Overview of the events of 1896 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1896 in poetry
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
— closing lines of Rudyard Kipling's If—, first published this year
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Works published in English
Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.
Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:
-- Lines 9-16
- Hilaire Belloc:
- The Bad Child's Book of Beasts[6]
- Verses and Sonnets[6]
- Laurence Binyon, First Book of London Visions (see also Second Book of London Visions 1899)[6]
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, publishing under the pen name "Anodos", Fancy's Following (see also Fancy's Guerdon 1897)[6]
- Ernest Dowson, Verses,[6] including "Non Sum Qualis Eram"
- A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad,[6] including "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty"[7]
- Laurence Housman, Green Arras[6]
- Rudyard Kipling, The Seven Seas[6]
- Alice Meynell, Other Poems[6]
- Henry Newbolt, "Drake's Drum", published in the St. John's Gazette (first published in book form in Admirals All, and Other Verses 1897)[6]
- John Cowper Powys, Odes, and Other Poems[6]
- Arthur Quiller-Couch, Poems and Ballads
- Christina Rossetti, New Poems, edited by W. M. Rossetti[6]
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel, and Other Verses[6]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Tale of Balen[6]
- William Watson, The Purple East[6]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 26 – Walter D'Arcy Cresswell (died 1960), New Zealand
- February 26 – Andrei Zhdanov (died 1948), a Soviet official who persecuted poets, writers and artists under the Zhdanov doctrine
- May 9 – Austin Clarke (died 1974), Irish poet, playwright and judge
- August 27 – Kenji Miyazawa 宮沢 賢治 (died 1933), Japanese, early Shōwa period poet and author of children's literature (surname: Miyazawa)
- September 22 – Uri Zvi Grinberg (died 1981), Jewish
- October 12 – Eugenio Montale (died 1981), Italian
- October 30 – Kostas Karyotakis (died 1928), Greek
- December 1 – Teiko Tomita (died 1990), Japanese-born American poet who wrote in Japanese[11]
Deaths
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