1888 in poetry

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William Allingham, Flower Pieces, and Other Poems, illustrated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti^[1]
Sir Edwin Arnold, translator from the Persian by Sa'di, With Sa'di in the Garden; or, The Book of Love^[1]
Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, Second Series (see also Essays in Criticism 1865, 1910)^[1]
W. E. Henley, A Book of Verses^[1]
Andrew Lang, Grass of Parnassus^[1]
George Meredith, A Reading of Earth^[1]
William Wordsworth, The Recluse, printed from the original manuscript; Wordsworth's plan was to write a long autobiographical poem of three parts and a prelude (see also The Excursion 1814 and The Prelude 1850) posthumously published^[1]

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

March 30 – Julian Grenfell (died 1915), English soldier and poet
June 13 – Fernando Pessoa (died 1935), Portuguese poet and writer
April 30 – John Crowe Ransom (died 1974), American poet, essayist, social and political theorist and academic
June 8 – Senge Motomaro 千家元麿 (died 1948), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet (surname: Senge)
June 22 — Alan Seeger (died 1916), American poet
August 1 – Aline Kilmer (died 1941), American poet, children's book author and essayist; wife of Joyce Kilmer
September 26 — T. S. Eliot (died 1965), American-born English poet, playwright, editor, critic and writer
October 1 – Ryuko Kawaji 川路柳虹, pen-name of Kawaki Makoto (died 1959), Japanese, Showa period poet and literary critic (surname: Kawaji)
October 14 — Katherine Mansfield (died 1923), New Zealand poet
October 16 — Eugene O'Neill (died 1953), American playwright
date not known – Nilkanth Sharma Dal (died 1970), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet^[4]

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

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
^ Wagenknecht, Edward. James Russell Lowell: Portrait of a Many-Sided Man. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971
^ Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008

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