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Overview of the events of 1894 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France ).
Events
The Yellow Book , with a cover illustrated by
Aubrey Beardsley .
Works published in English
Laurence Binyon , Lyric Poems
[4]
Robert Browning , Asolando
Bliss Carman (
Canadian ) and
Richard Hovey (
American ), Songs from Vagabondia
[5]
John Davidson , Ballads and Songs ,
[4] including "Thirty Bob a Week"
Edmund Gosse , In Russet and Silver
[4]
Selwyn Image , Poems and Carols
[4]
Rudyard Kipling , "
McAndrew's Hymn ", first published in U.S.A.
[6]
Robert Fuller Murray , Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir (posthumous, edited by
Andrew Lang )
AE ,
pen name of
George William Russell , Homeward
[4]
Algernon Charles Swinburne , Astrophel and Other Poems
Katharine Tynan , Cuckoo Songs
[4]
William Watson , Odes and Other Poems
[4]
Oscar Wilde ,
The Sphinx
[4]
W. B. Yeats ,
Irish poet published in the
United Kingdom , The Land of Heart's Desire
Other in English
Works published in other languages
Francis Jammes , Vers , (also
1892 and
1893 );
France
[10]
Henry Alfred Krishnapillai , Rakshanya Yatrikam ("The journey of salvation"),
India ,
Tamil language
Pierre Louÿs ,
Les Chansons de Bilitis ("The Songs of Bilitis"), erotic prose poems; Paris
Tekkan Yosano , Bokoku no on ("Obligation to the Fatherland"), a collection of literary criticism,
Japan
Awards and honors
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(July 2010 )
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 2 –
Robert Nathan (died
1985 ),
American poet and novelist
January 10 –
Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥 (died
1924 ),
Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gains attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet
May 21 –
Eileen Duggan (died
1972 ),
New Zealand
May 28 –
Loa Ho (died
1943 ),
Taiwan
June 14 –
W. W. E. Ross (died
1966 ),
Canadian geophysicist and
Imagist poet
June 16 –
Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水,
pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (died
1976 ),
Japanese
haiku poet in the
Taishō and
Shōwa periods (surname: Ogiwara)
August 31 –
Charles Reznikoff ,
American poet, part of the
Objectivist poetry movement
October 4 –
Jun Tsuji 辻 潤 (died
1944 ),
Japanese author, poet, essayist, musician and bohemian (surname: Tsuji)
October 7 –
Doris Huestis Speirs (died
1989 ),
Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet
October 14 –
E. E. Cummings (died
1962 ),
American poet and painter
October 18 –
H. L. Davis (died
1960 ),
American fiction writer and poet
October 22 –
Paul Grano (died
1975 ),
Australian poet and journalist
December 26 –
Jean Toomer ,
American poet and novelist, part of the
Harlem Renaissance
Zahida Khatun Sherwani , writing as Zay Khay Sheen (died
1922 ),
Indian
Urdu language woman poet
Deaths
Grave of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 24 –
Constance Fenimore Woolson (born
1840 ),
American novelist, short-story writer and poet; a grandniece of
James Fenimore Cooper
April 7 –
Benjamin Franklin King Jr. (born
1857 ),
American poet and humorist
April 18 –
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (born
1838 ),
Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist
May 16 –
Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷,
pen-name of Kitamura Montaro (born
1868 ),
Japanese , late
Meiji period poet, essayist and a founder of the modern Japanese
romantic literary movement (surname: Kitamura)
May 26 –
Roden Noel (born
1834 ),
English poet
July 5 –
Betty Paoli (born
1815 ),
Austrian poet
July 17 –
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (born
1818 ),
French poet of the
Parnassian movement
August 25 –
Celia Thaxter (born
1835 ),
American poet and story writer
September 5 –
Augusta Webster (born
1837 ),
English poet
October 7 –
Oliver Wendell Holmes (born
1809 ),
American physician, professor and poet
October 28 –
John Askham (born
1825 ),
English shoemaker and poet
December 3 –
Robert Louis Stevenson (born
1850 ),
Scottish novelist , poet, essayist and travel writer, of a brain haemorrhage, in
Samoa
December 29 –
Christina Rossetti (born
1830 ),
English poet, of cancer
Also:
See also
Notes
^ Sienna, Noam (2016-10-28).
"The Song of Chess by Avraham ibn Ezra" . Al-Shatranj . Archived from
the original on 2019-04-26. Retrieved 2019-04-25 .
^ Current Biography 1942 , p. 280
^
a
b
c Web page titled "CONFEDERATION VOICES: Seven Canadian Poets By JOHN COLDWELL ADAMS"], at the Canadian Poetry website, retrieved August 8, 2010
^
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b
c
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e
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g
h Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
^ Keith, W. J.,
"Poetry in English: 1867-1918" , article in The Canadian Encyclopedia , retrieved February 8, 2009
^ Wilson, Alastair (13 January 2013).
" "McAndrew's Hymn" (notes by Alastair Wilson)" .
Kipling Society . (Signed as A.J.W.W.). Retrieved 29 October 2017 .
^
a
b
c
d 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)
^
"Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)" , article, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition , retrieved May 13, 2009. 2009-05-16.
^
a
b 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
^ Rees, William,
The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950 : with prose translations , p 413, Penguin Classics, 1992,
ISBN
978-0-14-042385-3 , retrieved via Google Books, August 30, 2009
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