1890 in poetry

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Events

 * Rhymer's Club founded in London by William Butler Yeats and Ernest Rhys as a group of like-minded poets who met regularly and published anthologies in 1892 and 1894; attendees included Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, John Davidson, Edwin Ellis, Victor Plarr, Selwyn Image, A. S. Hillier, John Todhunter, Arthur Symons, Ernest Radford and Thomas William Rolleston; Oscar Wilde attended some meetings held in private homes

Canada

 * Seranus, Four Ballads and a Play.

United Kingdom

 * Richard Garnett, Iphigenia in Delphi
 * W. S. Gilbert, Songs of a Songbird
 * Walter Pater, Appreciations with an Essay on Style
 * Christina Rossetti, Poems
 * Robert Louis Stevenson, Ballads
 * William Watson, Wordsworth's Grave, and Other Poems
 * W.B. Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree (poem) first published, in The National Observer (London) on December 13 (first published in a book, The Countess Kathleen, and Various Legends and Lyrics, in 1892)

United States

 * Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Wyndham Towers
 * Madison Cawein, Lyrics and Idyls
 * Emily Dickinson's Poems published posthumously
 * John Hay, Poems
 * Joaquin Miller, In Classic Shades and Other Poems
 * James Whitcomb Riley, Rhymes of Childhood
 * Richard Henry Stoddard, The Lion's Cub; with Other Verse
 * John Greenleaf Whittier, At Sundown

Other in English

 * Seranus, Four Ballads and a Play., Canada.
 * Banjo Patterson, "The Man From Snowy River", Australia

France

 * Paul Claudel, Tête d'or
 * François Coppée, Paroles sinceres
 * Paul Valéry, Album de vers anciens, published starting this year and ending in 1900

Other languages

 * Stefan George, Hymnen ("Hymns"), 18 poems written reflecting Symbolism; dedicated to Carl August Klein; limited, private edition; German
 * Władysław Mickiewicz, Vie d'Adam Mickiewicz ("Life of Adam Mickiewicz"), four volumes, Poznań, Poland, published beginning this year and through 1895; written by the poet's son

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 10 –Boris Pasternak, (died 1960), Russian novelist, writer and poet
 * February 22 – Hinatsu Kōnosuke 日夏耿之介, a pen-name of Higuchi Kunito (died 1971), Japanese poet, editor and academic known for romantic and gothic poetry patterned after English literature; fervent Roman Catholic, co-founder, with Horiguchi Daigaku and Saijo Yaso, of Shijin ("Poets") magazine
 * May 18 – Zora Cross (died 1964), Australian poet, novelist and journalist
 * May 31 – James Devaney (died 1976), Australian poet, novelist, and journalist
 * August 15 – Tsugi Takano 鷹野 つぎ (died 1943), novelist and poet (a woman)
 * August 28 – Ivor Gurney (died 1937), English composer and poet
 * September 10 – Franz Werfel (died 1945), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German
 * November 25 – Isaac Rosenberg, (died 1918), English war poet
 * December 13 – Dulcie Deamer (died 1972), Australian novelist, poet, journalist and actor
 * Also:
 * Balakavi, pen name of Tryambak Bapuji Thomare (died 1918), Indian, Marathi-language poet
 * Ramanlal V. Desai (died 1954), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist, short-story writer and poet
 * A.P. Herbert, (died 1971), English writer, humorist and writer of light verse, most of it appearing in Punch
 * Sumatiben Mehta (died 1911), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet
 * Jun Tanaka 田中純 (died 1966), Japanese, Showa period poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 2 — George Henry Boker, 66, American poet, playwright, and diplomat
 * J.H. Newman
 * August 10 — John Boyle O'Reilly, 46, Irish-born poet, novelist and newspaper editor who was transported as a convict to Australia and escaped to the United States