1897 in poetry
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Events
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Works published in English
[edit]- Jean Blewett, Heart Songs[1]
- Bliss Carman, Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea, Canadian author published in the United States[2]
- William Henry Drummond, The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems, employing dialect[3]
- Frederick George Scott, The Unnamed Lake and Other Poems[1]
- Alfred Austin, The Conversion of Winkelmann, and Other Poems[4]
- Hilaire Belloc, More Beasts (for Worse Children) (see The Bad Child's Book of Beasts 1896)[4]
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, publishing under the pen name "Anodos", Fancy's guerdon (see also Fancy's Following 1896)[4]
- John Davidson, New Ballads[4]
- Ernest Dowson, The Pierrot of the Minute: A dramatic phantasy[4]
- Lionel Johnson, Ireland, with Other Poems[4]
- Henry Newbolt, Admirals All, and Other Verses, including "Vitaï Lampada", and "Drake's Drum" (first published in the St. John's Gazette 1896)[4]
- George William Russell, publishing under the pen name "Æ", The Earth Breath, and Other Poems[4]
- Dora Sigerson, The Fairy Changeling, and Other Poems[4]
- Arthur Symons, Amoris Victima[4]
- Francis Thompson, New Poems[4]
- Theodore Watts-Dunton, The Coming of Love
- Richard Maurice Burke, Walt Whitman: Man and Poet, nonfiction
- Bliss Carman, Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea, Canadian author published in the United States[2]
- James Whitcomb Riley, Neighborly Poems[2]
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Children of the Night,[2] including "Reuben Bright"
- John B. Tabb, Lyrics[2]
- Yone Noguchi, Seen and Unseen, or, Monologues of a Homeless Snail and The Voice of the Valley
Other in English
[edit]- Barcroft Boake (suicide 1892), Where the Dead Men Lie, and Other Poems, Australia
- John Le Gay Brereton, Sweetheart Mine: Lyrics of Love and Friendship, Australia
- G. Sigerson, editor and translator from Gaelic, Bards of Gael and Gall, Ireland[5]
- Isaac Tambyah, editor, A Garland of Ceylon Verse 1837-1897, Colombo: Ceylon Printing Works, 132 pages; anthology; Indian poetry in English[6]
Works published in other languages
[edit]- Francis Jammes, La Naissance du poète ("The Birth of the Poet")[7]
- Stéphane Mallarmé:
- Divagations
- Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard ("A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance") is published in Cosmopolis magazine (not published in book form until 1914)
- Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, a verse drama
Other languages
[edit]- Stefan George, Das Jahr der Seele ("The Year of the Soul"); German[8]
Awards and honors
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Births
[edit]- August 11 – Louise Bogan (died 1970), American poet and critic; wife of Raymond Holden
- May 5 – Kenneth Burke (died 1993), major American literary theorist and philosopher
- October 10 – Shigeji Tsuboi 壺井繁治 (died 1975), Japanese poet (surname: Tsuboi)
- November 7 – Ruth Pitter (died 1992), English poet and decorative painter (born Emma Thomas Pitter)
- November 11 – Nima Yooshij (died 1960), Persian poet
- November 15 – Sir Sacheverell Sitwell (died 1988), English writer, best known as an art critic and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque; younger brother of Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell
- John Ferrar Holms (died 1934), British critic
Deaths
[edit]Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 4 — Isabella Banks (born 1821), English poet and novelist
- July 20 — Jean Ingelow (born 1829), English poet and novelist
- September 14 — James Joseph Sylvester (born 1814), English mathematician who translated poetry from the original French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek; author of The Laws of Verse, in which he attempted to codify a set of laws for prosody in poetry
- December 22 – William Gay (born 1865), Scots-born Australian poet
- date not known – Velutteri Keshavan Vaidyar (born 1839), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[9]
See also
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- 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
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- ^ a b c d e 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)
- ^ Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan, et al., editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993, Princeton University Press and MJF Books, "Irish Poetry" article, "Anthologies in English and Translations from Gaelic" section, p 633
- ^ Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies" Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine, "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. 2009-06-19.
- ^ Web page titled "POET Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)", at The Poetry Foundation website, retrieved August 30, 2009. 2009-09-03.
- ^ "Stefan George", article, Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
- ^ 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