1885 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement.
Works published in English
Canada
- Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems.[1] Published at author's expense.
United Kingdom
- Maude Ashurst Biggs, Master Thaddeus, first English translation of Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz (1834)
- Robert Bridges, Eros and Psyche[2]
- Charles Stuart Calverley (died 1884), Literary Remains[2]
- Jean Ingelow, Poems: Third Series (see also Poems 1863, Poems 1880)[2]
- William Morris, Chants for Socialists[2]
- Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses[2]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Marino Faliero
- Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial
- Katharine Tynan, Louise de la Valliere, and Other Poems[2]
United States
- Charles Follen Adams, Mother's Doughnuts[3]
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems[4]
- Will Carleton, City Ballads[4]
- William Ellery Channing, Eliot[4]
- Ada Langworthy Collier, "Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman"[5]
- Paul Hamilton Hayne, The Broken Battalions[4]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes:
- Eva Munson Smith, Woman in Sacred Song
Other in English
Works published in other languages
- Catulle Mendès, Soirs moroses, Contes épiques, Philoméla, etc; Poésies, in seven volumes; France[7]
Awards and honors
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 6 – Humbert Wolfe (died 1940), English poet, writer and civil servant
- January 20 – Taishō periodpoet
- January 25 – Shōwa period tankapoet
- April 21 – Shōwa period tankapoet, a woman
- April 26 – Takahama Kyoshi
- April 29 – Scottish-born poet and clergyman
- May 12 – Shōwa periodnovelist, playwright, poet, artist and philosopher
- May 13 – Shōwa periodpoet, playwright and screenwriter
- July 1 – Australianpoet and fiction writer
- August 18 – Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic; wife of Vance Palmer
- August 24 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (died 1928), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
- August 28 – Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic; husband of Nettie Palmer
- September 3 – Kashmiri-language poet[8]
- September 11 – D. H. Lawrence (died 1930), English fiction writer, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic
- October 30 – Ezra Pound (died 1972), American poet and editor
- November 9 (October 28 Russian Futuristpoet and writer
- December 19 – Imagistgroup
- Also
- Govindagraj, also known as "Ram Ganes" Gadkari (died 1919), Indian, Marathi-language poet, playwright and humorist[8]
- Slovene-born poet and composer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 – Amable Tastu (born 1795), French women of letters and poet
- May 22 – Victor Hugo (born 1802), French novelist and poet
- April 8 – Susanna Moodie (born 1803), Canadian poet
- April 30 – Danish novelist and poet[9]
- May 29 – Austrianpoet
- July 5 – Charles Whitehead (born 1804), English poet, novelist and playwright
- July 15 – Rosalía de Castro (born 1837), Spanish Galician poet and writer
- August 11 – Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (born 1809), English man of letters, poet and politician
- August 12 – Helen Hunt Jackson (born 1830), American writer, novelist and poet
- September 24 – George Frederick Cameron (born 1854 in poetry), Canadian poet and journalist
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
- Symbolist poetry
- Poetry
Notes
- ^ "Frederick George Scott Archived 2012-05-01 at the Wayback Machine," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ "Mother's doughnuts" by Charles Follen Adams (Harper's Magazine)
- ^ 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)
- ^ Johnson Brigham (1896). The Midland Monthly. Vol. 6 (Public domain ed.). Johnson Brigham. pp. 280–.
- ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 124–125.
- ^ ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications