1883 in poetry
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Works published in English
United Kingdom
- William Allingham, The Fairies, including "Up the airy mountain ..."; reprinted from Poems 1850[1]
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Wind and the Whirlwind[1]
- Robert Bridges, Prometheus the Firegiver[1]
- Robert Browning, Jocoseria
- George Meredith, Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth[1]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Century of Roundels[1]
United States
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- Francis James Child, editor, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, an anthology published in five volumes from this year to 1898[2]
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Decorative Plaques[2]
- Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus", written in aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for erection of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, posthumously published[2]
- James Whitcomb Riley, The Old Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems[2]
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The Bay of Seven Islands[2]
- Jones Very, Poems, published posthumously[2]
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion[2]
Works published in other languages
- Alexander Baumgartner, Lauretanische Litanei, Switzerland
- Gabriele D'Annunzio, L'intermezzo di rime, Italy
- Mihail Eminescu, LuceafÄrul, Romania[3]
- Victor Hugo, La Légende des siècles, third series (first series 1859, second series 1877), France[4]
- Jan Neruda, Prosté motivy, Czechia
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev, Russian parody published posthumously
- Paul Verlaine, in November publishes an influential essay on Stéphane Mallarmé, which is later reprinted in the book Les Poetès maudits; France[5]
- Albert Verwey, Persephone, Netherlands
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 â Charles Badger Clark (died 1957), American
- January 6 â Khalil Gibran (died 1931), Lebanese American poet and artist
- January 21 â Olav Aukrust (died 1929), Norwegian poet and teacher
- February 7 â K. V. Simon, (died 1944), Indian Malayalam-language poet[6]
- February 18
- Nikos Kazantzakis (died 1957), Greek author
- Jessie Litchfield, (died 1956), Australian author
- March 13 â KÅtarÅ Takamura é«æ å 太é (died 1956), Japanese poet and sculptor; son of sculptor KÅun Takamura
- March 9 â Umberto Saba né Poli (died 1957), Italian poet and fiction writer
- March 16 â Ethel Anderson née Campbell (died 1958), English-born Australian
- March 27 (March 15 O.S.) â Marie Under (died 1980), Estonian
- May 7 â Anna Wickham, née Edith Alice Mary Harper, aka Edith Hepburn and John Oland (committed suicide 1947), English poet brought up in Australia
- June 27 â Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (died 1929), English Anglican priest and poet
- August 11 â Ernst Stadler (killed 1914 in World War I), German Expressionist poet
- September 16 â T. E. Hulme (killed 1917 in World War I), influential English poetry critic
- September 17 â William Carlos Williams (died 1963), American
- November 10 â Arthur Davison Ficke (died 1945), American
- December 10 â Alfred Kreymborg (died 1966), American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist
- December 12 â William Baylebridge (died 1942)), Australian poet and short-story writer
- September 14 â Marjorie Pickthall (died 1922), English-born Canadian
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5 â Charles Tompson (born 1806), Australian public servant said to be the first published Australian-born poet
- May 23 â Cyprian Norwid, 61 (born 1821), Polish-born
- June 14
- Charles Timothy Brooks, 96, American poet and translator
- Edward Fitzgerald, 74, English poet and translator, best known for his translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
- After 1883 â George Moses Horton (born c. 1797), African-American
