This article covers 1883 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published in English
- Francis James Child, editor, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, an anthology published in five volumes from this year to 1898
- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Decorative Plaques
- Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus", written in aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for erection of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, posthumously published
- James Whitcomb Riley, The Old Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The Bay of Seven Islands
- Jones Very, Poems, published posthumously
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion
Works published in other languages
- Gabriele D'Annunzio, L'intermezzo di rime, Italy
- Mihail Eminescu, LuceafÃÂrul, Romania
- Victor Hugo, La Légende des siècles, third series (first series 1859, second series 1877), France
- Jan Neruda, Prosté motivy, Czechia
- Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev, Russian parody published posthumously
- Paul Verlaine, in November publishes an influential essay on Stéphane Mallarmé, which is later reprinted in the book Les Poetès maudits; France
- Albert Verwey, Persephone, Netherlands
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Charles Badger Clark (died 1957), American
- January 6 – Khalil Gibran (died 1931), Lebanese American poet and artist
- January 21 – Olav Aukrust (died 1929), Norwegian poet and teacher
- February 7 – K. V. Simon, (died 1944), Indian Malayalam-language poet
- February 18
- Nikos Kazantzakis (died 1957), Greek author
- Jessie Litchfield, (died 1956), Australian author
- March 13 – KÃ
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- March 9 РUmberto Saba n̩ Poli (died 1957), Italian poet and fiction writer
- March 16 РEthel Anderson n̩e Campbell (died 1958), English-born Australian
- March 27 (March 15 O.S.) – Marie Under (died 1980), Estonian
- May 7 РAnna Wickham, n̩e Edith Alice Mary Harper, aka Edith Hepburn and John Oland (committed suicide 1947), English poet brought up in Australia
- June 27 – Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (died 1929), English Anglican priest and poet
- August 11 – Ernst Stadler (killed 1914 in World War I), German Expressionist poet
- September 16 – T. E. Hulme (killed 1917 in World War I), influential English poetry critic
- September 17 – William Carlos Williams (died 1963), American
- November 10 – Arthur Davison Ficke (died 1945), American
- December 10 – Alfred Kreymborg (died 1966), American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist
- December 12 – William Baylebridge (died 1942)), Australian poet and short-story writer
- September 14 – Marjorie Pickthall (died 1922), English-born Canadian
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes