1887 in poetry

1887 in poetry

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Events

Awards

Works published

* Robert Browning, "Parleyings with Certain People"
* George Meredith, "Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life"
* William Butler Yeats, editor, "Poems and Ballads of Young Ireland", an anthology, Dublin, Ireland [Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, "W. B. Yeats", Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, p 30]

Births

* February 3 — Georg Trakl (died 1914), German
* May 16 — Jakob van Hoddis (died 1942), German
* June 20 — Kurt Schwitters (died 1947), German
* June 28 — Orrick Glenday Johns (died 1946), American poet
* September 21 — Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams, (died 1975), Welsh poet, translator and academic
* September 16 — Hans Arp (died 1966), German
* October 30 — Georg Heym (died 1912), German poet
* Leonard Bacon
* Rupert Brooke
* Skipwith Cannell (died 1957), American poet associated with the Imagist group (pronounce his last name with the stress on the second syllable)
* Elizabeth Daryush, daughter of Robert Bridges
* Sir Julian Sorell Huxley
* Robinson Jeffers
* Marianne Moore
* Edwin Muir (Scotland)
* Edith Sitwell
* Sir Sacheverell Sitwell

Deaths

* Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
* Isabella Crawford
* Emma Lazarus
* Edward Rowland Sill

Notes

ee also

*Poetry
* List of years in poetry


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