1905 in poetry

Events

• March - Art student Vachel Lindsay goes into the streets of New York City and tries to sell or give away copies of one of his poems. The take: 13 cents. His reaction: Ecstasy. "Now let there be here recorded my conclusions from one evening, one hour of peddling poetry. I am so rejoiced over it and so uplifted I am going to do it many times. It sets the heart trembling with happiness. The people like poetry as well as the scholars, or better."
• December 15 - The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
• Ezra Pound presents Hilda Doolittle with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book.

  Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• Wilfred Campbell, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Campbell
• James Capon, Roberts and the Influences of His Time, critical work on Charles G. D. Roberts
• Isabella Valancy Crawford, The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford, John W. Garvin ed., posthumously published
• William Henry Drummond, The Voyageur and other Poems
• Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton:
• * Acadian Ballads, and De Soto's Last Dream
• * Poems of the Christian Year
• Duncan Campbell Scott, New World Lyrics and Ballads, including "The Forsaken", Canada

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Biography for Beginners with the first publication of the clerihew
• Robert Bridges, Demeter
• Joseph Campbell, The Garden of Bees
• W. H. Davies, The Soul's Destroyer, and Other Poems
• Ernest Dowson, The Poems of Ernest Dowson
• R. C. Dutt, editor, Indian Poetry: Selected and Rendered Into English, London: J.M. Dent and Co., 163 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
• Violet Jacob, Verses, Scottish poet
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Arthur Symons, A Book of Twenty Songs
• Katharine Tynan, Innocencies
• Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"

  United States">American Poetry">United States

• Madison Cawein, Vale of Tempe
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow
• Trumbull Stickney, Poems
• John Hall Wheelock, with Van Wyck Brooks, Verses by Two Undergraduates

  Other in English

• R. C. Dutt, editor, Indian Poetry: Selected and Rendered Into English, London: J.M. Dent and Co., 163 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
• Francis Jammes, Tristesses, France
• Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold, Indian poet writing in English, published in Britain
• Violet Teague - Night Fall in the Ti-Tree, Australian Artist's book containing poetry

  Works published in other languages

Indian">Indian poetry">Indian subcontinent

• Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Vilasika
• Brij Raj, Vagdevi, Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brij Bhasha
• Kavi Dalpatram Nanalal, ' 'Vasantotsav' ', Gujarati language, India

  Other languages

• Paul Claudel, France
• * Poèmes de la Sexagésime
• * "Vers d'Exil", poems published in L'Ermitage magazine
• Gjergj Fishta, Lahuta e Malcís, begins publication, Albania
• Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours, Germany
• Octavian Goga - Poezii

  Births

• January 3 - Padraic Fallon, Irish
• January 6 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet writing first in that language, later in English
• January 10 - R. A. K. Mason, New Zealander
• March 2 - Geoffrey Grigson, American
• March 9:
• * Peter Quennell, English
• * Rex Warner, Irish
• March 18 - Alfred Bailey, Canadian poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian and academic administrator
• March 21 - Phyllis McGinley, American
• April 10 - Norma Davis, Australian
• April 17 - Carlos Oquendo de Amat, Peruvian poet, author of 5 Meters of Poems
• April 22 - Robert Choquette Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat
• April 24 - Robert Penn Warren, American poet, critic, novelist and academic
• May 15 - Annadashankar Roy , Bengali poet
• June 8 - Brian Coffey, Irish poet and publisher
• June 25 - Jun'ichi Yoda 与田凖, Japanese Shōwa period poet and children's book author
• July 29 - Stanley Kunitz, American poet
• August 28 - Len Fox, Australian writer, social activist and painter
• November 4 - Xavier Abril, Peruvian poet and critic
• November 10 - Kurt Eggers, German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright
• November 13 - Mary Elizabeth Frye, American housewife, florist, author of the poem "Do not stand at my grave and weep"
• December 22 - Kenneth Rexroth, American poet
• December 31 - Frank Marshall Davis, American poet
• Also:
• * Winifred Maitland Shaw, Australian
• * Ibrahim Touqan إبراهيم طوقان, Palestinian, Arab-language

  Deaths

• July 1 - John Hay, 66, American statesman, diplomat, author, poet, journalist and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln
• September 18 - George MacDonald, 80, Scottish-born author, poet and Christian minister known mostly for his fantasy stories
• October 13 - Violet Fane, 62, English
• October 28 - Alphonse Allais, 51, French humorist
• December 29 - Victor Daley, 47, Irish-born Australian

  Awards and honors