1892 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

  • William Butler Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin.[1]

Works published[]

Australia[]

Works of poetry involved in the "Bulletin Debate" series of poems in The Bulletin magazine about the true nature of life in the Australian bush[2]
Publication Date Author Title
9 July 1892 Henry Lawson Borderland (retitled Up The Country)
23 July 1892 Banjo Paterson In Defence of the Bush
30 July 1892 Edward Dyson The Fact of the Matter
6 August 1892 Henry Lawson In Answer to "Banjo", and Otherwise (retitled: The City Bushman)
20 August 1892 H.H.C.C.[3] The Overflow of Clancy
27 August 1892 Francis Kenna Banjo, of the Overflow
1 October 1892 Banjo Paterson In Answer to Various Bards (retitled An Answer to Various Bards)
8 October 1892 Henry Lawson The Poets of the Tomb
20 October 1894 Banjo Paterson A Voice from the Town

United Kingdom[]

  • A. C. Benson, Le Cahier Jaune[4]
  • , Esther, Love Lyrics, and Natalia's[4]
  • Austin Dobson, The Ballad of Beau Brocade, and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century[4]
  • Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, including "Gunga Din,"[4] "Danny Deever", "Fuzzy-Wuzzy", "Mandalay" and "Gentlemen-Rankers", first book publication, Methuen (see also Barrack-Room Balads, second series in 1896)
  • Richard Le Gallienne, English Poems[4]
  • George Meredith:
    • Modern Love: Aa Reprint (see Modern Love, 1862)[4]
    • Poems[4]
  • Arthur Symons, Silhouettes[4]
  • Alfred Tennyson:
    • The Silent Voices[4]
    • The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems[4]
  • William Watson, Lachrymae Musarum, and Other Poems, about the death of Tennyson[4]
  • W. B. Yeats, The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, including "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (a poem first published in 1890) and the first version of the verse drama The Countess Cathleen, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom[4]

United States[]

  • Ambrose Bierce, Black Beetles in Amber, verse, nonfiction and drama[5]
  • James Whitcomb Riley, Green Fields and Running Brooks[5]
  • Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, ninth edition[5]

Other in English[]

  • Frederick George Scott, Elton Hazlewood, Canada[6]

Works published in other languages[]

France[]

Other languages[]

  • Stefan George, Algabal, illustrated by Melchior Lechter; limited, private edition; German[14]
  • Verner von Heidenstam, Hans Alienus,

Awards and honours[]

Births[]

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

  • January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien (died 1973), South African-born English fantasy novelist, poet, philologist and academic
  • January 8 – Horiguchi Daigaku 堀口 大学 (died 1981), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period poet and translator of French literature; member of the ("The New Poetry Society"); accompanies his father on overseas diplomatic postings (surname: Horiguchi)
  • January 30 – Caresse Crosby (died 1970), American poet, publisher, peace activist, socialite and patentee of a bra
  • January 31 – Ozaki Kihachi 尾崎喜八 (died 1974), Japanese, Shōwa period poet (surname: Ozaki)
  • February 8 – Ralph Chubb (died 1960), English poet, printer and artist
  • February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay (died 1950), American poet and playwright
  • March 8 – Juana de Ibarbourou (died 1979), Uruguayan poet
  • March 9 – Vita Sackville-West (died 1962), English novelist, poet and gardener
  • March 16 – César Vallejo (died 1938), Peruvian poet
  • May 7 – Archibald MacLeish (died 1982), American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress
  • May 17 – Leon Gellert (died 1977), Australian poet
  • May 26 – Maxwell Bodenheim (murdered 1954), American poet and novelist
  • June 12 – Djuna Barnes (died 1982), American writer and poet
  • July 8 – Richard Aldington (died 1962), English poet, novelist, writer, translator and biographer
  • August 11 – Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (died 1978), Scottish poet and nationalist
  • October 8 (September 26 O.S.) – Marina Tsvetaeva (suicide 1941), Russian poet
  • November 12 – Guo Moruo 郭沫若 (died 1978), Chinese archaeologist, historian, poet, politician and writer
  • December 21 – Amy Clarke (died 1980), English mystical poet, writer and teacher

Deaths[]

Grave of John Greenleaf Whittier in Amesbury, MA

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

  • March 26 – Walt Whitman (born 1819), American poet and journalist
  • May 2 – Barcroft Boake (born 1866), Australian poet and boundary rider, probable suicide
  • July 15 – Thomas Cooper (born 1805), English Chartist, poet and religious lecturer
  • September 7 – John Greenleaf Whittier (born 1807), American poet
  • October 6 – Alfred, Lord Tennyson (born 1809), English Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
  • October 7 – Thomas Woolner (born 1825), English sculptor and poet
  • December 1 – Carlo Favetti (born 1819), Friulian politician and poet
  • December 3 (November 21 O.S.) – Afanasy Fet (born 1820), Russian lyric poet, essayist and short-story writer

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, "Chronology" chapter, p. 131
  2. ^ The "Bush Controversy" Archived 2005-03-01 at the Wayback Machine, Accessed on November 7, 2006
  3. ^ The identity of H.H.C.C. is uncertain, though at least one commentator believes it to be Henry Lawson - "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2009-05-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) The identification of "H.H.C.C." is taken from a note in Banjo Paterson: Poet by Accident, Colin Roderick, 1993, page 76.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c 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)
  6. ^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
  7. ^ Magnusson, Magnus, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, "BAINVILLE, Theodore Faullin de" article, p 101, 1990, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, ISBN 0-550-16040-X
  8. ^ Hartley, Anthony, editor, The Penguin Book of French Verse: 4: The Twentieth Century, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1967
  9. ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
  10. ^ 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
  11. ^ Blackmore, E. H., and A. M. Blackmore, translators, Stéphane Malarmé Collected Poems and Other Verse, "Chronology" page xxxvi, 2006, New York (this edition): Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-280362-7, retrieved February 6, 2010 via Google Books
  12. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mendès, Catulle" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 124–125.
  13. ^ Web page titled "François Villon (1431 - 1463)", Poetry Foundation website, retrieved November 14, 2009
  14. ^ "Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
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