Overview of the events of 1888 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1888 in poetry
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Births
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- January 5 – Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni (died 1970), Italian-born American poet
- February 8 – Giuseppe Ungaretti (died 1970), Egyptian-born Italian modernist poet and writer
- February 13 – Desmond FitzGerald (born 1947), English-born Irish revolutionary, poet, publicist and politician
- March 26 – F. W. Harvey (died 1957), English rural poet and soldier
- March 30 – Julian Grenfell (died of wounds 1915), English soldier and poet
- April 6 – Dan Andersson (died 1920), Swedish poet
- 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 Shōwa period poet (surname: Senge)
- June 13 – Fernando Pessoa (died 1935), Portuguese heteronymic poet, writer, critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
- June 22 – Alan Seeger (killed in action 1916), American poet
- August 1 – Aline Kilmer, born Aline Murray (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, Shōwa period poet and literary critic (surname: Kawaji)
- October 14 – Katherine Mansfield (died 1923), New Zealand modernist poet and short story writer
- October 16 – Eugene O'Neill (died 1953), American playwright
- October 19 – Venkatarama Ramalingam Pillai (died 1972), Indian Tamil-language poet and freedom fighter
- date not known – Nilkanth Sharma Dal (died 1970), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet[7]
Deaths
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