1881 in poetry

none 1881 poetry literature This article covers 1881 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events thumb|250px|Caricature from Punch, 1881: "Admit that Homer sometimes nods, That poets do write trash, Our Bard has written "Balder Dead," And also Balder-dash" Frederick James Furnivall founds the Browning Society Works published in English Canada Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, Poetical Works, posthumously published, CanadaSorfleet, John R., "Leprohon, Rosanna Eleanor", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009 Pamela Vining Yule. Poems of the Heart and Home.Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994. United Kingdom Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Love Sonnets of Proteus (see also Sonnets and Songs 1875, Love Lyrics 1892)Cox, 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 as "Arran and Islan Leigh", Bellerophon, and Other Poems Amy Levy, Xantippe, and Other Verse George Moore, Pagan Poems Constance Naden, Songs and Sonnets of SpringtimeSee http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/view?docId=VAB7115 The Complete Poetical Works of Constance Naden 1894 London Bickers & Son Christina Rossetti, A Pageant, and other Poems Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets, with "The House of Life" complete, and Poems Oscar Wilde, Poems, three editions published this year, first edition in June United States Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Friar Jerome's Beautiful BookLudwig, 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) Ina Coolbrith, A Perfect Day James T. Fields, Ballads and Other Verses, Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, Riverside Press imprint, United StatesFields, James T. Ballads and Other Verses title page, Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1880, as reprinted at the Making of America Books website, retrieved March 4, 2009 Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, including poetry Fitz-James O'Brien, Poems and Stories Epes Sargent, Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poets (scholarship), posthumously published, United States John Greenleaf Whittier, The King's MissiveWagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967 Works published in other languages Alexander Baumgartner, Festspiel zur Calderonfeier, Switzerland François Coppée, Conies en tiers, FranceCoppée, François Édouard Joachim 7 101–102 Victor Hugo, Les Quatres vents de l'esprit, FranceRees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, 978-0-14-042385-3 Jorge Isaacs, Saulo, 1st canto (no more published), Colombia Helena Nyblom, Digte ("Poems"), Denmark Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 9 – Lascelles Abercrombie (died 1938), English poet and literary critic called the Georgian Laureate and one of the "Dymock poets" February 13 – Eleanor Farjeon (died 1965), English author and poet February 15 – Piaras Béaslaí (died 1965), Irish writer and poet February 17 – Puran Singh (died 1931), Indian, writing Indian poetry in EnglishVinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010 March 6 – John Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun (died 1966), Russian-American Imagist poet, but better known for his novels, short stories, essays, criticism and translations of Russian literature (pen name: John Courtney) April 4 – Gertrud von Puttkamer, born Gertrud Günther (died 1944), German homoerotic poet (pen name: Marie-Madeleine) April 6 – Furnley Maurice (died 1942), Australian April 16 – Alice Corbin Henderson (died 1949), American poet May 18 – Alan Edward Mulgan (died 1962), New Zealand June 10 – Jaime Sabartés (died 1968), Catalan Spanish poet and longtime secretary to Pablo Picasso August 1 – Aizu Yaichi 会津 八一 (died 1956), Japanese poet, calligrapher and historian (surname: Aizu) August 10 – Witter Bynner (died 1968), American poet, writer and scholar August 20 – Edgar Albert Guest (died 1959), prolific American poet September 16 – Clive Bell (died 1964), English critic associated with the Bloomsbury group October 30 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts (died 1941), American novelist and poet November 15: Franklin Pierce Adams (died 1960), American columnist (pen name: F.P.A.), writer and wit, part of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s whose newspaper column introduced the public to many poets and writers Masamune Atsuo 正宗敦夫 (died 1958), Japanese poet and academic (surname: Masamune) November 16 – Ernest O'Ferrall (died 1925), Australian poet and short-story writer (pen name: Kodak) December 8 – Padraic Colum (died 1972), Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, collector of folklore and a leading figure of the Celtic Revival December 24 – Lady Margaret Sackville (died 1963), English poet and children's author Also: Swami Ananda Acharya (died 1945), Indian poet who wrote Indian poetry in EnglishWeb page titled "South Asian literature in English, Pre-independence era", compiled by Irene Joshi, at "University of Washington Libraries" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved July 30, 2009. Archived 2009-08-02. Deepakba Desai (died 1955), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet who wrote khandakavyasMohan, 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 Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar (died 1953), Indian, Gujarati-language, Parsi poet Sotiris Skipis (died 1951), Greek Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 30 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy (born 1844), 36, British poet August 2 – Marcus Clarke (born 1846), 35, Australian novelist and poet September 7 – Sidney Lanier (born 1842), 39, American musician and poet October 12 – Josiah Gilbert Holland (born 1819), 62, American novelist and poet November 1 – Jacques Perk (born 1859), 22, Dutch poet November 4 – Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld (born 1837), 44, Dutch poet Also – Mangkunegara IV (born 1809), Javanese ruler of Mangkunegaran and poet 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 Poetry Notes Category:19th-century poetry *