1890 in poetry
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Events
- Rhymer's Club founded in London by William Butler Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who met regularly and published anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees included Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, Selwyn Image, A. S. Hillier, John Todhunter, Arthur Symons, Ernest Radford and Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wilde attended some meetings held in private homes
Works published in English
- Richard Garnett, Iphigenia in Delphi[1]
- W. S. Gilbert, Songs of a Songbird[1]
- Walter Pater, Appreciations with an Essay on Style
- Christina Rossetti, Poems[1]
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Ballads[1]
- William Watson, Wordsworth's Grave, and Other Poems[1]
- W. B. Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree (poem) first published, in The National Observer (London) on December 13 (first published in a book, The Countess Kathleen, and Various Legends and Lyrics, in 1892)[1]
Other in English
Works published in other languages
Other languages
- Stefan George, Hymnen ("Hymns"), 18 poems written reflecting Symbolism; dedicated to Carl August Klein; limited, private edition; German[6]
- Władysław Mickiewicz, Vie d'Adam Mickiewicz ("Life of Adam Mickiewicz"), four volumes, Poznań, Poland, published beginning this year and through 1895; written by the poet's son
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 10 –Boris Pasternak, (died 1960), Russian novelist, writer and poet
- February 22 – Hinatsu Kōnosuke 日夏耿之介, a pen-name of Higuchi Kunito (died 1971), Japanese poet, editor and academic known for romantic and gothic poetry patterned after English literature; fervent Roman Catholic, co-founder, with Horiguchi Daigaku and Saijo Yaso, of Shijin ("Poets") magazine
- May 18 – Zora Cross (died 1964), Australian poet, novelist and journalist
- May 31 – James Devaney (died 1976), Australian poet, novelist, and journalist
- August 15 – Tsugi Takano 鷹野 つぎ (died 1943), novelist and poet (a woman)
- August 28 – Ivor Gurney (died 1937), English composer and poet
- September 10 – Franz Werfel (died 1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German
- November 25 – Isaac Rosenberg, (died 1918), English war poet
- December 13 – Dulcie Deamer (died 1972), Australian novelist, poet, journalist and actor
- Also:
- Balakavi, pen name of Tryambak Bapuji Thomare (died 1918), Indian, Marathi-language poet[7]
- Ramanlal V. Desai (died 1954), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist, short-story writer and poet[8]
- A. P. Herbert, (died 1971), English writer, humorist and writer of light verse, most of it appearing in Punch
- Sumatiben Mehta (died 1911), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet[8]
- Jun Tanaka 田中純 (died 1966), Japanese, Showa period poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 2 — George Henry Boker, 66, American poet, playwright, and diplomat
- J.H. Newman
- August 10 — John Boyle O'Reilly, 46, Irish-born poet, novelist and newspaper editor who was transported as a convict to Australia and escaped to the United States
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, ed (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A., Jr. (1986). Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. 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)
- ^ Wagenknecht, Edward (1967). John Greenleaf Whittier: a Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press.
- ^ a b Hartley, Anthony, ed (1967). The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Penguin Books.
- ^ "Francois Edouard Joachim Coppee", article in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 edition, as published at the "LoveToKnow 1911 Classic Encyclopedia" website, retrieved February 7, 2010
- ^ "Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
- ^ Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ 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
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