1890 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

Rhymers' Club founded in London by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who meet regularly and publish anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees include Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, Selwyn Image, A. C. Hillier, John Todhunter, Arthur Symons, Ernest Radford and Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wilde attends some meetings held in private homes
Dove Cottage, Grasmere in the English Lake District acquired by the Wordsworth Trust.

Works published in English

Cover of the first edition of *Poems* by Emily Dickinson, published this year

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]
W. B. Yeats, The 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]}
Banjo Paterson, "The Man From Snowy River", 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
Stefan George, Hymnen ("Hymns"), 18 poems written reflecting Symbolism; dedicated to Carl August Klein; limited, private edition; German^[7]
Herman Gorter, Verzen ("Verses"), 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

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 – Oswald de Andrade (died 1954), Brazilian poet and polemicist
12 January (31 December 1889 O.S.) – Johannes Vares (Barbarus) (committed suicide 1946), Estonian poet, doctor and radical politician
10 February – Boris Pasternak (died 1960), Russian novelist, writer and poet
22 February – Hinatsu Kōnosuke 日夏耿之介, a pen-name of Higuchi Kunito (died 1971), Japanese poet, editor and academic known for romantic and gothic poetry patterned after English literature; fervent Roman Catholic, co-founder, with Horiguchi Daigaku and Saijo Yaso, of Shijin ("Poets") magazine
18 May – Zora Cross (died 1964), Australian poet, novelist and journalist
31 May – James Devaney (died 1976), Australian poet, 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
- Franz Werfel (died 1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, 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 – Isaac Rosenberg, (killed 1918), English war poet
13 December – Dulcie Deamer (died 1972), Australian novelist, poet, journalist and actor
Full date unknown:
- Balakavi, pen name of Tryambak Bapuji Thomare (died 1918), Indian, Marathi-language poet^[8]
- Ramanlal Vasantlal Desai (died 1954), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist, short-story writer and poet^[9]
- Sumatiben Mehta (died 1911), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet^[9]
- Henriette Sauret (died 1976), French poet, political writer, journalist
- Jun Tanaka 田中純 (died 1966), Japanese, Shōwa period poet

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 – Emily Manning ("Australie"), 45 (born 1845), Australian poet and journalist
7 September – Mary Mackellar, 55 (born 1834), Scottish poet and translator^[10]

Notes

^ ^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.
^ Scots Observer, 22 February. Carrington, Charles (1970) [1955]. Rudyard Kipling: his life and work. Pelican. p. 198. 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). "Coppée, François Édouard Joachim" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 101–102.
^ "Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved 23 February 2010
^ Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on 23 December 2008
^ ^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 10 December 2008
^ * Hadden, James Cuthbert (1893). "Mackellar, Mary" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[cocel-1] ^ ^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.

[2] Scots Observer, 22 February. Carrington, Charles (1970) [1955]. Rudyard Kipling: his life and work. Pelican. p. 198. ISBN 0-14-021196-9.

[rmlaal-3] ^ ^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)

[4] Wagenknecht, Edward (1967). John Greenleaf Whittier: a Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press.

[ahpbf-5] Hartley, Anthony, ed. (1967). The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Penguin Books.

[fejc11-6] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coppée, François Édouard Joachim" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 101–102.

[7] "Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved 23 February 2010

[skdhil-8] Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on 23 December 2008

[20csjm-9] 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 10 December 2008

[mm-10] * Hadden, James Cuthbert (1893). "Mackellar, Mary" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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