1889 in poetry

(died 1889) • June 8 – English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins dies aged 54 in Dublin of typhoid; he is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery; most of his poetry remains unpublished until 1918. • December 12 – English poet Robert Browning dies aged 77 at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice on the same day his book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published; he is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; Alfred, Lord Tennyson will be buried adjacently. ==Works published==

Canada • William Wilfred Campbell, Lake lyrics and other poems (Saint John: J.& A. McMillan) • Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, Acadian Legends and Lyrics, Canada • Sophia Almon Hensley, Poems. ;Anthologies: • Songs of the Great Dominion: Voices from the Forests and Waters, the Settlements and Cities of Canada. (London [England]: Walter Scott). 500-page anthology of Canadian poetry. United Kingdom • Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, A New Pilgrimage, and Other Poems Irish poet published in the United Kingdom ===United States=== • Eugene Field, A Little Book of Western Verse, including "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynkyn, Blynkyn and Nod", United States • Louise Chandler Moulton, Poems • Herman Gorter, Mei ("May"), Netherlands • Banjo Paterson, "Clancy of the Overflow", Australia • Luigi Pirandello, Mal giocondo ("Playful Evil" or "Joyful Pain"), Italy • Govardhanram N. Tripathi, Lilavatijivankala, a tribute to his dead daughter, Indian, writing in Gujarati • Verner von Heidenstam, Vallfart och vandringsår ("Pilgrimage: the Wandering Years"), Sweden • W. B. Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, including "The Wanderings of Oisin", "The Song of the Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child", "Down By The Salley Gardens" (Kegan Paul, Trench & Company) Irish poet published in the United Kingdom ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • February 3 (January 22 O.S.) – Artur Adson (died 1977), Estonian poet and critic • February 11 – Acharya Ramlochan Saran (died 1971), Indian, Maithili-language poet littérateur, grammarian, publisher and poet • March 1 – Okamoto Kanoko, 岡本かの子, pen name of Ohnuki Kano (died 1939), Japanese, author, tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods; mother of artist Tarō Okamoto • April 27 – Arnulf Øverland (died 1968), Norwegian • June 23 • Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (died 1966), Russian • Rofū Miki, 三木 露風, pen name of Masao Miki (died 1964), Japanese Symbolist poet and writer • June 28 – Abbas Al Akkad عباس محمود العقاد (died 1964), Egyptian, Arabic-language writer and poet, a founder of the Divan school of poetry • July 30 – Dorothy Wellesley, born Dorothy Violet Ashton and styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943 (died 1956), English socialite, author, poet and literary editor • August 5 – Conrad Aiken (died 1973), American writer • August 19 – Arthur Waley (died 1966), English Orientalist • August 29 – (Doris) Capel Boake (died 1944), Australian writer • September 13 – Pierre Reverdy (died 1960), French • September 15 – Claude McKay (died 1948), Jamaican-born writer and poet of the Harlem Renaissance • September 17 – Katka Zupančič (died 1967), Slovene children's poet • September 29 – Matilde Hidalgo (died 1974), Ecuadorian physician, poet and women's rights activist • October 31 – Napoleon Lapathiotis (died 1944), Greek • November 11 – Mantarō Kubota, 久保田万太郎 (died 1963), Japanese author, playwright and poet (surname: Kubota) • December 8 – Hervey Allen (died 1949), American writer • December 24 – Patrick MacGill (died 1963), Irish-born "navvy poet" and journalist • Also: • Harley Matthews (died 1968), Australian • John Munro (Iain Rothach; killed in action 1918), Scottish Gaelic • V. C. Balakrishna Panikker (died 1915), Indian, Malayalam-language poet • Vasilis Rotas (died 1977), Greek • Fredegond Shove, née Maitland (died 1949), English ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • March 25 – Cornelius Mathews, 71 (born 1817), American poet • May 31 – Horatius Bonar, 80 (born 1808), Scottish hymnodist • June 8 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, 44 (born 1844), English poet, in Ireland • June 15 – Mihai Eminescu, 39 (born 1850), Romanian poet • September 10 – Amy Levy, 27 (born 1861), English poet and novelist, by suicide • September 18 – John Barr, 79 (born 1809), Scottish-born New Zealand poet • September 23 – Eliza Cook, 70 (born 1818), English poet • October 25 – Émile Augier, 69 (born 1820), French dramatist and poet • November 18 – William Allingham, 65 (born 1824) Irish-born poet • November 29 – Martin Farquhar Tupper, 79 (born 1810), English writer and poet • December 10 – Ludwig Anzengruber, 50 (born 1839), Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet • December 12 – Robert Browning, 77 (born 1812), English poet, in Italy • December 23 – Constance Naden, 31 (born 1858), English poet and philosopher, of infection ==See also==