1896 in poetry

none 1896 poetry literature 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 Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events July 7 – Charles Thomas Wooldridge is hanged at Reading Gaol in England for uxoricide, inspiring fellow-prisoner C.3.3. Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897). William Morris publishes the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer's works Works published in English Australia John Le Gay Brereton: Perdita, A Sonnet Record The Song of Brotherhood and Other Verses Edward Dyson, Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines Henry Lawson: In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses"Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)", article, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition, retrieved May 13, 2009. 2009-05-16. "The Teams" Banjo Paterson: The Man from Snowy River "Mulga Bill's Bicycle" Canada Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, More Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States Charles G. D. Roberts, The Book of the NativeWeb page titled "CONFEDERATION VOICES: Seven Canadian Poets By JOHN COLDWELL ADAMS"], at the Canadian Poetry website, retrieved August 8, 2010 Charles Sangster, Our Norland. Toronto: Copp Clark, n.d.August 2022 Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger, CanadaGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books Francis Sherman In Memorabilia Mortis. Boston: Copeland and Day. Matins. Boston: Copeland and Day.Tammy Armstrong, "Francis Joseph Sherman https://web.archive.org/web/20110928084845/http://w3.stu.ca/stu/sites/nble/s/sherman_francis_joseph.html 2011-09-28 ," New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, STU.ca, Web, May 11, 2011. United Kingdom To an Athlete Dying Youngby A. E. Housman Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose. Eyes the shady night has shut Cannot see the record cut, And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears: -- Lines 9-16 Hilaire Belloc: The Bad Child's Book of BeastsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Verses and Sonnets Laurence Binyon, First Book of London Visions (see also Second Book of London Visions 1899) Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, publishing under the pen name "Anodos", Fancy's Following (see also Fancy's Guerdon 1897) Lord Alfred Douglas, Poems Ernest Dowson, Verses, including "Non Sum Qualis Eram" A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, including "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty"Ellmann, Richard and Robert O'Clair, editors, The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, "A.E. Housman" section, pp 97-98, New York: W. W. Norton & Company (1973), 0-393-09357-3 Laurence Housman, Green Arras Rudyard Kipling, The Seven Seas Alice Meynell, Other Poems Henry Newbolt, "Drake's Drum", published in the St. John's Gazette (first published in book form in Admirals All, and Other Verses 1897) John Cowper Powys, Odes, and Other Poems Arthur Quiller-Couch, Poems and Ballads Christina Rossetti, New Poems, edited by W. M. Rossetti Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel, and Other Verses Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Tale of Balen William Watson, The Purple East United States Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Judith and HolofernesLudwig, 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) Later Lyrics Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, More Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States Jennie Thornley Clarke, Songs of the SouthFlora Joseph M. MacKethan Lucinda Hardwick The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs 1 November 2001 LSU Press 978-0-8071-2692-9 https://books.google.com/books?id=rl5_5u3tiRkC&pg=PA36 16 September 2025 en Emily Dickinson, Poems: Third Series Paul Laurence Dunbar Lyrics of Lowly Life Majors and Minors "We Wear the Mask" Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Quiet Road Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Torrent and the Night Before Works published in other languages Nérée Beauchemin, Les floraisons matutinales; the author's first published collection; French language; Trois-Rivières, CanadaStory Noah The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000stor_l8x1 registration Poetry in French 651–654 Oxford University Press 1967 José Santos Chocano, Azahares, Peruhttp://www.ale.uji.es/chocano.htm José Santos Chocano Jaume University 2011-08-29 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120823025830/http://www.ale.uji.es/chocano.htm 2012-08-23 Richard Dehmel, Weib und Welt ("Woman and World"), German Narasinghrao, Hridayaveena containing khandakavyas, garbis (religious, ethical and romantic lyrics), and poems about nature and women (Indian, writing in Gujarati)Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008. Tekkan Yosano, Tozai namboku ("East-west, north-south"), tanka poetry, Japan Awards and honors Alfred Austin made Poet Laureate Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 26 – Walter D'Arcy Cresswell (died 1960), New Zealand February 26 – Andrei Zhdanov (died 1948), a Soviet official who persecuted poets, writers and artists under the Zhdanov doctrine May 9 – Austin Clarke (died 1974), Irish poet, playwright and judge August 27 – Kenji Miyazawa 宮沢 賢治 (died 1933), Japanese, early Shōwa period poet and author of children's literature (surname: Miyazawa) September 22 – Uri Zvi Grinberg (died 1981), Jewish October 12 – Eugenio Montale (died 1981), Italian October 30 – Kostas Karyotakis (died 1928), Greek December 1 – Teiko Tomita (died 1990), Japanese-born American poet who wrote in Japanese"Teiko Tomita" entry, p 640 in Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century, edited by Susan Ware, Stacy Lorraine Braukman; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Harvard University Press, 2004, 978-0-674-01488-6, retrieved January 29, 2009 Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 8 – Paul Verlaine (born 1844), French March 20 – Alexander McLachlan (born 1818), Scottish-born Canadian March 21 – Elizabeth Otis Dannelly (born 1838), American writer of Southern poetry May 11 – Henry Cuyler Bunner (born 1855), American novelist and poet October 3 – William Morris (born 1834), English poet, writer, designer and socialist October 29 – Thomas Edward Brown (born 1830), Manx poet writing in English November 26 Mathilde Blind (born 1841), German-born British poet writing in English Coventry Patmore (born 1823), English See also Poetry thumb|right|150px|Rudyard Kipling in his study, about this year 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