- 1889 in poetry
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c=19th century
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yp2=1887
yp3=1888
year=1889
ya1=1890
ya2=1891
ya3=1892
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dn3=1910s|Events
Awards
Works published
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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 writes "Crossing the Bar " in October as he crosses theSolent
*W.B. Yeats , "The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems ", including "The Wanderings of Oisin ", "The Song of the Happy Shepherd ", "The Stolen Child ", "Down By The Salley Gardens " (Kegan Paul, Trench & Company) [ [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=7597 Web page titled "Archive: William Butler Yeats (W. B. Yeats) (1865 - 1939)"] at the Poetry Foundation website, accessedApril 22 ,2008 ]Births
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April 27 —Arnulf Øverland , Norwegian poet (died 1968)
*June 23 — Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (Ukraine)
*August 5 —Conrad Aiken
*August 19 —Arthur David Waley
*September 15 —Claude McKay , Jamaican
*October 31 —Napoleon Lapathiotis (Greek)
*William Hervey Allen Deaths
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May 31 —Horatius Bonar , Scottish poet
*June 8 —Gerard Manley Hopkins , 54, English poet, of typhoid
*June 15 —Mihai Eminescu , Romanian poet
*September 23 —Eliza Cook , 70, English poet
*October 25 —Émile Augier , French dramatist and poet
*November 18 —William Allingham , Irish poet
*December 10 —Ludwig Anzengruber , Austrian poet and dramatist
*December 12 —Robert Browning , English poet
* November —Martin Farquhar Tupper , 79, English writer and poet
* Date not known:
**Amy Levy , English poet and novelist, by suicide
**Cornelius Mathews ee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry References
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