1894 in poetry

1894 in poetry

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Events

* 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. ["Current Biography 1942", p. 280]

Awards

Works published

* Robert Browning, "Asolando"
* John Davidson, "Thirty Bob a Week"
* Ben King, "Verse" (second edition, 1898)
* Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Astrophel and Other Poems"
* W.B. Yeats, "The Land of Heart's Desire"

Births

* E.E. Cummings, American poet (died 1962)
* Eileen Duggan (died 1972), New Zealand
* Charles Reznikoff, American poet and part of the Objectivist poetry movement
* W.W.E. Ross (Canada)
* Jean Toomer

Deaths

* John Askham
* Robert Fuller Murray, of consumption
* Oliver Wendell Holmes
* Benjamin Franklin King
* Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle
* Roden Berkely Wriothesley Noel
* Walter Pater
* Christina Rossetti, of cancer
* Robert Louis Stevenson, of a brain haemorrhage, in Samoa
* Celia Thaxter
* Julia Augusta Webster
* Constance Fenimore Woolson

ee also

*Poetry
* List of years in poetry

References


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