This article covers 1898 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
The "Generation of '98" in Spain The "Generation of '98" (also called "Generation of 1898", in Spanish, Generación del 98 or Generación de 1898) was a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish–American War. Jose Martínez Ruiz, commonly known as Azorín, comes up with the name in 1913 to allude to the moral, political, and social crisis produced by Spain's defeat. Writing mostly after 1910, the group reinvigorates Spanish letters, revives literary myths and breaks with classical schemes of literary genres. In politics, members of the movement often justify radicalism and rebellion.
Works published in English
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 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" (in June the 7th edition is published under Wilde's name), The Ballad of Reading Gaol
United States Florence Earle Coates, Poems Cover and inside look into a 1st ed. copy and a 1905 reprint ed. inscribed by the author to previous owner, May Louise Shipp. 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 Francis Jammes: De l'Angélus de l'aube à l'Angélus du soir ("From the Morning Prayer to the Evening Prayer") Quatorze prières Charles Van Lerberghe, Entrevisions
Other languages Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Verzen ("Verses"), Netherlands José Santos Chocano, Selva virgen ("Virgin Jungle"), 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 ("The poem of work"), Spain Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 19 – Philip Child (died 1978), Canadian novelist and poet February 6 – Melvin B. Tolson (died 1966), African American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, trade unionist and politician February 9 – Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉 (died 1927), Japanese (surname: Yagi) February 18 – Luis Muñoz Marín (died 1980), Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician February 19 – Richard Rudzitis (died 1960), Latvian poet, writer and philosopher March 9 – Fuyue Anzai 安西 冬衛 (died 1965), Japanese, poet and co-founder of the magazine Shi To Shiron ("Poetry and Poetics"), surname: Anzai March 20 – Luis Palés Matos (died 1959), Puerto Rican poet April 2 – Harindranath Chattopadhyay (died 1990), Indian poet writing in English and film actor April 10 – Horace Gregory (died 1982), American poet, translator, literary critic and academic; husband of poet and editor Marya Zaturenska April 24 – Govinda Krishna Chettur (died 1936), Indian poet writing in English April 26 – Vicente Aleixandre (died 1984), Spanish poet April 28 – William Soutar (died 1943), Scottish poet writing in English and Scots May 7 – Dorothy Vena Johnson (died 1970), African American educator and poet June 4 – Harry Crosby (died 1929), American publisher and poet June 5 – Federico García Lorca (killed 1936), Spanish poet June 13 – Anton Podbevšek (died 1981), Slovene avant-garde poet July 17 – Richard Harry Graves (died 1971), Australian July 22 – Stephen Vincent Benét (died 1943), American author, poet, short story writer and novelist August 15 – Jan Brzechwa (died 1966), Polish poet August 28 – Malcolm Cowley (died 1989), American novelist, poet, literary critic and journalist September 15 – J. Slauerhoff (died 1936), Dutch poet and novelist October 22 Dámaso Alonso, Spanish poet (died 1990) Edgell Rickword (died 1982), English poet, critic, journalist, literary editor and a leading communist intellectual in the 1930s November 14 – Benjamin Fondane, né Wechsler (killed 1944), Romanian-French Symbolist poet, critic and existentialist philosopher
Deaths Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 14 – Lewis Carroll (born 1832), English writer of fiction for children and nonsense verse January 26 – Cornelia J. M. Jordan (born 1830), U.S. poet and lyricist March 6 – Felice Cavallotti (born 1842), Italian poet, playwright and politician, killed in duel May 10 – Alexander MacGregor Rose (born 1846), Scottish-born Canadian poet July 20 – Jean Ingelow (born 1820), English poet and novelist July 24 – Evan MacColl (born 1808), Scottish-born Canadian poet writing in Scottish Gaelic and English September 9 – Stéphane Mallarmé (born 1842), French symbolist poet September 20 – Theodor Fontane (born 1819), German novelist and poet October 1 – Manilal Dwivedi (born 1858), Indian, Gujarati-language writer November 7 – Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (born 1821), Scottish Gaelic poet Kavishwar Dalpatram Dahyabhai, popularly known as "Dalpatram" (born 1820), Indian, Gujarati-language poet; father of poet Nanalal Dalpatram KaviMohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini; Nelson Emanuel Sampath, ed. (1996). Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. . Retrieved 2008-12-10.
See also
19th century in poetry 19th century in literature List of years in poetry List of years in literature Victorian literature French literature of the 19th century Symbolist poetry Young Poland (Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918 Poetry
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