Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1891–1893 –The Rhymers Club gathers at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W. B. Yeats, and others.
c. Late June – In a meeting of decadent poets in London, Oscar Wilde is first introduced to Lord Alfred Douglas by Lionel Johnson at Wilde's Tite Street home.
Approximate date – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, G. K. Chesterton and fellow pupils of St Paul's School, London, compose the first pseudo-biographical comic verses which become known as clerihews.
John Frederic Herbin, Canada, and Other Poems, Canada
Seranus, Pine, Rose and Fleur De Lis, (Toronto: Hart).
Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of the World; or, The Great Consummation
Alfred Austin, Lyrical Poems
John Davidson, In a Music Hall, and Other Poems
James Joyce, Et tu, Healy, Irish poet published in Ireland
May Sinclair, Essays in Verse
William Morris, Poems by the Way
James Kenneth Stephen:
Lapsus Calami
Quo Musa Tendis
Katharine Tynan, Ballads and Lyrics
Arthur Clark Kennedy, Pictures in rhyme
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Sisters' Tragedy
Nathaniel Ames, The Essays, Humor, and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, published posthumously
Emily Dickinson, Poems: Second Series
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Over the Teacups, fiction, nonfiction and poetry
Herman Melville, Timoleon
Harriet Monroe, Valeria and Other Poems
Frank Norris, Yvernelle: A Tale of Feudal France
Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Handful of Lavender
Henry Lawson, Australia:
"Freedom on the Wallaby"
"The Babies of Walloon"
Stefan George, Pilgerfahrten limited, private edition; German
Francis Jammes, Six Sonnets, France
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 15 – Osip Mandelstam (died 1938), Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school
April 9 – Lesbia Harford (died 1927), Australian
May 21 – John Peale Bishop (died 1944), American poet and writer
May 22
Johannes R. Becher (died 1958), German poet, novelist and politician
Edwin Gerard (died 1965), Australian poet
July 5 – Tin Ujević (died 1955), Croatian poet
August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (killed in action in World War I, 1917), Irish poet
September 23 – Arthur Graeme West (killed in action in World War I 1917), English military writer and poet
November 14 – Josef Magnus Wehner (died 1973), German poet and playwright
November 23 – Masao Kume 久米正雄 writing under the pen-name Santei (died 1952), Japanese, late Taishō period and early Showa period playwright, novelist and haiku poet (surname: Kume)
December 9 – Maksim Bahdanovič (died 1917), Belarusian poet, journalist and literary critic
December 10 – Nelly Sachs (died 1970), German-Swedish poet and dramatist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
Also:
Peter Hopegood, born Cedric Hopegood (died 1967), English-born Australian poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
July 24 – Douglas Smith Huyghue (born 1816), Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist and artist
August 12 – James Russell Lowell, 72, American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist
August 14 – John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (born 1820), American clergyman and hymnist
August 22 – Jan Neruda (born 1834), Czech writer
September 28 – Herman Melville, 82, American novelist, essayist and poet
November 10 – Arthur Rimbaud, 37 (born 1854) French poet
Also:
Venmani Acchen Nambudiri (born 1817), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry
Moyinkutty Vaidyar (born 1857), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
