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Concept
1899 in poetry
Summary
— Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden, first published this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
March 20 – Welsh "tramp-poet" W. H. Davies loses his foot trying to jump a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario.
William Hughes Mearns writes "Antigonish" this year; it won't be published until 1922.
Romesh Chunder Dutt's translation of the Ramayana into English verse is first published, in London.
Shinshisha ("New Poetry Society") founded by Yosano Tekkan in Japan.
W. T. Goodge, Hits! Skits! and Jingles!
Frances Jones Bannerman, Milestones. London.
William Wilfred Campbell, Beyond the Hills of Dream. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin.
Fidelis, Lays of the "True North," and Other Canadian Poems.
John Frederic Herbin, The Marshlands
Archibald Lampman, Alcyone, including "City of the End of Things", the author died while the book was being printed.
Thomas O'Hagan, Songs of the Settlement
Frederick George Scott, Poems Old and New (Toronto: William Briggs).
Francis Sherman, 'The Deserted City: Stray Sonnets. Boston: Copeland and Day.
Arthur Stringer, The Loom of Destiny.
Anthologies
Northland Lyrics, William Carman Roberts, Theodore Roberts & Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald; selected and arranged with a prologue by Charles G.D. Roberts and an epilogue by Bliss Carman. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co.
Hilaire Belloc, A Moral Alphabet
Laurence Binyon, Second Book of London Visions (see also First Book of London Visions 1896)
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Satan Absolved
Gordon Bottomley, Poems at White-Nights
Robert Buchanan, The New Rome: Poems and ballads of our empire
John Davidson, The Last Ballad, and Other Poems
Lord Alfred Douglas (anonymously in 1st edition), The City of the Soul
Ernest Dowson, Decorations: in Verse and Prose
Rudyard Kipling:
"The Absent-Minded Beggar"
"The White Man's Burden", appears first in McClure's Magazine in the United States; it is parodied this same year in "The Brown Man's Burden", by Henry Labouchère in Truth, a publication in London; the parody is reprinted in the United States in Literary Digest 18 (February 25)
Dora Sigerson, Ballads and Poems
Arthur Symons:
Images of Good and Evil
The Symbolist Movement in Literature, first collected edition of essays
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