1894 in poetry - Wikiwand

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April — The Yellow Book first published (continues to 1897).
June 22 — Nina Davis' first published translation from medieval Hebrew poetry into English, of Abraham ibn Ezra's The Song of Chess, appears in The Jewish Chronicle.^[1]
November 8 — Robert Frost's poem "My Butterfly" is published on this date in the New York Independent, marking the first sale of his poetry. He earns $15.^[2]
December 22 — Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, a free interpretation of Stéphane Mallarmé's 1876 poem, "L'après-midi d'un faune", is premièred in Paris.

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Laurence Binyon, Lyric Poems^[4]
Robert Browning, Asolando
Bliss Carman (Canadian) and Richard Hovey (American), Songs from Vagabondia^[5]
John Davidson, Ballads and Songs,^[4] including "Thirty Bob a Week"
Edmund Gosse, In Russet and Silver^[4]
Selwyn Image, Poems and Carols^[4]
Rudyard Kipling, "McAndrew's Hymn", first published in U.S.A.^[6]
Robert Fuller Murray, Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir (posthumous, edited by Andrew Lang)
AE, pen name of George William Russell, Homeward^[4]
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Astrophel and Other Poems
Katharine Tynan, Cuckoo Songs^[4]
William Watson, Odes and Other Poems^[4]
Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx^[4]
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire

Bliss Carman, Songs from Vagabondia, with Richard Hovey, a Canadian author published in the United States^[7]
Ina Coolbrith, The Singer of the Sea^[7]
Benjamin Franklin King Jr., Ben King's Verse (posthumous; 2nd edition 1898)
George Santayana, Sonnets and Other Verses^[7]
John B. Tabb, Poems^[7]

Henry Lawson, Short Stories in Prose and Verse, Australia^[8]
Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, Mayura Sandesam, a sandesa kavya ("message poem") written on the model of Kalidasa's Meghaduta, India, Sanskrit^[9]
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire

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Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1892 and 1893); France^[10]
Henry Alfred Krishnapillai, Rakshanya Yatrikam ("The journey of salvation"), India, Tamil language
Pierre Louÿs, Les Chansons de Bilitis ("The Songs of Bilitis"), erotic prose poems; Paris
Tekkan Yosano, Bokoku no on ("Obligation to the Fatherland"), a collection of literary criticism, Japan

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

January 2 – Robert Nathan (died 1985), American poet and novelist
January 10 – Bochō Yamamura 山村暮鳥 (died 1924), Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gains attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet
May 21 – Eileen Duggan (died 1972), New Zealand
May 28 – Loa Ho (died 1943), Taiwan
June 14 – W. W. E. Ross (died 1966), Canadian geophysicist and Imagist poet
June 16 – Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (died 1976), Japanese haiku poet in the Taishō and Shōwa periods (surname: Ogiwara)
August 31 – Charles Reznikoff, American poet, part of the Objectivist poetry movement
October 4 – Jun Tsuji 辻潤 (died 1944), Japanese author, poet, essayist, musician and bohemian (surname: Tsuji)
October 7 – Doris Huestis Speirs (died 1989), Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet
October 14 – E. E. Cummings (died 1962), American poet and painter
October 18 – H. L. Davis (died 1960), American fiction writer and poet
October 22 – Paul Grano (died 1975), Australian poet and journalist
December 26 – Jean Toomer, American poet and novelist, part of the Harlem Renaissance
Zahida Khatun Sherwani, writing as Zay Khay Sheen (died 1922), Indian Urdu language woman poet

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

January 24 – Constance Fenimore Woolson (born 1840), American novelist, short-story writer and poet; a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper
April 7 – Benjamin Franklin King Jr. (born 1857), American poet and humorist
April 18 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (born 1838), Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist
May 16 – Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷, pen-name of Kitamura Montaro (born 1868), Japanese, late Meiji period poet, essayist and a founder of the modern Japanese romantic literary movement (surname: Kitamura)
May 26 – Roden Noel (born 1834), English poet
July 5 – Betty Paoli (born 1815), Austrian poet
July 17 – Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (born 1818), French poet of the Parnassian movement
August 25 – Celia Thaxter (born 1835), American poet and story writer
September 5 – Augusta Webster (born 1837), English poet
October 7 – Oliver Wendell Holmes (born 1809), American physician, professor and poet
October 28 – John Askham (born 1825), English shoemaker and poet
December 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson (born 1850), Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, of a brain haemorrhage, in Samoa
December 29 – Christina Rossetti (born 1830), English poet, of cancer
Also:
- Robert Fuller Murray (born 1863), American-born Scottish poet, of consumption
- Perunnelli Krishnan Vaidyar (born 1863), Indian, Malayalam-language poet^[9]

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