1907 in poetry

• 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.^[1]

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 17 – Parvin E'tesami (died 1941), Persian
• March 18 – Luis Gabriel Portillo (died 1993), Spanish Republican professor and poet
• April 29 – ChÅ«ya 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

• 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

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Rudyard Kipling

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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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