1887 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

Caricature of the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé

British Australia

• Henry Lawson, "A Song for the Republic", English, the author's first published poem, in The Bulletin, October 1 issue; Australia^[1]

British India

• Narsinhrao Divetia, Kusumamala, Gujarati, his first collection of poems, "considered a definite advance in modern Gujarati poetry because of its novel use of poetic diction", according to A handbook of Indian Literature^[2]
• Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Narada Samvadam, Telugu long poem condemning banal, rule-minded poetry^[3]

Canada

• George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, English, posthumously published (by his brother).^[4]
• Louis-Honoré Fréchette, La légende d'un peuple, French, the author's best-known work, about episodes of Canadian history; French Canadian author published in Paris^[5]
• Sarah Anne Curzon, Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812: A Drama, and Other Poems, English.^[6]
• Susie Frances ed. The Canadian Birthday Book, English, poetry anthology. (Toronto: Robinson).^[7]
• William Douw Lighthall, Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure, English. ("Witness" Printing House).^[8]
• Thomas O'Hagan, A Gate of birginas, English.^[4]

France

• François Coppée, Arriere-saison; French^[9]
• Stéphane Mallarmé; all in French:
  • Poésies ("Poetical Works"), in a deluxe, limited edition published in October^[10]
  • Album de vers et de prose ("Selected Verse and Prose"), published in December^[10]

Ireland

• William Butler Yeats, editor, Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland, English, an anthology, Dublin, Ireland^[11]

United Kingdom

• William Allingham, Rhymes for Young Folk, English.^[12]
• Robert Browning, Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day, English.^[12]
• Richard Le Gallienne, My Lady's Sonnets^[12]
• George Meredith, Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life, English.^[12]
• Constance Naden, A modern apostle; The elixir of life; The story of Clarice, and other poems, English.^[13]
• Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods, English.^[12]
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Jubilee, English.^[12]
• Katharine Tynan, Shamrocks, English, published in the United Kingdom by an Irish poet.^[12]

United States

• Charles Follen Adams, Dialect Ballads, English
• Amos Bronson Alcott, New Connecticut, English^[14]
• Arlo Bates, Sonnets in Shadow, English^[14]
• Palmer Cox, The Brownies: Their Book, English, children's fictional poetry^[14]
• Emma Lazarus, By The Waters of Babylon, English^[14]
• Jessie Wilson Manning, The passion of life, English^[15]
• Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Branch of May, English^[14]
• James Whitcomb Riley, Afterwhiles, English^[14]

Awards and honors

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 10 – Robinson Jeffers (died 1962), American poet and playwright
• February 3 – Georg Trakl (suicide 1914), German
• February 11 – Shinobu Orikuchi 折口 信夫, also known as Chōkū Shaku 釋 迢空 (died 1953), Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist and poet; a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he establishes an academic field named "Orikuchiism" (折口学, Orikuchigaku), a mix of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics and Shintō religion (surname: Orikuchi)
• March 9 – Ion Buzdugan, born Ivan Alexandrovici Buzdâga (died 1967), Bessarabian-Romanian poet, folklorist and politician
• May 10 – J. C. Bloem (died 1966), Dutch
• May 13 – Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (died 1964), Shōwa period poet, playwright and screenwriter (surname: Nagata)
• May 15 – Edwin Muir (died 1959), Scottish poet, novelist and translator
• May 16 – Jakob van Hoddis (died 1942), German
• May 31 - Saint-John Perse (died 1975), French diplomat, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1960
• June 20 – Kurt Schwitters (died 1947), German
• June 22 – Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (died 1975), English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist
• June 28 – Orrick Glenday Johns (died 1946), American poet
• August 3 – Rupert Brooke (died on active service off Skyros, 1915), English poet
• August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (killed in action near Ypres in Belgium, 1917), Irish poet, "poet of the blackbirds"
• September 1 – Blaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser (died 1961), Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916
• September 7 – Edith Sitwell (died 1964), English poet and critic
• September 21 – Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams (died 1975), Welsh poet, translator and academic
• September 16 – Hans Arp (died 1966), German
• September 27 – Frederick Macartney (died 1980), Australian
• October 11 – Pierre Jean Jouve (died 1976), French poet and novelist
• October 30 – Georg Heym (drowned 1912), German poet
• November 15 – Marianne Moore (died 1972), American Modernist poet and writer
• December 6 – Minakami Takitarō 水上滝太郎 pen name of Abe Shōzō (died 1940), Japanese, Shōwa period poet, novelist, literary critic and essayist (surname: Minakami)
• December 8 – Elizabeth Daryush (died 1977), English poet, daughter of Robert Bridges
• December 27 – Edward Andrade (died 1971), English physicist and poet.
• December 30 – K.M. Munshi (died 1971), Indian Gujarati-language novelist, playwright, writer, politician and lawyer
• Also:
  • Skipwith Cannell (died 1957), American poet associated with the Imagist group (pronounce his last name with the stress on the second syllable)
  • Margaret Curran (died 1962), Australian poet, editor and journalist
  • Alphonse Métérié (died 1967), French newspaper editor, teacher and poet^[16]
  • Ramnarayan V. Pathak (died 1955), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and husband of Heera Pathak^[2]
  • Sukumar Ray (সুকুমার রায়) (died 1923), Indian, Gujarati-language humorous poet, short-story writer and playwright
  • Jatindranath Sengupta (died 1954), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 27 – Edward Rowland Sill, American
• July 15 – Adrien Rouquette (born 1813), American poet and missionary
• October 12 – Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, born Dinah Maria Mulock, also referred to as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik (born 1826), English novelist and poet
• November 19 – Emma Lazarus (born 1849), American poet who wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus", associated with the Statue of Liberty, where it is engraved on a plaque
• date not known – Isabella Valancy Crawford (born 1850), Canadian, from heart failure

See also

• Poetry portal

• 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
• Poetry