Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Rhymers' 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
Dove Cottage, Grasmere, acquired by the Wordsworth Trust.
Richard Garnett, Iphigenia in Delphi
W. S. Gilbert, Songs of a Songbird
William McGonagall, Poetic Gems
Walter Pater, Appreciations with an Essay on Style
Christina Rossetti, Poems
Robert Louis Stevenson, Ballads
William Watson, Wordsworth's Grave, and Other Poems
W. B. Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree (poem) first published, in The National Observer (London) on December 13 (first published in a book, The Countess Kathleen, and Various Legends and Lyrics, in 1892)
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Wyndham Towers
Madison Cawein, Lyrics and Idyls
Emily Dickinson's Poems published posthumously
John Hay, Poems
Joaquin Miller, In Classic Shades and Other Poems
James Whitcomb Riley, Rhymes of Childhood
Richard Henry Stoddard, The Lion's Cub; with Other Verse
John Greenleaf Whittier, At Sundown
Seranus, Four Ballads and a Play., Canada.
Banjo Paterson, "The Man From Snowy River", Australia
Paul Claudel, Tête d'or
François Coppée, Paroles sinceres
Paul Valéry, Album de vers anciens, published starting this year and ending in 1900
Naim Frashëri, Lulet e verës ("Summer Flowers"), Albania
Stefan George, Hymnen ("Hymns"), 18 poems written reflecting Symbolism; dedicated to Carl August Klein; limited, private edition; German
Herman Gorter, Verzen ("Verses"), Netherlands
Władysław Mickiewicz, Vie d'Adam Mickiewicz ("Life of Adam Mickiewicz"), four volumes, Poznań, Poland, published beginning this year and through 1895; written by the poet's son
Rabindranath Tagore, Manasi, Bengal
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 2 (21 December 1889 O.S.) – Henrik Visnapuu (died 1951), Estonian poet and dramatist
January 11 – Oswald de Andrade (died 1954), Brazilian poet and polemicist
January 12 (31 December 1889 O.S.) – Johannes Vares (Barbarus) (committed suicide 1946), Estonian poet, doctor and radical politician
February 10 – Boris Pasternak (died 1960), Russian novelist, writer and poet
February 22 – Hinatsu Kōnosuke 日夏耿之介, a pen-name of Higuchi Kunito (died 1971), Japanese poet, editor and academic known for romantic and gothic poetry patterned after English literature; fervent Roman Catholic, co-founder, with Horiguchi Daigaku and Saijo Yaso, of Shijin ("Poets") magazine
May 18 – Zora Cross (died 1964), Australian poet, novelist and journalist
May 31 – James Devaney (died 1976), Australian poet, novelist, and journalist
August 15 – Tsugi Takano 鷹野 つぎ (died 1943), Japanese novelist and poet (a woman)
August 28 – Ivor Gurney (died 1937), English composer and poet
August 31 (August 19 O.S.) – August Alle (died 1952), Estonian writer and poet
September 10
Marie Heiberg (died insane 1942), Estonian poet
Franz Werfel (died 1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet writing in German
September 24 – A. P. Herbert, (died 1971), English writer, humorist and writer of light verse, most of it appearing in Punch
November 25 – Isaac Rosenberg, (killed 1918), English war poet
December 13 – Dulcie Deamer (died 1972), Australian novelist, poet, journalist and actor
Also:
Balakavi, pen name of Tryambak Bapuji Thomare (died 1918), Indian, Marathi-language poet
Ramanlal V. Desai (died 1954), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist, short-story writer and poet
Sumatiben Mehta (died 1911), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet
Jun Tanaka 田中純 (died 1966), Japanese, Showa period poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 2 – George Henry Boker, 66 (born 1823), American poet, playwright, and diplomat
August 10 – John Boyle O'Reilly, 46 (born 1844), Irish-born poet, novelist and newspaper editor, transported as a convict to Australia and escaped to the United States
August 11 – John Henry Newman, 89 (born 1801), English Roman Catholic cardinal, theologian, author and poet
August 25 – Emily Manning ("Australie"), 45 (born 1845), Australian poet and journalist
September 7 – Mary Mackellar, 55 (born 1834), Scottish poet and translator
