1900 in poetry

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

Australia

 * Henry Lawson, Verses, Popular and Humorous, Angus & Robertson
 * Bernard O'Dowd, "Australia"
 * George Essex Evans, "Ode for Commonwealth Day"

Canada

 * William Wilfred Campbell, Beyond the Hills of Dream. Toronto.
 * Archibald Lampman, The Poems of Archibald Lampman, Duncan Campbell Scott ed., (Toronto: Morang).
 * Alexander McLachlan, Poetical Works of Alexander McLachlan.
 * Frederick George Scott, Poems Old and New.
 * Francis Sherman, A Canadian Calendar: XII Lyrics. Havana, Cuba.

United Kingdom

 * G. K. Chesterton:
 * Graybeards at Play
 * The Wild Knight and Other Poems
 * Ford Madox Ford, Poems for Pictures and for Notes of Music
 * W. E. Henley, For England's Sake
 * Charles Murray, Hamewith, Scots
 * Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor, Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900
 * Lady Margaret Sackville, Floral Symphony

United States

 * Gelett Burgess, Goops and How to Be Them
 * Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines
 * George Moses Horton's Poetical Works
 * George Santayana, Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
 * Ridgely Torrence, The House of a Hundred Lights

Other in English

 * W. B. Yeats, The Shadowy Waters, Ireland

Works published in other languages

 * Konstantin Balmont, Burning Buildings (Gorya′schye zda′niya), his 5th collection of poetry and the one that makes him famous in Russia.
 * Natalie Clifford Barney, Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes, American writing in French and published in Paris
 * Paul Claudel, Connaissance de l'Est ("Knowledge of the East"), (expanded edition published in 1907) France
 * Stefan George, Hymnen, Pilgerfahrten, and Algabal, a one-volume edition published in Berlin by Georg Bondi which first makes George's work available to the public at large; German
 * Marie-Madeleine, Auf Kypros, Germany
 * Gregorio Martínez Sierra, Flores de escarcha ("Frost Flowers"), Spain
 * C. R. Reddy, Musalamma Maranam, Indian, Telugu-language poem written in traditional metrical form but with a modern outlook, a landmark work in Telugu poetry
 * Paul Valéry, Album de vers anciens, published starting in 1890 and ending this year; France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 31 – Marie Luise Kaschnitz (died 1974), German short story writer, novelist, essayist and poet
 * February 19 – Giorgos Seferis (died 1971), Greek poet, diplomat and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963
 * February 26 – Halina Konopacka (died 1989), Polish-born discus thrower and poet
 * March 3 – Basil Bunting (died 1985), British modernist poet
 * March 4 – Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo or "Rebearivelo" (died 1937), Malagassy, French-language poet
 * April 1 – Alexandru A. Philippide (died 1979), Romanian poet
 * April 19 – Richard Hughes (died 1976), British poet, novelist, playwright and writer
 * May 11 – Rose Ausländer maiden name and pen name of Rosalie Beatrice Scherzer (died 1988), German poet and writer
 * May 30 – Itsik Manger (or "Itzig Manger") (died 1969)
 * June 10:
 * Eric Maschwitz (died 1969) English poet, entertainer, writer, broadcaster and broadcasting executive
 * Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind (died 1970) German writer, poet, journalist and translator
 * July 4 – Robert Desnos (died 1945), French surrealist poet
 * July 22 &mdash; Edward Dahlberg (died 1977), American novelist, writer and poet
 * August 12 – Robert Francis (died 1987), American
 * August 20 – Salvatore Quasimodo (died 1968), Italian poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959
 * August 23 – Tatsuji Miyoshi 三好達治 (died 1964), Japanese Shōwa period literary critic, editor and poet
 * September 23 – Jaroslav Seifert (died 1986), Czech writer, poet and journalist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1984
 * October 17 – Yvor Winters (died 1968) American literary critic and poet
 * October 20 – Jack Lindsay (died 1990), Australian
 * December 21 – Oda Schaefer (died 1988), German
 * Also:
 * Emil Barth (poet) (died 1958), German
 * Adolf Beiss (died 1981), German
 * Otto Heuschele (died 1996), German
 * Ernest G. Moll (died 1997), Australian
 * Hermann Kesten (poet) (died 1996), German
 * Paula Ludwig (died 1974), German
 * Eckart Peterich (died 1968), German
 * Friedrich Rasche (died 1965), German

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 19 – William Larminie, 50 (born 1849), Irish poet and folklorist
 * January 20 – R. D. Blackmore (born 1825), English novelist and poet
 * January 23 – Richard Watson Dixon, 76 (born 1833), English poet and divine
 * January 29 – John Ruskin, 80 (born 1819), English art critic and social critic
 * January 31 – John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, 55 (born 1844), nemesis of Oscar Wilde
 * February 21 – Henry Duff Traill, 67 (born 1842), British author, poet and journalist
 * February 23 – Ernest Dowson, 32 (born 1867), English poet associated with the Decadent movement
 * February 24 – Richard Hovey, 35 (born 1864), American composer, poet and artist
 * June 5 – Stephen Crane, 28 (born 1871), American novelist, poet and journalist
 * August 13 (O.S. July 31) – Vladimir Solovyov, 47 (born 1853), Russian philosopher and poet
 * August 24 – Friedrich Nietzsche (born 1844), German philosopher, classical philologist and poet
 * October 20 – Naim Frashëri, 54 (born 1846), Albanian poet and writer
 * November 30 – Oscar Wilde, 46 (born 1854), Irish playwright, novelist, poet and short story writer
 * Also:
 * Ludwig Jacobowski (born 1868), German