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Encyclopedia > 1895 in poetry
Years in poetry: 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
Years in literature: 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898
Decades in poetry: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
Centuries in poetry: 18th century 19th century 20th century
Centuries: 18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
Years: 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898

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// Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads, including Gunga Din Alfred Tennyson, The Death of Oenone Richard Aldington (died 1962), English poet, novelist, writer, translator and biographer June 12 — Djuna Barnes (died 1982), American writer and poet Mary Phelps Crosby Archibald MacLeish Hugh MacDiarmid (Scotland) Edna St. ... // The Yellow Book, with a cover illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. ... // The Generation of 98 (also called Generation of 1898, in Spanish, Generación del 98 or Generación de 1898) was a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish-American War (1898). ... See also: 1891 in literature, other events of 1892, 1893 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1892 in literature, other events of 1893, 1894 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1893 in literature, other events of 1894, 1895 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1894 in literature, other events of 1895, 1896 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1895 in literature, other events of 1896, 1897 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1896 in literature, other events of 1897, 1898 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1897 in literature, other events of 1898, 1899 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 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. ... The 1920s was a decade sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... This page indexes the individual years pages. ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Events

Oscar Wilde's arrest and conviction

  • February 18John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, father of Oscar Wilde's lover, left a calling card at one of Wilde's clubs, the Albemarle. On the back of the card he wrote "For Oscar Wilde posing as a Somdomite" (a misspelling of "Sodomite"); Wilde charged him with criminal libel
  • April — the government takes over prosecution of the case but loses it as the defense brings in evidence of Wilde's past liaisons with men and teenage boys
  • April 6 — Wilde arrested at the Cadogan Hotel, London, and charged with "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons"
  • May 25 — Wilde convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labor

February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... John Sholto Douglas (1844-1900) was an eccentric Scottish nobleman, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry and Viscount Drumlanrig. ... Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. ... Sodomy is a term of religious origin to characterize certain sexual acts and behaviours as a perversion of the human capacity for union through sexuality. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... Blue plaque to Lillie Langtree The Cadogan Hotel is one of Londons most prestigious luxury hotels and restaurants. ... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ...

Awards

Works published

Katharine Lee Bates, (August 12, 1859 - March 26, 1929), is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem America the Beautiful. ... America the Beautiful is an American patriotic song which rivals The Star-Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States, in popularity. ... Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 - September 18, 1951) was an artist, art critic, poet, author, and humorist. ... Honorary statue of James Whitcomb Riley on courthouse lawn in Greenfield, Indiana James Whitcomb Riley (Greenfield, Indiana October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916), American writer and poet called the Hoosier poet and Americas Childrens Poet made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal... W.B. Yeats in Dublin on 24 January 1908. ...

Births

Lilian Bowes-Lyon (or Bowes Lyon) (1895 - 1949) was a British poet. ... Babette Deutsch (1895 - 1982) was an US poet. ... Paul Éluard was the nom de plume of Eugène Grindel (December 14, 1895 - November 18, 1952), a French poet. ... Portrait of Robert Graves (circa 1974) by Rab Shiell Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) was an English scholar, poet, and novelist. ... Robert Silliman Hillyer (1895-1965) was a poet and academic, becoming Professor of English at Harvard University. ... Charles Hamilton Sorley (May 19, 1895 - October 13, 1915) was a British poet of World War I. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was educated, like Siegfried Sassoon, at Marlborough College (1908-1913). ...

Deaths

Cecil Frances Alexander (1818 - 1895), born Cecil Frances Humphreys, was an Irish poet famous for writing hymns, of which her most famous is All Things Bright and Beautiful This article is a stub. ... Eugene Field, American writer Eugene Field (September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895) American writer, best known for poetry for children and for humorous essays. ... Thomas Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley F.R.S. (May 4, 1825 – June 29, 1895) was a British biologist, known as Darwins Bulldog for his defence of Charles Darwins theory of evolution. ... Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895) was an English man of letters and poet. ... William Wetmore Story (1819 - 1895) was a U.S. sculptor. ...

See also

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