1898 in poetry
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Events

The "Generation of '98" in Spain

The "Generation of '98" (also called "Generation of 1898", in Spanish, Generación del 98 or Generación de 1898) was a group of novelists, poets, essayists, and philosophers active in Spain at the time of the Spanish-American War (1898).

Jose Martínez Ruiz, commonly known as Azorín, came up with the name in 1913 to allude to the moral, political, and social crisis produced by Spain's defeat. Writing mostly after 1910, the group reinvigorated Spanish letters, revived literary myths and broke with classical schemes of literary genres. In politics, members of the movement often justified radicalism and rebellion.

Works published

• Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems
• Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Awards and honors

Births

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

• February 18 — Luis Muñoz Marín (died 1980), Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician
• March 20 — Luis Palés Matos (died 1959), Puerto Rican poet
• June 4 — Harry Crosby (died 1929), American publisher and poet (died 1929)
• June 5 — Federico García Lorca (died 1936), Spanish poet
• July 22 — Stephen Vincent Benét (died 1943, American author, poet, short story writer and novelist
• August 15 — Jan Brzechwa (died 1966), Polish poet
• October 22 — Edgell Rickword (died 1982), English poet, critic, journalist, literary editor and a leading communist intellectual in the 1930s
• Date not known:
  • Vicente Aleixandre
  • Harindranath Chattopadhyana
  • Govinda Krishna Chettur
  • Philip Child
  • Horace Gregory (died 1982), American poet, translator, literary critic and academic; husband of poet and editor Marya Zaturenska
  • William Soutar, Scots poet
  • Melvin B. Tolson (died 1966), African American Modernist poet, educator, columnist, trade unionist and politician

Deaths

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

• September 9 — Stéphane Mallarmé, French
• Lewis Carroll
• Evan MacColl
• Alexander MacGregor Rose

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry

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