1894 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

The Yellow Book, with a cover illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.

• April — The Yellow Book first published (continues to 1897).
• November 8 — Robert Frost's poem "My Butterfly" is published on this date in the New York Independent, marking the first sale of his poetry. He earned $15.^[1]
• December 22 — Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, a free interpretation of Stéphane Mallarmé's 1876 poem, "L'après-midi d'un faune", is premièred in Paris.

Works published in English

Canada

• Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré (original edition, 1983)^[2]
• Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey (an American), Songs from Vagabondia^[2]
• Frederick George Scott, My Lattice and Other Poems^[2]
• Arthur Stringer, Watchers of Twilight, and Other Poems

United Kingdom

• Laurence Binyon, Lyric Poems^[3]
• Robert Browning, Asolando
• Bliss Carman (Canadian) and Richard Hovey (American), Songs from Vagabondia^[4]
• John Davidson, Ballads and Songs,^[3] including "Thirty Bob a Week"
• Edmund Gosse, In Russet and Silver^[3]
• Selwyn Image, Poems and Carols^[3]
• Robert Fuller Murray, Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir (posthumous, edited by Andrew Lang)
• AE, pen name of George William Russell, Homeward^[3]
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, Astrophel and Other Poems
• Katharine Tynan, Cuckoo Songs^[3]
• William Watson, Odes and Other Poems^[3]
• Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx^[3]
• W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire

United States

• Bliss Carman, Songs from Vagabondia, with Richard Hovey, a Canadian author published in the United States^[5]
• Ina Coolbrith, The Singer of the Sea^[5]
• Benjamin Franklin King, Jr., Ben King's Verse (posthumous; 2nd edition 1898)
• George Santayana, Sonnets and Other Verses^[5]
• John B. Tabb, Poems^[5]

Other in English

• Henry Lawson, Short Stories in Prose and Verse, Australia^[6]
• Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, Mayura Sandesam, a sandesa kavya ("message poem") written on the model of Kalidasa's Meghaduta, India, Sanskrit^[7]
• W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire

Works published in other languages

• Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1892 and 1893); France^[8]
• Henry Alfred Krishnapillai, Rakshanya Yatrikam ("The journey of salvation"), India, Tamil language
• Pierre Louÿs, Les Chansons de Bilitis ("The Songs of Bilitis"), erotic prose poems; Paris
• Tekkan Yosano, Bokoku no on ("Obligation to the Fatherland"), a collection of literary criticism, Japan

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 2 – Robert Nathan (died 1985), American poet and novelist
• January 10 – Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥 (died 1924), Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gains attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet
• May 21 – Eileen Duggan (died 1972), New Zealand
• June 14 – W. W. E. Ross (died 1966), Canadian geophysicist and Imagist poet
• June 16 – Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (died 1976), Japanese haiku poet in the Taishō and Showa periods (surname: Ogiwara)
• August 31 – Charles Reznikoff, American poet, part of the Objectivist poetry movement
• October 4 – Jun Tsuji 辻 潤 (died 1944), Japanese author, poet, essayist, musician and bohemian (surname: Tsuji)
• October 7 – Doris Huestis Speirs (died 1989), Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet
• October 14 – E. E. Cummings (died 1962), American poet and painter
• October 18 – H. L. Davis (died 1960), American fiction writer and poet
• October 22 – Paul Grano (died 1975), Australian poet and journalist
• December 26 – Jean Toomer, American poet and novelist, part of the Harlem Renaissance
• Zahida Khatun Sherwani, writing as Zay Khay Sheen (died 1922), Indian Urdu language woman poet

Deaths

Grave of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 24 – Constance Fenimore Woolson (born 1840), American novelist, short-story writer and poet; a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper
• April 7 – Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. (born 1857), American poet and humorist
• April 18 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (born 1838), Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist
• May 16 – Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷, pen-name of Kitamura Montaro (born 1868), Japanese, late Meiji period poet, essayist and a founder of the modern Japanese romantic literary movement (surname: Kitamura)
• May 26 – Roden Noel (born 1834), English poet
• July 17 – Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (born 1818), French poet of the Parnassian movement
• August 25 – Celia Thaxter (born 1835), American poet and story writer
• September 5 – Augusta Webster (born 1837), English poet
• October 7 – Oliver Wendell Holmes (born 1809), American physician, professor and poet
• October 28 – John Askham (born 1825), English shoemaker and poet
• December 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson (born 1850), Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, of a brain haemorrhage, in Samoa
• December 29 – Christina Rossetti (born 1830), English poet, of cancer
• Also:
  • Robert Fuller Murray (born 1863), American-born Scottish poet, of consumption
  • Perunnelli Krishnan Vaidyar (born 1863), Indian, Malayalam-language poet^[7]

See also

• 19th century in poetry
• 19th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• Victorian literature
• French literature of the 19th century
• Symbolist poetry
• Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
• Poetry

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