- 1890 in poetry
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Rhymer's Club founded in London byWilliam Butler Yeats andErnest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who met regularly and published anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees includedErnest Dowson ,Lionel Johnson ,Richard Le Gallienne , John Davidson,Edwin Ellis ,Victor Plarr ,Selwyn Image ,A. S. Hillier ,John Todhunter ,Arthur Symons ,Ernest Radford andThomas William Rolleston ;Oscar Wilde attended some meetings held in private homesAwards
Works published
* Emily Dickinson's "Poems" published posthumously
*Walter Pater , "Appreciations with an Essay on Style"
*Robert Louis Stevenson , "Ballads"Births
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February 10 —Boris Pasternak , (died 1960), Russian novelist, writer and poet
*May 18 —Zora Cross , (died 1964) Australian poet
*August 28 —Ivor Gurney (died 1937), English composer and poet
*September 10 —Franz Werfel (died 1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German
*November 25 —Isaac Rosenberg , (died 1918), Englishwar poet
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**A. P. Herbert , (died 1971), English writer, humorist and writer of light verse, most of it appearing in "Punch"Deaths
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January 2 —George Henry Boker , 66, American poet, playwright, and diplomat
*J.H. Newman
*August 10 —John Boyle O'Reilly , 46, Irish-born poet, novelist and newspaper editor who was transported as a convict to Australia and escaped to the United Statesee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
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