# 1883 in poetry

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

## Works published in English
### United Kingdom

* William Allingham, The Fairies, including "Up the airy mountain ..."; reprinted from Poems 1850
* Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, The Wind and the Whirlwind
* Robert Bridges, Prometheus the Firegiver
* Robert Browning, Jocoseria
* George Meredith, Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth
* Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Century of Roundels

### United States

* Francis James Child, editor, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, an anthology published in five volumes from this year to 1898
* Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Decorative Plaques
* Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus", written in aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for erection of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo, posthumously published
* James Whitcomb Riley, The Old Swimmin'-Hole and 'Leven More Poems
* John Greenleaf Whittier, The Bay of Seven Islands
* Jones Very, Poems, published posthumously
* Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion

## Works published in other languages

* Gabriele D'Annunzio, L'intermezzo di rime, Italy
* Mihail Eminescu, Luceafărul, Romania
* Victor Hugo, La Légende des siècles, third series (first series 1859, second series 1877), France
* Jan Neruda, Prosté motivy, Czechia
* Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, History of the Russian State from Gostomysl to Timashev, Russian parody published posthumously
* Paul Verlaine, in November publishes an influential essay on Stéphane Mallarmé, which is later reprinted in the book Les Poetès maudits; France
* Albert Verwey, Persephone, Netherlands

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 1 – Charles Badger Clark (died 1957), American
* January 6 – Khalil Gibran (died 1931), Lebanese American poet and artist
* January 21 – Olav Aukrust (died 1929), Norwegian poet and teacher
* February 7 – K. V. Simon, (died 1944), Indian Malayalam-language poet
* February 18
** Nikos Kazantzakis (died 1957), Greek author
** Jessie Litchfield, (died 1956), Australian author
* March 13 – Kōtarō Takamura 高村 光太郎 (died 1956), Japanese poet and sculptor; son of sculptor Kōun Takamura
* March 9 – Umberto Saba né Poli (died 1957), Italian poet and fiction writer
* March 16 – Ethel Anderson née Campbell (died 1958), English-born Australian
* March 27 (March 15 O.S.) – Marie Under (died 1980), Estonian
* May 7 – Anna Wickham, née Edith Alice Mary Harper, aka Edith Hepburn and John Oland (committed suicide 1947), English poet brought up in Australia
* June 27 – Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy (died 1929), English Anglican priest and poet
* August 11 – Ernst Stadler (killed 1914 in World War I), German Expressionist poet
* September 16 – T. E. Hulme (killed 1917 in World War I), influential English poetry critic
* September 17 – William Carlos Williams (died 1963), American
* November 10 – Arthur Davison Ficke (died 1945), American
* December 10 – Alfred Kreymborg (died 1966), American poet, novelist, playwright, literary editor and anthologist
* December 12 – William Baylebridge (died 1942)), Australian poet and short-story writer
* September 14 – Marjorie Pickthall (died 1922), English-born Canadian

## Deaths

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 5 – Charles Tompson (born 1806), Australian public servant said to be the first published Australian-born poet
* May 23 – Cyprian Norwid, 61 (born 1821), Polish-born
* June 14
** Charles Timothy Brooks, 96, American poet and translator
** Edward Fitzgerald, 74, English poet and translator, best known for his translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
* After 1883 – George Moses Horton (born c. 1797), African-American