1886 in poetry

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yp2=1884
yp3=1885
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ya1=1887
ya2=1888
ya3=1889
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Events

* Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley Society
* September 18 — The Symbolist manifesto (‘Le Symbolisme’, "Le Figaro"} published this date by Jean Moréas, who announced that Symbolism was hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description," and that its goal instead was to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose "goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal"

Awards

Works published

* Rudyard Kipling, "Departmental Ditties"
* Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After"
* William Butler Yeats, "" a short verse play in three scenes, published as a pamphlet of 100 copies paid for by his father (it was Yeats' first published work outside a journal)

Births

* January 3 — John Gould Fletcher (died 1950), an American Imagist poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry
* February 13 — Ricardo Güiraldes (died 1927), Argentine gauchesque poet and author
* May 7 — Gottfried Benn (died 1956), German essayist, novelist and expressionist poet
* September 8 — Siegfried Sassoon (died 1967), English poet and author
* September 10 — Hilda Doolittle, aka H.D., (died 1961) American poet
* September 20 — Charles Williams (died 1945), English writer and poet, and a member of the loose literary circle called the Inklings
* December 6 — Joyce Kilmer (died 1918 near Seringes, France), American journalist and poet whose best-known work is "Trees" (1913)
* date not known:
** Zoë Rumbold Akins
** William Rose Benêt
** Frances Cornford, English poet
** John Henry Gray

Deaths

* April 15 — Abram Joseph Ryan, American poet, active proponent of the Confederate States of America, and a Roman Catholic priest who was called the "Poet-Priest of the Confederacy"
* July 6 — Paul Hamilton Hayne, 56, American poet, critic, and editor
* October 7 — William Barnes, 86, English writer, poet, minister, and philologist
* December 10 — Emily Dickinson, 55, American poet almost unknown in her lifetime, later regarded (with Walt Whitman) as one of the two quintessential nineteenth-century American poets

ee also

*Poetry
* List of years in poetry