1897 in poetry

===Canada=== • Jean Blewett, Heart Songs • Bliss Carman, Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea, Canadian author published in the United States • William Henry Drummond, The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems, employing dialect • Frederick George Scott, The Unnamed Lake and Other Poems • Hilaire Belloc, More Beasts (for Worse Children) (see ''The Bad Child's Book of Beasts'' 1896) • Isaac Tambyah, editor, A Garland of Ceylon Verse 1837-1897, Colombo: Ceylon Printing Works, 132 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English ==Works published in other languages==

===France=== • Francis Jammes, La Naissance du poète ("The Birth of the Poet") • Stéphane Mallarmé: • Divagations • ''Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ("A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance") is published in Cosmopolis'' magazine (not published in book form until 1914) • Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, a verse drama Other languages • Stefan George, Das Jahr der Seele ("The Year of the Soul"); German ==Births==

• 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 poet (surname: Tsuboi) • November 7 – Ruth Pitter (died 1992), English poet and decorative painter (born Emma Thomas Pitter) • November 11 – Nima Yooshij (died 1960), Persian poet • 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 • John Ferrar Holms (died 1934), British critic ==Deaths==

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 ==See also==