1900 in poetry

Events

• In February, Myōjō, a monthly literary magazine, begins publication in Japan. between February 1900 and November 1908. It was the organ of the Shinshisha founded in 1899 by Yosano Tekkan. The magazine was initially known for its development and promotion of a modernized version of the 31-syllable tanka poetry. Famous contributors included Yosano Akiko, Hagiwara Sakutaro, Ishikawa Takuboku, Iwano Homei, Kitahara Hakushu, Noguchi Yonejiro, Kinoshita Rigen, and Sato Haruo. The magazine was advised by Mori Ōgai, Ueda Bin and Baba Kocho. Myōjō gradually transformed itself from purely tanka poetry to a sophisticated journal promoting the visual arts as well as Western-style poetry, and became an influential publication in Japanese poetry.

  Works published in English

Australia">Australian poetry">Australia

• Henry Lawson, Verses, Popular and Humorous, Angus & Robertson
• Bernard O'Dowd, "Australia"
• Banjo Paterson, An Outback Marriage

  Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• William Wilfred Campbell, Beyond the Hills of Dream. Toronto.
• Archibald Lampman, The Poems of Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott ed.,.
• Alexander McLachlan, Poetical Works of Alexander McLachlan.
• Frederick George Scott, Poems Old and New.
• Francis Sherman, A Canadian Calendar: XII Lyrics. Havana, Cuba.''

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• G. K. Chesterton:
• * Graybeards at Play
• * The Wild Knight and Other Poems
• Ford Madox Ford, Poems for Pictures and for Notes of Music
• W. E. Henley, For England's Sake
• Charles Murray, Hamewith, Scots
• Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor, Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900
• Lady Margaret Sackville, Floral Symphony

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Gelett Burgess, Goops and How to Be Them
• Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines
• George Moses Horton's Poetical Works
• George Santayana, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
• Ridgely Torrence, The House of a Hundred Lights

  Other in English

• W.B. Yeats, The Shadowy Waters, Ireland

  Works published in other languages

• Konstantin Balmont, Burning Buildings, his 5th collection of poetry and the one that makes him famous in Russia.
• Natalie Clifford Barney, Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes, American writing in French and published in Paris
• Paul Claudel, Connaissance de l'Est, France
• Stefan George, Hymnen, Pilgerfahrten, and Algabal, a one-volume edition published in Berlin by Georg Bondi which first makes George's work available to the public at large; German
• Marie-Madeleine, Auf Kypros, Germany
• Gregorio Martínez Sierra, Flores de escarcha, Spain
• C. R. Reddy, Musalamma Maranam, Indian, Telugu-language poem written in traditional metrical form but with a modern outlook, a landmark work in Telugu poetry
• Paul Valéry, Album de vers anciens, published starting in 1890 and ending this year; France

  Births

• January 31 – Marie Luise Kaschnitz, German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet
• February 19 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, diplomat and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963
• March 3 – Basil Bunting, British modernist poet
• March 4 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo or "Rebearivelo", Malagassy, French-language poet
• April 1 – Alexandru A. Philippide, Romanian poet
• April 19 – Richard Hughes, British poet, novelist, playwright and writer
• May 11 – Rose Ausländer maiden name and pen name of Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer, German poet and writer
• May 30 – Itsik Manger
• June 10:
• * Eric Maschwitz English poet, entertainer, writer, broadcaster and broadcasting executive
• * Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind German writer, poet, journalist and translator
• July 4 – Robert Desnos, French surrealist poet
• July 22 — Edward Dahlberg, American novelist, writer and poet
• August 12 – Robert Francis, American
• August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959
• August 23 – Tatsuji Miyoshi 三好達治, Japanese Shōwa period literary critic, editor and poet
• September 23 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, poet and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984
• October 17 – Yvor Winters American literary critic and poet
• October 20 – Jack Lindsay, Australian
• December 21 – Oda Schaefer, German
• Also:
• * Emil Barth , German
• * Adolf Beiss, German
• * Otto Heuschele, German
• * Ernest G. Moll, Australian
• * Hermann Kesten , German
• * Paula Ludwig, German
• * Eckart Peterich, German
• * Friedrich Rasche, German

  Deaths

• January 19 – William Larminie, 50, Irish poet and folklorist
• January 20 – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist and poet
• January 23 – Richard Watson Dixon, 76, English poet and divine
• January 29 – John Ruskin, 80, English art critic and social critic
• January 31 – John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, 55, nemesis of Oscar Wilde
• February 21 – Henry Duff Traill, 67, British author, poet and journalist
• February 23 – Ernest Dowson, 32, English poet associated with the Decadent movement
• February 24 – Richard Hovey, 35, American composer, poet and artist
• June 5 – Stephen Crane, 28, American novelist, poet and journalist
• August 24 – Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, classical philologist and poet
• October 20 – Naim Frashëri, 54, Albanian poet and writer
• November 30 – Oscar Wilde, 46, Irish playwright, novelist, poet and short story writer
• Also:
• * Ludwig Jacobowski, German