1885 in poetry
This article covers 1885 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley Society
- Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement.
Works published in English
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems. Published at author's expense.
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Maude Ashurst Biggs, Master Thaddeus, first English translation of Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz
- Robert Bridges, Eros and Psyche
- Charles Stuart Calverley, Literary Remains
- Jean Ingelow, Poems: Third Series
- William Morris, Chants for Socialists
- Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Marino Faliero
- Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tiresias, and Other Poems, including "Balin and Balan", one of the Idylls of the King 1870; "The Last Tournament" 1871; Gareth and Lynette 1872, Idylls of the King 1889
- Katharine Tynan, ''Louise de la Valliere, and Other Poems''
United States">American poetry">United States
- Charles Follen Adams, Mother's Doughnuts
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems
- Will Carleton, City Ballads
- William Ellery Channing, Eliot
- Ada Langworthy Collier, "Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman"
- Paul Hamilton Hayne, The Broken Battalions
- Oliver Wendell Holmes:
- * Ralph Waldo Emerson, nonfiction
- * Illustrated Poems
- Eva Munson Smith, ''Woman in Sacred Song''
Other in English
Works published in other languages
- Catulle Mendès, Soirs moroses, Contes épiques, Philoméla, etc; Poésies, in seven volumes; France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 6 – Humbert Wolfe, English poet, writer and civil servant
- January 20 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎 放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo, Japanese, late Meiji period and Taishō period poet
- January 25 – Hakushū Kitahara 北原 白秋, pen-name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原 隆吉, Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period tanka poet
- April 21 – Mitsuko Shiga 四賀光子, pen-name of Mitsu Ota, Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period tanka poet, a woman
- April 26 – Dakotsu Iida 飯田 蛇笏, commonly referred to as "Dakotsu", pen names of Takeji Iida 飯田 武治, Japanese, haiku poet; trained under Takahama Kyoshi
- April 29 – Andrew Young, Scottish-born poet and clergyman
- May 12 – Saneatsu Mushanokōji 武者小路 実篤 實篤, sometimes known as "Mushakōji Saneatsu"; other pen-names included "Musha" and "Futo-o", Japanese, late Taishō period and Shōwa period novelist, playwright, poet, artist and philosopher
- May 13 – Hideo Nagata 長田秀雄, Japanese, Shōwa period poet, playwright and screenwriter
- July 1 – Dorothea Mackellar, Australian poet and fiction writer
- July 8 – Veikko Antero Koskenniemi, Finnish poet
- July 20 – Herman Wildenvey, born Portaas, Norwegian poet
- August 18 – Nettie Palmer, Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic; wife of Vance Palmer
- August 24 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山 牧水, Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
- August 28 – Vance Palmer,, Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic; husband of Nettie Palmer
- September 3 – Ghulam AhmadMahjur, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
- September 11 – D. H. Lawrence, English fiction writer, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic
- October 30 – Ezra Pound, American poet and editor
- November 9 – Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian Futurist poet and writer
- November 28 – Gladys Cromwell, American poet
- December 19 – F. S. Flint, English poet, translator and prominent member of the Imagist group
- Also
- * Govindagraj, also known as "Ram Ganes" Gadkari, Indian, Marathi-language poet, playwright and humorist
- * Ivan Zorman, Slovene-born poet and composer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 10 – Amable Tastu, French women of letters and poet
- May 22 – Victor Hugo, French novelist and poet
- April 8 – Susanna Moodie, Canadian poet
- April 30 – Jens Peter Jacobsen, Danish novelist and poet
- May 29 – Alfred Meissner, Austrian poet
- July 5 – Charles Whitehead, English poet, novelist and playwright
- July 15 – Rosalía de Castro, Spanish Galician poet and writer
- August 11 – Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton, English man of letters, poet and politician
- August 12 – Helen Hunt Jackson, American writer, novelist and poet
- September 24 – George Frederick Cameron, Canadian poet and journalist