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Overview of the events of 1895 in poetry
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 ' poem, first published on July 4 and later set to music and known as "
America the Beautiful "
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France ).
Events
Oscar Wilde's arrest and conviction
February 18 –
John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (father of
Lord Alfred Douglas ,
Oscar Wilde 's lover), leaves his calling card at the
Albemarle Club in London, inscribed: "For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite", i.e. a
sodomite , inducing Wilde to charge him with
criminal libel .
[1]
[2]
April 3–5 – Libel case of Wilde v Queensberry at the
Old Bailey in London: Queensberry is acquitted. Evidence of Wilde's
homosexual relationships with young men renders him liable to criminal prosecution under the
Labouchere Amendment , while the
Libel Act 1843 renders him legally liable for the considerable expenses Queensberry has incurred in his defence, leaving Wilde penniless.
April 6 – Wilde is arrested at the
Cadogan Hotel , London, for "unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons" and detained on
remand in
Holloway Prison .
May 25 – Criminal case of Regina v. Wilde : After a retrial at the Old Bailey, Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and is taken to
Pentonville Prison to begin his two years' sentence of
hard labour .
[3]
November 21 – Wilde is transferred to
Reading Gaol .
Other events
Works published in English
Bliss Carman , A Seamark: A Threnody for Robert Louis Stevenson . Boston: Copeland & Day.
[5]
Bliss Carman , Behind The Arras: A Book Of The Unseen . Illus. Tom B. Meteyard. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe.
[5]
Sophia Almon Hensley , A Woman's Love Letters.
[6]
Emily Pauline Johnson , The White Wampum , Toronto: Copp Clark; London: John Lane.
[7]
Marie Joussaye , Songs that Quinte Sang .
[6]
Archibald Lampman , Lyrics of Earth
[8]
Arthur Stringer , Pauline and Other Poems .
Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald , The House of the Trees and Other Poems
[8]
Robert Bridges , Invocation to Music
[9]
Gelett Burgess , "The Purple Cow"
John Davidson , Fleet Street Eclogues , second series (first series,
1893 )
[9]
Austin Dobson , The Story of Rosina, and Other Verses
[9]
Maurice Hewlett , A Masque of Dead Florentines
[9]
Lionel Johnson , Poems
[9]
William Morris , The Tale of Beowulf
[9]
Coventry Patmore , The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
[9]
Arthur Quiller-Couch , editor, The Golden Pomp , anthology of 16th- and 17th-century English lyricists
Arthur Symons , London Nights
[9]
James Thomson , Poetical Works , posthumously published; edited, with a memoir, by
Bertram Dobell
[9]
William Watson , The Father of the Forest, and Other Poems
[9]
William Butler Yeats ,
Irish poet published in the
United Kingdom :
Editor, A Book of Irish Verse , anthology
[9]
Poems , drama and poetry
[9]
Thomas Bailey Aldrich , Unguarded Gates
[10]
Katharine Lee Bates , "Pikes Peak" a poem later set to music and becoming known as "
America the Beautiful ", originally published in the July 4 edition of The Congregationalist , a church periodical
Orelia Key Bell , Poems
Ina Coolbrith , Songs from the Golden Gate
[10]
Stephen Crane , The Black Riders and Other Lines
[10]
Paul Laurence Dunbar , Majors and Minors ,
[10] including "
We Wear the Mask "
William Dean Howells , Stops of Various Quills
[10]
James Russell Lowell , Last Poems , published posthumously
[10]
James Whitcomb Riley , "Little Orphant Annie"
Henry David Thoreau , Poems of Nature , published posthumously (died
1862 )
[10]
Other in English
Works published in other languages
José Santos Chocano ,
Peru :
En la aldea ("In the Village")
[12]
Iras santas
[12]
Francis Jammes , Un jour ,
France
[13]
Catulle Mendès , La Grive des vignes ,
France
[14]
Władysław Mickiewicz , Vie d'Adam Mickiewicz ("Life of Adam Mickiewicz"), four volumes, Poznań,
Poland , published beginning
1890 through this year; published by the poet's son
K. C. Kesava Pillai , Asanna-Marana Chinta Satakam , lyric in the form of a monologue of a man about to die,
Indian ,
Malayalam -language
[15]
Émile Verhaeren ,
Les villes tentaculaires ("The tentacular towns"),
Belgium ,
French language
Verner von Heidenstam , Dikter ("Poems"),
Sweden
Manilal Dwivedi ,
Atmanimajjan , a collection of
Gujarati language poems.
Awards and honors
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(July 2010 )
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 21 –
Davíð Stefánsson , (died
1964 ),
Icelandic poet
February 18 –
Lazarus Aaronson (died
1966 ),
English poet and academic economist
April 18 –
W. E. Harney (died
1962 ),
Australian
May 2 –
Lorenz Hart (died
1943 ),
American lyricist
May 19 –
Charles Hamilton Sorley (died
1915 ), Scots poet
May 28 –
Gamel Woolsey , born Elizabeth (Elsa) Gammell Woolsey (died
1968 in Spain),
American poet and writer
June 3 –
Robert Hillyer (died
1961 ),
American poet and academic
July 22 –
León de Greiff (died
1976 ),
Colombian poet
July 24 –
Robert Graves (died
1985 ),
English poet, translator and novelist
September 10 –
Viswanatha Satyanarayana (died
1976 ),
Indian poet writing in
Telugu ; popularly known as the Kavi Samraat ("Emperor of Poetry")
September 22 –
Babette Deutsch (died
1982 ),
American poet, critic, translator and novelist
September 28 –
Edward Harrington (died
1966 ),
Australian poet, writer of Bush ballads
November 1 –
David Jones , born Walter David Michael Jones (died
1974 ),
English (
Welsh -descended) artist and poet
November 15 –
Antoni Słonimski (died
1976 ),
Polish poet and writer
November 25 –
Helen Hooven Santmyer died
1986 ), American poet and author
December 14 –
Paul Éluard (died
1952 ),
French poet, a founder of
Surrealism
December 23 –
Lilian Bowes Lyon (died
1949 ),
English poet, a cousin of
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Unknown dates
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April 17 –
Jorge Isaacs (born
1837 ),
Colombian writer, politician and explorer
May 30 –
Frederick Locker-Lampson (born
1821 ),
English writer and poet
June 29 –
Thomas Henry Huxley (born
1825 ),
English controversialist, academic, scientist and occasional poet
October 7 –
William Wetmore Story (born
1819 ),
American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor
October 12 –
Cecil Frances Alexander (born
1818 ),
Irish hymn-writer and poet
October 21 –
Louisa Anne Meredith (born
1812 ),
Australian
November 4 –
Eugene Field (born
1850 ),
American writer best known for children's poetry and humorous essays
November 22 –
John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (born
1835 ),
English
November 28 –
Louisa Sarah Bevington (born
1845 ),
English poet and anarchist
[17]
See also
Notes
^ Holland, Merlin, ed. (2003). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde . London: Harper Collins. p. 300.
ISBN
0-00-714436-9 .
^
Holland, Merlin (2003). Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde . London: Fourth Estate. p. 300.
ISBN
0-00-715418-6 .
^
"Oscar Fingal O'Fflahartie Wills Wilde, Alfred Waterhouse Somerset Taylor, Sexual Offences ... 20th May 1895" . The Proceedings of the Old Bailey . April 2013. Retrieved 2014-11-24 .
^
"Chronology" . Journals: Captain Scott's last expedition . Oxford University Press. 2005. p. lvii.
ISBN
978-0-19-280333-7 . Retrieved 2011-04-04 .
^
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b
"Bliss Carman" . Canadian Poetry . UWO: Canadian Poetry Press. Retrieved 2014-11-24 .
^
a
b Gerson, Carole Gerson; Davies, Gwendolyn, eds. (1994).
Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War . Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL.
^ Porter, Joy; Roemer, Kenneth M. (2005).
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature . Cambridge University Press. p.
29 .
ISBN
978-0-521-82283-1 .
^
a
b Gustafson, Ralph (1967). The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse (Revised ed.). Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books.
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The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6 .
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g Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). "Preface".
Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 . New York: Oxford University Press. p. vi. 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.
^ Gokak, Vinayak Krishna (1970).
The Golden Treasury Of Indo-Anglian Poetry (1828-1965) (1st ed.). New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi (2006 reprint). p. 313.
ISBN
81-260-1196-3 . Retrieved 2010-08-06.
^
a
b
"José Santos Chocano" . Jaume University. Archived from
the original on 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2012-08-29 .
^
"Poet Francis Jammes (1868-1938)" . The Poetry Foundation.
Archived from the original on 2010-08-09. Retrieved 2009-08-30 .
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Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911).
"Mendès, Catulle" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 124.
^ Paniker, Ayyappa (1992).
"Modern Malayalam Literature" . In George, K. M. (ed.). Modern Indian Literature: an Anthology . Sahitya Akademi. pp. 231–255.
ISBN
9788172013240 . Retrieved 2009-01-10 .
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b Das, Sisir Kumar (1995). "A Chronology of Literary Events, 1911–1956". In Das, Sisir Kumar; et al. (eds.).
History of Indian Literature, 1911–1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy . Vol. 2.
Sahitya Akademi .
ISBN
978-81-7201-798-9 . Retrieved 2008-12-23 .
^ McGowran, Katharine (2004).
"Bevington , Louisa Sarah (1845–1895)" .
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