1892 in poetry
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| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 |
| Years in literature: | 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 |
| 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: | 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 |
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[edit] Events
- William Butler Yeats founds the Irish Literary Society in Dublin.[1]
- William McGonagall, known as the worst poet in history, walks from Dundee to Balmoral (60 miles) to request the post of Poet Laureate.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Works published
- Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads, including "Gunga Din"
- Alfred Tennyson, The Death of Oenone
- William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics[2]
[edit] Births
- Richard Aldington (died 1962), English poet, novelist, writer, translator and biographer
- June 12 — Djuna Barnes (died 1982), American writer and poet
- Mary Phelps Crosby
- Archibald MacLeish
- Hugh MacDiarmid (Scotland)
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- César Vallejo
[edit] Deaths
[edit] Notes
- ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, "Chronology" chapter, p. 131
- ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, "Chronology" chapter, p. 131
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