Hills, and Other Poems
Rabindranath Tagore, ' 'The Crescent Moon' ', lyrics, translated mostly from Bengali; Indian poetry in English
Katharine Tynan, Irish Poems, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
William Carlos Williams, The Tempers, the second book of poetry by this American poet; his friend, Ezra Pound arranged to have it published in the United Kingdom
W. B. Yeats, Poems Written in Discouragement, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Witter Bynner, Tiger
Robert Frost, A Boy's Will
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Complete Poems, published posthumously
John Gould Fletcher:
Fire and Wine
Fool's Gold
The Book of Nature
The Dominant City
Visions of the Evening
Joyce Kilmer, "Trees" first appears in the August issue of Poetry magazine, it was later included in Trees and Other Poems 1914
Richard Le Gallienne, The Lonely Dancer, English poet living at this time in the United States
Vachel Lindsay, General William Booth Enters into Heaven and Other Poems
John Hall Wheelock, Love and Liberation
William Carlos Williams, The Tempers, the second book of poetry by this American poet; his friend, Ezra Pound arranged to have it published in the United Kingdom.
Arthur Henry Adams, Collected Verses of Arthur H. Adams, Australia
Rabindranath Tagore, ' 'The Crescent Moon' ', lyrics, translated mostly from Bengali; Indian poetry in English
Katharine Tynan, Irish Poems Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
W. B. Yeats, Poems Written in Discouragement, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
E. W. Cole, editor, Backblock Ballads and other Verses, front cover illustration by David Low; including a "Glossary: for the use of the thoroughly genteel", four sections of "The Sentimental Bloke" and "The Austral-aise", both by C. J. Dennis, Australian anthology
Guillaume Apollinaire, pen name of Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, Alcools: Poemes 1898-1913, edited by Tristan Tzara; France
Blaise Cendrars, La prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France ("Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France"), a collaborative artists' book with near abstract pochoir print by Sonia Delaunay-Terk
Francis Jammes, Feuilles dans le vent
Pierre Jean Jouve, Parler
Valéry Larbaud, Les Poésies de A. O. Barnabooth
Charles Péguy, Ève
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:
Chandra Kumar Agarwala, Pratima
Hiteshwar Bar Barua, Tirotav Atma Balidan Kavya, narrative poem about the sacrifice of Jaymoti Kunwari for the sake of her husband, Gadadhar Singha, ruler of Assam from 1681–1696
Lakshminath Bezbarua, Kadam Kali, inspired by the ballads of Assam
Adipudi Somanatharavu, translator, Gitanjali Bengali poems by Rabindranath Tagore translated into Telugu
Chittaranjan Das, Sagar Sangit, Bengali language, short verses, intensely religious, later translated into English by Sri Aurobindo
Pramatha Chaudhuri, Sanet Pancasat, India, Bengali language
K. C. Kesava Pillai, Kesaviyam, India, Malayalam language
Kilabhai Ghansyam, Meghdut, translation into Gujarati from the original Sanskrit of Meghudutam by Kalidasa
Mohammad Abdul Majid, Caman-i-benazir, Urdu language
Raja Shyama Kumar Tagore, Jarmani Kavyam, Sanskrit language, a poem on Germany
Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer, Umakeralam, a mahakavya, a type of Indian epic poem, India, Malayalam language
Vakil Ahmad Shah Qureshi, Om-nama (incorporating Ghazalyat-e-Shastri), Kashmiri language
Delmira Agustini, Los cálices vacíos, pórtico de Rubén Darío ("Empty chalices"), Uruguay
Stefan George, Der Stern des Bundes ("The Star of the Order"), Germany
Marie Heiberg, Luule ("Poems"), Estonia
Blanche Lamontagne-Beauregard, Visions gaspésiennes, French language Canada
Lionel Léveillé (writing under the pseudonym Englebert Gallèze), La claire fontaine, French language Canada
Georg Trakl, Gedichte ("Poems"), Austrian published in Germany
Nik Welter, Hochofen, Luxembourg published in Germany
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Norman Rosten (died 1995), American poet, playwright and novelist
January 19 – Rex Ingamells (died 1955), Australian
February 10 – Charles Henri Ford (died 2002), American novelist, poet, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist
February 26 – George Barker (died 1991), English poet and author
February 28 – Virginia Hamilton Adair, (died 2004), American poet
March 4 – Sadako Kurihara 栗原貞子 (died 2005), poet who survives the Hiroshima nuclear holocaust and became known for her poems about her city
March 16 – Carmelo Arden Quin, (died 2010), Uruguayan poet, political writer, painter, sculptor and co-founder of the international artistic movement “Madi”
March 29 – R.S. Thomas (died 2000), Anglo- Welsh poet
May 6 – Douglas Stewart (died 1985), Australian
June 24 – Vincent Ferrini (died 2007), American writer and poet
July 30 – John Blight (died 1995), Australian
August 4 – Robert Hayden (died 1980), American poet, essayist, educator and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
September 16 – Dinesh Das (died 1985), Indian, Bengali-language
September 25 – Seaforth Mackenzie (died 1955), Australian
November 10 – Karl Shapiro died 2000), American
December 7 (November 24 O.S.) – Kersti Merilaas, born Eugenia Moorberg (died 1986), Estonian
December 8 – Delmore Schwartz (died 1966), American poet and short-story writer
December 15 – Muriel Rukeyser (died 1980), American poet and political activist
December 27 – Elizabeth Smart (died 1986), Canadian poet and novelist
Also:
Appan M. A., Indian, Malayalam-language
James Boughton, American poet
Flexmore Hudson (died 1988), Australian
V. R. Kant (died 1990), Indian, Marathi-language
Bhatt Damodar Kesavaji, pen name Sudhansu (died 1983), Indian, Gujarati-language
Devandas Kishinani, "Azad", Indian, Sindhi-language
Ananta Pattanayak, Indian, Oriya-language
Bal Krisna Rav (died 1974), Indian, Hindi-language poet, editor and translator; edited the monthly ' 'Kadambini' '
Harumal Isardas Sadarangani, "Khadim", Indian, Sindhi-language poet and scholar
Upendra Thakur, "Mohan" (died 1980), Indian, Oriya-language
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 17 – Joaquin Miller (born 1837), American "Poet of the Sierras"
March 7 – Pauline Johnson, also known as "E. Payuline Johnson" and "Tekahionwake" (born 1861), Canadian known for poems and performances celebrating her aboriginal heritage, including the frequently anthologized "The Song My Paddle Sings"
May 17 – Dwijendralal Ray (born 1863), Indian, Bengali-language poet, playwright and musician known primarily for patriotic plays and songs as well as Hindu devotional lyrics
June 2 – Alfred Austin (born 1835), English Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
July 30 – Itō Sachio 伊藤佐千夫, pen name of Itō Kojirō (born 1864), Meiji period tanka poet and novelist
December 1 (November 18 O.S.) – Juhan Liiv (born 1864), Estonian
December 5 – Ferdinand Dugué (born 1816), French poet and playwright
Also:
Bhuban Chandra Barua pen name "Umesh Chandra Barua", (birth year uncertain, possibly 1890), Indian, Assamese-language poet
Kunjikuttan Thampuran (born 1865), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Kodungalloor School of poetry
Awards and honors
Nobel Prize in Literature: Rabindranath Tagore, partly for Gitanjali
Robert Bridges becomes British Poet Laureate
