Overview of the events of 1891 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1891 in poetry
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Births
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- January 15 – Osip Mandelstam (died 1938), Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school
- April 9 – Lesbia Harford (died 1927), Australian
- May 15 – David Vogel (killed in concentration camp, 1944), Russian-born Hebrew poet
- May 21 – John Peale Bishop (died 1944), American poet and writer
- May 22
- July 5 – Tin Ujević (died 1955), Croatian poet
- August 19 – Francis Ledwidge (killed in action in World War I, 1917), Irish poet
- September 23 – Arthur Graeme West (killed in action in World War I, 1917), English military writer and poet
- November 14 – Josef Magnus Wehner (died 1973), German poet and playwright
- November 23 – Masao Kume 久米正雄 writing under the pen-name Santei (died 1952), Japanese, late Taishō period and early Shōwa period playwright, novelist and haiku poet (surname: Kume)
- December 9 – Maksim Bahdanovič (died 1917), Belarusian poet, journalist and literary critic
- December 10 – Nelly Sachs (died 1970), German-Swedish poet and dramatist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966
- Also – Peter Hopegood, born Cedric Hopegood (died 1967), English-born Australian poet
Deaths
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- July 24 – Douglas Smith Huyghue (born 1816), Canadian and Australian poet, fiction writer, essayist and artist
- August 12 – James Russell Lowell, 72, American Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist
- August 14 – John Henry Hopkins Jr. (born 1820), American clergyman and hymnist
- August 22 – Jan Neruda (born 1834), Czech writer
- September 28 – Herman Melville, 82, American novelist, essayist and poet
- November 10 – Arthur Rimbaud, 37 (born 1854) French poet
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