1885 in poetry

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

Events

Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement.

Works published in English

Canada

Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems. Published at author's expense.

United Kingdom

Maude Ashurst Biggs, Master Thaddeus, first English translation of Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz (1834)
Robert Bridges, Eros and Psyche
Charles Stuart Calverley (died 1884), Literary Remains
Jean Ingelow, Poems: Third Series (see also Poems 1863, Poems 1880)
William Morris, Chants for Socialists
Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Marino Faliero
Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tiresias, and Other Poems, including "Balin and Balan", one of the Idylls of the King 1870; "The Last Tournament" 1871; Gareth and Lynette 1872, Idylls of the King 1889
Katharine Tynan, Louise de la Valliere, and Other Poems

United States

Charles Follen Adams, Mother's Doughnuts
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems
Will Carleton, City Ballads
William Ellery Channing, Eliot
Ada Langworthy Collier, "Lilith, The Legend of the First Woman"
Paul Hamilton Hayne, The Broken Battalions
Oliver Wendell Holmes:
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, nonfiction
- Illustrated Poems
Eva Munson Smith, Woman in Sacred Song

Other in English

Toru Dutt, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan Indian writing in English

Works published in other languages

Catulle Mendès, Soirs moroses, Contes épiques, Philoméla, etc; Poésies, in seven volumes; France

Awards and honors

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 6 – Humbert Wolfe (died 1940), English poet, writer and civil servant
January 20 – Ozaki Hōsai 尾崎放哉 pen name of Ozaki Hideo (died 1926), Japanese, late Meiji period and Taishō period poet
January 25 – Hakushū Kitahara 北原白秋, pen-name of Kitahara Ryūkichi 北原隆吉 (died 1942), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period tanka poet
April 21 – Mitsuko Shiga 四賀光子, pen-name of Mitsu Ota (died 1956), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period tanka poet, a woman
April 26 – Dakotsu Iida 飯田蛇笏, commonly referred to as "Dakotsu", pen names of Takeji Iida 飯田武治 (died 1962), Japanese, haiku poet; trained under Takahama Kyoshi
April 29 – Andrew Young (died 1971), Scottish-born poet and clergyman
May 12 – Saneatsu Mushanokōji 武者小路実篤實篤, sometimes known as "Mushakōji Saneatsu"; other pen-names included "Musha" and "Futo-o" (died 1976), Japanese, late Taishō period and Shōwa period novelist, playwright, poet, artist and philosopher
May 13 – Hideo Nagata 長田秀雄 (died 1949), Japanese, Shōwa period poet, playwright and screenwriter
July 1 – Dorothea Mackellar (died 1968), Australian poet and fiction writer
July 20 – Herman Wildenvey, born Portaas (died 1959), Norwegian poet
August 18 – Nettie Palmer (died 1964), Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic; wife of Vance Palmer
August 24 – Bokusui Wakayama, 若山牧水 (died 1928), Japanese "Naturalist" tanka poet
August 28 – Vance Palmer, (died 1959), Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic; husband of Nettie Palmer
September 3 – Ghulam AhmadMahjur (died 1952), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
September 11 – D. H. Lawrence (died 1930), English fiction writer, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic
October 30 – Ezra Pound (died 1972), American poet and editor
November 9 (October 28 O.S.) – Velimir Khlebnikov (died 1922), Russian Futurist poet and writer
December 19 – F. S. Flint (died 1960), English poet, translator and prominent member of the Imagist group
Also
- Govindagraj, also known as "Ram Ganes" Gadkari (died 1919), Indian, Marathi-language poet, playwright and humorist
- Ivan Zorman (died 1957), Slovene-born poet and composer

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 10 – Amable Tastu (born 1795), French women of letters and poet
May 22 – Victor Hugo (born 1802), French novelist and poet
April 8 – Susanna Moodie (born 1803), Canadian poet
April 30 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (born 1847), Danish novelist and poet
May 29 – Alfred Meissner (born 1821?), Austrian poet
July 5 – Charles Whitehead (born 1804), English poet, novelist and playwright
July 15 – Rosalía de Castro (born 1837), Spanish Galician poet and writer
August 11 – Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (born 1809), English man of letters, poet and politician
August 12 – Helen Hunt Jackson (born 1830), American writer, novelist and poet
September 24 – George Frederick Cameron (born 1854 in poetry), Canadian poet and journalist