1881 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Events
Canada">Canadian poetry">Canada
- Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, Poetical Works, posthumously published, Canada
- Pamela Vining Yule. Poems of the Heart and Home.
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Love Sonnets of Proteus
- Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing as "Arran and Islan Leigh", Bellerophon, and Other Poems
- Amy Levy, Xantippe, and Other Verse
- George Moore, Pagan Poems
- Constance Naden, Songs and Sonnets of Springtime
- Christina Rossetti, A Pageant, and other Poems
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets, with "The House of Life" complete, and Poems
- Oscar Wilde, Poems, three editions published this year, first edition in June
United States">American poetry">United States
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book
- Ina Coolbrith, A Perfect Day
- James Thomas Fields, Ballads and Other Verses, Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, Riverside Press imprint, United States
- Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, including poetry
- Fitz-James O'Brien, Poems and Stories
- Epes Sargent, Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poets, posthumously published, United States
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The King's Missive
Works published in other languages
- François Coppée, Conies en tiers, France
- Victor Hugo, Les Quatres vents de l'esprit, France
- Jorge Isaacs, Saulo, 1st canto, Colombia
- Helena Nyblom, Digte, Denmark
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 9 - Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and literary critic called the Georgian Laureate and one of the "Dymock poets"
- February 13 - Eleanor Farjeon, English author and poet
- February 15 - Piaras Béaslaí, Irish writer and poet
- February 17 - Puran Singh, Indian, writing Indian poetry in English
- March 6 - John Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun, Russian-American Imagist poet, but better known for his novels, short stories, essays, criticism and translations of Russian literature
- April 4 - Gertrud von Puttkamer, born Gertrud Günther, German homoerotic poet
- April 6 - Furnley Maurice, Australian
- April 16 - Alice Corbin Henderson, American poet
- May 18 - Alan Edward Mulgan, New Zealand
- June 10 - Jaime Sabartés, Catalan Spanish poet and longtime secretary to Pablo Picasso
- August 1 - Aizu Yaichi 会津 八一, Japanese poet, calligrapher and historian
- August 10 - Witter Bynner, American poet, writer and scholar
- August 20 - Edgar Albert Guest, prolific American poet
- September 16 - Clive Bell, English critic associated with the Bloomsbury group
- October 30 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American novelist and poet
- November 15:
- * Franklin Pierce Adams, American columnist, writer and wit, part of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s whose newspaper column introduced the public to many poets and writers
- * Masamune Atsuo 正宗敦夫, Japanese poet and academic
- November 16 - Ernest O'Ferrall, Australian poet and short-story writer
- December 8 - Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, collector of folklore and a leading figure of the Celtic Revival
- December 24 - Lady Margaret Sackville, English poet and children's author
- Also:
- * Swami Ananda Acharya, Indian poet who wrote Indian poetry in English
- * Deepakba Desai, Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet who wrote khandakavyas
- * Ardoshir Faramji Kharbardar, Indian, Gujarati-language, Parsi poet
- * Sotiris Skipis, Greek
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 30 - Arthur O'Shaughnessy, 36, British poet
- August 2 - Marcus Clarke, 35, Australian novelist and poet
- September 7 - Sidney Lanier, 39, American musician and poet
- October 12 - Josiah Gilbert Holland, 62, American novelist and poet
- November 1 - Jacques Perk, 22, Dutch poet
- Also - Mangkunegara IV, Javanese ruler of Mangkunegaran and poet
