| List of years in poetry (table) |
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| … 1894 . 1895 . 1896 . 1897 . 1898 . 1899 . 1900 … 1901 1902 1903 -1904- 1905 1906 1907 … 1908 . 1909 . 1910 . 1911 . 1912 . 1913 . 1914 … In literature: 1901 1902 1903 -1904- 1905 1906 1907 |
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Events
- Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre.
Works published
- Constantine P. Cavafy, Waiting for the Barbarians
- Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, I, followed by II (1906) and III (1908)1
- Christina Rossetti, Poetical Works, edited by W. M. Rossetti1
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Channel Passage, and Other Poems1
- W. B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods, including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass"1
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 23 – Louis Zukofsky (died 1978, American poet and co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets
- April 5 – Richard Eberhart (died 2005), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and a National Book Award in 1977
- April 27 – Cecil Day-Lewis (died 1972) Anglo-Irish poet, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and mystery writer
- May 13 – Earle Birney (died 1995), Canadian poet and two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (in 1942 and 1945)
- July 5 – Harold Acton (died 1994) was an Anglo-Italian writer, scholar and dilettante
- July 12 – Pablo Neruda (died 1973) Chilean writer and Communist politician
- October 29 – Audrey Alexandra Brown (died 1998), Canadian
- December 21 – Johannes Edfelt (died 1997), Swedish poet
- Date not known:
- A. Alexandra Brown, Canadian1
- John K. Ewers (died 1978), Australian
- Arthur R. D. Fairburn, New Zealander1
- J. A. R. McKellar (died 1932), Australian2
- Premendra Mitra (died 1988) Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction
Deaths
- January 8 – John Farrell (born 1851), Australian
- March 24 – Sir Edwin Arnold, 71, English poet and journalist
- October 4 – Adela Florence Nicolson, 39, English poet who wrote under the pseudonym "Laurence Hope", of suicide
- October 11 – Trumbull Stickney, 40, American classical scholar and poet, from a brain tumor
Awards and honors
See also
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