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.

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"

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