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1885 poetry literature
This article covers 1885 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley SocietyDunstan Angela 2014-06-01 The Shelley Society, Literary Lectures, and the Global Circulation of English Literature and Scholarly Practice https://www.academia.edu/4127594/_The_Shelley_Society_Literary_Lectures_and_the_Global_Circulation_of_English_Literature_and_Scholarly_Practice_Modern_Language_Quarterly_75_2_June_2014_279_96 Modern Language Quarterly en 75 2 279–296 10.1215/00267929-2416635 0026-7929
Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement.
Works published in English
Canada
Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems."Frederick George Scott https://web.archive.org/web/20120501025903/http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/confederation/FGScott/index.htm 2012-05-01 ," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011. Published at author's expense.
United Kingdom
Maude Ashurst Biggs, Master Thaddeus, first English translation of Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz (1834)
Robert Bridges, Eros and PsycheCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Charles Stuart Calverley (died 1884), Literary Remains
Jean Ingelow, Poems: Third Series (see also Poems 1863, Poems 1880)
William Morris, Chants for Socialists
Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Marino Faliero
Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tiresias, and Other Poems, including "Balin and Balan", one of the Idylls of the King 1870; "The Last Tournament" 1871; Gareth and Lynette 1872, Idylls of the King 1889
Katharine Tynan, Louise de la Valliere, and Other Poems
United States
Charles Follen Adams, Mother's Doughnuts"Mother's doughnuts" by Charles Follen Adams (Harper's Magazine)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, PoemsLudwig, 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)
Will Carleton, City Ballads
William Ellery Channing, Eliot
Ada Langworthy Collier, "Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman"Johnson Brigham The Midland Monthly https://books.google.com/books?id=NJhBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA280 Public domain 6 1896 Johnson Brigham 280–
Paul Hamilton Hayne, The Broken Battalions
Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, nonfiction
Illustrated Poems
Eva Munson Smith, Woman in Sacred Song
Other in English
Toru Dutt, Ancient Ballads and Legends of HindustanKnippling, Alpana Sharma, "Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature in English", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008 Indian writing in English
Works published in other languages
Catulle Mendès, Soirs moroses, Contes épiques, Philoméla, etc; Poésies, in seven volumes; FranceMendès, Catulle 18 124–125
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 6 – Humbert Wolfe (died 1940), English poet, writer and civil servant
January 20 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo (died 1926), Japanese, late Meiji period and Taishō period poet
January 25 – Hakushū Kitahara 北原 白秋, pen-name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原 隆吉 (died 1942), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period tanka poet
April 21 – Mitsuko Shiga 四賀光子, pen-name of Mitsu Ota (died 1956), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period tanka poet, a woman
April 26 – Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏, commonly referred to as "Dakotsu", pen names of Takeji Iida 飯田 武治 (died 1962), Japanese, haiku poet; trained under Takahama Kyoshi
April 29 – Andrew Young (died 1971), Scottish-born poet and clergyman
May 12 – Saneatsu Mushanokōji 武者小路 実篤 實篤, sometimes known as "Mushakōji Saneatsu"; other pen-names included "Musha" and "Futo-o" (died 1976), Japanese, late Taishō period and Shōwa period novelist, playwright, poet, artist and philosopher
May 13 – Hideo Nagata 長田秀雄 (died 1949), Japanese, Shōwa period poet, playwright and screenwriter
July 1 – Dorothea Mackellar (died 1968), Australian poet and fiction writer
July 8 – Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (died 1962), Finnish poet
July 20 – Herman Wildenvey, born Portaas (died 1959), Norwegian poet
August 18 – Nettie Palmer (died 1964), Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic; wife of Vance Palmer
August 24 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (died 1928), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
August 28 – Vance Palmer, (died 1959), Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic; husband of Nettie Palmer
September 3 – Ghulam AhmadMahjur (died 1952), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
September 11 – D. H. Lawrence (died 1930), English fiction writer, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic
October 30 – Ezra Pound (died 1972), American poet and editor
November 9 (October 28 O.S.) – Velimir Khlebnikov (died 1922), Russian Futurist poet and writer
November 28 – Gladys Cromwell (suicide 1919), American poet
December 19 – F. S. Flint (died 1960), English poet, translator and prominent member of the Imagist group
Also
Govindagraj, also known as "Ram Ganes" Gadkari (died 1919), Indian, Marathi-language poet, playwright and humoristDas, 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
Ivan Zorman (died 1957), Slovene-born poet and composer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 10 – Amable Tastu (born 1795), French women of letters and poet
May 22 – Victor Hugo (born 1802), French novelist and poet
April 8 – Susanna Moodie (born 1803), Canadian poet
April 30 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (born 1847), Danish novelist and poetPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
May 29 – Alfred Meissner (born 1821?), Austrian poet
July 15 – Rosalía de Castro (born 1837), Spanish Galician poet and writer
August 11 – Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (born 1809), English man of letters, poet and politician
August 12 – Helen Hunt Jackson (born 1830), American writer, novelist and poet
September 24 – George Frederick Cameron (born 1854 in poetry), Canadian poet and journalist
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
Poetry
Notes
Category:19th-century poetry
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