1892 in poetry

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

Events

 * William Butler Yeats founds the Irish Literary Society in Dublin.
 * William McGonagall, known as the worst poet in history, walks from Dundee to Balmoral (60 miles) to request the post of Poet Laureate.

Canada

 * Frederick George Scott, Elton Hazlewood.

United Kingdom

 * A. C. Benson, Le Cahier Jaune
 * Wilfred Seawen Blunt, Esther, Love Lyrics, and Natalia's
 * Austin Dobson, The Ballad of Beau Brocade, and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century
 * Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses, including "Gunga Din," "Danny Deever", "Fuzzy-Wuzzy", "Mandalay" and "Gentlemen-Rankers" (see also Barrack-Room Balads, second series in 1896)
 * Richard Le Gallienne, English Poems
 * George Meredith:
 * Modern Love: Aa Reprint (see Modern Love, 1862)
 * Poems
 * Arthur Symons, Silhouettes
 * Alfred Tennyson:
 * The Silent Voices
 * The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems
 * William Watson, Lachrymae Musarum, and Other Poems, about the death of Tennyson
 * William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen, and Various Legends and Lyrics, including "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (a poem first published in 1890), Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

United States

 * Ambrose Bierce, Black Beetles in Amber, verse, nonfiction and drama
 * James Whitcomb Riley, Green Fields and Running Brooks
 * Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, ninth edition

Other in English

 * William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen, and Various Legends and Lyrics, including "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (a poem first published in 1890), Irish poet published in the United Kingdom

France

 * Théodore de Banville, Dans la fournaise
 * Paul Claudel, La Ville, France
 * Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1893 and 1894 )
 * Stéphane Mallarmé, Vers et prose
 * Catulle Mendès, Les Poesies de Catulle Mendes, in three volumes
 * François Villon, first publication of Poems 7–11 of his "Ballades en jargon" in Oeuvres complëtes de François Villon, publiès díaprës les manuscrits et les plus anciennes Èditions, edited by Auguste Longnon, Paris: Lemerre, (Poems 1–6 were first published in 1489), posthumous

Other languages

 * Stefan George, Algabal, illustrated by Melchior Lechter; limited, private edition; German

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 3 – J.R.R. Tolkien (died 1973), English writer, poet, philologist, and academic
 * January 8 – Horiguchi Daigaku 堀口 大学 (died 1981), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet and translator of French literature; a member of the Shinshisha ("The New Poetry Society"); accompanied his father on overseas diplomatic postings (surname: Horiguchi)
 * January 30 &ndasdh; Caresse Crosby (died 1970), American poet, publisher, peace activist and socialite
 * January 31 – Ozaki Kihachi 尾崎喜八 (died 1974), Japanese, Showa period poet (surname: Ozaki)
 * February 22 – Edna St. Vincent Millay (died 1950), American poet and playwright
 * March 7 – Archibald MacLeish (died 1982), American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress
 * March 9 – Vita Sackville-West (died 1962), English novelist and poet
 * March 16 – César Vallejo (died 1938), Peruvian
 * June 12 – Djuna Barnes (died 1982), American writer and poet
 * July 8 – Richard Aldington (died 1962), English poet, novelist, writer, translator and biographer
 * August 11 – Hugh MacDiarmid, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (died 1978), Scottish poet
 * date not known – Leon Gellert (died 1977), Australian

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 26 – Walt Whitman, American poet and journalist
 * May – Barcroft Boake (born 1866), Australian
 * October 6 – Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson