# 1894 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

## Events

* April — The Yellow Book first published (continues to 1897).
* June 22 — Nina Davis' first published translation from medieval Hebrew poetry into English, of Abraham ibn Ezra's The Song of Chess, appears in The Jewish Chronicle.
* November 8 — Robert Frost's poem "My Butterfly" is published on this date in the New York Independent, marking the first sale of his poetry. He earns $15.
* December 22 — Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, a free interpretation of Stéphane Mallarmé's 1876 poem, "L'après-midi d'un faune", is premièred in Paris.

## Works published in English
### Canada

* Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré (original edition, 1983)
* Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey (an American), Songs from Vagabondia
* Frederick George Scott, My Lattice and Other Poems
* Arthur Stringer, Watchers of Twilight, and Other Poems

### United Kingdom

* Laurence Binyon, Lyric Poems
* Robert Browning, Asolando
* Bliss Carman (Canadian) and Richard Hovey (American), Songs from Vagabondia
* John Davidson, Ballads and Songs, including "Thirty Bob a Week"
* Edmund Gosse, In Russet and Silver
* Selwyn Image, Poems and Carols
* Rudyard Kipling, "McAndrew's Hymn", first published in U.S.A.
* Robert Fuller Murray, Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir (posthumous, edited by Andrew Lang)
* AE, pen name of George William Russell, Homeward
* Algernon Charles Swinburne, Astrophel and Other Poems
* Katharine Tynan, Cuckoo Songs
* William Watson, Odes and Other Poems
* Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx
* W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire

### United States

* Bliss Carman, Songs from Vagabondia, with Richard Hovey, a Canadian author published in the United States
* Ina Coolbrith, The Singer of the Sea
* Benjamin Franklin King Jr., Ben King's Verse (posthumous; 2nd edition 1898)
* George Santayana, Sonnets and Other Verses
* John B. Tabb, Poems

### Other in English

* Henry Lawson, Short Stories in Prose and Verse, Australia
* Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, Mayura Sandesam, a sandesa kavya ("message poem") written on the model of Kalidasa's Meghaduta, India, Sanskrit
* W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Land of Heart's Desire

## Works published in other languages

* Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1892 and 1893); France
* Henry Alfred Krishnapillai, Rakshanya Yatrikam ("The journey of salvation"), India, Tamil language
* Pierre Louÿs, Les Chansons de Bilitis ("The Songs of Bilitis"), erotic prose poems; Paris
* Tekkan Yosano, Bokoku no on ("Obligation to the Fatherland"), a collection of literary criticism, Japan

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 2 – Robert Nathan (died 1985), American poet and novelist
* January 10 – Bochō Yamamura 山村 暮鳥 (died 1924), Japanese vagabond Christian preacher who gains attention as a writer of tales and songs for children and as a poet
* May 21 – Eileen Duggan (died 1972), New Zealand
* May 28 – Loa Ho (died 1943), Taiwan
* June 14 – W. W. E. Ross (died 1966), Canadian geophysicist and Imagist poet
* June 16 – Ogiwara Seisensui 荻原井泉水, pen name of Ogiwara Tōkichi (died 1976), Japanese haiku poet in the Taishō and Shōwa periods (surname: Ogiwara)
* August 31 – Charles Reznikoff, American poet, part of the Objectivist poetry movement
* October 4 – Jun Tsuji 辻 潤 (died 1944), Japanese author, poet, essayist, musician and bohemian (surname: Tsuji)
* October 7 – Doris Huestis Speirs (died 1989), Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet
* October 14 – E. E. Cummings (died 1962), American poet and painter
* October 18 – H. L. Davis (died 1960), American fiction writer and poet
* October 22 – Paul Grano (died 1975), Australian poet and journalist
* December 26 – Jean Toomer, American poet and novelist, part of the Harlem Renaissance
* Zahida Khatun Sherwani, writing as Zay Khay Sheen (died 1922), Indian Urdu language woman poet

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 24 – Constance Fenimore Woolson (born 1840), American novelist, short-story writer and poet; a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper
* April 7 – Benjamin Franklin King Jr. (born 1857), American poet and humorist
* April 18 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (born 1838), Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist
* May 16 – Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷, pen-name of Kitamura Montaro (born 1868), Japanese, late Meiji period poet, essayist and a founder of the modern Japanese romantic literary movement (surname: Kitamura)
* May 26 – Roden Noel (born 1834), English poet
* July 5 – Betty Paoli (born 1815), Austrian poet
* July 17 – Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (born 1818), French poet of the Parnassian movement
* August 25 – Celia Thaxter (born 1835), American poet and story writer
* September 5 – Augusta Webster (born 1837), English poet
* October 7 – Oliver Wendell Holmes (born 1809), American physician, professor and poet
* October 28 – John Askham (born 1825), English shoemaker and poet
* December 3 – Robert Louis Stevenson (born 1850), Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, of a brain haemorrhage, in Samoa
* December 29 – Christina Rossetti (born 1830), English poet, of cancer
* Also:
** Robert Fuller Murray (born 1863), American-born Scottish poet, of consumption
** Perunnelli Krishnan Vaidyar (born 1863), Indian, Malayalam-language poet