1881 in poetry
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Events
Works published in English
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Love Sonnets of Proteus (see also Sonnets and Songs 1875, Love Lyrics 1892)[3]
- Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing as "Arran and Islan Leigh", Bellerophon, and Other Poems[3]
- Amy Levy, Xantippe, and Other Verse[3]
- George Moore, Pagan Poems[3]
- Christina Rossetti, A Pageant, and other Poems
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets,[3] with "The House of Life" complete, and Poems
- Oscar Wilde, Poems, three editions published this year, first edition in June[3]
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book[4]
- Ina Coolbrith, A Perfect Day[4]
- James Thomas Fields, Ballads and Other Verses, Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, Riverside Press imprint, United States[5]
- Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, including poetry[4]
- Fitz-James O'Brien, Poems and Stories[4]
- Epes Sargent, Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poets (scholarship), posthumously published, United States
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The King's Missive[6]
Works published in other languages
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 9 - Lascelles Abercrombie (died 1938), British poet and literary critic called the Georgian Laureateand one of the "Dymock poets"
- February 13 – Eleanor Farjeon (died 1965) English author and poet
- April 6 – Furnley Maurice (died 1942), Australian
- April 16 – Alice Corbin Henderson (died 1949), American poet
- August 1 – Aizu Yaichi 会津 八一 (died 1956), Japanese poet, calligrapher and historian (surname: Aizu)
- August 10 – Witter Bynner (died 1968), American poet, writer and scholar
- August 20 – Edgar Albert Guest (died 1959), prolific American poet
- September 16 – Clive Bell (died 1964) was an English critic, associated with the Bloomsbury group
- October 30 – Elizabeth Madox Roberts (died 1941), American novelist and poet
- November 15:
- December 8 – Padraic Colum (died 1972) Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, collector of folklore and one of the leading figures of the Celtic Revival
- Also:
- Swami Ananda Acharya (died 1945), Indian poet who wrote Indian poetry in English[9]
- John Cournos (died 1966), Russian-American Imagist poet, but better known for his novels, short stories, essays, criticism and translations of Russian literature; wrote under the pen name "John Courtney"
- Deepakba Desai (died 1955), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet who wrote khandakavyas[10]
- Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar (died 1953), Indian, Gujarati-language, Parsi poet[10]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes
- ^ Sorfleet, John R., "Leprohon, Rosanna Eleanor", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ^ Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994.
- ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ^ Fields, James T. Ballads and Other Verses title page, Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1880, as reprinted at the Making of America Books website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- ^ Wagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
- ^ "FRANCOIS EDOUARD JOACHIM COPPEE", article in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 edition, as published at the "LoveToKnow 1911 Classic Encyclopedia" website, retrieved February 7, 2010
- ^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0140423853
- ^ Web page titled "South Asian literature in English, Pre-independence era", compiled by Irene Joshi, at "University of Washington Libraries" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved July 30, 2009. Archived 2009-08-02.
- ^ a b Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Vinayak Krishna Gokak, The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965), p 314, New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (1970, first edition; 2006 reprint), ISBN 8126011963, retrieved August 6, 2010
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