Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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Events edit
- June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford (from which the poet was expelled in 1811), designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford
- Founding of Vangiya Sahitya Parishad in Bengal
Works published in English edit
Canada edit
- William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs.[1]
- Bliss Carman, Low Tide at Grand Pré[2]
- Mary Jane Katzmann, Frankincense and Myrrh: Selections from the poems of the late Mrs. William Lawson (M.J.K.L.). Harry Piers and Constance Fairbanks ed. Halifax.[3]
- Thomas O'Hagan, In Dreamland and Other Poems[4]
- Charles G. D. Roberts, Songs of the Common Day[2]
- Duncan Campbell Scott, The Magic House and Other Poems[4]
- James Elgin Wetherell, ed. Later Canadian Poems[5]
Ireland edit
- Douglas Hyde, editor and translator from the Gaelic, The Love Songs of Connacht, Ireland[6]
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction[7]
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and Edwin John Ellis, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch[8]
United Kingdom edit
- Wilfred Scawen Blunt, published anonymously, Griselda[7]
- Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing under the pen name "Michael Field", Underneath the Bough[7]
- Robert Bridges, The Humours of the Court: a Comedy; and Other Poems[7]
- Thomas Edward Brown, Old John, and Other Poems
- John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues, first series (see also Fleet Street Eclogues 1896)[7]
- W. E. Henley, London Voluntaries; The Song of the Sword; and Other Verses[7]
- George MacDonald, Poetical Works[7]
- Alice Meynell, Poems[7]
- Francis Thompson, Poems,[7] including "The Hound of Heaven"
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction[7]
- W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, and Edwin John Ellis, editors, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch[8]
United States edit
- Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pre, Canadian author published in the United States[9]
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Oak and Ivy[9]
- Hamlin Garland, Prairie Songs[9]
- Louise Imogen Guiney, A Roadside Harp[9]
- Harriet Monroe, The Columbian Ode[9]
- James Whitcomb Riley, Poems Here at Home[9]
Other in English edit
- Henry Lawson, "Saint Peter", Australia
- Banjo Paterson, "The Geebung Polo Club", first published in The Antipodean, Australia
Works published in other languages edit
- Carlo Favetti (died 1892), Rime e prose in vernacolo goriziano (Rhimes and Prose in the Vernacular of Gorizia), Friuli
- Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1892 and 1894); France[10]
- Guido Mazzoni, Voci della vita, Italy
- Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Les Reposoirs de la procession, published starting this year and ending in 1907; France[11]
Awards and honors edit
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Births edit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 3 – W. N. Hodgson (Edward Melbourne) (killed in action 1916), English war poet
- January 10 – Vicente Huidobro (died 1948), Chilean Creacionismo poet and editor
- January 17 – Evelyn Scott (died 1963), American writer and poet
- January 18 – Jorge Guillén (died 1984), Spanish
- February 11 – Nan Shepherd (died 1981), Scottish novelist and poet
- February 26 – Ivor Richards (died 1979), English literary critic
- March 4 – Ewart Alan Mackintosh (killed in action 1917), English war poet of Scottish ancestry
- March 6 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (died 1965), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period poet (surname: Takahashi)
- March 18 – Wilfred Owen (killed in action 1918), English war poet
- March 26 – Richard Church (died 1972), English poet
- July 13 – Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (died 1949), Welsh poet and occultist
- July 19 – Vladimir Mayakovsky (suicide 1930), Russian poet and playwright
- July 26 – George Grosz (died 1959), German artist and poet
- August 22 – Dorothy Parker (died 1967), American writer, poet and wit
- September 6 or 16 – Robert Nichols (died 1944), English war poet
- September 28 – Giannis Skarimpas (died 1984), Greek
- October 9 – Mário de Andrade (died 1945), Brazilian poet and academic
- October 14 – May Wedderburn Cannan (died 1973), English war poet
- October 26
- Miloš Crnjanski, (died 1977) Serbian poet and novelist
- Thomas MacGreevy (died 1967), Irish poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland
- November 3 – Arthur Bourinot (died 1969), Canadian poet and lawyer
- December 4 – Herbert Read (born 1968), English anarchist poet and critic of literature and art
- December 6 – Sylvia Townsend Warner (died 1978), English novelist and poet
- December 30 – Gerald Bullett (died 1958), English writer and poet
- Also – Dharanidhar Sharma Koirala (died 1980), Indian, Nepali-language poet[12]
Deaths edit
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 23 – Phillips Brooks (born 1835), American Episcopal clergyman and hymnwriter
- January 15 – Fanny Kemble (born 1809), English author, poet, playwright and actress
- April 19 – John Addington Symonds (born 1840), English poet and literary critic
- August 5 – Sarah T. Bolton, née Barrett (born 1814), American poet
- December 5 – Matsudaira Katamori 松平容保 (born 1836), Japanese samurai and poet in the last days of the Edo period and the early to mid Meiji period (surname: Matsudaira)
- December 9 – Charles Sangster (born 1822), Canadian poet
- Also – Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (born 1844), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry[13]
See also edit
- 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 edit
- ^ "Campbell, William Wilfred," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web, Mar. 20, 2011.
- ^ a b Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ^ "Lois K. Kernaghan, Katzmann, Mary Jane (Lawson)," Dictionary of Canadian biography Online, Web, May 5, 2011.
- ^ a b Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ Brodie, Alexander H., "Cameron, George Frederick". Dictionary of Canadian Biography, retrieved June 13, 2010.
- ^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al., ed. (1993). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton University Press; MJF Books, "Irish Poetry" article, "Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic" section, p. 633.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ a b Web page titled "Archive: William Butler Yeats (W. B. Yeats) (1865 - 1939)" at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 22, 2008
- ^ a b c d e f 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)
- ^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations, p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3, retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009
- ^ Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
- ^ Das, 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, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ Paniker, 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