1888 in poetry

This article covers 1888 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

June 3 – American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" is first published as the last of his humorous contributions to The San Francisco Examiner.

William Wilfred Campbell, Snowflakes and sunbeams. St. Stephen, NB: St. Croix Courier Press. Published at author's expense.
Archibald Lampman, Among the Millet. His first book of poems, including "Heat". Published at author's expense.
Frederick George Scott, The Soul's Quest, and Other Poems.

William Allingham, Flower Pieces, and Other Poems, illustrated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sir Edwin Arnold, translator from the Persian by Sa'di, With Sa'di in the Garden; or, The Book of Love
Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, Second Series
W. E. Henley, A Book of Verses
Andrew Lang, Grass of Parnassus
George Meredith, A Reading of Earth
William Wordsworth, The Recluse, printed from the original manuscript; Wordsworth's plan was to write a long autobiographical poem of three parts and a prelude posthumously published

Rubén Darío, Azul
James Russell Lowell, Heartsease and Rue
Władysław Mickiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz, sa vie et son œuvre, biography written by and collected works edited by the author's son, translated from the original Polish into French, Paris
I. L. Peretz, "Monish", Polish poet writing in Yiddish
Andrejs Pumpurs, Lāčplēsis, Latvia

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January 5 – Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni, Italian-born American poet
February 8 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Egyptian-born Italian modernist poet and writer
February 13 – Desmond FitzGerald, English-born Irish revolutionary, poet, publicist and politician
March 26 – F. W. Harvey, English rural poet and soldier
March 30 – Julian Grenfell, English soldier and poet
April 6 – Dan Andersson, Swedish poet
April 30 – John Crowe Ransom, American poet, essayist, social and political theorist and academic
June 8 – Senge Motomaro 千家元麿, Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period poet
June 13 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese heteronymic poet, writer, critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
June 22 – Alan Seeger, American poet
August 1 – Aline Kilmer, born Aline Murray, American poet, children's book author and essayist; wife of Joyce Kilmer
September 26 – T. S. Eliot, American-born English poet, playwright, editor, critic and writer
October 1 – Ryuko Kawaji 川路柳虹, pen-name of Kawaki Makoto, Japanese, Shōwa period poet and literary critic
October 14 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand modernist poet and short story writer
October 16 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright
October 19 – Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai, Indian Tamil-language poet and freedom fighter
date not known – Nilkanth Sharma Dal, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet

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