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Events
1891–1893 –The Rhymers Club gathers at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W. B. Yeats, and others.
c. Late June – In a meeting of decadent poets in London, Oscar Wilde is first introduced to Lord Alfred Douglas by Lionel Johnson at Wilde's Tite Street home.H. Montgomery Hyde H. Montgomery Hyde Lord Alfred Douglas: a biography Methuen London 1984 0-413-50790-4 24–5
Approximate date – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, G. K. Chesterton and fellow pupils of St Paul's School, London, compose the first pseudo-biographical comic verses which become known as clerihews.E. Clerihew Bentley The History of the Clerihew The First Clerihews Oxford University Press 1982 0-19-212980-5 xv
Works published in English
Canada
John Frederic Herbin, Canada, and Other Poems, CanadaGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
Seranus, Pine, Rose and Fleur De Lis, (Toronto: Hart).Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison," Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets https://web.archive.org/web/20110106061322/http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/hidden_rooms/susan_frances_harrison.htm 2011-01-06 , Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
United Kingdom
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of the World; or, The Great ConsummationCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Alfred Austin, Lyrical Poems
John Davidson, In a Music Hall, and Other Poems
James Joyce, Et tu, Healy, Irish poet published in IrelandNo copies are known to survive. Rick Gekoski Rick Gekoski A ghost story: James Joyce's lost poem http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/a-ghost-story-james-joyce-s-lost-poem-1.1363055 The Irish Times Dublin 2013-04-20 2016-02-02
Arthur Clark Kennedy, Pictures in rhymePictures In Rhyme 1891 Spottiswood and Company, New Street Square, London 14 https://archive.org/details/PicturesInRhyme 21 November 2016
William McGonagall, Poetic Gems (second series)William McGonagall Poetic Gems (Second Series) 1891 David Winter Dundee 316648533 http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/publications/poetic-gems-second-series
William Morris, Poems by the Way
May Sinclair, Essays in Verse
James Kenneth Stephen:
Lapsus Calami
Quo Musa Tendis
Katharine Tynan, Ballads and Lyrics
United States
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Sisters' TragedyLudwig, 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)
Nathaniel Ames, The Essays, Humor, and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, published posthumously
Emily Dickinson, Poems: Second Series
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, fiction, nonfiction and poetry
Herman Melville, Timoleon
Harriet Monroe, Valeria and Other Poems
Frank Norris, Yvernelle: A Tale of Feudal France
Lucy Creemer Peckham, Sea MossWillard Frances Elizabeth Frances Willard Livermore Mary Ashton Rice Mary Livermore A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life 1893 Charles Wells Moulton https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Lucy_Creemer_Peckham 563–64 PECKHAM, Mrs. Lucy Creemer
Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Handful of Lavender
Other in English
Henry Lawson, Australia:
"Freedom on the Wallaby"
"The Babies of Walloon"
Works published in other languages
Stefan George, Pilgerfahrten, limited private edition; German"Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
Francis Jammes, Six Sonnets, FranceWeb page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Mary MacPherson), Gaelic Songs and Poems, Scottish Gaelic published in the United Kingdom
Guido Mazzoni, Poesie, Italy
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 15 – Osip Mandelstam (died 1938), Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school
April 9 – Lesbia Harford (died 1927), Australian
May 15 – David Vogel (killed in concentration camp, 1944), Russian-born Hebrew poet
May 21 – John Peale Bishop (died 1944), American poet and writer
May 22
Johannes R. Becher (died 1958), German poet, novelist and politician
Edwin Gerard (died 1965), Australian poet
July 5 – Tin Ujević (died 1955), Croatian poet
August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (killed in action in World War I, 1917), Irish poet
August 25 – David Shimoni (died 1956), Israeli poet and writer
September 23 – Arthur Graeme West (killed in action in World War I, 1917), English military writer and poet
November 14 – Josef Magnus Wehner (died 1973), German poet and playwright
November 23 – Masao Kume 久米正雄 writing under the pen-name Santei (died 1952), Japanese, late Taishō period and early Shōwa period playwright, novelist and haiku poet (surname: Kume)
December 9 – Maksim Bahdanovič (died 1917), Belarusian poet, journalist and literary critic
December 10 – Nelly Sachs (died 1970), German-Swedish poet and dramatist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
Also – Peter Hopegood, born Cedric Hopegood (died 1967), English-born Australian poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
July 24 – Douglas Smith Huyghue (born 1816), Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist and artist
August 12 – James Russell Lowell, 72, American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist
August 14 – John Henry Hopkins Jr. (born 1820), American clergyman and hymnist
August 22 – Jan Neruda (born 1834), Czech writer
September 28 – Herman Melville, 82, American novelist, essayist and poet
November 10 – Arthur Rimbaud, 37 (born 1854) French poet
Also:
Venmani Acchen Nambudiri (born 1817), 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
Moyinkutty Vaidyar (born 1857), Indian, Malayalam-language 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
Symbolist poetry
Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
Poetry
Notes
Category:19th-century poetry