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1892 poetry literature
This article covers 1892 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
William Butler Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin.Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, "Chronology" chapter, p. 131
Works published
Australia
+Works of poetry involved in the "Bulletin Debate" series of poems in The Bulletin magazine about the true nature of life in the Australian bushThe "Bush Controversy" https://web.archive.org/web/20050301224743/http://www.uq.edu.au/~mlwham/banjo/bush_controversy.html 2005-03-01 , Accessed on November 7, 2006Publication DateAuthorTitle9 July 1892Henry LawsonBorderland (retitled Up The Country)23 July 1892Banjo PatersonIn Defence of the Bush30 July 1892Edward DysonThe Fact of the Matter6 August 1892Henry LawsonIn Answer to "Banjo", and Otherwise (retitled: The City Bushman)20 August 1892H.H.C.C.The identity of H.H.C.C. is uncertain, though at least one commentator believes it to be Henry Lawson - Matilda: Poem: The Overflow of Clancy by H.H.C.C. http://www.middlemiss.org/weblog/archives/matilda/2006/04/poem_the_overfl_1.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080725005512/https://www.middlemiss.org/weblog/archives/matilda/2006/04/poem_the_overfl_1.html 2008-07-25 2009-05-12
The identification of "H.H.C.C." is taken from a note in Banjo Paterson: Poet by Accident, Colin Roderick, 1993, page 76.The Overflow of Clancy27 August 1892Francis KennaBanjo, of the Overflow1 October 1892Banjo PatersonIn Answer to Various Bards (retitled An Answer to Various Bards)8 October 1892Henry LawsonThe Poets of the Tomb20 October 1894Banjo PatersonA Voice from the Town
United Kingdom
A. C. Benson, Le Cahier JauneCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
Wilfred Scawen Blunt, Esther, Love Lyrics, and Natalia's
Austin Dobson, The Ballad of Beau Brocade, and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century
Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, including "Gunga Din," "Danny Deever", "Fuzzy-Wuzzy", "Mandalay" and "Gentlemen-Rankers", first book publication, Methuen (second series published in 1896)
Richard Le Gallienne, English Poems
George Meredith:
Modern Love: A Reprint (originally published 1862)
Poems
John Gambril Nicholson, Love in Earnest: Sonnets, Ballades, and Lyrics
Arthur Symons, Silhouettes
Alfred Tennyson (died October 6):
The Silent Voices
The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems
William Watson, Lachrymae Musarum, and Other Poems, about the death of Tennyson
W. B. Yeats, The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, including "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (a poem first published in 1890) and the first version of the verse drama The Countess Cathleen, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States
Ambrose Bierce, Black Beetles in Amber, verse, nonfiction and dramaLudwig, 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)
James Whitcomb Riley, Green Fields and Running Brooks
Walt Whitman (died March 26), Leaves of Grass, ninth edition
Other in English
Frederick George Scott, Elton Hazlewood, CanadaGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
Works published in other languages
France
Théodore de Banville, Dans la fournaiseMagnusson, Magnus, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, "BAINVILLE, Theodore Faullin de" article, p 101, 1990, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 0-550-16040-X
Paul Claudel, La VilleHartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
Francis Jammes, Vers,Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03. (also 1893 and 1894Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations, p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992, 978-0-14-042385-3, retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009)
Stéphane Mallarmé, Vers et proseBlackmore, E. H., and A. M. Blackmore, translators, Stéphane Malarmé Collected Poems and Other Verse, "Chronology" page xxxvi, 2006, New York (this edition): Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-280362-7, retrieved February 6, 2010 via Google Books
Catulle Mendès, Les Poesies de Catulle Mendes, in three volumesMendès, Catulle 18 124–125
François Villon (died 1460s?), first publication of Poems 7–11 of his "Ballades en jargon" in Oeuvres complëtes de François Villon, publiès díaprës les manuscrits et les plus anciennes Èditions, edited by Auguste Longnon, Paris: Lemerre, (Poems 1–6 were first published in 1489)Web page titled "François Villon (1431-1463)", Poetry Foundation website, retrieved November 14, 2009
Other languages
Stefan George, Algabal, illustrated by Melchior Lechter; limited, private edition; German"Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
Iwan Gilkin, Les ténèbres, frontispiece by Odilon Redon, French, published in Belgium
Verner von Heidenstam, Hans Alienus, Swedish
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien (died 1973), South African-born English fantasy novelist, poet, philologist and academic
January 8 – Horiguchi Daigaku 堀口 大学 (died 1981), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period poet and translator of French literature; member of the Shinshisha ("The New Poetry Society"); accompanies his father on overseas diplomatic postings (surname: Horiguchi)
January 30 – Caresse Crosby (died 1970), American poet, publisher, peace activist, socialite and patentee of a bra
January 31 – Ozaki Kihachi 尾崎喜八 (died 1974), Japanese, Shōwa period poet (surname: Ozaki)
February 8 – Ralph Chubb (died 1960), English poet, printer and artist
February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay (died 1950), American poet and playwright
March 8 – Juana de Ibarbourou (died 1979), Uruguayan poet
March 9 – Vita Sackville-West (died 1962), English novelist, poet and gardener
March 16 – César Vallejo (died 1938), Peruvian poet
May 7 – Archibald MacLeish (died 1982), American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress
May 17 – Leon Gellert (died 1977), Australian poet
May 26 – Maxwell Bodenheim (murdered 1954), American poet and novelist
June 12 – Djuna Barnes (died 1982), American writer and poet
July 8 – Richard Aldington (died 1962), English poet, novelist, writer, translator and biographer
August 11 – Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (died 1978), Scottish poet and nationalist
October 8 (September 26 O.S.) – Marina Tsvetaeva (suicide 1941), Russian poet
November 12 – Guo Moruo 郭沫若 (died 1978), Chinese archaeologist, historian, poet, politician and writer
December 21 – Amy Clarke (died 1980), English mystical poet, writer and teacher
Deaths
thumb|right|Grave of John Greenleaf Whittier in Amesbury, MA
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 26 – Walt Whitman (born 1819), American poet and journalist
May 2 – Barcroft Boake (born 1866), Australian poet and boundary rider, probable suicide
May 30/31 – Mary H. Gray Clarke (born 1835), American poet, author, correspondent
July 15 – Thomas Cooper (born 1805), English Chartist, poet and religious lecturer
September 7 – John Greenleaf Whittier (born 1807), American poet
October 6 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson (born 1809), English Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
October 7 – Thomas Woolner (born 1825), English sculptor and poet
December 1 – Carlo Favetti (born 1819), Friulian politician and poet
December 3 (November 21 O.S.) – Afanasy Fet (born 1820), Russian lyric poet, essayist and short-story writer
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 (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
Poetry
Notes
Category:19th-century poetry