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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events edit

Caricature from Punch, 1881: "Admit that Homer sometimes nods, That poets do write trash, Our Bard has written "Balder Dead," And also Balder-dash"

Frederick James Furnivall founds the Browning Society

Works published in English edit

Canada edit

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, Poetical Works, posthumously published, Canada^[1]
Pamela Vining Yule. Poems of the Heart and Home.^[2]

United Kingdom edit

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Love Sonnets of Proteus (see also Sonnets and Songs 1875, Love Lyrics 1892)^[3]
Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing as "Arran and Islan Leigh", Bellerophon, and Other Poems^[3]
Amy Levy, Xantippe, and Other Verse^[3]
George Moore, Pagan Poems^[3]
Constance Naden, Songs and Sonnets of Springtime^[4]
Christina Rossetti, A Pageant, and other Poems
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets,^[3] with "The House of Life" complete, and Poems
Oscar Wilde, Poems, three editions published this year, first edition in June^[3]

United States edit

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book^[5]
Ina Coolbrith, A Perfect Day^[5]
James T. Fields, Ballads and Other Verses, Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, Riverside Press imprint, United States^[6]
Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, including poetry^[5]
Fitz-James O'Brien, Poems and Stories^[5]
Epes Sargent, Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poets (scholarship), posthumously published, United States
John Greenleaf Whittier, The King's Missive^[7]

Works published in other languages edit

François Coppée, Conies en tiers, France^[8]
Victor Hugo, Les Quatres vents de l'esprit, France^[9]
Jorge Isaacs, Saulo, 1st canto (no more published), Colombia
Helena Nyblom, Digte ("Poems"), Denmark

Awards and honors edit

Births edit

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 9 – Lascelles Abercrombie (died 1938), English poet and literary critic called the Georgian Laureate and one of the "Dymock poets"
February 13 – Eleanor Farjeon (died 1965), English author and poet
February 15 – Piaras Béaslaí (died 1965), Irish writer and poet
February 17 – Puran Singh (died 1931), Indian, writing Indian poetry in English^[10]
March 6 – John Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun (died 1966), Russian-American Imagist poet, but better known for his novels, short stories, essays, criticism and translations of Russian literature (pen name: John Courtney)
April 4 – Gertrud von Puttkamer, born Gertrud Günther (died 1944), German homoerotic poet (pen name: Marie-Madeleine)
April 6 – Furnley Maurice (died 1942), Australian
April 16 – Alice Corbin Henderson (died 1949), American poet
May 18 – Alan Edward Mulgan (died 1962), New Zealand
June 10 – Jaime Sabartés (died 1968), Catalan Spanish poet and longtime secretary to Pablo Picasso
August 1 – Aizu Yaichi 会津八一 (died 1956), Japanese poet, calligrapher and historian (surname: Aizu)
August 10 – Witter Bynner (died 1968), American poet, writer and scholar
August 20 – Edgar Albert Guest (died 1959), prolific American poet
September 16 – Clive Bell (died 1964), English critic associated with the Bloomsbury group
October 30 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts (died 1941), American novelist and poet
November 15:
- Franklin Pierce Adams (died 1960), American columnist (pen name: F.P.A.), writer and wit, part of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s whose newspaper column introduced the public to many poets and writers
- Masamune Atsuo 正宗敦夫 (died 1958), Japanese poet and academic (surname: Masamune)
November 16 – Ernest O'Ferrall (died 1925), Australian poet and short-story writer (pen name: Kodak)
December 8 – Padraic Colum (died 1972), Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, collector of folklore and a leading figure of the Celtic Revival
December 24 – Lady Margaret Sackville (died 1963), English poet and children's author
Also:
- Swami Ananda Acharya (died 1945), Indian poet who wrote Indian poetry in English^[11]
- Deepakba Desai (died 1955), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet who wrote khandakavyas^[12]
- Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar (died 1953), Indian, Gujarati-language, Parsi poet^[12]
- Sotiris Skipis (died 1951), Greek

Deaths edit

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 30 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy (born 1844), 36, British poet
August 2 – Marcus Clarke (born 1846), 35, Australian novelist and poet
September 7 – Sidney Lanier (born 1842), 39, American musician and poet
October 12 – Josiah Gilbert Holland (born 1819), 62, American novelist and poet
November 1 – Jacques Perk (born 1859), 22, Dutch poet
November 4 – Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld (born 1837), 44, Dutch poet
Also – Mangkunegara IV (born 1809), Javanese ruler of Mangkunegaran and poet

Notes edit

^ Sorfleet, John R., "Leprohon, Rosanna Eleanor", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
^ Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ See The Complete Poetical Works of Constance Naden. London: Bickers & Son. 1894.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d 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)
^ Fields, James T. Ballads and Other Verses title page, Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1880, as reprinted at the Making of America Books website, retrieved March 4, 2009
^ Wagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coppée, François Édouard Joachim" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 101–102.
^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3
^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 81-260-1196-3, retrieved August 6, 2010
^ Web page titled "South Asian literature in English, Pre-independence era", compiled by Irene Joshi, at "University of Washington Libraries" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved July 30, 2009. Archived 2009-08-02.
^ ^a ^b Mohan, 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, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008