1896 in poetry
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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If—, first published this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- July 7 – Reading Gaol in England for uxoricide, inspiring fellow-prisoner C.3.3. Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897).
- William Morris publishes the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer's works
Works published in English
Australia
- John Le Gay Brereton:
- Perdita, A Sonnet Record
- The Song of Brotherhood and Other Verses
- Edward Dyson, Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines
- Henry Lawson:
- Banjo Paterson:
- The Man from Snowy River
- "Mulga Bill's Bicycle"
Canada
- Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, More Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States[2]
- Charles G. D. Roberts, The Book of the Native[3]
- Charles Sangster, Our Norland. Toronto: Copp Clark, n.d.[citation needed]
- Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger, Canada[4]
- Francis Sherman
United Kingdom
To an Athlete Dying Young
by A. E. Housman
by A. E. Housman
Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:
-- Lines 9-16
- Hilaire Belloc:
- Laurence Binyon, First Book of London Visions (see also Second Book of London Visions 1899)[6]
- Ernest Dowson, Verses,[6] including "Non Sum Qualis Eram"
- To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty"[7]
- Laurence Housman, Green Arras[6]
- The Seven Seas[6]
- Alice Meynell, Other Poems[6]
- Henry Newbolt, "Drake's Drum", published in the St. John's Gazette (first published in book form in Admirals All, and Other Verses 1897)[6]
- John Cowper Powys, Odes, and Other Poems[6]
- Arthur Quiller-Couch, Poems and Ballads
- W. M. Rossetti[6]
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel, and Other Verses[6]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Tale of Balen[6]
- William Watson, The Purple East[6]
United States
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich:
- Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, More Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States[2]
- Emily Dickinson, Poems: Third Series[2]
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Lyrics of Lowly Life[2]
- Majors and Minors
- "We Wear the Mask"
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Quiet Road[2]
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Torrent and the Night Before[2]
Works published in other languages
- Nérée Beauchemin, Les floraisons matutinales; the author's first published collection; French language; Trois-Rivières, Canada[8]
- Peru[9]
- German
- Gujarati)[10]
- Tekkan Yosano, Tozai namboku ("East-west, north-south"), tanka poetry, Japan
Awards and honors
- Poet Laureate
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 26 – New Zealand
- February 26 – Zhdanov doctrine
- May 9 – Austin Clarke (died 1974), Irish poet, playwright and judge
- August 27 – Shōwa periodpoet and author of children's literature (surname: Miyazawa)
- September 22 –
- October 12 – Eugenio Montale (died 1981), Italian
- October 30 – Greek
- December 1 – Teiko Tomita (died 1990), Japanese-born American poet who wrote in Japanese[11]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 8 – Paul Verlaine (born 1844), French
- Scottish-born Canadian
- March 21 – Elizabeth Otis Dannelly (born 1838), American writer of Southern poetry
- May 11 – Henry Cuyler Bunner (born 1855), American novelist and poet
- October 3 – William Morris (born 1834), English poet, writer, designer and socialist
- October 29 – Thomas Edward Brown (born 1830), Manx poet writing in English
- November 26
- Coventry Patmore (born 1823), English
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
- Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
- Poetry
Notes
- ^ "Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)", article, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition, retrieved May 13, 2009. 2009-05-16.
- ^ a b c d e f g h 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 "CONFEDERATION VOICES: Seven Canadian Poets By JOHN COLDWELL ADAMS"], at the Canadian Poetry website, retrieved August 8, 2010
- ^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ a b Tammy Armstrong, "Francis Joseph Sherman Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine," New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, STU.ca, Web, May 11, 2011.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ISBN 0-393-09357-3
- ^ Story, Noah (1967). "Poetry in French". The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Oxford University Press. pp. 651–654.
- ^ "José Santos Chocano". Jaume University. Archived from the original on 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2011-08-29.
- ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008.
- ^ "Teiko Tomita" entry, p 640 in Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century, edited by Susan Ware, Stacy Lorraine Braukman; Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-674-01488-6, retrieved January 29, 2009