1892 in poetry

Events

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

  Works published

Australia">Australian poetry">Australia

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

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

  United States">American poetry">United States

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

  Other in English

• Frederick George Scott, Elton Hazlewood, Canada

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Théodore de Banville, Dans la fournaise
• Paul Claudel, La Ville, France
• Francis Jammes, Vers,
• Stéphane Mallarmé, Vers et prose
• Catulle Mendès, Les Poesies de Catulle Mendes, in three volumes
• François Villon, first publication of Poems 7–11 of his "Ballades en jargon" in Oeuvres complëtes de François Villon, publiès díaprës les manuscrits et les plus anciennes Èditions, edited by Auguste Longnon, Paris: Lemerre,, posthumous

  Other languages

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

  Awards and honours

Births

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

  Deaths

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