1887 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Henry Lawson, "A Song for the Republic", English, the author's first published poem, in The Bulletin, October 1 issue; Australia Narsinhrao Divetia, Kusumamala, Gujarati, his first collection of poems, "considered a definite advance in modern Gujarati poetry because of its novel use of poetic diction", according to A handbook of Indian Literature" Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Narada Samvadam, Telugu long poem condemning banal, rule-minded poetry George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, English, posthumously published (by his brother). Louis-Honoré Fréchette, La légende d'un peuple, French, the author's best-known work, about episodes of Canadian history; French Canadian author published in Paris Sarah Anne Curzon, Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812: A Drama, and Other Poems, English. Susie Frances ed. The Canadian Birthday Book, English, poetry anthology. (Toronto: Robinson). William Douw Lighthall, Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure, English. ("Witness" Printing House). Thomas O'Hagan, A Gate of birginas, English. François Coppée, Arriere-saison; French Stéphane Mallarmé; all in French: Poésies ("Poetical Works"), in a deluxe, limited edition published in October Album de vers et de prose ("Selected Verse and Prose"), published in December William Butler Yeats, editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, English, an anthology, Dublin, Ireland William Allingham, Rhymes for Young Folk, English. Robert Browning, Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day, English. Richard Le Gallienne, My Lady's Sonnets George Meredith, Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life, English. Constance Naden, A modern apostle; The elixir of life; The story of Clarice, and other poems, English. Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods, English. Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Jubilee, English. Katharine Tynan, Shamrocks, English, published in the United Kingdom by an Irish poet.