1895 in poetry

This article covers 1895 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

February 18 - John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, leaves his calling card at the Albemarle Club in London, inscribed: "For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite", i.e. a sodomite, inducing Wilde to charge him with criminal libel.
April 3-5 - Libel case of Wilde v Queensberry at the Old Bailey in London: Queensberry is acquitted. Evidence of Wilde's homosexual relationships with young men renders him liable to criminal prosecution under the Labouchere Amendment, while the Libel Act 1843 renders him legally liable for the considerable expenses Queensberry has incurred in his defence, leaving Wilde penniless.
April 6 - Wilde is arrested at the Cadogan Hotel, London, for "unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons" and detained on remand in Holloway Prison.
May 25 - Criminal case of Regina v. Wilde: After a retrial at the Old Bailey, Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and is taken to Pentonville Prison to begin his two years' sentence of hard labour.
November 21 - Wilde is transferred to Reading Gaol.

Bliss Carman, A Seamark: A Threnody for Robert Louis Stevenson. Boston: Copeland & Day.
Bliss Carman, Behind The Arras: A Book Of The Unseen. Illus. Tom B. Meteyard. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe.
Sophia Almon Hensley, A Woman's Love Letters.
Emily Pauline Johnson, The White Wampum, Toronto: Copp Clark; London: John Lane.
Marie Joussaye, Songs that Quinte Sang.
Archibald Lampman, Lyrics of Earth
Arthur Stringer, Pauline and Other Poems.
Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, ''The House of the Trees and Other Poems''

Robert Bridges, Invocation to Music
Gelett Burgess, "The Purple Cow"
John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues, second series
Austin Dobson, The Story of Rosina, and Other Verses
Maurice Hewlett, A Masque of Dead Florentines
Lionel Johnson, Poems
William Morris, The Tale of Beowulf
Coventry Patmore, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower
Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor, The Golden Pomp, anthology of 16th- and 17th-century English lyricists
Arthur Symons, London Nights
James Thomson, Poetical Works, posthumously published; edited, with a memoir, by Bertram Dobell
William Watson, The Father of the Forest, and Other Poems
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
* Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, anthology
* Poems, drama and poetry

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Unguarded Gates
Katharine Lee Bates, "Pikes Peak" a poem later set to music and becoming known as "America the Beautiful", originally published in the July 4 edition of The Congregationalist, a church periodical
Orelia Key Bell, Poems
Ina Coolbrith, Songs from the Golden Gate
Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Majors and Minors, including "We Wear the Mask"
William Dean Howells, Stops of Various Quills
James Russell Lowell, Last Poems, published posthumously
James Whitcomb Riley, "Little Orphant Annie"
Henry David Thoreau, Poems of Nature, published posthumously

Sri Aurobindo, Song to Myrtilla, Calcutta: Arya Publishing House; India, Indian poetry in English
Banjo Paterson, The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses, major single-author collection of Australian bush poetry
William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
* Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, anthology
* Poems, drama and poetry

José Santos Chocano, Peru:
* En la aldea
* Iras santas
Francis Jammes, Un jour, France
Catulle Mendès, La Grive des vignes, France
Władysław Mickiewicz, Vie d'Adam Mickiewicz, four volumes, Poznań, Poland, published beginning 1890 through this year; published by the poet's son
K. C. Kesava Pillai, Asanna-Marana Chinta Satakam, lyric in the form of a monologue of a man about to die, Indian, Malayalam-language
Émile Verhaeren, Les villes tentaculaires, Belgium, French language
Verner von Heidenstam, Dikter, Sweden
Manilal Dwivedi, Atmanimajjan, a collection of Gujarati language poems.

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

January 21 - Davíð Stefánsson,, Icelandic poet
February 18 - Lazarus Aaronson, English poet and academic economist
April 18 - W. E. Harney, Australian
May 2 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist
May 19 - Charles Hamilton Sorley, Scots poet
May 28 - Gamel Woolsey, born Elizabeth Gammell Woolsey, American poet and writer
June 3 - Robert Hillyer, American poet and academic
July 22 - León de Greiff, Colombian poet
July 24 - Robert Graves, English poet, translator and novelist
September 10 - Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet writing in Telugu; popularly known as the Kavi Samraat
September 22 - Babette Deutsch, American poet, critic, translator and novelist
September 28 - Edward Harrington, Australian poet, writer of Bush ballads
November 1 - David Jones, born Walter David Michael Jones, English artist and poet
November 15 - Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet and writer
November 25 - Helen Hooven Santmyer died 1986), American poet and author
December 14 - Paul Éluard, French poet, a founder of Surrealism
December 23 - Lilian Bowes Lyon, English poet, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth The Queen MotherUnknown dates
* Padmadhar Chaliha, Indian, Assamese-language poet
* Max Dunn, Irish-born Australian
* Khavirakpan, Indian, Meitei language poet

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

April 17 - Jorge Isaacs, Colombian writer, politician and explorer
May 30 - Frederick Locker-Lampson, English writer and poet
June 29 - Thomas Henry Huxley, English controversialist, academic, scientist and occasional poet
October 7 - William Wetmore Story, American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor
October 12 - Cecil Frances Alexander, Irish hymn-writer and poet
October 21 - Louisa Anne Meredith, Australian
November 4 - Eugene Field, American writer best known for children's poetry and humorous essays
November 22 - John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley, English
November 28 - Louisa Sarah Bevington, English poet and anarchist