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.

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