1908 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March – Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. In April, he moves to Venice, where in July he self-publishes his first collection of poems, A Lume Spento (dedicated to his friend Philadelphia artist William Brooke Smith, who has just died of tuberculosis). In August he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920 and in December publish A Quinzaine for this Yule. Summer – The Marlowe Society stages a production at the New Theatre, Cambridge (England), of Milton's masque Comus directed by Rupert Brooke. Renée Vivien attempts suicide by overdose of laudanum at the Savoy Hotel in London. Founding in London of the Poets' Club, a group comprising mainly amateurs who meet monthly for most of the year. Late in the year – T. E. Hulme reads to the Poets' Club his paper, A Lecture on Modern Poetry, a concise statement of his influential advocacy of free verse. William Wilfred Campbell, Poetical Tragedies including "Mordred", "Daulac", "Morning" and "Hildebrand" William Henry Drummond, The Great Fight: Poems and Sketches. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Lascelles Abercrombie, Interludes and Poems Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children William Henry Davies, Nature Poems and Others Edmund Gosse, The Autumn Garden Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: Part 3 Minnie Louise Haskins, The Desert, including the poem The Gate of the Year Edith Nesbit, Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism Stephen Phillips, New Poems Ezra Pound, A Quinzaine for this Yule, American poet published in the United Kingdom Katharine Tynan, Experiences, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom William Stanley Braithwaite, The House of Falling Leaves with Other Poems Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom and Italy: A Lume Spento, Pound's first poetry collection (the title translates as "a dim light") published at his own expense in Venice A Quinzaine for this Yule, London John Le Gay Brereton, Sea and Sky, Australia Katharine Tynan, Experiences, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Albert D.

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1890 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Rhymers' Club founded in London by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who meet regularly and publish anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees include Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, , A. C. Hillier, John Todhunter, Arthur Symons, Ernest Radford and Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wilde attends some meetings held in private homes Dove Cottage, Grasmere in the English Lake District acquired by the Wordsworth Trust.

1900 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February – Myōjō ("Bright Star" or "Morning Star"), a monthly literary magazine, begins publication in Japan, running until November 1908. It is the organ of the Shinshisha ("New Poetry Society") founded in 1899 by Yosano Tekkan (who becomes editor-in-chief and who revives the magazine after it first goes defunct in 1908). The magazine is initially known for its development and promotion of a modernized version of the 31-syllable tanka poetry.