1890 in poetry
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Events
- Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wildeattends some meetings held in private homes
- Dove Cottage, Grasmere in the English Lake District acquired by the Wordsworth Trust.
Works published in English
United Kingdom
- Richard Garnett, Iphigenia in Delphi[1]
- W. S. Gilbert, Songs of a Songbird[1]
- Rudyard Kipling, "Danny Deever", first of the Barrack-Room Ballads[2]
- William McGonagall, Poetic Gems
- Walter Pater, Appreciations with an Essay on Style
- Mary F. Robinson, The New Arcadia
- Christina Rossetti, Poems[1]
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Ballads[1]
- William Watson, Wordsworth's Grave, and Other Poems[1]
- Lake Isle of Innisfree (poem) first published, in The National Observer (London) on 13 December (first published in a book, The Countess Kathleen, and Various Legends and Lyrics, in 1892)[1]
United States
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Wyndham Towers[3]
- Madison Cawein, Lyrics and Idyls[3]
- Danske Dandridge, Rose Brake
- Emily Dickinson (died 1886), Poems[3]
- John Hay, Poems[3]
- Joaquin Miller, In Classic Shades and Other Poems[3]
- James Whitcomb Riley, Rhymes of Childhood[3]
- Richard Henry Stoddard, The Lion's Cub; with Other Verse[3]
- John Greenleaf Whittier, At Sundown[4]
Other in English
- Seranus, Four Ballads and a Play, Canada[citation needed]
- Australia[citation needed]
Works published in other languages
France
- Paul Claudel, Tête d'or[5]
- François Coppée, Paroles sinceres[6]
- Paul Valéry, Album de vers anciens, published starting this year and ending in 1900[5]
Other languages
- Naim Frashëri, Lulet e verës ("Summer Flowers"), Albania
- German[7]
- Netherlands
- Władysław Mickiewicz, Vie d'Adam Mickiewicz ("Life of Adam Mickiewicz"), four volumes, Poznań, Poland, published beginning this year and through 1895; written by the poet's son
- Rabindranath Tagore, Manasi, Bengal
Awards and honors
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- 2 January (21 December 1889 O.S.) – Henrik Visnapuu (died 1951), Estonian poet and dramatist
- 11 January – Brazilianpoet and polemicist
- 12 January (31 December 1889 O.S.) – Johannes Vares (Barbarus) (committed suicide 1946), Estonian poet, doctor and radical politician
- 10 February – Russiannovelist, writer and poet
- 22 February – Horiguchi Daigaku and Saijo Yaso, of Shijin ("Poets") magazine
- 18 May – Australianpoet, novelist and journalist
- 31 May – Australianpoet, novelist, and journalist
- 15 August – Tsugi Takano 鷹野 つぎ (died 1943), Japanese novelist and poet (a woman)
- 28 August – Ivor Gurney (died 1937), English composer and poet
- 31 August (19 August O.S.) – August Alle (died 1952), Estonian writer and poet
- 10 September
- Marie Heiberg (died insane 1942), Estonian poet
- Bohemiannovelist, playwright, and poet writing in German
- 24 September – A. P. Herbert, (died 1971), English writer, humorist, writer of light verse, most of it appearing in Punch, lawyer and independent politician
- 15 October – Álvaro de Campos (died 1935?), Portuguese poet and marine engineer, heteronym of Fernando Pessoa (born 1888)
- 25 November – war poet
- 13 December – Australiannovelist, poet, journalist and actor
- Full date unknown:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- 2 January – George Henry Boker, 66 (born 1823), American poet, playwright, and diplomat
- 10 August – John Boyle O'Reilly, 46 (born 1844), Irish-born poet, novelist and newspaper editor, transported as a convict to Australia and escaped to the United States
- 11 August – John Henry Newman, 89 (born 1801), English Roman Catholic cardinal, theologian, author and poet
- 25 August – Australianpoet and journalist
- 7 September – Scottish poet and translator[10]
See also
- 19th century in literature
- 19th century in poetry
- French literature of the 19th century
- List of years in literature
- List of years in poetry
- Poetry
- Symbolist poetry
- Victorian literature
- Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
Notes
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ISBN 0-14-021196-9.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. 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)
- ^ Wagenknecht, Edward (1967). John Greenleaf Whittier: a Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press.
- ^ a b Hartley, Anthony, ed. (1967). The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Penguin Books.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 101–102.
- ^ "Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved 23 February 2010
- ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on 23 December 2008
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved 10 December 2008
- ^ * Hadden, James Cuthbert (1893). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.