1899 in poetry

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John Frederic Herbin, The Marshlands^[1]
Archibald Lampman, Alcyone, including "City of the End of Things",^[2] the author died while the book was being printed; Canada^[3]
Thomas O'Hagan, Songs of the Settlement^[3]

Hilaire Belloc, A Moral Alphabet^[4]
Laurence Binyon, Second Book of London Visions (see also First Book of London Visions 1896)^[4]
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Satan Absolved^[4]
Gordon Bottomley, Poems at White-Nights^[4]
Robert Buchanan, The New Rome: Poems and ballads of our empire^[4]
John Davidson, The Last Ballad, and Other Poems^[4]
Lord Alfred Douglas, The City of the Soul^[4]
Ernest Dowson, Decorations: in Verse and Prose^[4]
Rudyard Kipling:
- "The Absent-Minded Beggar"
- "The White Man's Burden", appears first in McClure's Magazine in the United States; it is parodied this same year in "The Brown Man's Burden", by Henry Labouchère in Truth, a publication in London; the parody is reprinted in the United States in Literary Digest 18 (February 25)^[5]
Dora Sigerson, Ballads and Poems^[4]
Arthur Symons, Images of Good and Evil^[4]
W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds^[4] including "Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, (John Lane/Bodley Head)

Stephen Crane, War is Kind
Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden", appears first in McClure's Magazine; it is parodied this same year in "The Brown Man's Burden", by Henry Labouchère in Truth, a publication in London; the parody is reprinted in the United States in Literary Digest 18 (February 25)^[5]

John Le Gay Brereton, Landlopers, mostly prose, based on a walking tour with Dowell Philip O'Reilly; Australia
Stéphane Mallarmé, Poésies, posthumously published, France
W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds^[4] including "Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Wind Among the Reeds,^[4] (John Lane/Bodley Head)

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

January 26 – May Miller (died 1995) African American poet, playwright and educator
February 17 – Jibananda Das, (died 1954) 17 February 1899 - 22 October 1954) is the most popular Bengali poet
March 7 – Jun Ishikawa 石川淳 pen name of Ishikawa Kiyoshi, Ishikawa (died 1987), Japanese, Showa period modernist author, translator and literary critic
May 25 – Kazi Nazrul Islam (died 1976), Bengali poet and composer best known as the Bidrohi Kobi ("Rebel Poet"), popular among Bengalis and considered the national poet of Bangladesh
June 6 – Hildegarde Flanner (died 1987) American poet, author and activist
June 8 – Kaoru Maruyama 丸山薫 (died 1974), Japanese
July 21 – Hart Crane (died 1932), American poet
August 1 – F.R. Scott (died 1985), Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
August 5 – Sakae Tsuboi 壺井栄 (died 1967), Japanese novelist and poet
November 19 – Allen Tate (died 1979), American poet and member of the Fugitive Poets and later the Southern Agrarians.
December 9 – Léonie Adams (died 1988) American poet and Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress
Date not known:
- Leonie Adams, American
- Jammuneshwar Khataniyar (died 1920), Indian, Assamese-language poet; a woman^[6]
- Raymond Knister died (1932), Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer
- Dimbeshwar Neog (died 1966), Indian, Assamese-language poet^[6]
- Constance Woodrow

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

February 10 — Archibald Lampman, 37 (born 1861), Canadian poet who died while his book, Alcyone, was being printed (see "Works", above)
date not known — Robert Lowry (poet)

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^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
^ Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
^ ^a ^b Garvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b Labouchère, Henry,"The Brown Man's Burden", retrieved March 17, 2009. Archived 2009-05-03.
^ ^a ^b Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008

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