1883 in poetry explained
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published in English
- Francis James Child, editor, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, an anthology published in five volumes from this year to 1898[2]
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Decorative Plaques[2]
- Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus", written in aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for erection of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, posthumously published[2]
- James Whitcomb Riley, The Old Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems[2]
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The Bay of Seven Islands[2]
- Jones Very, Poems, published posthumously[2]
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion[2]
Works published in other languages
- Gabriele D'Annunzio, L'intermezzo di rime, Italy
- Mihail Eminescu, Luceafărul, Romania[3]
- Victor Hugo, La Légende des siècles, third series (first series 1859, second series 1877), France[4]
- Jan Neruda, Prosté motivy, Czechia
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev, Russian parody published posthumously
- Paul Verlaine, in November publishes an influential essay on Stéphane Mallarmé, which is later reprinted in the book Les Poetès maudits; France[5]
- Albert Verwey, Persephone, Netherlands
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 - Charles Badger Clark (died 1957), American
- January 6 - Khalil Gibran (died 1931), Lebanese American poet and artist
- January 21 - Olav Aukrust (died 1929), Norwegian poet and teacher
- February 7 - K. V. Simon, (died 1944), Indian Malayalam-language poet[6]
- February 18
- March 13 - Kōtarō Takamura 高村 光太郎 (died 1956), Japanese poet and sculptor; son of sculptor Kōun Takamura
- March 9 - Umberto Saba né Poli (died 1957), Italian poet and fiction writer
- March 16 - Ethel Anderson née Campbell (died 1958), English-born Australian
- March 27 (March 15 O.S.) - Marie Under (died 1980), Estonian
- May 7 - Anna Wickham, née Edith Alice Mary Harper, aka Edith Hepburn and John Oland (committed suicide 1947), English poet brought up in Australia
- June 27 - Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (died 1929), English Anglican priest and poet
- August 11 - Ernst Stadler (killed 1914 in World War I), German Expressionist poet
- September 16 - T. E. Hulme (killed 1917 in World War I), influential English poetry critic
- September 17 - William Carlos Williams (died 1963), American
- November 10 - Arthur Davison Ficke (died 1945), American
- December 10 - Alfred Kreymborg (died 1966), American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist
- December 12 - William Baylebridge (died 1942)), Australian poet and short-story writer
- September 14 - Marjorie Pickthall (died 1922), English-born Canadian
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes and References
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
- 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)
- Book: Perpessicius. Perpessicius
. Perpessicius. Studii eminesciene. Museum of Romanian Literature. Bucharest. 2001. 262, 265, 273, 278, 353, 382, 383. 973-8031-34-6.
- Book: Rees, William. The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950. 1992. 978-0-14-042385-3.
- Blackmore, E. H., and A. M. Blackmore, translators, Stéphane Malarmé Collected Poems and Other Verse, "Chronology" page xxxv, 2006, New York (this edition): Oxford University Press,, retrieved February 6, 2010 via Google Books
- Paniker, Ayyappa (1992), "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., ed., Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, published by Sahitya Akademi, pp. 231 - 255, retrieved January 10, 2009.
