1896 in poetry

1896 in poetry

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Events

* William Morris publishes the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer's works

Awards

* Alfred Austin made Poet Laureate

Works published

* 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

* February 26 — Andrei Zhdanov (died 1948, a Soviet official who persecuted poets, writers and artists under the Zhdanov doctrine)
* October 30 — Kostas Karyotakis, Greek
* Date not known – Walter D'Arcy Creswell (died 1960), New Zealand

Deaths

* January 8 — Paul Verlaine, 52
* Mathilde Blind
* Henry Cuyler Bunner
* Thomas Edward Brown
* Alexander McLachlan
* William Morris
* Coventry Patmore

ee also

* Poetry
* List of years in poetry


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