1894 in poetry

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

Events

 * The Yellow Book, published 1894–97
 * November 8, 1894 &mdash; Robert Frost's poem "My Butterfly" is published this date in the New York Independent, marking the first sale of his poetry. He earned $15.

Canada

 * Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré (original edition, 1983)
 * Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey (an American), Songs from Vagabondia
 * Frederick George Scott, My Lattice and Other Poems
 * Arthur Stringer, Watchers of Twilight, and Other Poems

United Kingdom

 * Laurence Binyon, Lyric Poems
 * Robert Browning, Asolando
 * Bliss Carman (Canadian) and Richard Hovey (American), Songs from Vagabondia
 * John Davidson, Ballads and Songs, including "Thirty Bob a Week"
 * Edmund Gosse, In Russet and Silver
 * Selwyn Image, Poems and Carols
 * Ben King, Verse (second edition, 1898)
 * AE, pen name of George William Russell, Homeward
 * Algernon Charles Swinburne, Astrophel and Other Poems
 * Katharine Tynan, Cuckoo Songs
 * William Watson, Odes and Other Poems
 * Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx
 * W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire

United States

 * Bliss Carman, Songs from Vagabondia, with Richard Hovey, a Canadian author published in the United States
 * Ina Coolbrith, The Singer of the Sea
 * George Santayana, Sonnets and Other Verses
 * John B. Tabb, Poems

Other in English

 * Henry Lawson, Short Stories in Prose and Verse, Australia
 * Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, Mayura Sandesam, a sandesa kavya ("message poem") written on the model of Kalidasa's Meghaduta, India, Sanskrit
 * W.B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire

Works published in other languages

 * Pierre Louÿs, Les Chansons de Bilitis ("The Songs of Bilitis"), erotic prose poems; Paris
 * Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1892 and 1893); France
 * Tekkan Yosano, Bokoku no on, ("Obligation to the Fatherland", 1894), a collection of literary criticism, Japan

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 2 – Robert Nathan (died 1985), American poet and novelist
 * January 10 – Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥 (died 1924), Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gained attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet
 * June 16 – Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (died 1976), Japanese haiku poet in the Taishō and Showa periods (surname: Ogiwara)
 * August 31 – Charles Reznikoff, American poet and part of the Objectivist poetry movement
 * October 4 – Jun Tsuji 辻 潤 (died 1944), Japanese author, poet, essayist, musician and bohemian (surname: Tsuji)
 * October 14 – E. E. Cummings (died 1962), American
 * October 22 – Paul Grano (died 1975), Australian poet and journalist
 * December 26 – Jean Toomer, American poet and novelist, part of the Harlem Renaissance
 * Also:
 * Eileen Duggan (died 1972), New Zealand
 * W. W. E. Ross (Canada)

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 24 – Constance Fenimore Woolson (born 1840), American novelist, short-story writer and poet; a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper
 * July 17 – Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (born 1818), French poet of the Parnassian movement
 * April 18 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (born 1838), Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist
 * May 16 – Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷, pen-name of Kitamura Montaro (born 1868), Japanese, late Meiji period poet, essayist and a founder of the modern Japanese romantic literary movement (surname: Kitamura)
 * August 25 – Celia Thaxter (born 1835), American poet and story writer
 * October 7 – Oliver Wendell Holmes (born 1809), American physician, professor and poet
 * December 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson (born 1850), Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer.of a brain haemorrhage, in Samoa
 * December 29 – Christina Rossetti (born 1830, English poet, of cancer
 * Also:
 * John Askham
 * Robert Fuller Murray
 * Benjamin Franklin King
 * Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel
 * Perunnelli Krishnan Vaidyan (born 1863), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
 * Julia Augusta Webster