1893 in poetry

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

Events

 * Founding of Vangiya Sahitya Parishad in Bengal

[[Australian poetry|Australia

 * Henry Lawson, "Saint Peter".
 * Banjo Paterson, "The Geebung Polo Club", first published in The Antipodean.

Canada

 * William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs.
 * Bliss Carman, Low Tide at Grand Pré
 * Mary Jane Katzmann, Frankincense and Myrrh: Selections from the poems of the late Mrs. William Lawson (M.J.K.L.). Harry Piers and Constance Fairbanks ed. Halifax.
 * Thomas O'Hagan, In Dreamland and Other Poems
 * Charles G.D. Roberts, Songs of the Common Day
 * Duncan Campbell Scott, The Magic House and Other Poems
 * James Elgin Wetherell, ed. Later Canadian Poems

Ireland

 * D. Hyde, editor and translator from the Gaelic, The Love Songs of Connacht, Ireland
 * William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
 * William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and Edwin John Ellis, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch

United Kingdom

 * Wilfred Scawen Blunt, published anonymously, Griselda
 * Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing under the pen name "Michael Field", Underneath the Bough
 * Robert Bridges, The Humours of the Court: a Comedy; and Other Poems
 * Thomas Edward Brown, Old John, and Other Poems
 * John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues, first series (see also Fleet Street Eclogues 1896)
 * W. E. Henley, London Voluntaries; The Song of the Sword; and Other Verses
 * George MacDonald, Poetical Works
 * Alice Meynell, Poems
 * Francis Thompson, Poems, including "The Hound of Heaven"
 * William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
 * William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, and Edwin John Ellis, editors, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch

United States

 * Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pre, Canadian author published in the United States
 * Paul Lauraence Dunbar, Oak and Ivy
 * Hamlin Garland, Prairie Songs
 * Louise Imogen Guiney, A Roadside Harp
 * Harriet Monroe, The Columbian Ode
 * James Whitcomb Riley, Poems Here at Home

Works published in other languages

 * Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1892 and 1894); France
 * Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Les Reposoirs de la procession, published starting this year and ending in 1907; France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 26 – Ivor Richards (died 1979), English literary critic
 * March 6 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (died 1965), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet (surname: Takahashi)
 * March 18 – Wilfred Owen (died 1918), English poet and soldier
 * July 26 – George Grosz (died 1959), German artist and poet
 * April 19 – John Addington Symonds (born 1840), English poet and literary critic
 * August 22 – Dorothy Parker (died 1967), American writer and poet
 * September 28 – Giannis Skarimpas (died 1984), Greek
 * October 26 – Thomas MacGreevy (died 1967), Irish poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland
 * November 3 – Arthur Bourinot (died 1969), Canadian poet and lawyer
 * December 4 – Sir Herbert Edward Read (born 1968), English anarchist poet, and critic of literature and art
 * December 6 – Sylvia Townsend Warner (died 1978) English novelist and poet
 * Also:
 * Arthur Stanley Bourinot, Canadian
 * Gerald William Bullett
 * Richard Church; Jorge Guillén, Spanish
 * Dharanidhar Sharma Koirala (died 1980), Indian, Nepali-language poet
 * Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols
 * Evelyn Scott (died 1963), American

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 23 – Phillips Brooks (born 1835), American Episcopal clergyman and author
 * January 15 – Fanny Kemble (born 1809), English author, poet, playwright and actress
 * April 19 – John Addington Symonds (born 1840), English poet and literary critic
 * December 5 – Matsudaira Katamori 松平容保 (born 1836), Japanese samurai and poet in the last days of the Edo period and the early to mid Meiji period (surname: Matsudaira)
 * December 9 – Charles Sangster (born 1822), Canadian
 * Also:
 * Sarah Tittle Bolton, née: Barrett, American poet (b. 18 December 1814-d. 4 August 1893)
 * Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (born 1844), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry