1898 in poetry

Events

The "Generation of '98" in Spain

Works published in English

Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada

• Bliss Carman, By the Aurelian Wall
• William Henry Drummond, Phil-o-rum’s Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres: Two Poems, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
• Charles G. D. Roberts, New York Nocturnes and Other Poems
• Duncan Campbell Scott, Labor and the Angel, including "The Onondaga Madonna", Canada

  United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Alfred Austin:
• * Lamia's Winter-Quarters
• * Songs of England
• Robert Bridges, Poetical Works, Volume 1; published in six volumes through 1905
• Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems and Other Verses
• W. E. Henley, Poems
• Henry Newbolt, The Island Race
• Stephen Phillips, Poems
• William Watson, The Hope of the World, and Other Poems
• Theodore Watts-Dunton, The Coming of Love, and Other Poems
• Oscar Wilde, published under the pen name "C.3.3", The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Florence Earle Coates,
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• * Folks from Dixie
• * The Uncalled
• Louise Imogen Guiney, England and Yesterday
• Richard Hovey, Along the Trail: A Book of Lyrics
• Edgar Lee Masters, A Book of Verses
• Josephine Preston Peabody, The Wayfarers

  Other in English

• Victor Daley, At Dawn and Dusk, Australia

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• Francis Jammes:
• * De l'Angélus de l'aube à l'Angélus du soir
• * Quatorze prières
• Charles Van Lerberghe, Entrevisions

  Other languages

• Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Verzen, Netherlands
• José Santos Chocano, Selva virgen, Peru
• Manilal Dwivedi, Amar Asha, India, Gujarati-language, in his magazine Sudarshan
• Naim Frashëri, Histori e Skënderbeut and Qerbelaja, Albania
• Chanda Jha, Mithila bhasa Ramayana, India, Maithili-language
• Gregorio Martínez Sierra, El poema del trabajo, Spain

  Awards and honors

Births

• January 19 – Philip Child, Canadian novelist and poet
• February 6 – Melvin B. Tolson, African American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, trade unionist and politician
• February 9 – Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉, Japanese
• February 18 – Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician
• February 19 – Richard Rudzitis, Latvian poet, writer and philosopher
• March 9 – Fuyue Anzai 安西 冬衛, Japanese, poet and co-founder of the magazine Shi To Shiron, surname: Anzai
• March 20 – Luis Palés Matos, Puerto Rican poet
• April 2 – Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet writing in English and film actor
• April 10 – Horace Gregory, American poet, translator, literary critic and academic; husband of poet and editor Marya Zaturenska
• April 24 – Govinda Krishna Chettur, Indian poet writing in English
• April 26 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet
• April 28 – William Soutar, Scottish poet writing in English and Scots
• May 7 – Dorothy Vena Johnson, African American educator and poet
• June 4 – Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet
• June 5 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet
• June 13 – Anton Podbevšek, Slovene avant-garde poet
• July 17 – Richard Harry Graves, Australian
• July 22 – Stephen Vincent Benét, American author, poet, short story writer and novelist
• August 15 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet
• August 28 – Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic and journalist
• September 15 – J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist
• October 22 – Edgell Rickword, English poet, critic, journalist, literary editor and a leading communist intellectual in the 1930s
• November 14 – Benjamin Fondane, né Wechsler, Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher

  Deaths

• January 14 – Lewis Carroll, English writer of fiction for children and nonsense verse
• March 6 – Felice Cavallotti, Italian poet, playwright and politician, killed in duel
• May 10 – Alexander MacGregor Rose, Scottish-born Canadian poet
• July 20 – Jean Ingelow, English poet and novelist
• July 24 – Evan MacColl, Scottish-born Canadian poet writing in Scottish Gaelic and English
• September 9 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French symbolist poet
• September 20 – Theodor Fontane, German novelist and poet
• October 1 – Manilal Dwivedi, Indian, Gujarati-language writer
• November 7 – Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, Scottish Gaelic poet
• Kavishwar Dalpatram Dahyabhai, popularly known as "Dalpatram", Indian, Gujarati-language poet; father of poet Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi