1884 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Events
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Isabella Valancy Crawford, Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems. Published at author's expense.
- James McIntyre. Musings on the Banks of the Canadian Thames. London, ON.
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Francis Adams, Henry and Other Tales
- Robert Browning, Ferishtah's Fancies
- Andrew Lang, Rhymes à la Mode
- Amy Levy, A Minor Poet, and Other Verse
- Marc-André Raffalovich, Cyril and Lionel and other poems: a volume of sentimental studies, French-born author writing in English
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Midsummer Holiday, and Other Poems
United States">American poetry">United States
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Mercedes and Later Lyrics
- Louise Imogen Guiney, Songs at the Start
- Sidney Lanier, Poems, published posthumously
- Joaquin Miller, Memorie and Rime
- Edmund Clarence Stedman, Songs and Ballads
- Henry Timrod, Katie''
Other
- Rosario de Acuña, Sentir y pensar, Spain
- Rosalia de Castro, En las orillas del Sar, Galician Spanish poet, writing in Spanish
- Lie Kim Hok, Sair Tjerita Siti Akbari, ethnic Chinese poet, writing in Malay
- Rabindranath Tagore, Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali, Indian poet, writing in Braj Bhasha
Awards and honors
- English poet Alfred Tennyson is created 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, hereafter being known as Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Births
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- February 14 - Kostas Varnalis,, Greek
- March 28 - Angelos Sikelianos , Greek poet and playwright
- April 2 - John Collings Squire, English poet, writer, historian, and influential literary editor of the post-World War I period
- June 29 - Francis Brett Young, English novelist and poet
- July 24 - Donald Evans, American poet, publisher, music critic and journalist
- July 29 - Eunice Tietjens, American poet, novelist, journalist, children's author, lecturer, and editor
- August 8 - Sara Teasdale, American lyric poet
- November 5 - James Elroy Flecker, English poet, novelist and playwright
- December 31 - George Sylvester Viereck, German-American poet, writer and propagandist
- Date not known - Leknath Ponday, Indian, Nepali-language poet
Deaths
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- January 7 - John Harris, English poet
- February 17 - Charles Stuart Calverley, 82, English poet and wit
- February 28 - Matsudaira Teru 松平照 also called "Teruhime" 照姫, literally translated, "Princess Teru", Japanese, late Edo and early Meiji period aristocrat and skilled waka poet who instructed Matsudaira Katamori in poetry and calligraphy
- March 13 - Richard Henry Horne, 81, English poet, critic and journalist, and public official in Australia
- March 19 - Elias Lönnrot, 81, Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry best known for composing the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from national folklore
- June 27 - Andreas Munch, 72, Norwegian poet
