1889 in poetry

• June 8 – English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins dies aged 54 in Dublin of typhoid; he is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery; most of his poetry remains unpublished until 1918.
• December 12 – English poet Robert Browning dies aged 77 at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice on the same day his book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published;^[1] he is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; Alfred, Lord Tennyson will be buried adjacently.

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 3 (January 22 O.S.) – Artur Adson (died 1977), Estonian poet and critic
• February 11 – Acharya Ramlochan Saran (died 1971), Indian, Maithili-language poet littérateur, grammarian, publisher and poet
• March 1 – Okamoto Kanoko, 岡本かの子, pen name of Ohnuki Kano (died 1939), Japanese, author, tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods; mother of artist Tarō Okamoto
• April 27 – Arnulf Øverland (died 1968), Norwegian
• June 23
  • Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (died 1966), Russian
  • RofÅ« Miki, 三木 露風, pen name of Masao Miki (died 1964), Japanese Symbolist poet and writer
• June 28 – Abbas Al Akkad عباس محمود العقاد (died 1964), Egyptian, Arabic-language writer and poet, a founder of the Divan school of poetry
• July 30 – Dorothy Wellesley, born Dorothy Violet Ashton and styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943 (died 1956), English socialite, author, poet and literary editor
• August 5 – Conrad Aiken (died 1973), American writer
• August 19 – Arthur Waley (died 1966), English Orientalist
• August 29 – (Doris) Capel Boake (died 1944), Australian writer
• September 13 – Pierre Reverdy (died 1960), French
• September 15 – Claude McKay (died 1948), Jamaican-born writer and poet of the Harlem Renaissance
• September 17 – Katka Zupančič (died 1967), Slovene children's poet
• September 29 – Matilde Hidalgo (died 1974), Ecuadorian physician, poet and women's rights activist
• October 31 – Napoleon Lapathiotis (died 1944), Greek
• November 11 – Mantarō Kubota, 久保田万太郎 (died 1963), Japanese author, playwright and poet (surname: Kubota)
• December 8 – Hervey Allen (died 1949), American writer
• December 24 – Patrick MacGill (died 1963), Irish-born "navvy poet" and journalist
• Also:
  • Harley Matthews (died 1968), Australian
  • John Munro (Iain Rothach; killed in action 1918), Scottish Gaelic
  • V. C. Balakrishna Panikker (died 1915), Indian, Malayalam-language poet^[10]
  • Vasilis Rotas (died 1977), Greek
  • Fredegond Shove, née Maitland (died 1949), English

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 25 – Cornelius Mathews, 71 (born 1817), American poet
• May 31 – Horatius Bonar, 80 (born 1808), Scottish hymnodist
• June 8 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, 44 (born 1844), English poet, in Ireland
• June 15 – Mihai Eminescu, 39 (born 1850), Romanian poet
• September 10 – Amy Levy, 27 (born 1861), English poet and novelist, by suicide
• September 18 – John Barr, 79 (born 1809), Scottish-born New Zealand poet
• September 23 – Eliza Cook, 70 (born 1818), English poet
• October 25 – Émile Augier, 69 (born 1820), French dramatist and poet
• November 18 – William Allingham, 65 (born 1824) Irish-born poet
• November 29 – Martin Farquhar Tupper, 79 (born 1810), English writer and poet
• December 10 – Ludwig Anzengruber, 50 (born 1839), Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet
• December 12 – Robert Browning, 77 (born 1812), English poet, in Italy
• December 23 – Constance Naden, 31 (born 1858), English poet and philosopher, of infection

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