1905 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * Ezra Pound presents Hilda Doolittle (the poet "H.D.") with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book
 * March &mdash; 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."

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

 * Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Biography for Beginners with the first publication of the clerihew
 * Robert Bridges, Demeter
 * Joseph Campbell, The Garden of Bees
 * 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
 * Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * Arthur Symons, A Book of Twenty Songs
 * Katharine Tynan, Innocencies
 * Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis" (posthumous)

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 (text available online)

Indian subcontinent
Including all of the British colonies that later became India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Listed alphabetically by first name, regardless of surname:


 * Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Vilasika (Indian Parsi writing in Gujarati)
 * Brij Raj, Vagdevi, Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brij Bhasha
 * Kavi Dalpatram Nanalal, ' 'Vasantotsav' ', Gujarati language, India

Other languages

 * Paul Claudel:
 * Poèmes de la Sexagésime
 * "Vers d'Exil", poems published in L'Ermitage magazine; France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 6 – Idris Davies (died 1956), Welsh poet writing first in that language, later in English
 * March 2 – Geoffrey Grigson (died 1985), American
 * March 9:
 * Peter Quennell (died 1993), English
 * Rex Warner (died 1986), Irish
 * March 18 – Alfred Bailey, (died 1997), Canadian poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian, and academic administrator
 * March 21 – Phyllis McGinley (died 1978), American
 * April 22 – Robert Choquette (died 1991) Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat
 * April 24 – Robert Penn Warren (died 1989), American poet, critic, novelist and academic
 * May 15 – Annadashankar Roy (died 2002), Bengali poet
 * June 8 – Brian Coffey (died 1995), Irish poet and publisher
 * June 25 – Jun'ichi Yoda 与田凖 (died 1997), Japanese Shōwa period poet and children's book author
 * July 29 – Stanley Kunitz (died 2006), American
 * November 4 – Xavier Abril (died 1990), Peruvian
 * December 22 – Kenneth Rexroth (died 1982, American
 * December 31 – Frank Marshall Davis (died 1987), American


 * Also:
 * Norma L. Davis (died 1945), Australian
 * Padraic Fallon (died 1974), Irish
 * Len Fox (died 2004), Australian
 * Mary Elizabeth Frye (died 2004), American housewife, florist, author of the poem "Do not stand at my grave and weep"
 * R.A.K. Mason (died 1971), New Zealander
 * Winifred Shaw, Australian
 * Ibrahim Touqan إبراهيم طوقان (died 1941), Palestinian, Arab-language

Deaths

 * July 1 – John Hay, 64, American statesman, diplomat, author, poet, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln
 * September 18 – George MacDonald, 80, Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister known mostly for his fantasy stories
 * October 13 – Violet Fane
 * December 29 – Victor Daley (born 1858), Australian