1894 in poetry

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The Yellow Book, with a cover illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.

The Yellow Book, published 1894–97
November 8, 1894 — Robert Frost's poem "My Butterfly" is published this date in the New York Independent, marking the first sale of his poetry. He earned $15. ^[1]

Laurence Binyon, Lyric Poems^[2]
Robert Browning, Asolando
Bliss Carman (Canadian) and Richard Hovey (American), Songs from Vagabondia^[3]
John Davidson, Ballads and Songs,^[2] including "Thirty Bob a Week"
Edmund Gosse, In Russet and Silver^[2]
Selwyn Image, Poems and Carols^[2]
Ben King, Verse (second edition, 1898)
AE, pen name of George William Russell, Homeward^[2]
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Astrophel and Other Poems
Katharine Tynan, Cuckoo Songs^[2]
William Watson, Odes and Other Poems^[2]
Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx^[2]
W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire

Kerala Varma Valia Koyittampuran, Mayura Sandesam, a sandesa kavya ("message poem") written on the model of Kalidasa's Meghaduta, India, Sanskrit^[4]
Henry Lawson, Short Stories in Prose and Verse, Australia^[5]
Arthur Stringer, Watchers of Twilight, and Other Poems, Canada
W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire
Tekkan Yosano, Bokoku no on, ("Obligation to the Fatherland", 1894), a collection of literary criticism, Japan

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

January 10 – Bochō Yamamura 山村暮鳥 (died 1924), Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gained attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet
June 16 – Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (died 1976), Japanese haiku poet in the Taishō and Showa periods (surname: Ogiwara)
August 31 – Charles Reznikoff, American poet and part of the Objectivist poetry movement
October 4 – Jun Tsuji 辻潤 (died 1944), Japanese author, poet, essayist, musician and bohemian (surname: Tsuji)
October 14 – E. E. Cummings (died 1962), American
October 22 – Paul Grano (died 1975), Australian poet and journalist
December 26 – Jean Toomer, American poet and novelist, part of the Harlem Renaissance

Grave of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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
July 17 – Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (born 1818), French poet of the Parnassian movement
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)
August 25 – Celia Thaxter (born 1835), American poet and story writer
October 7 – Oliver Wendell Holmes (born 1809), American physician, professor 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

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^ Current Biography 1942, p. 280
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
^ ^a ^b Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
^ "Lawson, Henry (1867 - 1922)", article, Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition, retrieved May 13, 2009. Archived 2009-05-16.

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