1885 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement.
Works published in English
- Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems.[1] Published at author's expense.
- Robert Bridges, Eros and Psyche[2]
- C. S. Calverley, Literary Remains,[2] posthumously published
- Jean Ingelow, Poems: Third Series (see also Poems 1863, Poems 1880)[2]
- William Morris, Chants for Socialists[2]
- Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses[2]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Marino Faliero
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tiresias, and Other Poems, including "Balin and Balan", one of the Idylls of the King 1870; "The Last Tournament" 1871; Gareth and Lynette 1872, Idylls of the King 1889[2]
- Katharine Tynan, Louise de la Valliere, and Other Poems[2]
- Charles Follen Adams, Mother's Doughnuts[3]
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems[4]
- Will Carleton, City Ballads[4]
- William Ellery Channing, Eliot[4]
- Paul Hamilton Hayne, The Broken Battalions[4]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Other in English
Works published in other languages
- Catulle Mendès, Soirs moroses, Contes épiques, Philoméla, etc; Poésies, in seven volumes; France[6]
Awards and honors
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 6 – Humbert Wolfe (died 1940), English poet, writer and civil servant
- January 20 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo (died 1926), Japanese, late Meiji period and Taishō period poet
- January 25 – Hakushū Kitahara 北原 白秋, pen-name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原 隆吉 (died 1942), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period tanka poet
- April 21 – Mitsuko Shiga 四賀光子, pen-name of Mitsu Ota (died 1956), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period tanka poet, a woman
- April 26 – Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏, commonly referred to as "Dakotsu", pen names of Takeji Iida 飯田 武治 (died 1962), Japanese, haiku poet; trained under Takahama Kyoshi
- May 12 – Saneatsu Mushanokōji 武者小路 実篤 實篤, sometimes known as "Mushakōji Saneatsu"; other pen-names included "Musha" and "Futo-o" (died 1976), Japanese, late Taishō period and Showa period novelist, playwright, poet, artist and philosopher
- May 13 – Hideo Nagata 長田秀雄 (died 1949), Japanese, Showa period poet, playwright and screenwriter
- July 1 – Dorothea Mackellar (died 1968), Australian poet and fiction writer
- August 18 – Nettie Palmer, (died 1964), Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic; wife of Vance Palmer
- August 24 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水 (died 1928), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
- August 28 – Vance Palmer, (died 1959), Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic; husband of Nettie Palmer
- 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
- Also:
- Govindagraj, also known as "Ram Ganes" Gadkari (died 1919), Indian, Marathi-language poet, playwright and humorist[7]
- Ghulam Ahmad Mahjur (died 1952), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet[7]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 22 – Victor Hugo, French
- April 8 – Susanna Moodie (born 1803), Canada
- April 30 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (born 1847), Danish novelist and poet[8]
- July 5 – Charles Whitehead (born 1804), English poet, novelist and playwright
- July 15 – Rosalía de Castro (born 1837), Spanish writer and poet
- August 11 – Monckton Milnes
- August 12 – Helen Hunt Jackson (born 1830), American writer, novelist and poet
- September 24 – George Frederick Cameron (born 1854 in poetry), Canadian poet and journalist
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
- Poetry
Notes
- ^ "Frederick George Scott," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011.
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ "Mother's doughnuts" by Charles Follen Adams (Harper's Magazine)
- ^ a b c d e f 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)
- ^ Knippling, Alpana Sharma, "Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature in English", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ "Catulle Mendes" article in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 edition, as published at the "LoveToKnow 1911 Classic Encyclopedia" website, retrieved February 7, 2010
- ^ a b Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in 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
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications