Poems is the first of six collections of Emily Dickinson's poetry, found among her papers on her death and published posthumously

A Gaelic pressure group, the Highland Association, is founded to preserve the indigenous poetry and music of Scotland

Leaves of Grass, still growing, is published in its ninth edition in the year of Walt Whitman's death

The prolific US poet Edwin Arlington Robinson publishes The Torrent and the Night Before, his first poems about the fictional Tilbury Town

English poet A.E. Housman publishes his first collection, A Shropshire Lad

John Masefield's poem 'Sea Fever' is published in Salt-Water Ballads

Constantine Cavafy prints fourteen of his poems in a pamphlet for private distribution

Ezra Pound's first book of poems, A Lume Spento, is published in Italy

In his poem Cargoes John Masefield compares a 'dirty British coaster' with two romantic boats from the past

Constantine Cavafy prints a few more of his poems to add to the fourteen privately printed in 1904

Rudyard Kipling publishes If, which rapidly becomes his most popular poem among the British

Rupert Brooke publishes Poems, the only collection to appear before his early death in World War I

Rabindranath Tagore publishes a collection of his Bengali poems in Gitanjali

The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova publishes Evening, her first collection of poems

Renascence is the title poem in college student Edna St Vincent Millay's first published collection

Walter De la Mare establishes his reputation with the title poem of his collection The Listeners

US poet Robert Frost publishes his first book of poems, A Boy's Will

The Russian poet Osip Mandelstam publishes his first collection, Stone

The Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral makes her name with her first collection, Sonetos de la muerte

The poem 'Mending Wall' features in Robert Frost's collection North of Boston

The American writer Amy Lowell publishes an Imagist collection of poems, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

The Swedish-American poet Carl Sandburg makes his name with 'Chicago', published in the magazine Poetry

Canadian army surgeon John McCrae writes 'In Flanders Fields' after a friend is killed in the trenches

Australian author C.J. Dennis creates the Sentimental Bloke, featuring first in a book of poems and four years later in a film

The Russian poet and dramatist Vladimir Mayakovsky publishes his first major long poem, A Cloud in Trousers