1885 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Works published

• Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, Marino Faliero
• Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tiresias and Other Poems, and "Balin and Balan"

Births

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

• July 1 - Dorothea Mackellar (died 1968), Australian poet
• August 24 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (died 1928), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
• September 11 - D. H. Lawrence (died 1930), English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic
• October 30 - Ezra Pound, poet (died 1972), American poet and editor
• December 19 - F. S. Flint (died 1960), English poet, translator and prominent member of the Imagist group

Deaths

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

• February 19 - Leonard Bacon (born 1802), American Congregational preacher and writer
• May 22 - Victor Hugo, French
• George Cameron
• Helen Hunt Jackson
• Monckton Milnes
• Susanna Moodie (born 1803), Canada
• Charles Whitehead

See also

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry