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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also

Events

Works published

• Charles Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris/Petits Poémes en Prose (Paris Spleen)
• W. S. Gilbert, Bab Ballads
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems
• Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Holy Grail and Other Poems, with "The Coming of Arthur," "The Holy Grail," "Pelleas and Ettarre," and "The Passing of Arthur"

Births

• February 11 - Else Lasker-Schüler (d. 1945), German poet
• May 12 - Frank Morton, Australian poet
• May 23 - Olivia Bush, née Ward, later Banks, American poet
• July 8 - William Vaughn Moody, American poet
• August 10 - Laurence Binyon (d. 1943)
• October 6 - Bo Bergman (d. 1967)
• November 15 - Charlotte Mew (d. 1928)
• December 22 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet
• December 30 - Stephen Leacock (d. 1944)
• Arthur Shearly Cripps (d. 1952)
• Arnold Wall (died 1966), New Zealand

Deaths

• November 3 — Andreas Kalvos
• Charlotte Alington Barnard

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry