1891 in poetry
| List of years in poetry (table) |
|---|
| ... 1881 . 1882 . 1883 . 1884 . 1885 . 1886 . 1887 ... 1888 1889 1890 -1891- 1892 1893 1894 ... 1895 . 1896 . 1897 . 1898 . 1899 . 1900 . 1901 ... In literature: 1888 1889 1890 -1891- 1892 1893 1894 |
| Art . Archaeology . Architecture . Literature . Music . Philosophy . Science +... |
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- 1891–1893 –The Rhymers Club gathers at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W. B. Yeats, and others.
- c. Late June – In a meeting of decadent poets in London, Oscar Wilde is first introduced to Lord Alfred Douglas by Lionel Johnson at Wilde's Tite Street home.[1]
- Approximate date – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, G. K. Chesterton and fellow pupils of St Paul's School, London, compose the first pseudo-biographical comic verses which become known as clerihews.[2]
Works published in English
Canada
- John Frederic Herbin, Canada, and Other Poems, Canada[3]
- Seranus, Pine, Rose and Fleur De Lis, (Toronto: Hart).[4]
United Kingdom
- Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of the World; or, The Great Consummation[5]
- Alfred Austin, Lyrical Poems[5]
- John Davidson, In a Music Hall, and Other Poems[5]
- May Sinclair, Essays in Verse[5]
- William Morris, Poems by the Way[5]
- James Kenneth Stephen:
- Lapsus Calami[5]
- Quo Musa Tendis
- Katharine Tynan, Ballads and Lyrics[5]
United States
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Sisters' Tragedy[6]
- Nathaniel Ames, The Essays, Humor, and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, published posthumously[6]
- Emily Dickinson, Poems: Second Series[6]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, fiction, nonfiction and poetry[6]
- Herman Melville, Timoleon[6]
- Harriet Monroe, Valeria and Other Poems[6]
- Frank Norris, Yvernelle: A Tale of Feudal France[6]
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Handful of Lavender[6]
Other in English
- Henry Lawson, Australia:
Works published in other languages
- Stefan George, Pilgerfahrten limited, private edition; German[7]
- Francis Jammes, Six Sonnets, France[8]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 15 – Osip Mandelstam (died 1938), Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school
- April 9 – Lesbia Harford (died 1927), Australian
- May 21 – John Peale Bishop (died 1944), American poet and writer
- May 22 – Johannes R. Becher (died 1958), German poet, novelist, and politician
- July 5 – Tin Ujević (died 1955), Croatian
- August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (killed in action in World War I, 1917), Irish poet,
- November 23 – Masao Kume 久米正雄 who wrote under the pen-name Santei (died 1952), Japanese, late Taishō period and early Showa period playwright, novelist and haiku poet (surname: Kume)
- 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
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 24 – Douglas Smith Huyghue (born 1816), Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist, and artist
- August 12 – James Russell Lowell, 72, American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist
- August 14 – John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (born 1820), American clergyman and hymnist
- August 22 – Jan Neruda (born 1834), Czech writer
- September 28 – Herman Melville, 82, American novelist, essayist and poet
- November 10 – Arthur Rimbaud, French poet
- Also:
See also
- 19th century in poetry
- 19th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- Victorian literature
- French literature of the 19th century
- Symbolist poetry
- Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
- Poetry
Notes
- ↑ Hyde, H. Montgomery (1984). Lord Alfred Douglas: a biography. London: Methuen. pp. 24–5. ISBN 0-413-50790-4.
- ↑ Bentley, E. Clerihew (1982). "The History of the Clerihew". The First Clerihews. Oxford University Press. p. xv. ISBN 0-19-212980-5.
- ↑ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ↑ Wanda Campbell, "Susan Frances Harrison," Hidden Rooms: Early Canadian Women Poets, Canadian Poetry P, 2002, Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, May 4, 2010.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 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)
- ↑ "Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
- ↑ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ↑ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
| ||||||||||||||