— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If—, first published this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
July 7 – Charles Thomas Wooldridge is hanged at Reading Gaol in England for uxoricide, inspiring fellow-prisoner C.3.3. Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897).
William Morris publishes the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer's works
John Le Gay Brereton:
Perdita, A Sonnet Record
The Song of Brotherhood and Other Verses
Edward Dyson, Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines
Henry Lawson:
In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses
"The Teams"
Banjo Paterson:
The Man from Snowy River
"Mulga Bill's Bicycle"
Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, More Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
Charles G. D. Roberts, The Book of the Native
Charles Sangster, Our Norland. Toronto: Copp Clark, n.d.
Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger, Canada
Francis Sherman
In Memorabilia Mortis. Boston: Copeland and Day.
Matins. Boston: Copeland and Day.
To an Athlete Dying Youngby A. E. Housman
Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:
Lines 9-16
Hilaire Belloc:
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
Verses and Sonnets
Laurence Binyon, First Book of London Visions (see also Second Book of London Visions 1899)
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, publishing under the pen name "Anodos", Fancy's Following (see also Fancy's Guerdon 1897)
Ernest Dowson, Verses, including "Non Sum Qualis Eram"
A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, including "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty"
Laurence Housman, Green Arras
Rudyard Kipling, The Seven Seas
Alice Meynell, Other Poems
Henry Newbolt, "Drake's Drum", published in the St.