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.

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

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