1893 in poetry

Events

• June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford, designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford
• Founding of Vangiya Sahitya Parishad in Bengal

Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs.
• Bliss Carman, Low Tide at Grand Pré
• Mary Jane Katzmann, Frankincense and Myrrh: Selections from the poems of the late Mrs. William Lawson . Harry Piers and Constance Fairbanks ed. Halifax.
• Thomas O'Hagan, In Dreamland and Other Poems
• Charles G. D. Roberts, Songs of the Common Day
• Duncan Campbell Scott, The Magic House and Other Poems
• James Elgin Wetherell, ed. ''Later Canadian Poems''

Ireland">Irish poetry">Ireland

• Douglas Hyde, editor and translator from the Gaelic, The Love Songs of Connacht, Ireland
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and Edwin John Ellis, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Wilfred Scawen Blunt, published anonymously, Griselda
• Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing under the pen name "Michael Field", Underneath the Bough
• Robert Bridges, The Humours of the Court: a Comedy; and Other Poems
• Thomas Edward Brown, Old John, and Other Poems
• John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues, first series
• W. E. Henley, London Voluntaries; The Song of the Sword; and Other Verses
• George MacDonald, Poetical Works
• Alice Meynell, Poems
• Francis Thompson, Poems, including "The Hound of Heaven"
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
• W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, and Edwin John Ellis, editors, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch

United States">American poetry">United States

• Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pre, Canadian author published in the United States
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, Oak and Ivy
• Hamlin Garland, Prairie Songs
• Louise Imogen Guiney, A Roadside Harp
• Harriet Monroe, The Columbian Ode
• James Whitcomb Riley, ''Poems Here at Home''

Other in English

• Henry Lawson, "Saint Peter", Australia
• Banjo Paterson, "The Geebung Polo Club", first published in The Antipodean, Australia

Works published in other languages

• Carlo Favetti, Rime e prose in vernacolo goriziano, Friuli
• Francis Jammes, Vers, ; France
• Maryana Marrash, Bint fikr, Ottoman Syria
• Guido Mazzoni, Voci della vita, Italy
• Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Les Reposoirs de la procession, published starting this year and ending in 1907; France

Births

• January 3 – W. N. Hodgson, English war poet
• January 10 – Vicente Huidobro, Chilean Creacionismo poet and editor
• January 17 – Evelyn Scott, American writer and poet
• January 18 – Jorge Guillén, Spanish
• February 11 – Nan Shepherd, Scottish novelist and poet
• February 26 – Ivor Richards, English literary critic
• March 4 – Ewart Alan Mackintosh, English war poet of Scottish ancestry
• March 6 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉, Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period poet
• March 18 – Wilfred Owen, English war poet
• March 26 – Richard Church, English poet
• July 13 – Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar, Welsh poet and occultist
• July 19 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet and playwright
• July 26 – George Grosz, German artist and poet
• August 22 – Dorothy Parker, American writer, poet and wit
• September 6 or 16 – Robert Nichols, English war poet
• September 28 – Giannis Skarimpas, Greek
• October 9 – Mário de Andrade, Brazilian poet and academic
• October 14 – May Wedderburn Cannan, English war poet
• October 26
• * Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet and novelist
• * Thomas MacGreevy, Irish poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland
• November 3 – Arthur Bourinot, Canadian poet and lawyer
• December 4 – Herbert Read, English anarchist poet and critic of literature and art
• December 6 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, English novelist and poet
• December 30 – Gerald Bullett, English writer and poet
• Also – Dharanidhar Sharma Koirala, Indian, Nepali-language poet

Deaths

• January 23 – Phillips Brooks, American Episcopal clergyman and hymnwriter
• January 15 – Fanny Kemble, English author, poet, playwright and actress
• April 19 – John Addington Symonds, English poet and literary critic
• August 5 – Sarah T. Bolton, née Barrett, American poet
• December 5 – Matsudaira Katamori 松平容保, Japanese samurai and poet in the last days of the Edo period and the early to mid Meiji period
• December 9 – Charles Sangster, Canadian poet
• Also – Venmani Mahan Namboodiri, Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry