1891 in poetry

• 1891–1893 –The Rhymers Club gathers at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W. B. Yeats, and others.
• c. Late June – In a meeting of decadent poets in London, Oscar Wilde is first introduced to Lord Alfred Douglas by Lionel Johnson at Wilde's Tite Street home.^[1]
• Approximate date – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, G. K. Chesterton and fellow pupils of St Paul's School, London, compose the first pseudo-biographical comic verses which become known as clerihews.^[2]

• Stefan George, Pilgerfahrten, limited private edition; German^[11]
• Francis Jammes, Six Sonnets, France^[12]
• Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Mary MacPherson), Gaelic Songs and Poems, Scottish Gaelic published in the United Kingdom
• Guido Mazzoni, Poesie, Italy

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

• January 15 – Osip Mandelstam (died 1938), Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school
• April 9 – Lesbia Harford (died 1927), Australian
• May 15 – David Vogel (killed in concentration camp, 1944), Russian-born Hebrew poet
• May 21 – John Peale Bishop (died 1944), American poet and writer
• May 22
  • Johannes R. Becher (died 1958), German poet, novelist and politician
  • Edwin Gerard (died 1965), Australian poet
• July 5 – Tin Ujević (died 1955), Croatian poet
• August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (killed in action in World War I, 1917), Irish poet
• August 25 – David Shimoni (died 1956), Israeli poet and writer
• September 23 – Arthur Graeme West (killed in action in World War I, 1917), English military writer and poet
• November 14 – Josef Magnus Wehner (died 1973), German poet and playwright
• November 23 – Masao Kume 久米正雄 writing under the pen-name Santei (died 1952), Japanese, late Taishō period and early Shōwa period playwright, novelist and haiku poet (surname: Kume)
• December 9 – Maksim Bahdanovič (died 1917), Belarusian poet, journalist and literary critic
• December 10 – Nelly Sachs (died 1970), German-Swedish poet and dramatist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
• Also – Peter Hopegood, born Cedric Hopegood (died 1967), English-born Australian poet

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

• July 24 – Douglas Smith Huyghue (born 1816), Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist and artist
• August 12 – James Russell Lowell, 72, American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist
• August 14 – John Henry Hopkins Jr. (born 1820), American clergyman and hymnist
• August 22 – Jan Neruda (born 1834), Czech writer
• September 28 – Herman Melville, 82, American novelist, essayist and poet
• November 10 – Arthur Rimbaud, 37 (born 1854) French poet
• Also:
  • Venmani Acchen Nambudiri (born 1817), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry^[13]
  • Moyinkutty Vaidyar (born 1857), Indian, Malayalam-language poet

• 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 (Polish: Młoda Polska) a modernist period in Polish arts and literature, roughly from 1890 to 1918
• Poetry