# 1905 in poetry

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

## 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 H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), fellow American poet, with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book.

## Works published in English
### 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
* 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
* Frederic Manning, The Vigil of Brunhild, verse drama based on Norse mythology
* Sarojini Naidu, The Golden Threshold
* 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)
* Violet Teague - Night Fall in the Ti-Tree, Australian Artist's book containing poetry

## Works published in other languages
### 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 and such

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

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 3 – Padraic Fallon (died 1974), Irish
* January 6 – Idris Davies (died 1956), Welsh poet writing first in that language, later in English
* January 10 – R. A. K. Mason (died 1971), New Zealander
* February 15 (February 2 O.S.) – Musa Cälil (executed 1944), Soviet Tatar poet and resistance fighter
* March 2 – Geoffrey Grigson (died 1985), American
* March 9:
** Peter Quennell (died 1993), English
** Rex Warner (died 1986), Irish
* March 13 – Brian Howard (suicide 1958), English poet, writer and "bright young thing"
* March 18 – Alfred Bailey (died 1997), Canadian poet, anthropologist, ethno-historian and academic administrator
* March 21 – Phyllis McGinley (died 1978), American
* April 10 – Norma Davis (died 1945), Australian
* April 17 – Carlos Oquendo de Amat (died 1936), Peruvian poet, author of 5 Meters of Poems (1927)
* 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 poet
* August 28 – Len Fox (died 2004), Australian writer, social activist and painter
* November 4 – Xavier Abril (died 1990), Peruvian poet and critic
* November 10 – Kurt Eggers (killed in action 1943), German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright
* November 13 – Mary Elizabeth Frye (died 2004), American housewife, florist, author of the poem "Do not stand at my grave and weep"
* December 22 – Kenneth Rexroth (died 1982), American poet
* December 31 – Frank Marshall Davis (died 1987), American poet
* Also:
** Winifred Maitland Shaw, Australian
** Ibrahim Touqan إبراهيم طوقان (died 1941), Palestinian, Arab-language

## Deaths

* July 1 – John Hay, 66 (born 1838), American statesman, diplomat, author, poet, journalist and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln
* September 18 – George MacDonald, 80 (born 1824), Scottish-born author, poet and Christian minister known mostly for his fantasy stories
* October 13 – Violet Fane (Mary, Baroness Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb), 62 (born 1843), English
* October 28 – Alphonse Allais, 51 (died 1905), French humorist
* December 29 – Victor Daley, 47 (born 1858), Irish-born Australian