- 1881 in poetry
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dn3=1910s|Events
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Frederick James Furnivall founds theBrowning Society Awards
Works published
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Christina Rossetti , "A Pageant, and other Poems"
*Dante Gabriel Rossetti , "Ballads and Sonnets", with "The House of Life" complete, and "Poems"
*Oscar Wilde , "Poems"Births
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January 9 —Lascelles Abercrombie (died 1938), British poet and literary critic called "the Georgian Laureate"and one of the "Dymock poets "
*February 13 —Eleanor Farjeon (died 1965) English author and poet
*April 16 —Alice Corbin Henderson (died 1949), American poet
*August 10 —Witter Bynner (died 1968), American poet, writer and scholar
*September 16 —Clive Bell (died 1964) was an English critic, associated with theBloomsbury group
*November 15 —Franklin Pierce Adams (died 1960), American columnist (under the pen name F.P.A.), writer, and wit, part of the famousAlgonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s whose newspaper column introduced the public to many poets and writers
*December 8 —Padraic Colum (died 1972) Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, collector of folklore and one of the leading figures of theCeltic Revival
* Dates not known:
**John Cournos (died 1966), Russian-AmericanImagist poet, but better known for his novels, short stories, essays, criticism and translations ofRussian literature ; wrote under the pen name "John Courtney"
**Alan Mulgan (died 1962), New Zealand
**Jaime Sabartés , Spanish poet and longtime secretary toPablo Picasso (died 1968)Deaths
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January 30 —Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy , 36, British poet
*August 20 —Edgar Albert Guest (died1959 ), prolific American poet
*September 7 —Sidney Lanier , 39, American musician and poet
* date not known —Josiah Gilbert Holland , American novelist and poetee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
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