# 1907 in poetry

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

## Events

* George Sterling's fantasy-horror poem "A Wine of Wizardry" is published, setting off a months-long nationwide controversy and making Sterling notorious.
* Hélène van Zuylen leaves her partner, English-born French poet Renée Vivien, for another woman.

## Works published in English
### Canada

* Peter McArthur, The Prodigal and other Poems
* Robert W. Service, Songs of a Sourdough (published in the United States as The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses), including "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", Scottish-born poet resident in Canada
* Arthur Stringer, The Woman in the Rain, and Other Poems
* Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, The Lotus of the Nile and Other Poems
* Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, The Last Robin: Lyrics and Sonnets

### United Kingdom

* Gordon Bottomley, Chambers of Imagery
* Joseph Campbell, The Gilly of Christ
* Ethel Carnie, Rhymes from the Factory
* Padraic Colum, Wild Earth
* John Davidson, God and Mammon
* W. H. Davies, New Poems
* Ernest Dowson (died 1900), Cynara: a Little Book of Verse
* James Elroy Flecker, The Bridge of Fire
* Ford Madox Ford:
** An English Girl
** From Inland, and Other Poems
* James Joyce, Chamber Music, Irish writer resident in continental Europe, published in England
* Terence MacSwiney (as Cuireadóir), The Music of Freedom, Irish poet
* Alfred Noyes, The Hill of Dreams
* Dora Sigerson, Collected Poems

### United States

* Witter Bynner, An Ode to Harvard and Other Poems
* Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer, Prejudice Unveiled
* Sara Teasdale, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems
* George Sterling, "A Wine of Wizardry"

## Works published in other languages
### France

* Paul Claudel:
** Art poétique
** Connaissance de l'Est ("Knowledge of the East"), expanded from the original 1900 edition
** Partage de midi
** Processionnal pour saluer le siècle nouveau ("Processional for the New Century")
* Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Les Reposoirs de la procession, published starting in 1893 and ending this year
* Renée Vivien, pen name of Pauline Tarn, Flambeaux éteints ("Extinguished Torches")

### Other languages

* Delmira Agustini, El libro blanco, Uruguay
* Stefan George, Der siebente Ring ("The Seventh Ring"); German
* Peider Lansel, Primulas, Romansh language, Switzerland
* Antonio Machado, Soledades, galerías, y otros poemas ("Solitudes, Galleries, and Other Poems"); Spain
* Gregorio Martínez Sierra, La casa de primavera ("The House of Spring"), Spain
* Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems (Neue Gedichte), German

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 24 – Francis Brabazon (died 1984), Australian
* January 30 – Jun Takami 高見順 pen-name of Takama Yoshioa (died 1965), Japanese Shōwa period novelist and poet
* February 1 – Günter Eich (died 1972), German poet, dramatist and author
* February 21 – W. H. Auden (died 1973), English-born United States
* March 18 – Luis Gabriel Portillo (died 1993), Spanish Republican professor and poet
* April 29 – Chūya Nakahara 中原 中也 (died 1937), Japanese early Shōwa period poet
* April 30 – Jacob Hiegentlich (suicide 1940), gay Dutch Jewish writer, also writing poetry in German
* May 4 – Lincoln Kirstein (died 1996), American cultural figure
* June 2 – John Lehmann (died 1987), English poet, writer and editor
* June 7 – Mascha Kaléko (died 1975), German-language poet
* July 21 – Alec Derwent Hope (died 2000), Australian
* August 16 – Edward James (died 1984), English poet and patron of the arts and of surrealism
* September 12 – Louis MacNeice (died 1963), Irish-born
* September 15 – Gunnar Ekelöf (died 1968), Sweden
* October 21 – Nikos Engonopoulos (died 1985), Greek
* October 28 – John Hewitt (died 1987), Irish
* December 14 – R. N. Currey (died 2001), South African-born English
* December 20 – John Joseph Thompson (died 1968), Australian
* Also:
** Susan McGowan (died 2003), Australian
** Vaughan Morgan (died 1987), New Zealand

## Deaths

* March 19 – Thomas Bailey Aldrich (born 1836), United States
* April 6 – William Henry Drummond (born 1854), Canada
* April 23 – André Theuriet (born 1833), French poet and novelist
* July 7 – Annie Louisa Walker (born 1836), English and Canadian novelist and poet
* July 15 – Qiu Jin (born 1875), Chinese revolutionary, feminist and poet, executed
* July 31 – Francis Miles Finch (born 1827), United States lawyer and poet
* August 25 – Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, (born 1861), English novelist, poet and teacher who wrote poetry under the pseudonym Anodos (taken from George MacDonald); great-grandniece of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and great niece of Sara Coleridge
* September 6 – Sully Prudhomme (born 1839), French poet and essayist; 1st Nobel Prize winner
* September 8 – Iosif Vulcan (born 1841), Romanian magazine editor, poet, playwright, novelist and cultural figure
* November 13 – Francis Thompson (born 1859), English
* November 28 – Stanisław Wyspiański (born 1869), Polish dramatist, poet and painter
* Also – John Arthur Phillips (born 1842), Canadian

## Awards and honors

* Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudyard Kipling