1889 in poetry

	…1879; 1880; 1881; 1882; 1883; 1884; 1885; ; 1886; 1887; 1888; 1889; 1890; 1891; 1892; ; 1893; 1894; 1895; 1896; 1897; 1898; 1899…;
	In literature 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,IrishorFrance).

Events

Robert Browning(died 1889)

June 8 –Englishpoet andJesuitpriestGerard Manley Hopkinsdies aged 54 inDublinoftyphoid;he is buried inGlasnevin Cemetery;most of his poetry remains unpublished until1918.
December 12 – English poetRobert Browningdies aged 77 atCa' RezzonicoinVeniceon the same day his bookAsolando; Fancies and factsis published;^[1]he is buried inPoets' CornerinWestminster Abbey;Alfred, Lord Tennysonwill be buried adjacently.

Works published

Canada

William Wilfred Campbell,Lake lyrics and other poems(Saint John: J.& A. McMillan)^[2]
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton,Acadian Legends and Lyrics,Canada^[3]
Sophia Almon Hensley,Poems.^[4]
James McIntyre,Poems of James McIntyre.^[4]

Anthologies

Songs of the Great Dominion:Voices from the Forests and Waters, the Settlements and Cities of Canada.(London [England]: Walter Scott). 500-page anthology ofCanadian poetry.^[5]

United Kingdom

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt,A New Pilgrimage, and Other Poems^[1]
Robert Bridges,The Feast of Bacchus^[1]
Thomas Edward Brown,The Manx Witch, and Other Poems^[1]
Robert Browning,Asolando; Fancies and facts
Amy Levy,A London Plane–Tree, and Other Verse^[1]
Walter Pater,Appreciations: With an Essay on Style,criticism
Emily Pfeiffer,Flowers of the Night^[1]
Algernon Charles Swinburne,Poems and Ballads, Third Series(see alsoFirst Series1866;Second Series1878)^[1]
Arthur Symons,Days and Nights^[1]
Alfred Lord Tennyson:
- Demeter and Other Poems^[1]
- He writes "Crossing the Bar"in October as he crosses theSolent
- Idylls of the King,complete edition of theIdylls,with final titles (see alsoIdylls of the King1859,The Holy Grail1869,Idylls of the King1870,"The Last Tournament"1871,Gareth and Lynette1872,"Balin and Balan" inTiresias1885)^[1]
W. B. Yeats,The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems,including "The Wanderings of Oisin","The Song of the Happy Shepherd","The Stolen Child","Down By The Salley Gardens"(Kegan Paul, Trench & Company),^[6]Irishpoet published in the United Kingdom

United States

Eugene Field,A Little Book of Western Verse,^[7]including "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynkyn, Blynkyn and Nod",United States
Louise Chandler Moulton,Poems^[7]
Walt Whitman,Leaves of Grass,eighth edition^[7]

Other

Giosuè Carducci,Barbarian Odes,Book 3,Italy
Holger Drachmann,Sangenes Bog( "Book of Songs" ),Denmark^[8]
Herman Gorter,Mei( "May" ),Netherlands
Banjo Paterson,"Clancy of the Overflow",Australia
Luigi Pirandello,Mal giocondo( "Playful Evil" or "Joyful Pain" ),Italy
Govardhanram N. Tripathi,Lilavatijivankala,a tribute to his dead daughter,Indian,writing inGujarati^[9]
Verner von Heidenstam,Vallfart och vandringsår( "Pilgrimage: the Wandering Years" ),Sweden
W. B. Yeats,The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems,including "The Wanderings of Oisin","The Song of the Happy Shepherd","The Stolen Child","Down By The Salley Gardens"(Kegan Paul, Trench & Company)^[6]Irishpoet published in theUnited Kingdom

Awards and honors

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

February 3 (January 22O.S.) –Artur Adson(died1977),Estonianpoet and critic
February 11 –Acharya Ramlochan Saran(died1971),Indian,Maithili-language poet littérateur, grammarian, publisher and poet
March 1 –Okamoto Kanoko,Cương bổn かの tử,pen nameof Ohnuki Kano (died1939),Japanese,author,tankapoet, and Buddhist scholar in theTaishōand earlyShōwa periods;mother of artistTarō Okamoto
April 27 –Arnulf Øverland(died1968),Norwegian
June 23
- Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova(died1966),Russian
- Rofū Miki,Tam mộc lộ phong, pen name of Masao Miki (died1964),Japanese Symbolistpoet and writer
June 28 –Abbas Al Akkadعباس محمود العقاد (died1964), Egyptian,Arabic-language writer and poet, a founder of the Divan school of poetry
July 30 –Dorothy Wellesley,born Dorothy Violet Ashton and styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943 (died1956),Englishsocialite, author, poet and literary editor
August 5 –Conrad Aiken(died1973),Americanwriter
August 19 –Arthur Waley(died1966),EnglishOrientalist
August 29 – (Doris)Capel Boake(died1944),Australianwriter
September 13 –Pierre Reverdy(died1960),French
September 15 –Claude McKay(died1948), Jamaican-born writer and poet of theHarlem Renaissance
September 17 –Katka Zupančič(died1967),Slovenechildren's poet
September 29 –Matilde Hidalgo(died1974),Ecuadorianphysician, poet and women's rights activist
October 31 –Napoleon Lapathiotis(died1944),Greek
November 11 –Mantarō Kubota,Cửu bảo điền vạn thái lang (died1963),Japaneseauthor, playwright and poet (surname: Kubota)
December 8 –Hervey Allen(died1949),Americanwriter
December 24 –Patrick MacGill(died1963),Irish-born "navvypoet "and journalist
Also:
- Harley Matthews(died1968),Australian
- John Munro(Iain Rothach; killed in action1918),Scottish Gaelic
- V. C. Balakrishna Panikker(died1915),Indian,Malayalam-language poet^[10]
- Vasilis Rotas(died1977),Greek
- Fredegond Shove,née Maitland (died1949),English

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

March 25 –Cornelius Mathews,71 (born1817),Americanpoet
May 31 –Horatius Bonar,80 (born1808),Scottishhymnodist
June 8 –Gerard Manley Hopkins,44 (born1844),Englishpoet, in Ireland
June 15 –Mihai Eminescu,39 (born1850),Romanianpoet
September 10 –Amy Levy,27 (born1861),Englishpoet and novelist, by suicide
September 18 –John Barr,79 (born1809),Scottish-bornNew Zealandpoet
September 23 –Eliza Cook,70 (born1818),Englishpoet
October 25 –Émile Augier,69 (born1820),Frenchdramatist and poet
November 18 –William Allingham,65 (born1824)Irish-born poet
November 29 –Martin Farquhar Tupper,79 (born1810),Englishwriter and poet
December 10 –Ludwig Anzengruber,50 (born1839),Austriandramatist, novelist and poet
December 12 –Robert Browning,77 (born1812),Englishpoet, in Italy
December 23 –Constance Naden,31 (born1858),Englishpoet and philosopher, of infection

Notes

^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^jCox, Michael, ed. (2004).The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature.Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^"Campbell, William Wilfred,"Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web, Mar. 20, 2011.
^Gustafson, Ralph,The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse,revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
^^a ^bCarole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed.Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War.Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994.
^Michael Gnarowski, "Songs of the Great Dominion",Canadian Encyclopedia(Edmonton:Hurtig, 1988), 2047.
^^a ^bWeb page titled "Archive: William Butler Yeats (W. B. Yeats) (1865 - 1939)"at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 22, 2008
^^a ^b ^cLudwig, 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)
^Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al.,The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics,1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^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 978-0-313-28778-7,retrieved December 10, 2008
^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

[cocel-1] ^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^jCox, Michael, ed. (2004).The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature.Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-860634-6.

[online-2] "Campbell, William Wilfred,"Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web, Mar. 20, 2011.

[rgpbcv-3] Gustafson, Ralph,The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse,revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books

[gerson-4] Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed.Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War.Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994.

[gnarowski-5] Michael Gnarowski, "Songs of the Great Dominion",Canadian Encyclopedia(Edmonton:Hurtig, 1988), 2047.

[poetryfoundation.org-6] Web page titled "Archive: William Butler Yeats (W. B. Yeats) (1865 - 1939)"at the Poetry Foundation website, accessed April 22, 2008

[rmlaal-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)

[npepap-8] Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al.,The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics,1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

[9] 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 978-0-313-28778-7,retrieved December 10, 2008

[apmila-10] 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

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