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1893 poetry literature
This article covers 1893 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford (from which the poet was expelled in 1811), designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford
Founding of Vangiya Sahitya Parishad in Bengal
Works published in English
Canada
William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs."Campbell, William Wilfred," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web, Mar. 20, 2011.
Bliss Carman, Low Tide at Grand PréKeith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
Mary Jane Katzmann, Frankincense and Myrrh: Selections from the poems of the late Mrs. William Lawson (M.J.K.L.). Harry Piers and Constance Fairbanks ed. Halifax."Lois K. Kernaghan, Katzmann, Mary Jane (Lawson)," Dictionary of Canadian biography Online, Web, May 5, 2011.
Thomas O'Hagan, In Dreamland and Other PoemsGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
Charles G. D. Roberts, Songs of the Common Day
Duncan Campbell Scott, The Magic House and Other Poems
James Elgin Wetherell, ed. Later Canadian PoemsBrodie, Alexander H., "Cameron, George Frederick". Dictionary of Canadian Biography, retrieved June 13, 2010.
Ireland
Douglas Hyde, editor and translator from the Gaelic, The Love Songs of Connacht, IrelandPreminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al., ed. (1993). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press; MJF Books, "Irish Poetry" article, "Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic" section, p. 633.
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and Edwin John Ellis, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, QuaritchWeb page titled "Archive: William Butler Yeats (W. B. Yeats) (1865 - 1939)" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 22, 2008
United Kingdom
Wilfred Scawen Blunt, published anonymously, GriseldaCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing under the pen name "Michael Field", Underneath the Bough
Robert Bridges, The Humours of the Court: a Comedy; and Other Poems
Thomas Edward Brown, Old John, and Other Poems
John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues, first series (see also Fleet Street Eclogues 1896)
W. E. Henley, London Voluntaries; The Song of the Sword; and Other Verses
George MacDonald, Poetical Works
Alice Meynell, Poems
Francis Thompson, Poems, including "The Hound of Heaven"
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, and Edwin John Ellis, editors, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch
United States
Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pre, Canadian author published in the United StatesLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Oak and Ivy
Hamlin Garland, Prairie Songs
Louise Imogen Guiney, A Roadside Harp
Harriet Monroe, The Columbian Ode
James Whitcomb Riley, Poems Here at Home
Other in English
Henry Lawson, "Saint Peter", Australia
Banjo Paterson, "The Geebung Polo Club", first published in The Antipodean, Australia
Works published in other languages
Carlo Favetti (died 1892), Rime e prose in vernacolo goriziano (Rhimes and Prose in the Vernacular of Gorizia), Friuli
Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1892 and 1894); FranceRees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations, p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992, 978-0-14-042385-3, retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009
Maryana Marrash, Bint fikr, Ottoman Syria
Guido Mazzoni, Voci della vita, Italy
Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Les Reposoirs de la procession, published starting this year and ending in 1907; FranceHartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 3 – W. N. Hodgson (Edward Melbourne) (killed in action 1916), English war poet
January 10 – Vicente Huidobro (died 1948), Chilean Creacionismo poet and editor
January 17 – Evelyn Scott (died 1963), American writer and poet
January 18 – Jorge Guillén (died 1984), Spanish
February 11 – Nan Shepherd (died 1981), Scottish novelist and poet
February 26 – Ivor Richards (died 1979), English literary critic
March 4 – Ewart Alan Mackintosh (killed in action 1917), English war poet of Scottish ancestry
March 6 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (died 1965), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period poet (surname: Takahashi)
March 18 – Wilfred Owen (killed in action 1918), English war poet
March 26 – Richard Church (died 1972), English poet
July 13 – Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (died 1949), Welsh poet and occultist
July 19 – Vladimir Mayakovsky (suicide 1930), Russian poet and playwright
July 26 – George Grosz (died 1959), German artist and poet
August 22 – Dorothy Parker (died 1967), American writer, poet and wit
September 6 or 16 – Robert Nichols (died 1944), English war poet
September 28 – Giannis Skarimpas (died 1984), Greek
October 9 – Mário de Andrade (died 1945), Brazilian poet and academic
October 14 – May Wedderburn Cannan (died 1973), English war poet
October 26
Miloš Crnjanski, (died 1977) Serbian poet and novelist
Thomas MacGreevy (died 1967), Irish poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland
November 3 – Arthur Bourinot (died 1969), Canadian poet and lawyer
December 4 – Herbert Read (born 1968), English anarchist poet and critic of literature and art
December 6 – Sylvia Townsend Warner (died 1978), English novelist and poet
December 30 – Gerald Bullett (died 1958), English writer and poet
Also – Dharanidhar Sharma Koirala (died 1980), Indian, Nepali-language poetDas, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 23 – Phillips Brooks (born 1835), American Episcopal clergyman and hymnwriter
January 15 – Fanny Kemble (born 1809), English author, poet, playwright and actress
April 19 – John Addington Symonds (born 1840), English poet and literary critic
August 5 – Sarah T. Bolton, née Barrett (born 1814), American poet
December 5 – Matsudaira Katamori 松平容保 (born 1836), Japanese samurai and poet in the last days of the Edo period and the early to mid Meiji period (surname: Matsudaira)
December 9 – Charles Sangster (born 1822), Canadian poet
Also – Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (born 1844), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetryPaniker, 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
See also
Poetry
19th century in poetry
19th century in literature
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
Victorian literature
French literature of the 19th century
Symbolist poetry
Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
Poetry
Notes
Category:19th-century poetry