1897 in poetry

Events

Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• Jean Blewett, Heart Songs
• Bliss Carman, Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea, Canadian author published in the United States
• William Henry Drummond, The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems, employing dialect
• Frederick George Scott, The Unnamed Lake and Other Poems

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Alfred Austin, The Conversion of Winkelmann, and Other Poems
• Hilaire Belloc, More Beasts
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, publishing under the pen name "Anodos", Fancy's guerdon
• John Davidson, New Ballads
• Ernest Dowson, The Pierrot of the Minute: A dramatic phantasy
• Lionel Johnson, Ireland, with Other Poems
• Henry Newbolt, Admirals All, and Other Verses, including "Vitaï Lampada", and "Drake's Drum"
• George William Russell, publishing under the pen name "Æ", The Earth Breath, and Other Poems
• Dora Sigerson, The Fairy Changeling, and Other Poems
• Arthur Symons, Amoris Victima
• Francis Thompson, New Poems
• Theodore Watts-Dunton, The Coming of Love

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Richard Maurice Burke, Walt Whitman: Man and Poet, nonfiction
• Bliss Carman, Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea, Canadian author published in the United States
• James Whitcomb Riley, Neighborly Poems
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Children of the Night, including "Reuben Bright"
• John B. Tabb, Lyrics
• Yone Noguchi, Seen and Unseen, or, Monologues of a Homeless Snail and The Voice of the Valley

  Other in English

• John Le Gay Brereton, Sweetheart Mine: Lyrics of Love and Friendship, Australia
• G. Sigerson, editor and translator from Gaelic, Bards of Gael and Gall, Ireland
• Isaac Tambyah, editor, A Garland of Ceylon Verse 1837-1897, Colombo: Ceylon Printing Works, 132 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Francis Jammes, La Naissance du poète
• Stéphane Mallarmé:
• * Divagations
• * Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard is published in magazine
• Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, a verse drama

  Other languages

• Stefan George, Das Jahr der Seele ; German

  Awards and honors

Births

• August 11 - Louise Bogan, American poet and critic; wife of Raymond Holden
• May 5 - Kenneth Burke, major American literary theorist and philosopher
• October 10 - Shigeji Tsuboi 壺井繁治, Japanese
• November 7 - Ruth Pitter, English poet and decorative painter
• November 15 - Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer, best known as an art critic and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque; younger brother of Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell
• John Ferrar Holms, British critic

  Deaths

• May 4 — Isabella Banks, English poet and novelist
• July 20 — Jean Ingelow, English poet and novelist
• September 14 — James Joseph Sylvester, English mathematician who translated poetry from the original French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek; author of The Laws of Verse, in which he attempted to codify a set of laws for prosody in poetry
• December 22 - William Gay,, Scots-born Australian poet
• date not known - Velutteri Keshavan Vaidyar, Indian, Malayalam-language poet