1890 in poetry

[edit] Events

• Rhymer's Club founded in London by William Butler Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who met regularly and published anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees included Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, Selwyn Image, A. S. Hillier, John Todhunter, Arthur Symons, Ernest Radford and Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wilde attended some meetings held in private homes

[edit] Awards

[edit] Works published

• Emily Dickinson's Poems published posthumously
• Walter Pater, Appreciations with an Essay on Style
• Robert Louis Stevenson, Ballads

[edit] Births

• February 10 — Boris Pasternak, (died 1960), Russian novelist, writer and poet
• May 18 — Zora Cross, (died 1964) Australian poet
• August 28 — Ivor Gurney (died 1937), English composer and poet
• September 10 — Franz Werfel (died 1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German
• November 25 — Isaac Rosenberg, (died 1918), English war poet
• date not known:
  • A. P. Herbert, (died 1971), English writer, humorist and writer of light verse, most of it appearing in Punch

[edit] Deaths

• January 2 — George Henry Boker, 66, American poet, playwright, and diplomat
• J.H. Newman
• August 10 — John Boyle O'Reilly, 46, Irish-born poet, novelist and newspaper editor who was transported as a convict to Australia and escaped to the United States

[edit] See also

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• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

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