1894 in poetry

This article covers 1894 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

April — The Yellow Book first published (continues to 1897).
June 22 — Nina Davis' first published translation from medieval Hebrew poetry into English, of Abraham ibn Ezra's The Song of Chess, appears in The Jewish Chronicle.
November 8 — Robert Frost's poem "My Butterfly" is published on this date in the New York Independent, marking the first sale of his poetry. He earns $15.
December 22 — Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, a free interpretation of Stéphane Mallarmé's 1876 poem, "L'après-midi d'un faune", is premièred in Paris.

Works published in English

Canada

Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré (original edition, 1983)
Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey (an American), Songs from Vagabondia
Frederick George Scott, My Lattice and Other Poems
Arthur Stringer, Watchers of Twilight, and Other Poems

United Kingdom

Laurence Binyon, Lyric Poems
Robert Browning, Asolando
Bliss Carman (Canadian) and Richard Hovey (American), Songs from Vagabondia
John Davidson, Ballads and Songs, including "Thirty Bob a Week"
Edmund Gosse, In Russet and Silver
Selwyn Image, Poems and Carols
Rudyard Kipling, "McAndrew's Hymn", first published in U.S.A.
Robert Fuller Murray, Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir (posthumous, edited by Andrew Lang)
AE, pen name of George William Russell, Homeward
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Astrophel and Other Poems
Katharine Tynan, Cuckoo Songs
William Watson, Odes and Other Poems
Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire

United States

Bliss Carman, Songs from Vagabondia, with Richard Hovey, a Canadian author published in the United States
Ina Coolbrith, The Singer of the Sea
Benjamin Franklin King Jr., Ben King's Verse (posthumous; 2nd edition 1898)
George Santayana, Sonnets and Other Verses
John B. Tabb, Poems

Other in English

Henry Lawson, Short Stories in Prose and Verse, Australia
Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, Mayura Sandesam, a sandesa kavya ("message poem") written on the model of Kalidasa's Meghaduta, India, Sanskrit
W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire

Works published in other languages

Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1892 and 1893); France
Henry Alfred Krishnapillai, Rakshanya Yatrikam ("The journey of salvation"), India, Tamil language
Pierre Louÿs, Les Chansons de Bilitis ("The Songs of Bilitis"), erotic prose poems; Paris
Tekkan Yosano, Bokoku no on ("Obligation to the Fatherland"), a collection of literary criticism, Japan

Births

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

January 2 – Robert Nathan (died 1985), American poet and novelist
January 10 – Bochō Yamamura 山村暮鳥 (died 1924), Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gains attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet
May 21 – Eileen Duggan (died 1972), New Zealand
May 28 – Loa Ho (died 1943), Taiwan
June 14 – W. W. E. Ross (died 1966), Canadian geophysicist and Imagist poet
June 16 – Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (died 1976), Japanese haiku poet in the Taishō and Shōwa periods (surname: Ogiwara)
August 31 – Charles Reznikoff, American poet, part of the Objectivist poetry movement
October 4 – Jun Tsuji 辻潤 (died 1944), Japanese author, poet, essayist, musician and bohemian (surname: Tsuji)
October 7 – Doris Huestis Speirs (died 1989), Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet
October 14 – E. E. Cummings (died 1962), American poet and painter
October 18 – H. L. Davis (died 1960), American fiction writer and poet
October 22 – Paul Grano (died 1975), Australian poet and journalist
December 26 – Jean Toomer, American poet and novelist, part of the Harlem Renaissance
Zahida Khatun Sherwani, writing as Zay Khay Sheen (died 1922), Indian Urdu language woman poet

Deaths

Grave of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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

January 24 – Constance Fenimore Woolson (born 1840), American novelist, short-story writer and poet; a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper
April 7 – Benjamin Franklin King Jr. (born 1857), American poet and humorist
April 18 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (born 1838), Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist
May 16 – Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷, pen-name of Kitamura Montaro (born 1868), Japanese, late Meiji period poet, essayist and a founder of the modern Japanese romantic literary movement (surname: Kitamura)
May 26 – Roden Noel (born 1834), English poet
July 5 – Betty Paoli (born 1815), Austrian poet
July 17 – Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (born 1818), French poet of the Parnassian movement
August 25 – Celia Thaxter (born 1835), American poet and story writer
September 5 – Augusta Webster (born 1837), English poet
October 7 – Oliver Wendell Holmes (born 1809), American physician, professor and poet
October 28 – John Askham (born 1825), English shoemaker and poet
December 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson (born 1850), Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, of a brain haemorrhage, in Samoa
December 29 – Christina Rossetti (born 1830), English poet, of cancer
Also: Robert Fuller Murray (born 1863), American-born Scottish poet, of consumption Perunnelli Krishnan Vaidyar (born 1863), Indian, Malayalam-language poet