1891 in poetry

This article covers 1891 in poetry.
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Events

1891–1893 –The Rhymers Club gathers at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W. B. Yeats, and others.
c. Late June – In a meeting of decadent poets in London, Oscar Wilde is first introduced to Lord Alfred Douglas by Lionel Johnson at Wilde's Tite Street home.
Approximate date – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, G. K. Chesterton and fellow pupils of St Paul's School, London, compose the first pseudo-biographical comic verses which become known as clerihews.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Sisters' Tragedy
Nathaniel Ames, The Essays, Humor, and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, published posthumously
Emily Dickinson, Poems: Second Series
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, fiction, nonfiction and poetry
Herman Melville, Timoleon
Harriet Monroe, Valeria and Other Poems
Frank Norris, Yvernelle: A Tale of Feudal France
Lucy Creemer Peckham, Sea Moss
Lizette Woodworth Reese, ''A Handful of Lavender''

Stefan George, Pilgerfahrten, limited private edition; German
Francis Jammes, Six Sonnets, France
Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Gaelic Songs and Poems, Scottish Gaelic published in the United Kingdom
Guido Mazzoni, Poesie, Italy

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 15 – Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school
April 9 – Lesbia Harford, Australian
May 15 – David Vogel, Russian-born Hebrew poet
May 21 – John Peale Bishop, American poet and writer
May 22
* Johannes R. Becher, German poet, novelist and politician
* Edwin Gerard, Australian poet
July 5 – Tin Ujević, Croatian poet
August 19 – Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet
August 25 – David Shimoni, Israeli poet and writer
September 23 – Arthur Graeme West, English military writer and poet
November 14 – Josef Magnus Wehner, German poet and playwright
November 23 – Masao Kume 久米正雄 writing under the pen-name Santei, Japanese, late Taishō period and early Shōwa period playwright, novelist and haiku poet
December 9 – Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet, journalist and literary critic
December 10 – Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and dramatist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
Also – Peter Hopegood, born Cedric Hopegood, English-born Australian poet

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

July 24 – Douglas Smith Huyghue, Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist and artist
August 12 – James Russell Lowell, 72, American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist
August 14 – John Henry Hopkins Jr., American clergyman and hymnist
August 22 – Jan Neruda, Czech writer
September 28 – Herman Melville, 82, American novelist, essayist and poet
November 10 – Arthur Rimbaud, 37 French poet
Also:
* Venmani Acchen Nambudiri, Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry
* Moyinkutty Vaidyar, Indian, Malayalam-language poet