1904 in poetry

• Nobel Prize in Literature is shared by French poet Frédéric Mistral and Spanish dramatist José Echegaray y Eizaguirre.
• The National Monthly in Canada publishes an article by Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer on Charles G. D. Roberts titled "The Father of Canadian Poetry", a title which sticks to Roberts, an influential poet, long afterward.^[1]

• Alexander Blok, Stikhi o prekrasnoi Dame ("Verses to the Beautiful Lady"), Russia, an early work of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry
• Constantine P. Cavafy, Waiting for the Barbarians, Greece
• William Chapman, Les aspirations: poésies canadiennes, Canadian poet published in France^[7]
• José Santos Chocano, Los cantos del Pacífico ("The Songs of the Pacific"), Peru^[8]
• Sophus Claussen, Djavlerier ("Diableries"), Denmark^[9]
• Zinaida Gippius, «Собрание стихов. 1889–1903» ("Collected Poems, 1889–1903"), Russia
• Pamphile Lemay, Les gouttelettes, sonnet sequence, French language, Canada^[10]
• Saint-John Perse, pen name of Marie-René Alexis Saint-Léger, Images à Crusoé, published when the author is 17 years old, France^[11]
• Charles Van Lerberghe, La Chanson d'Ève, France^[12]
• Swami Vivekananda, Nachuk Tahate Shyama, India, Bengali^[13]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 21 – Richard P. Blackmur (died 1965), American poet and critic
• January 23 – Louis Zukofsky (died 1978), American poet and co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets
• February 2 – A. R. D. Fairburn (died 1957), New Zealander^[3]
• February 9 – Kikuko Kawakami 川上 喜久子 (died 1985), Japanese Shōwa period novelist, short-story writer and poet, a woman
• March 1 – Margaret Steuart Pollard, née Gladstone (died 1996), English oriental scholar, bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, philanthropist and eccentric^[14]
• April 5 – Richard Eberhart (died 2005), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and a National Book Award in 1977
• April 27 – Cecil Day-Lewis (died 1972), Anglo-Irish poet, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and mystery writer
• May 13 – Earle Birney (died 1995), Canadian poet and two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (in 1942 and 1945)
• May 20 – Nagai Tatsuo 永井龍男, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (died 1990), Japanese Shōwa period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist
• May 26 – Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (died 1983), Turkish
• June 8 – Alice Rahon (died 1987), French-born Mexican surrealist poet and painter
• June 13 – John K. Ewers (died 1978), Australian
• July 5 – Harold Acton (died 1994), Anglo-Italian writer, scholar and dilettante
• July 12 – Pablo Neruda (died 1973), Chilean writer and Communist politician
• August 15 – Subedar Mahmoodmiya Mohammad Imam, popularly known as "Asim Randeri" (died 2009), Indian, Gujarati-language ghazal poet^[15]
• October 18 – Hayyim Schirmann (died 1981), Russian-born Israeli professor of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry
• October 21 – Patrick Kavanagh (died 1967), Irish poet and novelist
• October 29 – Audrey Alexandra Brown (died 1998), Canadian^[3]
• December 21 – Johannes Edfelt (died 1997), Swedish poet
• December 28 – Hori Tatsuo 堀 辰雄 (died 1953), Japanese Shōwa period writer, poet and translator
• December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi 林 芙美子 (born this year or 1903 (sources disagree) – 1951), Japanese novelist, writer and poet (a woman)
• Also:
  • J. A. R. McKellar (died 1932), Australian^[16]
  • Premendra Mitra (died 1988), Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction
  • Alexander Vvedensky (died 1941), Russian avant-garde poet

• January 3 – Larin Paraske, 70 (born 1833), Finnish Izhorian oral poet and rune-singer
• January 8 – John Farrell (born 1851), Australian
• March 24 – Sir Edwin Arnold, 71, English poet and journalist
• July 6 – Abai Qunanbaiuly, 58 (born 1845), Kazakh poet, composer, philosopher and cultural reformer
• October 4 – Adela Florence Nicolson, 39, English poet writing under the pseudonym "Laurence Hope", of suicide
• October 11 – Trumbull Stickney, 40, American classical scholar and poet, from a brain tumor
• October 17 – Ștefan Petică, 27 (born 1877), Romanian Symbolist poet and writer, of tuberculosis

• 20th century in poetry
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• List of years in poetry
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• French literature of the 20th century
• Silver Age of Russian Poetry
• Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
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