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Events
March – Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. In April, he moves to Venice, where in July he self-publishes his first collection of poems, A Lume Spento (dedicated to his friend Philadelphia artist William Brooke Smith, who has just died of tuberculosis). In August he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920 and in December publish A Quinzaine for this Yule. Summer – The Marlowe Society stages a production at the New Theatre, Cambridge (England), of Milton's masque Comus directed by Rupert Brooke. Renée Vivien attempts suicide by overdose of laudanum at the Savoy Hotel in London.
The Poets' Club
Founding in London of the Poets' Club, a group comprising mainly amateurs who meet monthly for most of the year. Late in the year – T. E. Hulme reads to the Poets' Club his paper, A Lecture on Modern Poetry, a concise statement of his influential advocacy of free verse.
Works published in English
Canada
William Wilfred Campbell, Poetical Tragedies including "Mordred", "Daulac", "Morning" and "Hildebrand" William Henry Drummond, The Great Fight: Poems and Sketches. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
United Kingdom
Lascelles Abercrombie, Interludes and Poems
Hilaire Belloc, Cautionary Tales for Children
William Henry Davies, Nature Poems and Others
Edmund Gosse, The Autumn Garden
Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: Part 3
Minnie Louise Haskins, The Desert, including the poem The Gate of the Year
Edith Nesbit, Ballads and Lyrics of Socialism
Stephen Phillips, New Poems
Ezra Pound, A Quinzaine for this Yule, American poet published in the United Kingdom Katharine Tynan, Experiences, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States
William Stanley Braithwaite, The House of Falling Leaves with Other Poems
Ezra Pound, American poet published in the United Kingdom and Italy: A Lume Spento, Pound's first poetry collection (the title translates as "a dim light") published at his own expense in Venice A Quinzaine for this Yule, London
Other in English
John Le Gay Brereton, Sea and Sky, Australia
Katharine Tynan, Experiences, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Albert D. Watson, The Wing of the Wild-Bird
William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Works published in other languages
French language
France
Francis Jammes: Poèmes mesurés Rayons de miel, Paris: Bibliothèque de l'Occident Valery Larbaud, Les Poésies de A. O. Barnabooth
Canada, in French
Louis-Joseph Doucet, La Chanson du Passant, French language, Canada
Albert Ferland, Le Canada Chante, French language, Canada
Other
C. Subrahamania Bharati, Cutecakitankal, Indian, Tamil-language
José Santos Chocano, Fiat Lux, Peru
Louis-Joseph Doucet, Chanson du passant; French language;, Canada
Albert Ferland, Le Canada chanté, in four volumes, published from this year to 1910, French language, Canada Kahlil Gibran, Al-Arwah al-Mutamarrida ("Rebellious Spirits"), Lebanese-born Arabic poet in the United States Maria Konopnicka, Rota ("Oath"), Polish
Awards and honors
Newdigate Prize (University of Oxford) – Julian Huxley, "Holyrood" Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse Composition (University of Oxford) – Ronald Knox