1883 in poetry
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Works published in English
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- William Allingham, The Fairies, including "Up the airy mountain..."; reprinted from Poems 1850
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Wind and the Whirwind
- Robert Bridges, Prometheus the Firegiver
- Robert Browning, Jocoseria
- George Meredith, Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Century of Roundels
United States">American poetry">United States
- Francis James Child, editor, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, an anthology published in five volumes from this year to 1898
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Decorative Plaques
- Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus", written in aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for erection of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, posthumously published
- James Whitcomb Riley, The Old Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The Bay of Seven Islands
- Jones Very, Poems, published posthumously
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion
Works published in other languages
- Gabriele D'Annunzio, L'intermezzo di rime, Italy
- Mihail Eminescu, Luceafărul, Romania
- Victor Hugo, La Légende des siècles, third series, France
- Jan Neruda, Prosté motivy, Czechia
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev, Russian parody published posthumously
- Paul Verlaine, in November publishes an influential essay on Stéphane Mallarmé, which is later reprinted in the book Les Poetès maudits; France
- Albert Verwey, Persephone, Netherlands
Awards and honors
Births
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- January 1 - Charles Badger Clark, American
- January 6 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese American poet and artist
- January 21 - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and teacher
- February 7 - K. V. Simon,, Indian Malayalam-language poet
- February 18
- * Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek author
- * Jessie Litchfield,, Australian author
- March 13 - Kōtarō Takamura 高村 光太郎, Japanese poet and sculptor; son of sculptor Kōun Takamura
- March 9 - Umberto Saba né Poli, Italian poet and fiction writer
- March 16 - Ethel Anderson née Campbell, English-born Australian
- March 27 - Marie Under, Estonian
- May 7 - Anna Wickham, née Edith Alice Mary Harper, aka Edith Hepburn and John Oland, English poet brought up in Australia
- June 27 - Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, English Anglican priest and poet
- August 11 - Ernst Stadler, German Expressionist poet
- September 16 - T. E. Hulme, influential English poetry critic
- September 17 - William Carlos Williams, American
- November 10 - Arthur Davison Ficke, American
- December 10 - Alfred Kreymborg, American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist
- December 12 - William Baylebridge ), Australian poet and short-story writer
- September 14 - Marjorie Pickthall, English-born Canadian
Deaths
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