Overview of the events of 1889 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1889 in poetry
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Births
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- February 3 (January 22 O.S.) – Artur Adson (died 1977), Estonian poet and critic
- February 11 – Acharya Ramlochan Saran (died 1971), Indian, Maithili-language poet littérateur, grammarian, publisher and poet
- March 1 – Okamoto Kanoko, 岡本かの子, pen name of Ohnuki Kano (died 1939), Japanese, author, tanka poet, and Buddhist scholar in the Taishō and early Shōwa periods; mother of artist Tarō Okamoto
- April 27 – Arnulf Øverland (died 1968), Norwegian
- June 23
- June 28 – Abbas Al Akkad عباس محمود العقاد (died 1964), Egyptian, Arabic-language writer and poet, a founder of the Divan school of poetry
- July 30 – Dorothy Wellesley, born Dorothy Violet Ashton and styled Lady Gerald Wellesley between 1914 and 1943 (died 1956), English socialite, author, poet and literary editor
- August 5 – Conrad Aiken (died 1973), American writer
- August 19 – Arthur Waley (died 1966), English Orientalist
- August 29 – (Doris) Capel Boake (died 1944), Australian writer
- September 13 – Pierre Reverdy (died 1960), French
- September 15 – Claude McKay (died 1948), Jamaican-born writer and poet of the Harlem Renaissance
- September 17 – Katka Zupančič (died 1967), Slovene children's poet
- September 29 – Matilde Hidalgo (died 1974), Ecuadorian physician, poet and women's rights activist
- October 31 – Napoleon Lapathiotis (died 1944), Greek
- November 11 – Mantarō Kubota, 久保田万太郎 (died 1963), Japanese author, playwright and poet (surname: Kubota)
- December 8 – Hervey Allen (died 1949), American writer
- December 24 – Patrick MacGill (died 1963), Irish-born "navvy poet" and journalist
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Deaths
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- March 25 – Cornelius Mathews, 71 (born 1817), American poet
- May 31 – Horatius Bonar, 80 (born 1808), Scottish hymnodist
- June 8 – Gerard Manley Hopkins, 44 (born 1844), English poet, in Ireland
- June 15 – Mihai Eminescu, 39 (born 1850), Romanian poet
- September 10 – Amy Levy, 27 (born 1861), English poet and novelist, by suicide
- September 18 – John Barr, 79 (born 1809), Scottish-born New Zealand poet
- September 23 – Eliza Cook, 70 (born 1818), English poet
- October 25 – Émile Augier, 69 (born 1820), French dramatist and poet
- November 18 – William Allingham, 65 (born 1824) Irish-born poet
- November 29 – Martin Farquhar Tupper, 79 (born 1810), English writer and poet
- December 10 – Ludwig Anzengruber, 50 (born 1839), Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet
- December 12 – Robert Browning, 77 (born 1812), English poet, in Italy
- December 23 – Constance Naden, 31 (born 1858), English poet and philosopher, of infection