1889 in poetry
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| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 |
| Years in literature: | 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 18th century 19th century 20th century |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s |
| Years: | 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
[edit] Awards
[edit] Works published
- Robert Browning, Asolando
- Eugene Field, A Little Book of Western Verse, including "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynkyn, Blynkyn and Nod"
- Amy Levy, A London Plane Tree
- Walter Pater, Appreciations: With an Essay on Style
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, 3rd series
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Demeter and Other Poems; he writes "Crossing the Bar" in October as he crosses the Solent
- W.B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, including "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Song of the Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child", "Down By The Salley Gardens" (Kegan Paul, Trench & Company)[1]
[edit] Births
- April 27 — Arnulf Øverland, Norwegian poet (died 1968)
- June 23 — Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (Ukraine)
- August 5 — Conrad Aiken
- August 19 — Arthur David Waley
- September 15 — Claude McKay, Jamaican
- October 31 — Napoleon Lapathiotis (Greek)
- William Hervey Allen
[edit] Deaths
- May 31 — Horatius Bonar, Scottish poet
- June 8 — Gerard Manley Hopkins, 54, English poet, of typhoid
- June 15 — Mihai Eminescu, Romanian poet
- September 23 — Eliza Cook, 70, English poet
- October 25 — Émile Augier, French dramatist and poet
- November 18 — William Allingham, Irish poet
- December 10 — Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian poet and dramatist
- December 12 — Robert Browning, English poet
- November — Martin Farquhar Tupper, 79, English writer and poet
- Date not known:
- Amy Levy, English poet and novelist, by suicide
- Cornelius Mathews
