Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Oscar Wilde's arrest and conviction - February 18 — John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, father of Oscar Wilde's lover, left a calling card at one of Wilde's clubs, the Albemarle. On the back of the card he wrote "For Oscar Wilde posing as a Somdomite" (a misspelling of "Sodomite"); Wilde charged him with criminal libel
- April — the government takes over prosecution of the case but loses it as the defense brings in evidence of Wilde's past liaisons with men and teenage boys
- April 6 — Wilde arrested at the Cadogan Hotel, London, and charged with "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons"
- May 25 — Wilde convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labor
[edit] Works published in English - Robert Bridges, Invocation to Music[1]
- Gelett Burgess, "The Purple Cow"
- John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues, second series (first series, 1893)[1]
- Austin Dobson, The Story of Rosina, and Other Verses[1]
- Maurice Hewlett, A Masque of Dead Florentines[1]
- Lionel Johnson, Poems[1]
- William Morris, The Tale of Beowulf[1]
- Coventry Patmore, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower[1]
- Arthur Symons, London Nights[1]
- James Thomson, Poetical Works, posthumously published; edited, with a memoir, by Bertram Dobell[1]
- William Watson, The Father of the Forest, and Other Poems[1]
- William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom:
- Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, anthology[1]
- Poems, drama and poetry[1]
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Unguarded Gates[2]
- Katharine Lee Bates, "America the Beautiful"
- Ina Coolbrith, Songs from the Golden Gate[2]
- Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines[2]
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, Majors and Minors[2]
- William Dean Howells, Stops of Various Quills[2]
- James Russell Lowell, Last Poems, published posthumously[2]
- Henry David Thoreau, Poems of Nature, published posthumously (died 1862)[2]
- James Whitcomb Riley, "Little Orphant Annie"
[edit] Other in English [edit] Works published in other languages - Francis Jammes, Un jour, France[4]
- Władysław Mickiewicz, Vie d'Adam Mickiewicz ("Life of 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[5]
[edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - May 19 – Charles Hamilton Sorley (died 1915), Scots poet
- June 3 – Robert Hillyer (died 1961), American poet and academic
- July 24 – Robert Graves (died 1985), English poet, translator and novelist
- September 10 – Viswanatha Satyanarayana (died 1976), Indian poet writing in Tegulu; popularly known as the Kavi Samraat ("Emperor of Poetry")
- September 22 – Babette Deutsch (died 1982), American poet, critic, translator, and novelist
- September 28 – Edward Harrington (died 1966), Australian poet, wrote Bush ballads
- December 14 – Paul Éluard (died 1952), French poet; a founder of Surrealism
[edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - June 29 – Thomas Henry Huxley (born 1825), English controversialist, academic, scientist and occasional poet
- October 7 – William Wetmore Story (born 1819), American sculptor, art critic, poet and editor
- October 12 – Cecil Frances Alexander (born 1818), Irish hymn-writer and poet
- October 21 – Louisa Anne Meredith (born 1812), Australian
- November 4 – Eugene Field (born 1850), American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays
- Date not known:
[edit] See also - ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ^ Porter, Joy, and Kenneth M. Roemer, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, p 29, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 9780521822831, retrieved February 9, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. Archived 2009-09-03.
- ^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
- ^ a b Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
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