1898 in poetry

This article covers 1898 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

The "Generation of '98" in Spain

The "Generation of '98" was a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War. Jose Martínez Ruiz, commonly known as Azorín, comes up with the name in 1913 to allude to the moral, political, and social crisis produced by Spain's defeat. Writing mostly after 1910, the group reinvigorates Spanish letters, revives literary myths and breaks with classical schemes of literary genres. In politics, members of the movement often justify radicalism and rebellion.

Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

Bliss Carman, By the Aurelian Wall
William Henry Drummond, Phil-o-rum’s Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres: Two Poems, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
Charles G. D. Roberts, New York Nocturnes and Other Poems
Duncan Campbell Scott, Labor and the Angel, including "The Onondaga Madonna", Canada

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

Alfred Austin:
* Lamia's Winter-Quarters
* Songs of England
Robert Bridges, Poetical Works, Volume 1; published in six volumes through 1905
Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems and Other Verses
W. E. Henley, Poems
Henry Newbolt, The Island Race
Stephen Phillips, Poems
William Watson, The Hope of the World, and Other Poems
Theodore Watts-Dunton, The Coming of Love, and Other Poems
Oscar Wilde, published under the pen name "C.3.3", ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol''

United States">American poetry">United States

Florence Earle Coates, Poems
Paul Laurence Dunbar
* Folks from Dixie
* The Uncalled
Louise Imogen Guiney, England and Yesterday
Richard Hovey, Along the Trail: A Book of Lyrics
Edgar Lee Masters, A Book of Verses
Josephine Preston Peabody, ''The Wayfarers''

Other in English

Victor Daley, At Dawn and Dusk, Australia

Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

Francis Jammes:
* De l'Angélus de l'aube à l'Angélus du soir
* Quatorze prières
Charles Van Lerberghe, ''Entrevisions''

Other languages

Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Verzen, Netherlands
José Santos Chocano, Selva virgen, Peru
Manilal Dwivedi, Amar Asha, India, Gujarati-language, in his magazine Sudarshan
Naim Frashëri, Histori e Skënderbeut and Qerbelaja, Albania
Chanda Jha, Mithila bhasa Ramayana, India, Maithili-language
Gregorio Martínez Sierra, El poema del trabajo, Spain

Births

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

January 19 – Philip Child, Canadian novelist and poet
February 6 – Melvin B. Tolson, African American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, trade unionist and politician
February 9 – Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉, Japanese
February 18 – Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician
February 19 – Richard Rudzitis, Latvian poet, writer and philosopher
March 9 – Fuyue Anzai 安西冬衛, Japanese, poet and co-founder of the magazine Shi To Shiron, surname: Anzai
March 20 – Luis Palés Matos, Puerto Rican poet
April 2 – Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet writing in English and film actor
April 10 – Horace Gregory, American poet, translator, literary critic and academic; husband of poet and editor Marya Zaturenska
April 24 – Govinda Krishna Chettur, Indian poet writing in English
April 26 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet
April 28 – William Soutar, Scottish poet writing in English and Scots
May 7 – Dorothy Vena Johnson, African American educator and poet
June 4 – Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet
June 5 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet
June 13 – Anton Podbevšek, Slovene avant-garde poet
July 17 – Richard Harry Graves, Australian
July 22 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American author, poet, short story writer and novelist
August 15 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet
August 28 – Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic and journalist
September 15 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist
October 22
* Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet
* Edgell Rickword, English poet, critic, journalist, literary editor and a leading communist intellectual in the 1930s
November 14 – Benjamin Fondane, né Wechsler, Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher

Deaths

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

January 14 – Lewis Carroll, English writer of fiction for children and nonsense verse
January 26 – Cornelia J. M. Jordan, U.S. poet and lyricist
March 6 – Felice Cavallotti, Italian poet, playwright and politician, killed in duel
May 10 – Alexander MacGregor Rose, Scottish-born Canadian poet
July 20 – Jean Ingelow, English poet and novelist
July 24 – Evan MacColl, Scottish-born Canadian poet writing in Scottish Gaelic and English
September 9 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French symbolist poet
September 20 – Theodor Fontane, German novelist and poet
October 1 – Manilal Dwivedi, Indian, Gujarati-language writer
November 7 – Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Scottish Gaelic poet
Kavishwar Dalpatram Dahyabhai, popularly known as "Dalpatram", Indian, Gujarati-language poet; father of poet Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi