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1889 poetry literature
This article covers 1889 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
thumb|Robert Browning (died 1889)
June 8 – English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins dies aged 54 in Dublin of typhoid; he is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery; most of his poetry remains unpublished until 1918.
December 12 – English poet Robert Browning dies aged 77 at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice on the same day his book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published;Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm he is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; Alfred, Lord Tennyson will be buried adjacently.
Works published
Canada
William Wilfred Campbell, Lake lyrics and other poems (Saint John: J.& A. McMillan)"Campbell, William Wilfred," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web, Mar. 20, 2011.
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, Acadian Legends and Lyrics, CanadaGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
Sophia Almon Hensley, Poems.
James McIntyre, Poems of James McIntyre.Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994.
Anthologies
Songs of the Great Dominion: Voices from the Forests and Waters, the Settlements and Cities of Canada. (London [England]: Walter Scott). 500-page anthology of Canadian poetry.Michael Gnarowski, "Songs of the Great Dominion", Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton:Hurtig, 1988), 2047.
United Kingdom
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, A New Pilgrimage, and Other Poems
Robert Bridges, The Feast of Bacchus
Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch, and Other Poems
Robert Browning, Asolando; Fancies and facts
Amy Levy, A London Plane–Tree, and Other Verse
Walter Pater, Appreciations: With an Essay on Style, criticism
Emily Pfeiffer, Flowers of the Night
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, Third Series (see also First Series 1866; Second Series 1878)
Arthur Symons, Days and Nights
Alfred Lord Tennyson:
Demeter and Other Poems
He writes "Crossing the Bar" in October as he crosses the Solent
Idylls of the King, complete edition of the Idylls, with final titles (see also Idylls of the King 1859, The Holy Grail 1869, Idylls of the King 1870, "The Last Tournament" 1871, Gareth and Lynette 1872, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885)
W. B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, including "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Song of the Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child", "Down By The Salley Gardens" (Kegan Paul, Trench & Company),Web page titled "Archive: William Butler Yeats (W. B. Yeats) (1865 - 1939)" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 22, 2008 Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
United States
Eugene Field, A Little Book of Western Verse,Ludwig, 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) including "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynkyn, Blynkyn and Nod", United States
Louise Chandler Moulton, Poems
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, eighth edition
Other
Giosuè Carducci, Barbarian Odes, Book 3, Italy
Holger Drachmann, Sangenes Bog ("Book of Songs"), DenmarkPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
Herman Gorter, Mei ("May"), Netherlands
Banjo Paterson, "Clancy of the Overflow", Australia
Luigi Pirandello, Mal giocondo ("Playful Evil" or "Joyful Pain"), Italy
Govardhanram N. Tripathi, Lilavatijivankala, a tribute to his dead daughter, Indian, writing in GujaratiMohan, 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
Verner von Heidenstam, Vallfart och vandringsår ("Pilgrimage: the Wandering Years"), Sweden
W. B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, including "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Song of the Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child", "Down By The Salley Gardens" (Kegan Paul, Trench & Company) Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 3 (January 22 O.S.) – Artur Adson (died 1977), Estonian poet and critic
February 11 – Acharya Ramlochan Saran (died 1971), Indian, Maithili-language poet littérateur, grammarian, publisher and poet
March 1 – Okamoto Kanoko, 岡本かの子, pen name of Ohnuki Kano (died 1939), Japanese, author, tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods; mother of artist Tarō Okamoto
April 27 – Arnulf Øverland (died 1968), Norwegian
June 23
Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (died 1966), Russian
Rofū Miki, 三木 露風, pen name of Masao Miki (died 1964), Japanese Symbolist poet and writer
June 28 – Abbas Al Akkad عباس محمود العقاد (died 1964), Egyptian, Arabic-language writer and poet, a founder of the Divan school of poetry
July 30 – Dorothy Wellesley, born Dorothy Violet Ashton and styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943 (died 1956), English socialite, author, poet and literary editor
August 5 – Conrad Aiken (died 1973), American writer
August 19 – Arthur Waley (died 1966), English Orientalist
August 29 – (Doris) Capel Boake (died 1944), Australian writer
September 13 – Pierre Reverdy (died 1960), French
September 15 – Claude McKay (died 1948), Jamaican-born writer and poet of the Harlem Renaissance
September 17 – Katka Zupančič (died 1967), Slovene children's poet
September 29 – Matilde Hidalgo (died 1974), Ecuadorian physician, poet and women's rights activist
October 31 – Napoleon Lapathiotis (died 1944), Greek
November 11 – Mantarō Kubota, 久保田万太郎 (died 1963), Japanese author, playwright and poet (surname: Kubota)
December 8 – Hervey Allen (died 1949), American writer
December 24 – Patrick MacGill (died 1963), Irish-born "navvy poet" and journalist
Also:
Harley Matthews (died 1968), Australian
John Munro (Iain Rothach; killed in action 1918), Scottish Gaelic
V. C. Balakrishna Panikker (died 1915), Indian, Malayalam-language poetPaniker, 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
Vasilis Rotas (died 1977), Greek
Fredegond Shove, née Maitland (died 1949), English
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 25 – Cornelius Mathews, 71 (born 1817), American poet
May 31 – Horatius Bonar, 80 (born 1808), Scottish hymnodist
June 8 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, 44 (born 1844), English poet, in Ireland
June 15 – Mihai Eminescu, 39 (born 1850), Romanian poet
September 10 – Amy Levy, 27 (born 1861), English poet and novelist, by suicide
September 18 – John Barr, 79 (born 1809), Scottish-born New Zealand poet
September 23 – Eliza Cook, 70 (born 1818), English poet
October 25 – Émile Augier, 69 (born 1820), French dramatist and poet
November 18 – William Allingham, 65 (born 1824) Irish-born poet
November 29 – Martin Farquhar Tupper, 79 (born 1810), English writer and poet
December 10 – Ludwig Anzengruber, 50 (born 1839), Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet
December 12 – Robert Browning, 77 (born 1812), English poet, in Italy
December 23 – Constance Naden, 31 (born 1858), English poet and philosopher, of infection
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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