Rstykt

— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If—, first published this year

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• July 7 – Charles Thomas Wooldridge is hanged at Reading Gaol in England for uxoricide, inspiring fellow-prisoner C.3.3. Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897).


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  William Morris publishes the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer's works

Works published in English

Australia

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  John Le Gay Brereton:
  
  
  
  • Perdita, A Sonnet Record
  
  
  • The Song of Brotherhood and Other Verses
  
  
  
  


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  Edward Dyson, Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines
  


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  Henry Lawson:
  
  
  
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    In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses^[1]
    
  
  
  • "The Teams"
  
  
  
  


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  Banjo Paterson:
  
  
  
  • The Man from Snowy River
  
  
  • "Mulga Bill's Bicycle"
  
  
  
  

Canada

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  Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, More Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States^[2]
  


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  Charles G. D. Roberts, The Book of the Native^[3]
  


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  Charles Sangster, Our Norland. Toronto: Copp Clark, n.d.^[4]
  


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  Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger, Canada^[5]
  


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  Francis Sherman
  
  
  
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    In Memorabilia Mortis. Boston: Copeland and Day.^[6]
    
  
  
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    Matins. Boston: Copeland and Day.^[6]
    
  
  
  
  

United Kingdom

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  Hilaire Belloc:
  
  
  
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    The Bad Child's Book of Beasts^[7]
    
  
  
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    Verses and Sonnets^[7]
    
  
  
  
  


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  Laurence Binyon, First Book of London Visions (see also Second Book of London Visions 1899)^[7]
  


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  Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, publishing under the pen name "Anodos", Fancy's Following (see also Fancy's Guerdon 1897)^[7]
  


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  Ernest Christopher Dowson, Verses,^[7] including "Non Sum Qualis Eram"


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  A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad,^[7] including "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty"^[8]
  


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  Laurence Houseman, Green Arras^[7]
  


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  Rudyard Kipling, The Seven Seas^[7]
  


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  Alice Meynell, Other Poems^[7]
  


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  Henry Newbolt, "Drake's Drum", published in the St. John's Gazette (first published in book form in Admirals All, and Other Verses 1897)^[7]
  


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  John Cowper Powys, Odes, and Other Poems^[7]
  


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  Arthur Quiller-Couch, Poems and Ballads
  


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  Christina Rossetti, New Poems, edited by W. M. Rossetti^[7]
  


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  Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel, and Other Verses^[7]
  


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  Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Tale of Balen^[7]
  


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  William Watson, The Purple East^[7]
  

United States

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  Thomas Bailey Aldrich:
  
  
  
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    Judith and Holofernes^[2]
    
  
  
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    Later Lyrics^[2]
    
  
  
  
  


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  Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, More Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States^[2]
  


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  Emily Dickinson, Poems: Third Series^[2]
  


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  Paul Laurence Dunbar
  
  
  
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    Lyrics of Lowly Life^[2]
    
  
  
  • Majors and Minors
  
  
  • "We Wear the Mask"
  
  
  
  


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  Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Quiet Road^[2]
  


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  Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Torrent and the Night Before^[2]
  

Works published in other languages

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  Nérée Beauchemin, Les floraisons matutinales; the author's first published collection; French language; Trois-Rivières, Canada^[9]
  


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  José Santos Chocano, Azahares, Peru^[10]
  


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  Richard Dehmel, Weib und Welt ("Woman and World"), German
  


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  Narasinghrao, Hridayaveena containing khandakavyas, garbis (religious, ethical and romantic lyrics), and poems about nature and women (Indian, writing in Gujarati)^[11]
  


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  Tekkan Yosano, Tozai namboku ("East-west, north-south"), tanka poetry, Japan
  

Awards and honors

• 
  Alfred Austin made Poet Laureate
  

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 26 – Walter D'Arcy Cresswell (died 1960), New Zealand
  


• February 26 – Andrei Zhdanov (died 1948), a Soviet official who persecuted poets, writers and artists under the Zhdanov doctrine
  


• May 9 – Austin Clarke (died 1974), Irish poet, playwright and judge


• August 27 – Kenji Miyazawa 宮沢 賢治 (died 1933), Japanese, early Shōwa period poet and author of children's literature (surname: Miyazawa)


• September 22 – Uri Zvi Grinberg (died 1981), Jewish
  


• October 12 – Eugenio Montale (died 1981), Italian
  


• October 30 – Kostas Karyotakis (died 1928), Greek
  


• December 1 – Teiko Tomita (died 1990), Japanese-born American poet who wrote in Japanese^[12]
  

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

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  January 8 – Paul Verlaine (born 1844), French
  


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  March 20 – Alexander McLachlan (born 1818), Scottish-born Canadian
  


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  May 11 – Henry Cuyler Bunner (born 1855), American novelist and poet


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  October 3 – William Morris (born 1834), English poet, writer, designer and socialist


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  October 29 – Thomas Edward Brown (born 1830), Manx poet writing in English
  


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  November 26
  
  
  
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    Mathilde Blind (born 1841), German-born British poet writing in English
    
  
  
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    Coventry Patmore (born 1823), English
    
  
  
  
  

See also

Rudyard Kipling in his study, about this year

• 19th century in poetry


• 19th century in literature


• List of years in poetry


• List of years in literature


• Victorian literature


• French literature of the 19th century


• Symbolist poetry


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  Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
  


• Poetry

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