1890 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
... 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 ... 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 ... 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 ...
In literature 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893
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

• Rhymers' 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
• Dove Cottage, Grasmere, acquired by the Wordsworth Trust.

Works published in English

Cover of the first edition of Poems by Emily Dickinson, published this year

United Kingdom

• Richard Garnett, Iphigenia in Delphi^[1]
• W. S. Gilbert, Songs of a Songbird^[1]
• William McGonagall, Poetic Gems
• 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]

United States

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Wyndham Towers^[2]
• Madison Cawein, Lyrics and Idyls^[2]
• Emily Dickinson's Poems published posthumously^[2]
• John Hay, Poems^[2]
• Joaquin Miller, In Classic Shades and Other Poems^[2]
• James Whitcomb Riley, Rhymes of Childhood^[2]
• Richard Henry Stoddard, The Lion's Cub; with Other Verse^[2]
• John Greenleaf Whittier, At Sundown^[3]

Other in English

• Seranus, Four Ballads and a Play., Canada.
• Banjo Paterson, "The Man From Snowy River", Australia

Works published in other languages

France

• Paul Claudel, Tête d'or^[4]
• François Coppée, Paroles sinceres^[5]
• Paul Valéry, Album de vers anciens, published starting this year and ending in 1900^[4]

Other languages

• Naim Frashëri, Lulet e verës ("Summer Flowers"), Albania
• Stefan George, Hymnen ("Hymns"), 18 poems written reflecting Symbolism; dedicated to Carl August Klein; limited, private edition; German^[6]
• Herman Gorter, Verzen ("Verses"), Netherlands
• 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
• Rabindranath Tagore, Manasi, Bengal

Births

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

• January 2 (21 December 1889 O.S.) – Henrik Visnapuu (died 1951), Estonian poet and dramatist
• January 12 (31 December 1889 O.S.) – Johannes Vares (Barbarus) (committed suicide 1946), Estonian poet, doctor and radical politician
• 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), Japanese novelist and poet (a woman)
• August 28 – Ivor Gurney (died 1937), English composer and poet
• August 31 (August 19 O.S.) – August Alle (died 1952), Estonian writer and poet
• September 10
  • Marie Heiberg (died insane 1942), Estonian poet
  • Franz Werfel (died 1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet writing in German
• September 24 – A. P. Herbert, (died 1971), English writer, humorist and writer of light verse, most of it appearing in Punch
• November 25 – Isaac Rosenberg, (killed 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]
  • 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 (born 1823), American poet, playwright, and diplomat
• August 10 – John Boyle O'Reilly, 46 (born 1844), Irish-born poet, novelist and newspaper editor, transported as a convict to Australia and escaped to the United States
• August 11 – John Henry Newman, 89 (born 1801), English Roman Catholic cardinal, theologian, author and poet
• August 25 – Emily Manning ("Australie"), 45 (born 1845), Australian poet and journalist
• September 7 – Mary Mackellar, 55 (born 1834), Scottish poet and translator^[9]

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

1. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
2. 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)
3. Wagenknecht, Edward (1967). John Greenleaf Whittier: a Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press.
4. Hartley, Anthony, ed. (1967). The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century. Baltimore: Penguin Books.
5. "Francois Edouard Joachim Coppee", article in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 edition, as published at the "LoveToKnow 1911 Classic Encyclopedia" website, retrieved February 7, 2010
6. "Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
7. 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 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
8. 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
9. •  Hadden, James Cuthbert (1893). "Mackellar, Mary". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.