1883 in poetry

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Events

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• William Allingham, The Fairies, including "Up the airy mountain ..."; reprinted from Poems 1850[1]
• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Wind and the Whirwind[1]
• Robert Bridges, Prometheus the Firegiver[1]
• Robert Browning, Jocoseria
• George Meredith, Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth[1]
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Century of Roundels[1]

United States

Frontispiece of the 1883 edition of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

• Francis James Child, editor, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, an anthology published in five volumes from this year to 1898[2]
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Decorative Plaques[2]
• Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus", written in aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for erection of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, posthumously published[2]
• James Whitcomb Riley, The Old Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems[2]
• John Greenleaf Whittier, The Bay of Seven Islands[2]
• Jones Very, Poems, published posthumously[2]
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion[2]

Works published in other languages

• Gabriele D'Annunzio, L'intermezzo di rime, Italy
• Mihail Eminescu, Luceafărul, Romania[3]
• Victor Hugo, La Légende des siècles, third series (first series 1859, second series 1877), France[4]
• Jan Neruda, Prosté motivy, Czechia
• Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev, Russian parody published posthumously
• Paul Verlaine, in November publishes an influential essay on Stéphane Mallarmé, which is later reprinted in the book Les Poetès maudits; France[5]
• Albert Verwey, Persephone, Netherlands

Awards and honors

Births

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

• January 1 – Charles Badger Clark (died 1957), American
• January 6 – Khalil Gibran (died 1931), Lebanese American poet and artist
• January 21 – Olav Aukrust (died 1929), Norwegian poet and teacher
• February 7 – K. V. Simon, (died 1944), Indian Malayalam-language poet[6]
• February 18
  • Nikos Kazantzakis (died 1957), Greek author
  • Jessie Litchfield, (died 1956), Australian author
• March 13 – Kōtarō Takamura 高村 光太郎 (died 1956), Japanese poet and sculptor; son of sculptor Kōun Takamura
• March 9 – Umberto Saba né Poli (died 1957), Italian poet and fiction writer
• March 16 – Ethel Anderson née Campbell (died 1958), English-born Australian
• March 27 (March 15 O.S.) – Marie Under (died 1980), Estonian
• May 7 – Anna Wickham, née Edith Alice Mary Harper, aka Edith Hepburn and John Oland (committed suicide 1947), English poet brought up in Australia
• June 27 – Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (died 1929), English Anglican priest and poet
• August 11 – Ernst Stadler (killed 1914 in World War I), German Expressionist poet
• September 16 – T. E. Hulme (killed 1917 in World War I), influential English poetry critic
• September 17 – William Carlos Williams (died 1963), American
• November 10 – Arthur Davison Ficke (died 1945), American
• December 10 – Alfred Kreymborg (died 1966), American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist
• December 12 – William Baylebridge (died 1942)), Australian poet and short-story writer
• September 14 – Marjorie Pickthall (died 1922), English-born Canadian

Deaths

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

• January 5 – Charles Tompson (born 1806), Australian public servant said to be the first published Australian-born poet
• June 14
  • Charles Timothy Brooks, 96, American poet and translator
  • Edward Fitzgerald, 74, English poet and translator, best known for his translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
• George Moses Horton (born c. 1797), African-American

See also

• 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
• Poetry

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
3. Perpessicius (2001). Studii eminesciene. Bucharest: Museum of Romanian Literature. pp. 262, 265, 273, 278, 353, 382, 383. ISBN 973-8031-34-6.
4. Rees, William (1992). The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950. ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3.
5. Blackmore, E. H., and A. M. Blackmore, translators, Stéphane Malarmé Collected Poems and Other Verse, "Chronology" page xxxv, 2006, New York (this edition): Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-280362-7, retrieved February 6, 2010 via Google Books
6. Paniker, Ayyappa (1992), "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., ed., Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, published by Sahitya Akademi, pp. 231–255, retrieved January 10, 2009.