1908 in poetry

Events

• Ezra Pound leaves America for Europe. After spending several months in Venice he settles in London, where he will remain until 1920.

The Poets' Club

• Founding in London of the Poets' Club, a group comprised mainly amateurs which met monthly for most of the year.
• Late in the year — T.E. Hulme reads to the Poets' Club his paper, A Lecture on Modern Poetry, a concise statement of his influential advocacy of free verse

Works published

• William Stanley Braithwaite, The House of Falling Leaves with Other Poems
• William Henry Davies, Nature Poems and Others
• Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: Part 3
• Ezra Pound:
• A Lume Spento
• A Quinzaine for this Yule, London
• William Butler Yeats, Collected Works in Verse and Prose

Awards and honors

Births

• April 24 - George Oppen, American poet. Won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in poetry (d. 1984)
• May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963)
• Julian Bell
• Denis Devlin (Ireland)
• Paul Engle (US)
• Josephine Jacobsen (Canada)
• Kathleen Jessie Raine

Deaths

• October 21 - Charles Eliot Norton, 80, scholar and man of letters
• Ernest Fenollosa
• Alexander L. Posey
• James Ryder Randall
• Edmund Clarence Steadman

Notes