1890 in poetry

none October 2019 1890 poetry literature This article covers 1890 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Rhymers' Club founded in London by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who meet regularly and publish anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees include Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, Selwyn Image, A. C. Hillier, John Todhunter, Arthur Symons, Ernest Radford and Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wilde attends some meetings held in private homes Dove Cottage, Grasmere in the English Lake District acquired by the Wordsworth Trust. Works published in English thumb|Cover of the first edition of Poems by Emily Dickinson, published this year United Kingdom Richard Garnett, Iphigenia in DelphiCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm W. S. Gilbert, Songs of a Songbird Rudyard Kipling, "Danny Deever", first of the Barrack-Room BalladsScots Observer, 22 February. Rudyard Kipling: his life and work Charles Carrington (historian) Charles Carrington Pelican 1970 0-14-021196-9 1955 198 William McGonagall, Poetic Gems Walter Pater, Appreciations with an Essay on Style Mary F. Robinson, The New Arcadia Christina Rossetti, Poems Robert Louis Stevenson, Ballads William Watson, Wordsworth's Grave, and Other Poems W. B. Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree (poem) first published, in The National Observer (London) on 13 December (first published in a book, The Countess Kathleen, and Various Legends and Lyrics, in 1892) United States Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Wyndham TowersLudwig Richard M. Clifford A. Jr. Nault Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 https://archive.org/details/annalsofamerican00ludw registration 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) Madison Cawein, Lyrics and Idyls Danske Dandridge, Rose Brake Emily Dickinson (died 1886), Poems John Hay, Poems Joaquin Miller, In Classic Shades and Other Poems James Whitcomb Riley, Rhymes of Childhood Richard Henry Stoddard, The Lion's Cub; with Other Verse John Greenleaf Whittier, At SundownWagenknecht Edward John Greenleaf Whittier: a Portrait in Paradox https://archive.org/details/johngreenleafwhi00wage registration New York Oxford University Press 1967 Other in English Seranus, Four Ballads and a Play, Canadahttps://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/harrison-susan-frances Harrison, Susan Frances (1859 - 1935) Representative Poetry Online University of Toronto 25 January 2026 Banjo Paterson, "The Man From Snowy River", Australiahttps://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/curio/exhibit/472/close_up2123.html?from_collection=2&page=15 The Man from Snowy River and other verses Government of New South Wales 25 January 2026 Works published in other languages France Paul Claudel, Tête d'orHartley, Anthony The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century Baltimore Penguin Books 1967 François Coppée, Paroles sinceresCoppée, François Édouard Joachim 7 101–102 Paul Valéry, Album de vers anciens, published starting this year and ending in 1900 Other languages Naim Frashëri, Lulet e verës ("Summer Flowers"), Albania Stefan George, Hymnen ("Hymns"), 18 poems written reflecting Symbolism; dedicated to Carl August Klein; limited, private edition; German"Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved 23 February 2010 Herman Gorter, Verzen ("Verses"), Netherlands Władysław Mickiewicz, Vie d'Adam Mickiewicz ("Life of Adam Mickiewicz"), four volumes, Poznań, Poland, published beginning this year and through 1895; written by the poet's son Rabindranath Tagore, Manasi, Bengal Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: 2 January (21 December 1889 O.S.) – Henrik Visnapuu (died 1951), Estonian poet and dramatist 11 January – Oswald de Andrade (died 1954), Brazilian poet and polemicist 12 January (31 December 1889 O.S.) – Johannes Vares (Barbarus) (committed suicide 1946), Estonian poet, doctor and radical politician 10 February – Boris Pasternak (died 1960), Russian novelist, writer and poet 22 February – Hinatsu Kōnosuke 日夏耿之介, a pen-name of Higuchi Kunito (died 1971), Japanese poet, editor and academic known for romantic and gothic poetry patterned after English literature; fervent Roman Catholic, co-founder, with Horiguchi Daigaku and Yaso Saijō, of Shijin ("Poets") magazine 18 May – Zora Cross (died 1964), Australian poet, novelist and journalist 31 May – James Devaney (died 1976), Australian poet, novelist, and journalist 15 August – Tsugi Takano 鷹野 つぎ (died 1943), Japanese novelist and poet (a woman) 28 August – Ivor Gurney (died 1937), English composer and poet 31 August (19 August O.S.) – August Alle (died 1952), Estonian writer and poet 10 September Marie Heiberg (died insane 1942), Estonian poet Franz Werfel (died 1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet writing in German 24 September – A. P. Herbert, (died 1971), English writer, humorist, writer of light verse, most of it appearing in Punch, lawyer and independent politician 15 October – Álvaro de Campos (died 1935?), Portuguese poet and marine engineer, heteronym of Fernando Pessoa (born 1888) 25 November – Isaac Rosenberg, (killed 1918), English war poet 13 December – Dulcie Deamer (died 1972), Australian novelist, poet, journalist and actor Full date unknown: Balakavi, pen name of Tryambak Bapuji Thomare (died 1918), Indian, Marathi-language poetDas, 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 23 December 2008 Ramanlal Vasantlal Desai (died 1954), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist, short-story writer and poetMohan, 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 10 December 2008 Sumatiben Mehta (died 1911), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet Henriette Sauret (died 1976), French poet, political writer, journalist Jun Tanaka 田中純 (died 1966), Japanese, Shōwa period poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: 2 January – George Henry Boker, 66 (born 1823), American poet, playwright, and diplomat 10 August – John Boyle O'Reilly, 46 (born 1844), Irish-born poet, novelist and newspaper editor, transported as a convict to Australia and escaped to the United States 11 August – John Henry Newman, 89 (born 1801), English Roman Catholic cardinal, theologian, author and poet 25 August – Emily Manning ("Australie"), 45 (born 1845), Australian poet and journalist 7 September – Mary Mackellar, 55 (born 1834), Scottish poet and translator* James Cuthbert Hadden Mackellar, Mary 35 See also Poetry 19th century in literature 19th century in poetry French literature of the 19th century List of years in literature List of years in poetry Poetry Symbolist poetry Victorian literature Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918 Notes Category:19th-century poetry