# 1904 in poetry

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

## Events

* Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre.
* The National Monthly in Canada publishes an article by Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer on Charles G. D. Roberts titled "The Father of Canadian Poetry", a title which sticks to Roberts, an influential poet, long afterward.

## Works published in English
### United Kingdom

* John Davidson, The Testament of a Prime Minister
* Ford Madox Ford, The Face of the Night
* Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A drama of the Napoleonic Wars, Part I, followed by Part II (1906) and Part III (1908)
* Henry Newbolt, Songs of the Sea
* Alfred Noyes, Poems
* Edwin Arnold, Indian Poetry
* AE (George William Russell), The Divine Vision, and Other Poems
* Christina Rossetti, Poetical Works, edited by W. M. Rossetti
* Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Channel Passage, and Other Poems
* William Watson, For England

### United States

* Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927), Mine and Thine
* Joel Chandler Harris, The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus
* Josephine Preston Peabody, Pan, A Choric Idyl
* Carl Sandburg, In Reckless Ecstasy
* John B. Tabb, The Rosary in Rhyme

### Other in English

* Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, Between the Light, Canada
* Nagesh Vishwanath Pai (also spelled "Nagesh Vishwvanath Pai"), Angel of Misfortune, India, Indian poetry in English
* Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, The Radiant Road, Canada

## Works published in other languages

* Alexander Blok, Stikhi o prekrasnoi Dame ("Verses to the Beautiful Lady"), Russia, an early work of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry
* Constantine P. Cavafy, Waiting for the Barbarians, Greece
* José Santos Chocano, Los cantos del Pacífico ("The Songs of the Pacific"), Peru
* Sophus Claussen, Djavlerier ("Diableries"), Denmark
* Zinaida Gippius, «Собрание стихов. 1889–1903» ("Collected Poems, 1889–1903"), Russia
* Pamphile Lemay, Les gouttelettes, sonnet sequence, French language, Canada
* Saint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger, Images à Crusoé, published when the author is 17 years old, France
* Charles Van Lerberghe, La Chanson d'Ève, France
* Swami Vivekananda, Nachuk Tahate Shyama, India, Bengali

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 21 – Richard P. Blackmur (died 1965), American poet and critic
* January 23 – Louis Zukofsky (died 1978), American poet and co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets
* February 2 – A. R. D. Fairburn (died 1957), New Zealander
* February 9 – Kikuko Kawakami 川上 喜久子 (died 1985), Japanese Shōwa period novelist, short-story writer and poet, a woman
* March 1 – Margaret Steuart Pollard, née Gladstone (died 1996), English oriental scholar, bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, philanthropist and eccentric
* 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)
* May 20 – Nagai Tatsuo 永井龍男, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (died 1990), Japanese Shōwa period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist
* May 26 – Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (died 1983), Turkish
* June 8 – Alice Rahon (died 1987), French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter
* June 13 – John K. Ewers (died 1978), Australian
* July 5 – Harold Acton (died 1994), Anglo-Italian writer, scholar and dilettante
* July 12 – Pablo Neruda (died 1973), Chilean writer and Communist politician
* August 15 – Subedar Mahmoodmiya Mohammad Imam, popularly known as "Asim Randeri" (died 2009), Indian, Gujarati-language ghazal poet
* October 21 – Patrick Kavanagh (died 1967), Irish poet and novelist
* October 29 – Audrey Alexandra Brown (died 1998), Canadian
* December 21 – Johannes Edfelt (died 1997), Swedish poet
* December 28 – Hori Tatsuo 堀 辰雄 (died 1953), Japanese Shōwa period writer, poet and translator
* December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born this year or 1903 (sources disagree) – 1951), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman)
* Also:
** J. A. R. McKellar (died 1932), Australian
** Premendra Mitra (died 1988), Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction
** Alexander Vvedensky (died 1941), Russian avant-garde poet

## Deaths

* January 3 – Larin Paraske, 70 (born 1833), Finnish Izhorian oral poet and rune-singer
* January 8 – John Farrell (born 1851), Australian
* March 24 – Sir Edwin Arnold, 71, English poet and journalist
* July 6 – Abai Qunanbaiuly, 58 (born 1845), Kazakh poet, composer, philosopher and cultural reformer
* October 4 – Adela Florence Nicolson, 39, English poet writing under the pseudonym "Laurence Hope", of suicide
* October 11 – Trumbull Stickney, 40, American classical scholar and poet, from a brain tumor
* October 17 – Ștefan Petică, 27 (born 1877), Romanian Symbolist poet and writer, of tuberculosis