1905 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 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. 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 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 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) 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 R.