1891 in poetry

1891 in poetry

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Events

* The Rhymers Club gathered at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, 1891-93, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W.B. Yeats, and others

Awards

Works published

* John Davidson, "In a Music Hall"
* William Morris, "Poems by the Way"
* James Kenneth Stephen, " Lapsus Calami" and "Quo Musa Tendis"

Births

* January 15 — Osip Mandelstam (died 1938), Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school
* May 21 — John Peale Bishop (died 1944), American poet and writer
* August 19 — Francis Ledwidge (killed in action in World War I, 1917), Irish poet,
* December 9 — Maksim Bahdanovič (died 1917), Belarusian poet, journalist and literary critic
* December 10 — Nelly Sachs (died 1970), German-Swedish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966

Deaths

* August 12 — James Russell Lowell, 72, American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist
* September 28 — Herman Melville, 82, American novelist, essayist and poet
* November 10 — Arthur Rimbaud, French
* date not known — John Henry Hopkins, Jr.

ee also

*Poetry
* List of years in poetry


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