1891 in poetry
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| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 |
| Years in literature: | 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 |
| 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: | 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- The Rhymers Club gathered at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, 1891-93, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W.B. Yeats, and others
[edit] Awards
[edit] Works published
- John Davidson, In a Music Hall
- William Morris, Poems by the Way
- James Kenneth Stephen, Lapsus Calami and Quo Musa Tendis
[edit] Births
- January 15 — Osip Mandelstam (died 1938), Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school
- May 21 — John Peale Bishop (died 1944), American poet and writer
- August 19 — Francis Ledwidge (killed in action in World War I, 1917), Irish poet,
- December 9 — Maksim Bahdanovič (died 1917), Belarusian poet, journalist and literary critic
- December 10 — Nelly Sachs (died 1970), German-Swedish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
[edit] Deaths
- August 12 — James Russell Lowell, 72, American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist
- September 28 — Herman Melville, 82, American novelist, essayist and poet
- November 10 — Arthur Rimbaud, French
- date not known — John Henry Hopkins, Jr.
[edit] See also
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