- 1896 in poetry
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in?=in poetry
in2?=in literature
cp=18th century
c=19th century
cf=20th centuryyp1=1893
yp2=1894
yp3=1895
year=1896
ya1=1897
ya2=1898
ya3=1899
dp3=1860s
dp2=1870s
dp1=1880s
d=1890s
da=0
dn1=1900s
dn2=1910s
dn3=1920s|Events
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William Morris publishes the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer's worksAwards
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Alfred Austin madePoet Laureate Works published
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Ernest Christopher Dowson , "Verses, including "Non Sum Qualis Eram"
*A. E. Housman , "A Shropshire Lad
* Andrew Barton (`Banjo') Paterson, "The Man from Snowy River"Births
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February 26 —Andrei Zhdanov (died 1948, a Soviet official who persecuted poets, writers and artists under theZhdanov doctrine )
*October 30 —Kostas Karyotakis , Greek
* Date not known –Walter D'Arcy Creswell (died 1960), New ZealandDeaths
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January 8 —Paul Verlaine , 52
*Mathilde Blind
*Henry Cuyler Bunner
*Thomas Edward Brown
*Alexander McLachlan
*William Morris
*Coventry Patmore ee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
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