1898 in poetry

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The "Generation of '98" in Spain
The "Generation of '98" (also called "Generation of 1898", in Spanish, Generación del 98 or Generación de 1898) was a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish-American War (1898).

Jose Martínez Ruiz, commonly known as Azorín, came up with the name in 1913 to allude to the moral, political, and social crisis produced by Spain's defeat. Writing mostly after 1910, the group reinvigorated Spanish letters, revived literary myths and broke with classical schemes of literary genres. In politics, members of the movement often justified radicalism and rebellion.

Canada

 * Bliss Carman, By the Aurelian Wall
 * William Henry Drummond, Phil-o-rum’s Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres: Two Poems, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons.
 * Charles G.D. Roberts, New York Nocturnes and Other Poems
 * Duncan Campbell Scott, Labor and the Angel, including "The Onondaga Madonna", Canada

United Kingdom

 * Alfred Austin:
 * Lamia's Winter-Quarters
 * Songs of England
 * Robert Bridges, Poetical Works, Volume 1; published in six volumes through 1905
 * Florence Earle Coates (1850–1927), Poems
 * Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems, and Other Verses
 * W. E. Henley, Poems
 * Henry Newbolt, The Island Race
 * Stephen Phillips, Poems
 * William Watson, The Hope of the World, and Other Poems
 * Theodore Watts-Dunton, The Coming of Love, and Other Poems
 * Oscar Wilde, published under the pen name "C.3.3", the seventh edition in June was published under Wilde's name, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

United States

 * Paul Laurence Dunbar:
 * Folks from Dixie
 * The Uncalled
 * Louise Imogen Guiney, England and Yesterday
 * Richard Hovey, Along the Trail: A Book of Lyrics
 * Edgar Lee Masters, A Book of Verses
 * Josephine Preston Peabody, The Wayfarers

Other in English

 * Victor Daley, At Dawn and Dusk, Australia

France

 * Francis Jammes:
 * De l'Angélus de l'aube à l'Angélus du soir ("From the Morning Prayer to the Evening Prayer")
 * Quatorze prières
 * Charles Van Lerberghe, Entrevisions

Other languages

 * José Santos Chocano, Selva virgen ("Virgin Jungle"), Peru
 * Chanda Jha, Mithila bhasa Ramayana; India, Maithili-language

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 6 – Melvin B. Tolson (died 1966), African American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, trade unionist and politician
 * February 9 – Yagi Jūkichi, 八木重吉 (died 1927), Japanese (surname: Yagi)
 * February 18 – Luis Muñoz Marín (died 1980), Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician
 * March 9 – Fuyue Anzai 安西 冬衛 (died 1965), Japanese, poet and co-founder of the magazine Shi To Shiron ("Poetry and Poetics"), surname: Anzai
 * March 20 – Luis Palés Matos (died 1959), Puerto Rican poet
 * April 10 – Horace Gregory (died 1982), American poet, translator, literary critic and academic; husband of poet and editor Marya Zaturenska
 * April 26 – Vicente Aleixandre (died 1984), Spanish poet
 * June 4 – Harry Crosby (died 1929), American publisher and poet (died 1929)
 * June 5 – Federico García Lorca (died 1936), Spanish poet
 * July 17 – Richard Harry Graves (died 1971), Australian
 * July 22 – Stephen Vincent Benét (died 1943), American author, poet, short story writer and novelist
 * August 15 – Jan Brzechwa (died 1966), Polish poet
 * August 28 – Malcolm Cowley (died 1989), American novelist, poet, literary critic, and journalist
 * October 22 – Edgell Rickword (died 1982), English poet, critic, journalist, literary editor and a leading communist intellectual in the 1930s
 * Also:
 * Harindranath Chattopadhyana
 * Govinda Krishna Chettur
 * Philip Child
 * William Soutar, Scots poet

Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * September 9—Stéphane Mallarmé, French
 * Lewis Carroll
 * Evan MacColl
 * Alexander MacGregor Rose
 * Kavishwar Dalpatram Dahyabhai, popularly known as just "Dalpatram" (born 1820), Indian, Gujarati-language poet; the father of poet Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi