— Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden, first published this year
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Events
March 20 – Welsh "tramp-poet" W. H. Davies loses his foot trying to jump a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario. William Hughes Mearns writes "Antigonish" this year; it won't be published until 1922. Romesh Chunder Dutt's translation of the Ramayana into English verse is first published, in London. Shinshisha ("New Poetry Society") founded by Yosano Tekkan in Japan.
Works published
Australia
W. T. Goodge, Hits! Skits! and Jingles!
Canada
Frances Jones Bannerman, Milestones. London. William Wilfred Campbell, Beyond the Hills of Dream. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin. Fidelis, Lays of the "True North," and Other Canadian Poems. John Frederic Herbin, The Marshlands Archibald Lampman, Alcyone, including "City of the End of Things", the author died while the book was being printed. Thomas O'Hagan, Songs of the Settlement Frederick George Scott, Poems Old and New (Toronto: William Briggs). Francis Sherman, 'The Deserted City: Stray Sonnets. Boston: Copeland and Day. Arthur Stringer, The Loom of Destiny. Anthologies Northland Lyrics, William Carman Roberts, Theodore Roberts & Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald; selected and arranged with a prologue by Charles G.D. Roberts and an epilogue by Bliss Carman. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.
United Kingdom
Hilaire Belloc, A Moral Alphabet
Laurence Binyon, Second Book of London Visions (see also First Book of London Visions 1896) Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Satan Absolved Gordon Bottomley, Poems at White-Nights Robert Buchanan, The New Rome: Poems and ballads of our empire John Davidson, The Last Ballad, and Other Poems Lord Alfred Douglas (anonymously in 1st edition), The City of the Soul Ernest Dowson, Decorations: in Verse and Prose 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) Dora Sigerson, Ballads and Poems Arthur Symons: Images of Good and Evil The Symbolist Movement in Literature, first collected edition of essays W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds including "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, (John Lane/Bodley Head)
United States
Stephen Crane, War is Kind
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Lyrics of the Hearthside, which included his poem "Sympathy" Hamlin Gillette, The Trail of the Goldseekers Louise Imogen Guiney, The Martyrs' Idyl Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden", appears first in McClure's; 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) Edwin Markham, The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems Howard Llewellyn Swisher, Briar Blossoms: Being a Collection of a Few Verses and Some Prose Henry Timrod (died 1867), Complete Poems
Other in English
John Le Gay Brereton, Landlopers, mostly prose, based on a walking tour with Dowell Philip O'Reilly; Australia W. B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds including "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Wind Among the Reeds, (John Lane/Bodley Head)
Works published in other languages
France
Francis Jammes: Le Poète et l'oiseau ("The Poet and the Bird") La Jeune Fille nue, France Stéphane Mallarmé (died 1898), Poésies, originally published 1877, new edn with commentary by the poet Oscar Milosz, also known as O. V. de L. Milosz, Le Poème des décadences