1892 in poetry
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Events

• William Butler Yeats founds the Irish Literary Society in Dublin.^[1]
• William McGonagall, known as the worst poet in history, walks from Dundee to Balmoral (60 miles) to request the post of Poet Laureate.

Awards

Works published

• Rudyard Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads, including "Gunga Din"
• Alfred Tennyson, The Death of Oenone
• William Butler Yeats, The Countess Cathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics^[2]

Births

• Richard Aldington (died 1962), English poet, novelist, writer, translator and biographer
• June 12 — Djuna Barnes (died 1982), American writer and poet
• Mary Phelps Crosby
• Archibald MacLeish
• Hugh MacDiarmid (Scotland)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• César Vallejo

Deaths

• Walt Whitman
• Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

Notes

1. ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, "Chronology" chapter, p. 131
2. ^ Mac Liammoir, Michael, and Eavan Boland, W. B. Yeats, Thames and Hudson (part of the "Thames and Hudson Literary Lives" series), London, 1971, "Chronology" chapter, p. 131

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

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