This article covers 1887 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published
- George Frederick Cameron, Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death, English, posthumously published (by his brother).
- Louis-Honoré Fréchette, La légende d'un peuple, French, the author's best-known work, about episodes of Canadian history; French Canadian author published in Paris
- Sarah Anne Curzon, Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812: A Drama, and Other Poems, English.
- Susie Frances ed. The Canadian Birthday Book, English, poetry anthology. (Toronto: Robinson).
- William Douw Lighthall, Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure, English. ("Witness" Printing House).
- Thomas O'Hagan, A Gate of birginas, English.
- William Allingham, Rhymes for Young Folk, English.
- Robert Browning, Parleyings with Certain People of Importance in their Day, English.
- Richard Le Gallienne, My Lady's Sonnets
- George Meredith, Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life, English.
- Constance Naden, A modern apostle; The elixir of life; The story of Clarice, and other poems, English.
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Underwoods, English.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Jubilee, English.
- Katharine Tynan, Shamrocks, English, published in the United Kingdom by an Irish poet.
- Charles Follen Adams, Dialect Ballads, English
- Amos Bronson Alcott, New Connecticut, English
- Arlo Bates, Sonnets in Shadow, English
- Palmer Cox, The Brownies: Their Book, English, children's fictional poetry
- Emma Lazarus, By The Waters of Babylon, English
- Jessie Wilson Manning, The passion of life, English
- Lizette Woodworth Reese, A Branch of May, English
- James Whitcomb Riley, Afterwhiles, English
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 â Robinson Jeffers (died 1962), American poet and playwright
- February 3 â Georg Trakl (suicide 1914), German
- February 11 â Shinobu Orikuchi æÂÂå£ 信夫, also known as ChÃ
ÂkÃ
« Shaku é 迢空 (died 1953), Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist and poet; a disciple of Kunio Yanagita, he establishes an academic field named , a mix of Japanese folklore, Japanese classics and ShintÃ
 religion (surname: Orikuchi)
- March 9 â Ion Buzdugan, born Ivan Alexandrovici Buzdâga (died 1967), Bessarabian-Romanian poet, folklorist and politician
- May 10 â J. C. Bloem (died 1966), Dutch
- May 13 â Nagata Mikihiko é·ç°幹彦 (died 1964), ShÃ
Âwa period poet, playwright and screenwriter (surname: Nagata)
- May 15 â Edwin Muir (died 1959), Scottish poet, novelist and translator
- May 16 â Jakob van Hoddis (died 1942), German
- May 31 - Saint-John Perse (died 1975), French diplomat, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1960
- June 20 â Kurt Schwitters (died 1947), German
- June 22 â Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (died 1975), English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist
- June 28 â Orrick Glenday Johns (died 1946), American poet
- August 3 â Rupert Brooke (died on active service off Skyros, 1915), English poet
- August 19 â Francis Ledwidge (killed in action near Ypres in Belgium, 1917), Irish poet, "poet of the blackbirds"
- September 1 â Blaise Cendrars, pen name of Frédéric Louis Sauser (died 1961), Swiss novelist and poet naturalized as a French citizen in 1916
- September 7 â Edith Sitwell (died 1964), English poet and critic
- September 21 â Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams (died 1975), Welsh poet, translator and academic
- September 16 â Hans Arp (died 1966), German
- September 27 â Frederick Macartney (died 1980), Australian
- October 11 â Pierre Jean Jouve (died 1976), French poet and novelist
- October 30 â Georg Heym (drowned 1912), German poet
- November 15 â Marianne Moore (died 1972), American Modernist poet and writer
- December 6 â Minakami TakitarÃ
 æ°´ä¸Âæ»Â太é pen name of Abe ShÃ
ÂzÃ
 (died 1940), Japanese, ShÃ
Âwa period poet, novelist, literary critic and essayist (surname: Minakami)
- December 8 â Elizabeth Daryush (died 1977), English poet, daughter of Robert Bridges
- December 27 â Edward Andrade (died 1971), English physicist and poet.
- December 30 â K.M. Munshi (died 1971), Indian Gujarati-language novelist, playwright, writer, politician and lawyer
- Also:
- Skipwith Cannell (died 1957), American poet associated with the Imagist group (pronounce his last name with the stress on the second syllable)
- Margaret Curran (died 1962), Australian poet, editor and journalist
- Alphonse Métérié (died 1967), French newspaper editor, teacher and poet
- Ramnarayan V. Pathak (died 1955), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and husband of Heera Pathak
- Sukumar Ray (à ¦¸à §Âà ¦Âà §Âà ¦®à ¦¾à ¦° à ¦°à ¦¾à ¦¯à ¦¼) (died 1923), Indian, Gujarati-language humorous poet, short-story writer and playwright
- Jatindranath Sengupta (died 1954), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 27 â Edward Rowland Sill, American
- July 15 â Adrien Rouquette (born 1813), American poet and missionary
- October 12 â Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, born Dinah Maria Mulock, also referred to as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik (born 1826), English novelist and poet
- November 19 â Emma Lazarus (born 1849), American poet who wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus", associated with the Statue of Liberty, where it is engraved on a plaque
- date not known â Isabella Valancy Crawford (born 1850), Canadian, from heart failure
See also
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