1897 in poetry

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Alfred Austin, The Conversion of Winkelmann, and Other Poems^[1]
Hilaire Belloc, More Beasts (for Worse Children) (see The Bad Child's Book of Beasts 1896)^[1]
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, publishing under the pen name "Anodos", Fancy's guerdon (see also Fancy's Following 1896)^[1]
John Davidson, New Ballads^[1]
Ernest Dowson, The Pierrot of the Minute: A dramatic phantasy^[1]
Lionel Johnson, Ireland, with Other Poems^[1]
Henry Newbolt, Admirals All, and Other Verses, including "Drake's Drum" (first published in the St. John's Gazette 1896)^[1]
AE, pen name of George William Russell, The Earth Breath, and Other Poems^[1]
Dora Sigerson, The Fairy Changeling, and Other Poems^[1]
Arthur Symons, Amoris Victima^[1]
Francis Thompson, New Poems^[1]

John Le Gay Brereton, Sweetheart Mine: Lyrics of Love and Friendship, Australia
William Henry Drummond, The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems, employing dialect, Canada^[2]
Yone Noguchi, Seen and Unseen, or, Monologues of a Homeless Snail and The Voice of the Valley, United States
Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Children of the Night, United States
Stéphane Mallarmé, Divagations and Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard, France
G. Sigerson, editor and translator from Gaelic, Bards of Gael and Gall, Ireland^[3]
Isaac Tambyah, editor, A Garland of Ceylon Verse 1837-1897, Colombo: Ceylon Printing Works, 132 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English^[4]

August 11 – Louise Bogan (died 1970), American poet and critic; wife of Raymond Holden
May 5 – Kenneth Burke (died 1993), major American literary theorist and philosopher
October 10 – Shigeji Tsuboi 壺井繁治 (died 1975), Japanese (surname: Tsuboi)
November 15 – Sir Sacheverell Sitwell (died 1988), English writer, best known as an art critic and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque; younger brother of Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

May 4 — Isabella Banks (born 1821), English poet and novelist
July 20 — Jean Ingelow (born 1829), English poet and novelist
September 14 — James Joseph Sylvester (born 1814), English mathematician who translated poetry from the original French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek; author of The Laws of Verse, in which he attempted to codify a set of laws for prosody in poetry
December 22 – William Gay, (born 1865), Scots-born Australian poet
date not known – Velutteri Keshavan Vaidyar (born 1839), Indian, Malayalam-language poet^[5]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Irish Poetry" article, "Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic" section, p 633
^ Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009

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