1889 in poetry

Events

• June 8 - English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins dies aged 54 in Dublin of typhoid; he is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery; most of his poetry remains unpublished until 1918.
• December 12 - English poet Robert Browning dies aged 77 at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice on the same day his book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published; he is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; Alfred, Lord Tennyson will be buried adjacently.

  Works published

Canada

• William Wilfred Campbell,
• Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, Acadian Legends and Lyrics, Canada
• Sophia Almon Hensley, Poems.
• James McIntyre, Poems of James McIntyre.

• Songs of the Great Dominion: Voices from the Forests and Waters, the Settlements and Cities of Canada.. 500-page anthology of Canadian poetry.

  United Kingdom

• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, A New Pilgrimage, and Other Poems
• Robert Bridges, The Feast of Bacchus
• Thomas Edward Brown, The Manx Witch, and Other Poems
• Robert Browning, Asolando; Fancies and facts
• Amy Levy, A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verse
• Walter Pater, Appreciations: With an Essay on Style, criticism
• Emily Pfeiffer, Flowers of the Night
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, Third Series
• Arthur Symons, Days and Nights
• Alfred Lord Tennyson:
• * Demeter and Other Poems
• * He writes "Crossing the Bar" in October as he crosses the Solent
• * Idylls of the King, complete edition of the Idylls, with final titles
• W.B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, including "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Song of the Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child", "Down By The Salley Gardens", Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

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• Eugene Field, A Little Book of Western Verse, including "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynkyn, Blynkyn and Nod", United States
• Louise Chandler Moulton, Poems
• Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, eighth edition

  Other

• Giosuè Carducci, Barbarian Odes, Book 3, Italy
• Holger Drachmann, Sangenes Bog, Denmark
• Herman Gorter, Mei, Netherlands
• Banjo Paterson, "Clancy of the Overflow", Australia
• Luigi Pirandello, Mal giocondo, Italy
• Govardhanram N. Tripathi, Lilavatijivankala, a tribute to his dead daughter, Indian, writing in Gujarati
• Verner von Heidenstam, Vallfart och vandringsår, Sweden
• W.B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, including "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Song of the Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child", "Down By The Salley Gardens" Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

  Awards and honors

Births

• February 3 - Artur Adson, Estonian poet and critic
• February 11 - Acharya Ramlochan Saran, Indian, Maithili-language poet littérateur, grammarian, publisher and poet
• March 1 - Okamoto Kanoko, 岡本かの子, pen name of Ohnuki Kano, Japanese, author, tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods; mother of artist Tarō Okamoto
• April 27 - Arnulf Øverland, Norwegian
• June 23
• * Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova, Russian
• * Rofū Miki, 三木 露風, pen name of Masao Miki, Japanese Symbolist poet and writer
• June 28 - Abbas Al Akkad عباس محمود العقاد, Egyptian, Arabic-language writer and poet, a founder of the Divan school of poetry
• July 30 - Dorothy Wellesley, born Dorothy Violet Ashton and styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943, English socialite, author, poet and literary editor
• August 5 - Conrad Aiken, American writer
• August 19 - Arthur Waley, English Orientalist
• August 29 - Capel Boake, Australian writer
• September 13 - Pierre Reverdy, French
• September 15 - Claude McKay, Jamaican-born writer and poet of the Harlem Renaissance
• September 17 - Katka Zupančič, Slovene children's poet
• September 29 - Matilde Hidalgo, Ecuadorian physician, poet and women's rights activist
• October 31 - Napoleon Lapathiotis, Greek
• November 11 - Mantarō Kubota, 久保田万太郎, Japanese author, playwright and poet
• December 8 - Hervey Allen, American writer
• Also:
• * Harley Matthews, Australian
• * John Munro, Scottish Gaelic
• * V. C. Balakrishna Panikker, Indian, Malayalam-language poet
• * Vasilis Rotas, Greek
• * Fredegond Shove, née Maitland, English

  Deaths

• March 25 - Cornelius Mathews, 71, American poet
• May 31 - Horatius Bonar, 80, Scottish hymnodist
• June 8 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, 44, English poet, in Ireland
• June 15 - Mihai Eminescu, 39, Romanian poet
• September 10 - Amy Levy, 27, English poet and novelist, by suicide
• September 18 - John Barr, 79, Scottish-born New Zealand poet
• September 23 - Eliza Cook, 70, English poet
• October 25 - Émile Augier, 69, French dramatist and poet
• November 18 - William Allingham, 65 Irish-born poet
• November 29 - Martin Farquhar Tupper, 79, English writer and poet
• December 10 - Ludwig Anzengruber, 50, Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet
• December 12 - Robert Browning, 77, English poet, in Italy
• December 23 - Constance Naden, 31, English poet and philosopher, of infection