1895 in poetry
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O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.

America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.


-- Lines 9-16, "Pikes Peak", the original name of Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates was an American songwriter. She is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful". She popularized "Mrs. Santa Claus" through her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride .-Life and career:Bates was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the daughter of a...

' poem, first published on July 4 and which later was set to music and known as "America the Beautiful
America the Beautiful
"America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward....

"

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish
Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

).

Oscar Wilde's arrest and conviction

  • February 18 — John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, father of Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

    's lover, leaves a calling card at one of Wilde's London
    London
    London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

     clubs, the Albermarle
    Albemarle Club
    The Albemarle Club was a private members' club at 13 Albemarle Street, London, founded in 1874 and open to both men and women. It was considered more bohemian in character than the more prestigious clubs of the day....

    . On the back of it he writes "For Oscar Wilde posing as a Somdomite" (a misspelling of "Sodomite"). Wilde charges him with criminal libel
  • April — the government takes over prosecution of the case but loses it as the defense brings in evidence of Wilde's past liaisons with men and teenage boys
  • April 6 — Wilde arrested at the Cadogan Hotel
    Cadogan Hotel
    The Cadogan Hotel is a hotel located in Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London, England that was built in 1887.The Earls Cadogan, via their company Cadogan Estates have owned Sloane Street and the surrounding area for many generations....

    , London, and charged with "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons"
  • May 25 — Wilde convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour

Canada
Canadian poetry
- Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

  • Bliss Carman
    Bliss Carman
    Bliss Carman FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years....

    , A Seamark: A Threnody for Robert Louis Stevenson. Boston: Copeland & Day.
  • Bliss Carman
    Bliss Carman
    Bliss Carman FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years....

    , Behind The Arras: A Book Of The Unseen. Illus. Tom B. Meteyard. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe.
  • Sophia Almon Hensley, A Woman's Love Letters.
  • Emily Pauline Johnson, The White Wampum, Toronto: Copp Clark; London: John Lane.
  • Marie Joussaye, Songs that Quinte Sang.
  • Archibald Lampman
    Archibald Lampman
    Archibald Lampman, was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the finest of Canada's late 19th-century poets in...

    , Lyrics of Earth
  • Arthur Stringer
    Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer
    Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer was a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States....

    , Pauline and Other Poems.
  • Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, The House of the Trees and Other Poems

United Kingdom
English poetry
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • Robert Bridges
    Robert Bridges
    Robert Seymour Bridges, OM, was a British poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.-Personal and professional life:...

    , Invocation to Music
  • Gelett Burgess
    Gelett Burgess
    Frank Gelett Burgess was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse...

    , "The Purple Cow"
  • John Davidson
    John Davidson (poet)
    John Davidson was a Scottish poet, playwright and novelist, best known for his ballads. He also did translations from French and German...

    , Fleet Street Eclogues, second series (first series, 1893
    1893 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs.* Bliss Carman, Low Tide at Grand Pré...

    )
  • Austin Dobson
    Austin Dobson
    Austin Dobson was an auto driver from England.Brother of auto racer Arthur Charles, he participated at first edition, in 1936, of the Hungarian Grand Prix with Alfa Romeo....

    , The Story of Rosina, and Other Verses
  • Maurice Hewlett
    Maurice Hewlett
    Maurice Henry Hewlett , was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. He was born at Weybridge, the eldest son of Henry Gay Hewlett, of Shaw Hall, Addington, Kent. He was educated at the London International College, Spring Grove, Isleworth, and was called to the bar in 1891. He gave up...

    , A Masque of Dead Florentines
  • Lionel Johnson
    Lionel Johnson
    Lionel Pigot Johnson was an English poet, essayist and critic. He was born at Broadstairs, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, graduating in 1890. He became a Catholic convert in 1891. He lived a solitary life in London, struggling with alcoholism and his repressed...

    , Poems
  • William Morris
    William Morris
    William Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...

    , The Tale of Beowulf
  • Coventry Patmore
    Coventry Patmore
    Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage.-Youth:...

    , The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
  • Arthur Symons
    Arthur Symons
    Arthur William Symons , was a British poet, critic and magazine editor.-Life:Born in Milford Haven, Wales, of Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy...

    , London Nights
  • James Thomson
    James Thomson (B.V.)
    James Thomson , who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night , an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment.-Life:Thomson was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland, and, after...

    , Poetical Works, posthumously published; edited, with a memoir, by Bertram Dobell
  • William Watson
    William Watson (poet)
    Sir William Watson , was an English poet, popular in his time for the political content of his verse. He was born in Burley, in West Yorkshire....

    , The Father of the Forest, and Other Poems
  • William Butler Yeats
    William Butler Yeats
    William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...

    , Irish
    Irish poetry
    The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

     poet published in the United Kingdom
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

    :
    • Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, anthology
    • Poems, drama and poetry

United States

  • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
    Thomas Bailey Aldrich
    Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist, travel writer and editor.-Early life and education:...

    , Unguarded Gates
  • Katharine Lee Bates
    Katharine Lee Bates
    Katharine Lee Bates was an American songwriter. She is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful". She popularized "Mrs. Santa Claus" through her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride .-Life and career:Bates was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the daughter of a...

    , "Pikes Peak" a poem later set to music and now known as "America the Beautiful
    America the Beautiful
    "America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and the music composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward....

    ", originally published in the July 4 edition of The Congregationalist, a church periodical
  • Ina Coolbrith
    Ina Coolbrith
    Ina Donna Coolbrith was an American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community...

    , Songs from the Golden Gate
  • Stephen Crane
    Stephen Crane
    Stephen Crane was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism...

    , The Black Riders and Other Lines
  • Paul Laurence Dunbar
    Paul Laurence Dunbar
    Paul Laurence Dunbar was a seminal African American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 "Ode to Ethiopia", one poem in the collection Lyrics of Lowly Life....

    , Majors and Minors
  • William Dean Howells
    William Dean Howells
    William Dean Howells was an American realist author and literary critic. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novel The Rise of...

    , Stops of Various Quills
  • James Russell Lowell
    James Russell Lowell
    James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets...

    , Last Poems, published posthumously
  • Henry David Thoreau
    Henry David Thoreau
    Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist...

    , Poems of Nature, published posthumously (died 1862
    1862 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February — Dante Gabriel Rossetti, on returning home with Algernon Charles Swinburne after a night on the town, finds his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, dead on the floor from an oversose of laudanum...

    )
  • James Whitcomb Riley
    James Whitcomb Riley
    James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the Hoosier Poet and Children's Poet for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively...

    , "Little Orphant Annie"

Other in English

  • Sri Aurobindo
    Sri Aurobindo
    Sri Aurobindo , born Aurobindo Ghosh or Ghose , was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. He joined the Indian movement for freedom from British rule and for a duration became one of its most important leaders, before developing his own vision of human progress...

    , Song to Myrtilla, Calcutta: Arya Publishing House; India
    Indian poetry
    Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

    , Indian poetry in English
    Indian Poetry in English
    Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first poet in the lineage of Indian English Poetry. A significant and torch bearer poet is Nissim Ezekiel and the significant poets of the post-Derozio and pre-Ezekiel times are Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo...

  • William Butler Yeats
    William Butler Yeats
    William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...

    , Irish
    Irish poetry
    The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

     poet published in the United Kingdom
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

    :
    • Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, anthology
    • Poems, drama and poetry

Works published in other languages

  • José Santos Chocano
    José Santos Chocano
    José Santos Chocano Gastañodi was a Peruvian poet who is also known as "The Singer of Americas", because the first line of one of his most celebrated poems: "I am the singer of the America, Autochthonous and Savage""...

    , Peru:
    • En la aldea ("In the Village")
    • Iras santas
  • Francis Jammes
    Francis Jammes
    Francis Jammes was a French poet. Coming from an ancient family, he spent most of his life in his native region of Béarn and the Basque Country and his poems are known for their lyricism and for singing the pleasures of a humble country life...

    , Un jour, France
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

  • Catulle Mendès
    Catulle Mendès
    Catulle Mendès was a French poet and man of letters.Of Portuguese Jewish extraction, he was born in Bordeaux. He early established himself in Paris and promptly attained notoriety by the publication in the Revue fantaisiste of his Roman d'une nuit, for which he was condemned to a month's...

    , La Grive des vignes, France
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

  • Władysław Mickiewicz, Vie d'Adam Mickiewicz ("Life of Adam Mickiewicz"), four volumes, Poznań, Poland
    Polish poetry
    Polish poetry has a centuries old history, similar to the Polish literature.Three most famous Polish poets are known as the Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz , Juliusz Słowacki and Zygmunt Krasiński ....

    , published beginning 1890
    1890 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .- 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...

     through this year; published by the poet's son
  • K. C. Kesava Pillai
    K. C. Kesava Pillai
    K. C. Kesava Pillai was a composer of Carnatic music, Poet Laureate of Travancore and made contributions to Malayalam literature-Life and Education:...

    , Asanna-Marana Chinta Satakam, lyric in the form of a monologue of a man about to die, Indian
    Indian poetry
    Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

    , Malayalam
    Malayalam poetry
    There are two types of meters used in Malayalam poetry, the classical Sanskrit based and Tamil based ones.- Sanskrit Meters :Sanskrit meters are primarily based on trisyllabic feet. The short sound is called a laghu, a long sound is called a guru. A guru is twice as long as a laghu...

    -language

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • May 19 – Charles Hamilton Sorley (died 1915
    1915 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Russian poet Sergei Yesenin , published his first book of poems titled "Radumitsa."...

    ), Scots poet
  • June 3 – Robert Hillyer
    Robert Hillyer
    Robert Silliman Hillyer was an American poet.-Life:He was born in East Orange, New Jersey. He attended Kent School in Kent, Connecticut and graduated from Harvard in 1917, after which he went to France and volunteered with the S.S.U. 60 of the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps serving the Allied...

     (died 1961
    1961 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 20–Robert Frost recites his poem "The Gift Outright" at United States President John F...

    ), American poet and academic
  • July 24 – Robert Graves
    Robert Graves
    Robert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...

     (died 1985
    1985 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The term "New Formalism" was first used in the article "The Yuppie Poet" in the May 1985 issue of the AWP Newsletter in an attack on the poetry movement...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     poet, translator and novelist
  • September 10 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana
    Viswanatha Satyanarayana
    Viswanatha Satyanarayana , popularly known as the Kavi Samraat , was a modern Telugu poet.He was a disciple of the Tirupati Venkata Kavulu duo...

     (died 1976
    1976 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A Dialogue", are published on January 1-Works published in English:Listed by nation where the work...

    ), Indian
    Indian poetry
    Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

     poet writing in Tegulu; popularly known as the Kavi Samraat ("Emperor of Poetry")
  • September 22 – Babette Deutsch
    Babette Deutsch
    Babette Deutsch was an American poet, critic, translator, and novelist.Born in New York City, the daughter of Michael and Melanie Deutsch, she matriculated from the Ethical Culture School and Barnard College, graduating in 1917 with a B.A...

     (died 1982
    1982 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Final edition of This Magazine published....

    ), American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
  • September 28 – Edward Harrington (died 1966
    1966 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Raymond Souster founds the League of Canadian Poets...

    ), Australian poet, wrote Bush ballads
  • December 14 – Paul Éluard
    Paul Éluard
    Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel , was a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement.-Biography:...

     (died 1952
    1952 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* November — The Group British poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s began at Downing College, Cambridge University, Philip Hobsbaum along with two friends — Tony Davis and Neil Morris...

    ), French
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

     poet; a founder of Surrealism
    Surrealism
    Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....


  • Also:
    • Lilian Bowes-Lyon (died 1949
      1949 in poetry
      Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:...

      ), English
      English poetry
      The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

       poet; a cousin of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
    • Capel Boake (died 1945
      1945 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, based on George Crabbe's The Borough...

      ), Australian
    • Padmadhar Chaliha (died 1969
      1969 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* FIELD magazine founded at Oberlin College...

      ), Indian
      Indian poetry
      Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

      , Assamese
      Assamese Poetry
      Assamese poetry, poetry in Assamese language.-History:Sanskrit literature, the fountain head of most of the Indian literature, supplied not only the themes of medieval Assamese literature, but also has inspired many a writer of modern Assamese literature to undertake creative writings in context of...

      -language poet
    • Max Dunn (died 1963
      1963 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 26 – Raghunath Vishnu Pandit, an Indian poet who wrote in both Konkani and Marathi languages, publishes five books of poems this day* The Belfast Group, a discussion group of poets in...

      ), Australian
    • W. E. Harney (died 1962
      1962 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Writers in the Soviet Union this year were allowed to publish criticism of Joseph Stalin and were given more freedom generally, although many were severely criticized for doing so...

      ), Australian
    • David Michael Jones
    • Khavirakpan (died 1950
      1950 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Charles Olson publishes his seminal essay, Projective Verse. In this, he called for a poetry of "open field" composition to replace traditional closed poetic forms with an improvised form that should...

      ), Indian
      Indian poetry
      Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

      , Manipuri-language poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • June 29 – Thomas Henry Huxley (born 1825
    1825 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .- Events :* La bibliothèque canadienne, a French Canadian magazine edited by Michel Bibaud, begins publishing this year - United Kingdom :* Anna Laetitia Barbauld, The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld, edited...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     controversialist, academic, scientist and occasional poet
  • October 7 – William Wetmore Story
    William Wetmore Story
    William Wetmore Story was an American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor.-Biography:William Wetmore Story was the son of jurist Joseph Story and Sarah Waldo Story...

     (born 1819
    1819 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The period from September 1818 to September of this year is often referred to among scholars of John Keats as "the Great Year", or "the Living Year", because during this period he was most...

    ), American  sculptor, art critic, poet and editor
  • October 12 – Cecil Frances Alexander (born 1818
    1818 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-John Keats:* In December, Keats is invited by his friend, Charles Armitage Brown, to move into Brown's home at Wentworth Place, in Hampstead, then a pastoral suburb north of London...

    ), Irish
    Irish poetry
    The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

     hymn-writer and poet
  • October 21 – Louisa Anne Meredith
    Louisa Anne Meredith
    Louisa Anne Meredith , also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer and illustrator.-Biography:...

     (born 1812
    1812 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:, which criticized Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars* Lord Byron:** The Curse of Minerva...

    ), Australian
  • November 4 – Eugene Field
    Eugene Field
    Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.-Biography:...

     (born 1850
    1950 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Charles Olson publishes his seminal essay, Projective Verse. In this, he called for a poetry of "open field" composition to replace traditional closed poetic forms with an improvised form that should...

    ), American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays
  • Date not known:
    • Louisa Sarah Bevington
    • Frederick Locker-Lampson
      Frederick Locker-Lampson
      [File:Frederick Locker .jpg|thumb|right|[File:Frederick Locker .jpg|thumb|right|[File:Frederick Locker .jpg|thumb|right|[[File:Frederick Locker .jpg|thumb|right|...

       (born 1821
      1821 in poetry
      — words chiselled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his requestNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Saturday Evening Post founded in Philadelphia...

      ), English
      English poetry
      The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

       writer and poet
    • James Byrne Leicester Warren, Baron de Tabley

See also

  • 19th century in poetry
    19th century in poetry
    -Decades and years:...

  • 19th century in literature
    19th century in literature
    See also: 19th century in poetry, 18th century in literature, other events of the 19th century, 20th century in literature, list of years in literature....

  • List of years in poetry
  • List of years in literature
  • Victorian literature
    Victorian literature
    Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria . It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the very different literature of the 20th century....

  • French literature of the 19th century
    French literature of the 19th century
    19th-century French literature concerns the developments in French literature during a dynamic period in French history that saw the rise of Democracy and the fitful end of Monarchy and Empire...

  • Symbolist poetry
  • Young Poland
    Young Poland
    Young Poland is a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918. It was a result of strong aesthetic opposition to the ideas of Positivism...

     (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890
    1890 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .- 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...

     to 1918
    1918 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson...

  • Poetry
    Poetry
    Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

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