1890 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 |
| Years in literature: | 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 18th century 19th century 20th century |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Years: | 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 |
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[edit] Events
- Rhymer's Club founded in London by William Butler Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who met regularly and published anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees included Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, Selwyn Image, A. S. Hillier, John Todhunter, Arthur Symons, Ernest Radford and Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wilde attended some meetings held in private homes
[edit] Awards
[edit] Works published
- Emily Dickinson's Poems published posthumously
- Walter Pater, Appreciations with an Essay on Style
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Ballads
[edit] Births
- August 28 — Ivor Gurney (died 1937), English composer and poet
- November 25 — Isaac Rosenberg, (died 1918), English war poet
- date not known:
- Zora Cross, (died 1964) Australian poet
- A. P. Herbert, (died 1971), English writer, humorist and writer of light verse, most of it appearing in Punch
- Boris Pasternak, (died 1960), Russian novelist, writer and poet
[edit] Deaths
- January 2 — George Henry Boker, 66, American poet, playwright, and diplomat
- J.H. Newman
- August 10 — John Boyle O'Reilly, 46, Irish-born poet, novelist and newspaper editor who was transported as a convict to Australia and escaped to the United States
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