1892 in poetry

This article covers 1892 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

A. C. Benson, Le Cahier Jaune
Wilfred Seawen Blunt, Esther, Love Lyrics, and Natalia's
Austin Dobson, The Ballad of Beau Brocade, and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century
Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, including "Gunga Din," "Danny Deever", "Fuzzy-Wuzzy", "Mandalay" and "Gentlemen-Rankers", first book publication, Methuen
Richard Le Gallienne, English Poems
George Meredith:
* Modern Love: Aa Reprint
* Poems
Arthur Symons, Silhouettes
Alfred Tennyson:
* The Silent Voices
* The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems
William Watson, Lachrymae Musarum, and Other Poems, about the death of Tennyson
W. B. Yeats, The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics, including "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" and the first version of the verse drama The Countess Cathleen, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

Théodore de Banville, Dans la fournaise
Paul Claudel, La Ville, France
Francis Jammes, Vers,
Stéphane Mallarmé, Vers et prose
Catulle Mendès, Les Poesies de Catulle Mendes, in three volumes
François Villon, first publication of Poems 7–11 of his "Ballades en jargon" in Oeuvres complëtes de François Villon, publiès díaprës les manuscrits et les plus anciennes Èditions, edited by Auguste Longnon, Paris: Lemerre,, posthumous

Stefan George, Algabal, illustrated by Melchior Lechter; limited, private edition; German
Verner von Heidenstam, Hans Alienus, Swedish

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

January 3 – J. R. R. Tolkien, South African-born English fantasy novelist, poet, philologist and academic
January 8 – Horiguchi Daigaku 堀口大学, Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period poet and translator of French literature; member of the Shinshisha ; accompanies his father on overseas diplomatic postings
January 30 – Caresse Crosby, American poet, publisher, peace activist, socialite and patentee of a bra
January 31 – Ozaki Kihachi 尾崎喜八, Japanese, Shōwa period poet
February 8 – Ralph Chubb, English poet, printer and artist
February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright
March 8 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet
March 9 – Vita Sackville-West, English novelist, poet and gardener
March 16 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet
May 7 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress
May 17 – Leon Gellert, Australian poet
May 26 – Maxwell Bodenheim, American poet and novelist
June 12 – Djuna Barnes, American writer and poet
July 8 – Richard Aldington, English poet, novelist, writer, translator and biographer
August 11 – Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve, Scottish poet and nationalist
October 8 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet
November 12 – Guo Moruo 郭沫若, Chinese archaeologist, historian, poet, politician and writer
December 21 – Amy Clarke, English mystical poet, writer and teacher

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