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Events
- William Butler Yeats founds the Irish Literary Society in Dublin.[1]
- William McGonagall, known as the worst poet in history, walks from Dundee to Balmoral (60 miles) to request the post of Poet Laureate.
Works published
Australia
| Publication Date | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9 July 1892 | Henry Lawson | Borderland (retitled Up The Country) |
| 23 July 1892 | Banjo Paterson | In Defence of the Bush |
| 30 July 1892 | Edward Dyson | The Fact of the Matter |
| 6 August 1892 | Henry Lawson | In Answer to "Banjo", and Otherwise (retitled: The City Bushman) |
| 20 August 1892 | H.H.C.C.[3] | The Overflow of Clancy |
| 27 August 1892 | Francis Kenna | Banjo, of the Overflow |
| 1 October 1892 | Banjo Paterson | In Answer to Various Bards (retitled An Answer to Various Bards) |
| 8 October 1892 | Henry Lawson | The Poets of the Tomb |
| 20 October 1894 | Banjo Paterson | A Voice from the Town |
United Kingdom
- A. C. Benson, Le Cahier Jaune[4]
- Wilfred Seawen Blunt, Esther, Love Lyrics, and Natalia's[4]
- Austin Dobson, The Ballad of Beau Brocade, and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century[4]
- Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, including "Gunga Din,"[4] "Danny Deever", "Fuzzy-Wuzzy", "Mandalay" and "Gentlemen-Rankers" (see also Barrack-Room Balads, second series in 1896)
- Richard Le Gallienne, English Poems[4]
- George Meredith:
- Arthur Symons, Silhouettes[4]
- Alfred Tennyson:
- William Watson, Lachrymae Musarum, and Other Poems, about the death of Tennyson[4]
- William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen, and Various Legends and Lyrics, including "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (a poem first published in 1890), Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[4]
United States
- Ambrose Bierce, Black Beetles in Amber, verse, nonfiction and drama[5]
- James Whitcomb Riley, Green Fields and Running Brooks[5]
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, ninth edition[5]
Other
- Francis Jammes, Vers,[6] (also 1893 and 1894[7]); France
- François Villon, 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), posthumous, France[8]
- William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen, and Various Legends and Lyrics, including "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (a poem first published in 1890), Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[4]
Awards and honours
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 3 – J.R.R. Tolkien (died 1973), English writer, poet, philologist, and academic
- January 8 – Horiguchi Daigaku 堀口 大学 (died 1981), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet and translator of French literature; a member of the Shinshisha ("The New Poetry Society"); accompanied his father on overseas diplomatic postings (surname: Horiguchi)
- January 30 &ndasdh; Caresse Crosby (died 1970), American poet, publisher, peace activist and socialite
- January 31 – Ozaki Kihachi 尾崎喜八 (died 1974), Japanese, Showa period poet (surname: Ozaki)
- February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay (died 1950), American poet and playwright
- March 7 – Archibald MacLeish (died 1982), American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress
- March 9 – Vita Sackville-West (died 1962), English novelist and poet
- March 16 – César Vallejo (died 1938), Peruvian
- 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
- date not known – Leon Gellert (died 1977), Australian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 26 – Walt Whitman, American poet and journalist
- May – Barcroft Boake (born 1866), Australian
- October 6 – Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
See also
- 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
- Symbolism
- Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
- Poetry
Notes
- ^ 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
- ^ The "Bush Controversy", Accessed on November 7, 2006
- ^ The identity of H.H.C.C. is uncertain, though at least one commentator believes it to be Henry Lawson - [1] The identification of "H.H.C.C." is taken from a note in Banjo Paterson: Poet by Accident, Colin Roderick, 1993, page 76.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c 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)
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations, p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992, ISBN 978-0140423853, retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "François Villon (1431 - 1463)", Poetry Foundation website, retrieved November 14, 2009
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