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Encyclopedia > 1888 in poetry
Years in poetry: 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891
Years in literature: 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891
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: 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891

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// Robert Louis Stevenson, A Childs Garden of Verses Algernon Charles Swinburne, Marino Faliero Alfred lord Tennyson, Tiresias and Other Poems, and Balin and Balan Leonard Bacon Rupert Brooke Elizabeth Daryush, daughter of Robert Bridges Sir Julian Sorell Huxley John Robinson Jeffers Marianne Moore Edwin Muir Edith Sitwell Sir Sacheverell... // 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... // Robert Browning, Parleyings with Certain People George Meredith, Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life June 28 — Orrick Glenday Johns (died 1946), American poet September 21 — Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams, (died 1975), Welsh poet, translator and academic Leonard Bacon Rupert Brooke Skipwith Cannell (died 1957), American poet associated with the... // Robert Browning, Asolando Eugene Field, A Little Book of Western Verse, including Little Boy Blue and Wynkyn, Blynkyn and Nod Amy Levy, A London Plane Tree Walter Pater, Appreciations: With an Essay on Style Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, 3rd series Alfred Lord Tennyson, Demeter and Other Poems; he... // Rhymers Club founded in London by William Butler Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who met regularly and published anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees included Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, Selwyn Image, A. S. Hillier... 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. ... See also: 1889 in literature, other events of 1890, 1891 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1890 in literature, other events of 1891, 1892 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... // The First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA is built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ... // 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. ... 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). ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Events

Awards

Works published

Matthew Arnold Caricature from Punch, 1881: Admit that Homer sometimes nods, That poets do write trash, Our Bard has written Balder Dead, And also Balder-dash Family tree Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. ... Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío. ... Ernest Henley (born 31 March 1889) was a British athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. ... George Meredith, OM (February 12, 1828 – May 18, 1909) was an English novelist and poet. ... Ernest Lawrence Thayer (August 14, 1863 - August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote Casey at the Bat. Thayer was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts and raised in Worcester. ...

Births

September 26 is the 269th day of the year (270th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Julian Grenfell (1888-1915) was a British poet of World War I. He was the son and heir of Lord Desborough, and was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. ... Katherine Mansfield (October 14, 1888 – January 9, 1923) was prominent Modernist writer of short fiction. ... Eugene Gladstone ONeill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888, Pulaski, Tennessee- July 3, 1974, Gambier, Ohio) was an American poet, essayist, social and political theorist, man of letters, and academic. ... Alan Seeger in his French Foreign Legion uniform. ...

Deaths

April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... Matthew Arnold Caricature from Punch, 1881: Admit that Homer sometimes nods, That poets do write trash, Our Bard has written Balder Dead, And also Balder-dash Family tree Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... Edward Lear, 1812-1888 Eagle Owl, Edward Lear, 1837 Another Edward Lear owl, in his more familiar style Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an artist, illustrator and writer known for his nonsensical poetry and his limericks, a form which he popularised. ... August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... Charles Cros (October 1, 1842 - August 9, 1888) was a French poet and inventor. ...

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