1910 in poetry
— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If—, first published this year in Rewards and Fairies
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- Oxford Poetry founded as a literary magazine by publisher Basil Blackwell in England.
Works published
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- The Rev. James B. Dollard, also known as "Father Dollard", Poems
- Frederick George Scott, also known as "F. G. Scott", Collected Poems
- Tom MacInnes, In Amber Lands, mostly a reprint of Lonesome Bar and Other Poems 1909
- "Yukon Bill" , Derby Days in the Yukon.
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Hilaire Belloc, Verses
- Frances Cornford, Poems
- W. H. Davies, Farewell to Posey, and Other Pieces
- James Elroy Flecker, Thirty-Six Poems
- Ford Madox Ford, Songs from London
- Wilfrid Gibson, Daily Bread
- Laurence Hope, editor, Indian Love Lyrics, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Rudyard Kipling, Rewards and Fairies, short stories and poems, including If—
- Thomas MacDonagh, Songs of Myself, Irish poet published in Ireland
- John Masefield, Ballads and Poems
- Lady Margaret Sackville, editor, A Book of Verse by Living Women
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- * The Green Helmet and other Poems
- * Poems: Second Series
United States">American poetry">United States
Baseball's Sad Lexicon
by Franklin Pierce Adams
by Franklin Pierce Adams
These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double –
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
- Charles Follen Adams, Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems
- Franklin Pierce Adams, Baseball's Sad Lexicon, also known as "Tinker to Evers to Chance" after its refrain; a popular baseball poem
- Robert Underwood Johnson, Saint-Gaudens, an Ode
- John A. Lomax, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads
- Ezra Pound:
- * Provenca
- * The Spirit of Romance
- Edward Arlington Robinson, The Town Down the River, Charles Scrabbler's Sons
- George Santayana, Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe, criticism
Other in English
- Joseph Furtado, Lays of Old Goa, Indian poetry in English
- Laurence Hope, editor, Indian Love Lyrics, London: Heinemann; anthology; Indian poetry in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Henry Lawson, The Skyline Riders and other Verses, Australia
- W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- * The Green Helmet and other Poems
- * Poems: Second Series
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- Paul Claudel, Cinq Grandes Odes, France
- Jean Cocteau, Le prince frivole
- Alphonse Métérié, Carnets
- Charles Péguy, Mystère de la charité de Jeanne d'Arc
- Saint-John Perse, Elèges
Other languages
- Delmira Agustini, Cantos de la mañana, Uruguay
- Ernst Enno, Hallid laulud, Estonia
- Gurajada Appa Rao, Mutyala Saralu, Indian poetry, Telugu-language
- Takuboku Ishikawa, Ichiakuno suna, Japanese
- Maria Konopnicka, Pan Balcer w Brazylii, Polish
- Peider Lansel, editor, La musa ladina, anthology of Romansh language Swiss poets
- Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, Bengali
Awards and honors
- Newdigate Prize – Charles Bewley, "Atlantis"
- Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse Composition – Ronald Knox
Births
- January 11 – Nikos Kavadias, Greek
- March 21 – Elizabeth Riddell, Australian
- August 14 – Nathan Alterman, Israeli poet, journalist and translator
- August 30 – Màrius Torres, Catalan Spanish poet
- October 30 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet
- November 10 – Máirtín Ó Direáin, Irish poet writing in the Irish language
- November 14 – Norman MacCaig Scottish poet
- November 20 – Pauli Murray, African American civil-rights advocate, feminist, lawyer, writer, poet, teacher and ordained Episcopal priest
- November 21? – Frank Eyre, English-born Australian publisher
- December 19 – Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet
- December 27 – Charles Olson, American poet
- December 30 – Paul Bowles, American poet, author, composer and translator
- Also – R. D. Murphy, Australian poet
Deaths
- January 8 – James Cuthbertson, Australian
- January 29 – Arthur Munby, English diarist, poet and lawyer
- April 19 – Anna Laetitia Waring, Welsh-born poet and hymnodist
- October 17:
- *William Vaughn Moody, American dramatist and poet
- * Julia Ward Howe, 91, American poet best known as the author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
- December 30 – Thomas Edward Spencer, Australian
- Also:
- * Augusta Bristol, American
- * Gilbert Brooke, Singapore