1886 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley Society September 18 – The "Symbolist Manifesto" (Le Symbolisme) is published in French newspaper Le Figaro by Greek-born poet Jean Moréas, who announces that Symbolism is hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description," and that its goal instead is to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose "goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal" December 10 – American poet Emily Dickinson dies aged 55 of Bright's disease at the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts with fewer than a dozen of her poems published and is buried under the self-penned epitaph "Called Back". Following first publication of a collection of her poems in 1890, she will become regarded (with Walt Whitman) as one of the two quintessential nineteenth-century American poets Charles Mair, Tecumseh: A Drama, a closet drama in blank verse; published in Toronto. Charles G. D. Roberts, In Divers Tones. (Boston: Lothrop). William Alexander, St. Augustine's Holiday, and Other Poems Rudyard Kipling, Departmental Ditties, and Other Verse Edith Nesbit, Lays and Legends, first series (see also second series 1892) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Collected Works, posthumously published Alfred Lord Tennyson, Locksley Hall Sixty Years After William Butler Yeats, Mosada: A Dramatic Poem a short verse play in three scenes, published as a pamphlet of 100 copies paid for by his father (Yeats' first published work outside a journal), Irish poet published in the United Kingdom Charles Follen Adams, Cut, Cut Behind! William Ellery Channing, John Brown and the Heroes of Harpers Ferry Celia Thaxter, Idyls and Pastorals Jones Very, Poems and Essays John Greenleaf Whittier, St.

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1927 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 29 – T. S. Eliot enters the Church of England; in November he takes British citizenship. July 7 – James Joyce's collection Pomes Penyeach is published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris. August – T. S. Eliot's poem Journey of the Magi is published in Faber and Gwyer's Ariel poems series (London) illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. Alfred Bailey, Songs of the Saguenay and other poems.

1890 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Rhymers' Club founded in London by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who meet regularly and publish anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees include Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, , A. C. Hillier, John Todhunter, Arthur Symons, Ernest Radford and Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wilde attends some meetings held in private homes Dove Cottage, Grasmere in the English Lake District acquired by the Wordsworth Trust.

1942 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 28 – Spanish poet Miguel Hernández dies of tuberculosis as a political prisoner in a prison hospital having scrawled his last verse on the wall. April 3 – French poet Paul Éluard (Eugène Paul Grindel)'s poem "Liberté" is first published in the collection Poésie et vérité ("Poetry and truth") in Paris. In June it is reprinted by the magazine Fontaine, titled "Une seule pensée", to reach Vichy France.