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Encyclopedia > 1886 in poetry
Years in poetry: 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
Years in literature: 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889
Decades in poetry: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Centuries in poetry: 18th century 19th century 20th century
Centuries: 18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years: 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889

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See also: 1882 in literature, other events of 1883, 1884 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1883 in literature, other events of 1884, 1885 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1884 in literature, other events of 1885, 1886 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1885 in literature, other events of 1886, 1887 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1886 in literature, other events of 1887, 1888 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1887 in literature, other events of 1888, 1889 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1888 in literature, other events of 1889, 1890 in literature, list of years in literature. ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries in poetry. ... Category: ... Category: ... These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them. ... // Events and Trends Technology Production of steel revolutionised by invention of the Bessemer process Benjamin Silliman fractionates petroleum by distillation for the first time First transatlantic telegraph cable laid First safety elevator installed by Elisha Otis Science Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, putting forward the theory of evolution... // Events and trends Technology The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ... // Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ... // Development and commercial production of electric lighting Development and commercial production of gasoline-powered automobile by Karl Benz, Gottlieb Daimler and Maybach First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. ... The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no... // First flight by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903. ... // Events and trends The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th Century. ... This page indexes the individual years pages. ... 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... 1888 (MDCCCLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Events

  • Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley Society
  • September 18 — The Symbolist manifesto (‘Le Symbolisme’, Le Figaro} published this date by Jean Moréas, who announced that Symbolism was hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description," and that its goal instead was to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose "goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal"

Frederick James Furnivall (February 4, 1825 - July 2, 1910), English philologist and editor, was born at Egham, Surrey, the son of a surgeon who made his fortune from running the private lunatic asylum at Great Fosters there. ... September 18 is the 261st day of the year (262nd in leap years). ... La mort du fossoyeur (The death of the gravedigger) by Carlos Schwabe is a visual compendium of Symbolist motifs. ... Jean Moréas (April 15, 1856 - 1910), born Iannis Papadiamontopolos, was a Greek poet who wrote in the French language. ...

Awards

Works published

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his childrens books, including The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of Pooks Hill (1906); his novel... Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (August 6, 1809 - October 6, 1892) is generally regarded as one of the greatest English poets. ... W.B. Yeats in Dublin on 24 January 1908. ... Mosada is a short verse play in three scenes written by William Butler Yeats, and published in [[1886]. The only characters are Mosada, a moorish girl, her friend the hunchback child Cola, a Christian monk and a few nameless inquisitors. ...

Births

January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... John Gould Fletcher (January 3, 1886 - May 20, 1950) was a Pulitzer Prize winning Imagist poet and author. ... // In 1950, Charles Olson published his seminal essay, Projective Verse. ... Ezra Pound, one of the prime movers of Imagism. ... The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author. ... February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Ricardo Güiraldes (13 February 1886 — 8 October 1927)[1] was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel Don Segundo Sombra, set among the gauchos. ... // T.S. Eliot enters the Church of England and assumes British citizenship G.K. Chesterton, Collected Poems Robert Desnos, La liberté ou lamour! T.S. Eliot, The Journey of the Magi Allama Iqbal, Zabur-i-Ajam (Persian Psalms) James Weldon Johnson, Gods Promises James Joyce, Pomes Penyeach J... Gauchos taming horses in Corrientes Province, Argentina. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... Siegfried Sassoon, 1916 Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (September 8, 1886 – September 1, 1967) was an English poet and author. ... // Cecil Day-Lewis is selected as the new Poet Laureate of the UK. Margaret Atwood, The Circle Game Ted Hughes, Wodwo Wole Soyinka, Idanre, and Other Poems See 1967 Governor Generals Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. ... Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ... September 10 is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years). ... H.D. in the mid 1910s Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961), better known by the pen name H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. ... // Eric Gregory Award: Adrian Mitchell, Geoffrey Hill National Book Award for Poetry: Randall Jarrell, The Woman at the Washington Zoo Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Phyllis McGinley: Times Three: Selected Verse From Three Decades Poetry List of poetry awards Categories: | ... September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ... Charles Walter Stansby Williams (September 20, 1886 – May 15, 1945), was a British writer and poet, and a member of the loose literary circle called the Inklings. ... // Benjamin Brittens opera Peter Grimes, based on George Crabbes The Borough Vladimir Nabokov becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States Ezra Pound is arrested for treason at Genoa and imprisoned at Pisa by the U.S. Army W.H. Auden, Collected Poems Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central... Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ... The Eagle and Child pub in Oxford where the Inklings met on Thursday nights from 1939. ... December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Alfred Joyce Kilmer (6 December 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) – 30 July 1918 near Seringes, France) was an American journalist and poet; his best-known work is a poem entitled Trees (1913) which was first published in a collection entitled Trees and Other Poems in 1914. ... // Robert Graves marries Nancy Nicholson. ... Frances Crofts Cornford (nee Darwin; 1886-1960) was an English poet. ... Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ...

Deaths

April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... Father Abram J. Ryan Abram Joseph Ryan (Febrary 5, 1838 or August 15, 1839 - April 22, 1886) was an American poet, active proponent of the Confederate States of America, and a Roman Catholic priest. ... July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830 - 1886) was an American poet. ... October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... William Barnes (1801 - 1886) was an English writer, poet, minister, and philologist. ... Many regard William Shakespeare as the greatest English poet. ... December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, 21 days before the next year. ... A young Emily Dickinson, sometime around 1846-1847, for many years the only known photograph of her. ... Walt Whitman Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892) was an American Romantic poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. ...

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