1910 in poetry

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

— 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 (for instance, Irish or French).

Events

Oxford Poetry founded as a literary magazine by publisher Basil Blackwell in England.

Works published

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" [Kate Simpson Hayes], Derby Days in the Yukon.

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

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
George Sterling, “The Black Vulture,”

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

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 (surname: Gurajada)
Takuboku Ishikawa, Ichiakuno suna ("A Handful of Sand"), Japanese (surname: Ishikawa)
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 (University of Oxford) – Charles Bewley, "Atlantis"
Chancellor's Prize for Latin Verse Composition (University of Oxford) – Ronald Knox

Births

January 11 – Nikos Kavvadias (died 1975), Greek
March 21 – Elizabeth Riddell (died 1998), Australian
August 14 – Nathan Alterman (died 1970), Israeli poet, journalist and translator
August 30 – Màrius Torres (died 1942), Catalan Spanish poet
October 30 – Miguel Hernández (died 1942), Spanish poet
November 10 – Máirtín Ó Direáin (died 1988), Irish poet writing in the Irish language
November 14 – Norman MacCaig (died 1996) Scottish poet
November 20 – Pauli Murray (Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray; died 1985), African American civil-rights advocate, feminist, lawyer, writer, poet, teacher and ordained Episcopal priest
November 21? – Frank Eyre (died 1988), English-born Australian publisher
December 19 – Jean Genet (died 1986), French novelist, playwright and poet
December 27 – Charles Olson (died 1970), American poet
December 30 – Paul Bowles (died 1999), American poet, author, composer and translator
Also – R. D. Murphy, Australian poet

Deaths

January 18 – James Cuthbertson (born 1851), Australian
January 29 – Arthur Munby (born 1828), English diarist, poet and lawyer
April 19 – Anna Laetitia Waring (born 1823), Welsh-born poet and hymnodist
October 17:
- William Vaughn Moody (born 1869), American dramatist and poet
- Julia Ward Howe, 91, American poet best known as the author of "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
November 13 – Isabel Richey (born 1858), American
December 30 – Thomas Edward Spencer (born 1845), Australian
Also:
- Augusta Bristol (born 1835), American
- Gilbert Brooke, Singapore