1905 in poetry

Years in poetry:	1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
Years in literature:	1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908
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:	1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908

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Ezra Pound presents Hilda Doolittle (the poet "H.D.") with a sheaf of love poems with the collective title Hilda's Book
March — art student Vachel Lindsay goes into the streets of New York City and tries to sell or give away copies of one of his poems. The take: 13 cents. His reaction: Ecstasy. "Now let there be here recorded my conclusions from one evening, one hour of peddling poetry. I am so rejoiced over it and so uplifted I am going to do it many times. It sets the heart trembling with happiness. The people like poetry as well as the scholars, or better."^[1]

Edmund Clerihew Bentley, Biography for Beginners with the first publication of the clerihew
Ernest Dowson, Poems
Duncan Campbell Scott, "The Forsaken"
Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis" (posthumous)

Violet Fane
July 1 — John Hay, 64, American statesman, diplomat, author, poet, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln
September 18 — George MacDonald, 80, Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister known mostly for his fantasy stories

^ "Vachel Lindsay" essay, Richard Ellman and Robert O'Clair, editors, Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, 1973, page 257, which cites Ruggles, Eleanor, The West-Going Heart, A Life of Vachel Lindsay (New York, 1959), page 97