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Overview of the events of 1899 in poetry
Take up the White Man's burden,
Send forth the best ye breed —
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
— Opening lines of
Rudyard Kipling 's
White Man's Burden , first published this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France ).
Events
Works published
Frances Jones Bannerman, Milestones. London.
[2]
William Wilfred Campbell , Beyond the Hills of Dream . Boston: Houghton, Mifflin.
[3]
Fidelis, Lays of the "True North," and Other Canadian Poems .
[2]
John Frederic Herbin , The Marshlands
[4]
Archibald Lampman , Alcyone , including "City of the End of Things",
[5] the author died while the book was being printed.
[6]
Thomas O'Hagan , Songs of the Settlement
[6]
Frederick George Scott , Poems Old and New (Toronto: William Briggs).
[7]
Francis Sherman , 'The Deserted City: Stray Sonnets. Boston: Copeland and Day.
[8]
Arthur Stringer , The Loom of Destiny.
Anthologies
Hilaire Belloc , A Moral Alphabet
[9]
Laurence Binyon , Second Book of London Visions (see also First Book of London Visions
1896 )
[9]
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt , Satan Absolved
[9]
Gordon Bottomley , Poems at White-Nights
[9]
Robert Buchanan , The New Rome: Poems and ballads of our empire
[9]
John Davidson , The Last Ballad, and Other Poems
[9]
Lord Alfred Douglas (anonymously in 1st edition), The City of the Soul
[9]
Ernest Dowson , Decorations: in Verse and Prose
[9]
Rudyard Kipling :
Dora Sigerson , Ballads and Poems
[9]
Arthur Symons :
W. B. Yeats ,
The Wind Among the Reeds
[9] including "
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven ";
Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, (John Lane/Bodley Head)
Stephen Crane , War is Kind
[11]
Paul Laurence Dunbar , Lyrics of the Hearthside ,
[11] which included his poem "
Sympathy "
Hamlin Gillette , The Trail of the Goldseekers
[11]
Louise Imogen Guiney , The Martyrs' Idyl
[11]
Rudyard Kipling , "
The White Man's Burden ", appears first in
McClure's ; it is parodied this same year in "The Brown Man's Burden", by
Henry Labouchère in Truth , a publication in London; the parody is reprinted in the United States in
Literary Digest 18 (February 25)
[10]
Edwin Markham , The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems
[11]
Howard Llewellyn Swisher , Briar Blossoms: Being a Collection of a Few Verses and Some Prose
Henry Timrod (died
1867 ), Complete Poems
[11]
Other in English
Works published in other languages
Other languages
Awards and honors
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(July 2010 )
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 23 –
Carlo Betocchi (died
1986 ),
Italian poet
January 26 –
May Miller (died
1995 ) African
American poet, playwright and educator
February 17 –
Jibanananda Das (died
1954 ), popular
Bengali poet
March 7 –
Jun Ishikawa 石川淳
pen name of Ishikawa Kiyoshi, Ishikawa (died
1987 ),
Japanese ,
Shōwa period modernist author, translator and literary critic
March 25 –
Jacques Audiberti (died
1965 ),
French playwright, poet, novelist and exponent of the
Theatre of the Absurd
March 27 –
Francis Ponge (died
1988 ),
French academic, journalist and poet
May 18 –
D. Gwenallt Jones (died
1968 ),
Welsh poet
May 24
May 27 –
Raymond Knister died (
1932 ),
Canadian poet, novelist and short story writer
June 6 –
Hildegarde Flanner (died
1987 ),
American poet, author and activist
June 8 –
Kaoru Maruyama 丸山 薫 (died
1974 ),
Japanese
July 4 –
Benjamin Péret (died
1959 ),
French poet and writer
July 7 –
Margaret Larkin (died
1967 ),
American poet
July 21 –
Hart Crane (died
1932 ),
American poet
August 1 –
F. R. Scott (died
1985 ),
Canadian poet, intellectual and constitutional expert
September 30 –
Hendrik Marsman (died
1940 ),
Dutch poet
August 5 –
Sakae Tsuboi 壺井栄 (died
1967 ),
Japanese novelist and poet
November 19 –
Allen Tate (died
1979 ),
American poet and member of the
Fugitives and later the
Southern Agrarians .
December 9 –
Léonie Adams (died
1988 ),
American poet and
Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress
Date not known:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 10 –
Archibald Lampman , 37 (born
1861 ),
Canadian poet who dies while his book, Alcyone , is being printed (see "Works", above)
April 16 –
Emilio Jacinto , 23 (born
1875 )
Filipino revolutionary general and poet, of malaria
April 26 –
Dragotin Kette , 23 (born
1876 ),
Slovene poet, of TB
July 20 –
Frances Laughton Mace , 63 (born
1836 )
American poet
[18]
November 16 –
Vincas Kudirka , 40 (born
1858 ),
Lithuanian physician, poet and national hero, of TB
November 25 –
Robert Lowry , 73 (born
1826 ),
American hymnodist
December 1 –
Dolores Cabrera y Heredia , 71 (born
1828 ),
Spanish Romantic poet and novelist, member of
Hermandad Lírica
See also
Notes
^ Moult, Thomas (1934). W. H. Davies . London: Thornton Butterworth.
^
a
b Carole Gerson and Gwendolyn Davies, ed. Canadian Poetry from the Beginnings Through the First World War. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart NCL, 1994.
^ "
Campbell, William Wilfred ," Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Web, Mar. 20, 2011.
^ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse , revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
^ Keith, W. J.,
"Poetry in English: 1867-1918" , article in The Canadian Encyclopedia , retrieved February 8, 2009
^
a
b Garvin, John William, editor,
Canadian poets (anthology)(Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916), Web, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009
^ "
Frederick George Scott
Archived 2012-05-01 at the
Wayback Machine ," Canadian Poetry, UWO, Web, Apr. 19, 12011.
^ Tammy Armstrong, "
Francis Joseph Sherman
Archived 2011-09-28 at the
Wayback Machine ," New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, STU.ca, Web, May 11, 2011.
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m Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
^
a
b Labouchère, Henry,
"The Brown Man's Burden" , retrieved March 17, 2009.
Archived 2009-05-03.
^
a
b
c
d
e
f Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). "Preface".
Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 . New York: Oxford University Press. p. vi. If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year.
^
a
b
"Poet – Francis Jammes (1868–1938)" . The Poetry Foundation.
Archived from the original on 2010-08-09. Retrieved 2009-08-30 .
^ Zwerling Sugano, Marian (1992).
The Poetics of the Occasion: Mallarmé and the poetry of circumstance . Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 15.
ISBN
0-8047-1946-2 .
^ Auster, Paul, ed. (1982). The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry: with Translations by American and British Poets . New York: Random House.
ISBN
0-394-52197-8 .
^ Web page titled
"José Santos Chocano"
Archived 2012-08-23 at the
Wayback Machine at the Jaume University website, retrieved August 29, 2011
^
"Stefan George" , article, Encyclopedia of World Biography , 2004, retrieved February 23, 2010
^
a
b Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various,
History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2 , 1995, published by
Sahitya Akademi ,
ISBN
978-81-7201-798-9 , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
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"Frances Parker Laughton 15 January 1836 – 20 July 1899 • K4VF-73S" . ident.familysearch.org . Retrieved 6 October 2022 .
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