• Source: 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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Events


July 7 – Charles Thomas Wooldridge is hanged at Reading Gaol in England for uxoricide, inspiring fellow-prisoner C.3.3. Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897).
William Morris publishes the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer's works




Works published in English






= Australia

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John Le Gay Brereton:
Perdita, A Sonnet Record
The Song of Brotherhood and Other Verses
Edward Dyson, Rhymes from the Mines and Other Lines
Henry Lawson:
In the Days When the World was Wide and Other Verses
"The Teams"
Banjo Paterson:
The Man from Snowy River
"Mulga Bill's Bicycle"




= Canada

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Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, More Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
Charles G. D. Roberts, The Book of the Native
Charles Sangster, Our Norland. Toronto: Copp Clark, n.d.
Duncan Campbell Scott, In the Village of Viger, Canada
Francis Sherman
In Memorabilia Mortis. Boston: Copeland and Day.
Matins. Boston: Copeland and Day.




= United Kingdom

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Hilaire Belloc:
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
Verses and Sonnets
Laurence Binyon, First Book of London Visions (see also Second Book of London Visions 1899)
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, publishing under the pen name "Anodos", Fancy's Following (see also Fancy's Guerdon 1897)
Ernest Dowson, Verses, including "Non Sum Qualis Eram"
A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, including "To an Athlete Dying Young", "Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now" and "When I Was One-and-Twenty"
Laurence Housman, Green Arras
Rudyard Kipling, The Seven Seas
Alice Meynell, Other Poems
Henry Newbolt, "Drake's Drum", published in the St. John's Gazette (first published in book form in Admirals All, and Other Verses 1897)
John Cowper Powys, Odes, and Other Poems
Arthur Quiller-Couch, Poems and Ballads
Christina Rossetti, New Poems, edited by W. M. Rossetti
Robert Louis Stevenson, Songs of Travel, and Other Verses
Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Tale of Balen
William Watson, The Purple East




= United States

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich:
Judith and Holofernes
Later Lyrics
Bliss Carman, with Richard Hovey, More Songs from Vagabondia, Canadian author published in the United States
Emily Dickinson, Poems: Third Series
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Lyrics of Lowly Life
Majors and Minors
"We Wear the Mask"
Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Quiet Road
Edwin Arlington Robinson, The Torrent and the Night Before




Works published in other languages


Nérée Beauchemin, Les floraisons matutinales; the author's first published collection; French language; Trois-Rivières, Canada
José Santos Chocano, Azahares, Peru
Richard Dehmel, Weib und Welt ("Woman and World"), German
Narasinghrao, Hridayaveena containing khandakavyas, garbis (religious, ethical and romantic lyrics), and poems about nature and women (Indian, writing in Gujarati)
Tekkan Yosano, Tozai namboku ("East-west, north-south"), tanka poetry, Japan




Awards and honors


Alfred Austin made Poet Laureate




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




Deaths


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

January 8 – Paul Verlaine (born 1844), French
March 20 – Alexander McLachlan (born 1818), Scottish-born Canadian
March 21 – Elizabeth Otis Dannelly (born 1838), American writer of Southern poetry
May 11 – Henry Cuyler Bunner (born 1855), American novelist and poet
October 3 – William Morris (born 1834), English poet, writer, designer and socialist
October 29 – Thomas Edward Brown (born 1830), Manx poet writing in English
November 26
Mathilde Blind (born 1841), German-born British poet writing in English
Coventry Patmore (born 1823), English




See also



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




Notes

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Ur-Ninurta
• Walter Mehring
• Roman Jakobson
• Paul Lawrence Dunbar
• Majapahit
• Regweda
• William Morris
• Mathilde Blind
• Gedung Thomas Jefferson
• Kenji Miyazawa
• 1896 in poetry
• 1896 in literature
• 1896
• List of years in poetry
• Paul Verlaine
• 1886 in literature
• American poetry
• Lyric poetry
• English poetry
• The Seven Seas (poetry collection)