1891 in poetry

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The Rhymers Club gathered at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, 1891-93, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W.B. Yeats, and others

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 21 – John Peale Bishop (died 1944), American poet and writer
August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (killed in action in World War I, 1917), Irish poet,
November 23 – Masao Kume 久米正雄 who wrote under the pen-name Santei (died 1952), Japanese, late Taishō period and early Showa 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 who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966

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
September 28 – Herman Melville, 82, American novelist, essayist and poet
November 10 – Arthur Rimbaud, French
Date not known:
- John Henry Hopkins, Jr.
- Venmani Acchen Nambudiri (born 1817), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry^[2]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009

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