1904 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907
Years in literature:	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907
Decades in poetry:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Centuries in poetry:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
Years:	1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907

[edit] Events

Constantine P. Cavafy, Waiting for the Barbarians
Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts, I, followed by II (1906) and III (1908)
Christina Rossetti, Poetical Works, edited by W. M. Rossetti
Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Channel Passage, and Other Poems
W. B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods, including "Adam's Curse", "The King's Threshold" and "The Hour-Glass"

January 23 mdash; Louis Zukofsky (died 1978, American poet and co-founder and primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets
April 5 — Richard Eberhart (died 2005), American poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1966 and a National Book Award in 1977
April 27 — Cecil Day-Lewis (died 1972) Anglo-Irish poet, British Poet Laureate from 1967 to 1972, and mystery writer
May 13 — Earle Birney (died 1995), Canadian poet and two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (in 1942 and 1945)
July 5 — Harold Acton (July 5, 1904 - February 27, 1994) was an Anglo-Italian writer, scholar and dilettante
July 12 — Pablo Neruda (died 1973) Chilean writer and Communist politician
date not known:
- A. Alexandra Brown (Canada)
- Arthur R. D. Fairburn (New Zealand)
- Mary Elizabeth Frye

March 24 — Sir Edwin Arnold, 71, English poet and journalist
October 4 — Adela Florence Nicolson, 39, English poet who wrote under the pseudonym "Laurence Hope", of suicide
October 11 — Trumbull Stickney, 40, American classical scholar and poet, from a brain tumor