1900 in poetry

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c=20th century
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yp2=1898
yp3=1899
year=1900
ya1=1901
ya2=1902
ya3=1903
dp3=1870s
dp2=1880s
dp1=1890s
d=1900s
da=1910s
dn1=1910s
dn2=1920s
dn3=1930s|

Events

Works published

* G. K. Chesterton, "The Wild Knight and Other Poems"
* Stephen Crane, "The Black Riders and Other Lines"
* Ernest Henley, "For England's Sake"
* Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch edits "Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900"
* W.B. Yeats, "The Shadowy Waters"

Births

* February 19 – Giorgos Seferis (died 1971), Greek poet, diplomat and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963
* March 3 – Basil Bunting (died 1985), British modernist poet
* April 19 – Richard Hughes (died 1976) British poet, novelist, playwright and writer
* July 4 – Robert Desnos (died 1945), French surrealist poet
* October 17 – Yvor Winters (died 1968) American literary critic and poet

Deaths

* January 19 – William Larminie, 50, Irish poet and folklorist
* January 23 – Richard Watson Dixon, 76, English poet and divine
* January 29 – John Ruskin, 80, English art critic and social critic
* January 31 – John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, 55, nemesis of Oscar Wilde
* February 21 – Henry Duff Traill, 67, British author, poet and journalist
* February 23 – Ernest Dowson, 32, English poet associated with the Decadent movement
* June 5 – Stephen Crane, 28, American novelist, poet and journalist
*November 30 – Oscar Wilde, 46, Irish playwright, novelist, poet and short story writer
* date not known – Richard Hovey, American composer, poet and artist

ee also

* List of years in poetry
* Poetry
* List of years in poetry