1895 in poetry

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Years in poetry:	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
Years in literature:	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
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:	1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898

Contents 1 Events 1.1 Oscar Wilde's arrest and conviction 2 Awards 3 Works published 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also

[edit] Events

[edit] Oscar Wilde's arrest and conviction

• February 18 — John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, father of Oscar Wilde's lover, left a calling card at one of Wilde's clubs, the Albemarle. On the back of the card he wrote "For Oscar Wilde posing as a Somdomite" (a misspelling of "Sodomite"); Wilde charged him with criminal libel
• April — the government takes over prosecution of the case but loses it as the defense brings in evidence of Wilde's past liaisons with men and teenage boys
• April 6 — Wilde arrested at the Cadogan Hotel, London, and charged with "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons"
• May 25 — Wilde convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labor

[edit] Awards

[edit] Works published

• Katharine Lee Bates, "America the Beautiful"
• Gelett Burgess, "The Purple Cow"
• James Whitcomb Riley, "Little Orphant Annie"
• William Butler Yeats, Poems

[edit] Births

• Capel Boake
• Lilian Bowes-Lyon
• Babette Deutsch
• Paul Eluard France
• Robert Graves
• Robert Hillyer
• David Michael Jones
• Charles Hamilton Sorley

[edit] Deaths

• Cecil Frances Alexander
• Louisa Sarah Bevington
• Eugene Field
• Thomas Henry Huxley
• Frederick Locker-Lampson
• William Wetmore Story
• James Byrne Leicester Warren, baron de Tabley

[edit] See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry