1881 in poetry
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Events

- Frederick James Furnivall founds the Browning Society
Works published in English
Canada
- Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, Poetical Works, posthumously published, Canada[1]
- Pamela Vining Yule. Poems of the Heart and Home.[2]
United Kingdom
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Love Sonnets of Proteus (see also Sonnets and Songs 1875, Love Lyrics 1892)[3]
- Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing as "Arran and Islan Leigh", Bellerophon, and Other Poems[3]
- Amy Levy, Xantippe, and Other Verse[3]
- George Moore, Pagan Poems[3]
- Constance Naden, Songs and Sonnets of Springtime[4]
- Christina Rossetti, A Pageant, and other Poems
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets,[3] with "The House of Life" complete, and Poems
- Oscar Wilde, Poems, three editions published this year, first edition in June[3]
United States
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Friar Jerome's Beautiful Book[5]
- Ina Coolbrith, A Perfect Day[5]
- James T. Fields, Ballads and Other Verses, Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Company, Riverside Press imprint, United States[6]
- Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, including poetry[5]
- Fitz-James O'Brien, Poems and Stories[5]
- Epes Sargent, Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poets (scholarship), posthumously published, United States
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The King's Missive[7]
Works published in other languages
- Alexander Baumgartner, Festspiel zur Calderonfeier, Switzerland
- François Coppée, Conies en tiers, France[8]
- Victor Hugo, Les Quatres vents de l'esprit, France[9]
- Jorge Isaacs, Saulo, 1st canto (no more published), Colombia
- Helena Nyblom, Digte ("Poems"), Denmark
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 9 â Lascelles Abercrombie (died 1938), English poet and literary critic called the Georgian Laureate and one of the "Dymock poets"
- February 13 â Eleanor Farjeon (died 1965), English author and poet
- February 15 â Piaras Béaslaà (died 1965), Irish writer and poet
- February 17 â Puran Singh (died 1931), Indian, writing Indian poetry in English[10]
- March 6 â John Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun (died 1966), Russian-American Imagist poet, but better known for his novels, short stories, essays, criticism and translations of Russian literature (pen name: John Courtney)
- April 4 â Gertrud von Puttkamer, born Gertrud Günther (died 1944), German homoerotic poet (pen name: Marie-Madeleine)
- April 6 â Furnley Maurice (died 1942), Australian
- April 16 â Alice Corbin Henderson (died 1949), American poet
- May 18 â Alan Edward Mulgan (died 1962), New Zealand
- June 10 â Jaime Sabartés (died 1968), Catalan Spanish poet and longtime secretary to Pablo Picasso
- August 1 â Aizu Yaichi 伿´¥ å «ä¸ (died 1956), Japanese poet, calligrapher and historian (surname: Aizu)
- August 10 â Witter Bynner (died 1968), American poet, writer and scholar
- August 20 â Edgar Albert Guest (died 1959), prolific American poet
- September 16 â Clive Bell (died 1964), English critic associated with the Bloomsbury group
- October 30 â Elizabeth Madox Roberts (died 1941), American novelist and poet
- November 15:
- Franklin Pierce Adams (died 1960), American columnist (pen name: F.P.A.), 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 æ£å®æ¦å¤« (died 1958), Japanese poet and academic (surname: Masamune)
- November 16 â Ernest O'Ferrall (died 1925), Australian poet and short-story writer (pen name: Kodak)
- December 8 â Padraic Colum (died 1972), Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, collector of folklore and a leading figure of the Celtic Revival
- December 24 â Lady Margaret Sackville (died 1963), English poet and children's author
- Also:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 30 â Arthur O'Shaughnessy (born 1844), 36, British poet
- August 2 â Marcus Clarke (born 1846), 35, Australian novelist and poet
- September 7 â Sidney Lanier (born 1842), 39, American musician and poet
- October 12 â Josiah Gilbert Holland (born 1819), 62, American novelist and poet
- November 1 â Jacques Perk (born 1859), 22, Dutch poet
- November 4 â Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld (born 1837), 44, Dutch poet
- Also â Mangkunegara IV (born 1809), Javanese ruler of Mangkunegaran and poet