# 1893 in poetry

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

## Events

* June 14 – Opening of Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford (from which the poet was expelled in 1811), designed by Basil Champneys with a reclining nude marble statue of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Edward Onslow Ford
* Founding of Vangiya Sahitya Parishad in Bengal

## Works published in English
### Canada

* William Wilfred Campbell, The Dread Voyage Poems. Toronto: William Briggs.
* Bliss Carman, Low Tide at Grand Pré
* Mary Jane Katzmann, Frankincense and Myrrh: Selections from the poems of the late Mrs. William Lawson (M.J.K.L.). Harry Piers and Constance Fairbanks ed. Halifax.
* Thomas O'Hagan, In Dreamland and Other Poems
* Charles G. D. Roberts, Songs of the Common Day
* Duncan Campbell Scott, The Magic House and Other Poems
* James Elgin Wetherell, ed. Later Canadian Poems

### Ireland

* Douglas Hyde, editor and translator from the Gaelic, The Love Songs of Connacht, Ireland
* W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
* W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom and Edwin John Ellis, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch

### United Kingdom

* Wilfred Scawen Blunt, published anonymously, Griselda
* Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper, writing under the pen name "Michael Field", Underneath the Bough
* Robert Bridges, The Humours of the Court: a Comedy; and Other Poems
* Thomas Edward Brown, Old John, and Other Poems
* John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues, first series (see also Fleet Street Eclogues 1896)
* W. E. Henley, London Voluntaries; The Song of the Sword; and Other Verses
* George MacDonald, Poetical Works
* Alice Meynell, Poems
* Francis Thompson, Poems, including "The Hound of Heaven"
* W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Celtic Twilight, poetry and nonfiction
* W. B. Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, and Edwin John Ellis, editors, The Works of William Blake, Poetic, Symbolic, and Critical, Quaritch

### United States

* Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pre, Canadian author published in the United States
* Paul Laurence Dunbar, Oak and Ivy
* Hamlin Garland, Prairie Songs
* Louise Imogen Guiney, A Roadside Harp
* Harriet Monroe, The Columbian Ode
* James Whitcomb Riley, Poems Here at Home

### Other in English

* Henry Lawson, "Saint Peter", Australia
* Banjo Paterson, "The Geebung Polo Club", first published in The Antipodean, Australia

## Works published in other languages

* Carlo Favetti (died 1892), Rime e prose in vernacolo goriziano (Rhimes and Prose in the Vernacular of Gorizia), Friuli
* Francis Jammes, Vers, (also 1892 and 1894); France
* Maryana Marrash, Bint fikr, Ottoman Syria
* Guido Mazzoni, Voci della vita, Italy
* Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux, Les Reposoirs de la procession, published starting this year and ending in 1907; France

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 3 – W. N. Hodgson (Edward Melbourne) (killed in action 1916), English war poet
* January 10 – Vicente Huidobro (died 1948), Chilean Creacionismo poet and editor
* January 17 – Evelyn Scott (died 1963), American writer and poet
* January 18 – Jorge Guillén (died 1984), Spanish
* February 11 – Nan Shepherd (died 1981), Scottish novelist and poet
* February 26 – Ivor Richards (died 1979), English literary critic
* March 4 – Ewart Alan Mackintosh (killed in action 1917), English war poet of Scottish ancestry
* March 6 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (died 1965), Japanese, Taishō and Shōwa period poet (surname: Takahashi)
* March 18 – Wilfred Owen (killed in action 1918), English war poet
* March 26 – Richard Church (died 1972), English poet
* July 13 – Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (died 1949), Welsh poet and occultist
* July 19 – Vladimir Mayakovsky (suicide 1930), Russian poet and playwright
* July 26 – George Grosz (died 1959), German artist and poet
* August 22 – Dorothy Parker (died 1967), American writer, poet and wit
* September 6 or 16 – Robert Nichols (died 1944), English war poet
* September 28 – Giannis Skarimpas (died 1984), Greek
* October 9 – Mário de Andrade (died 1945), Brazilian poet and academic
* October 14 – May Wedderburn Cannan (died 1973), English war poet
* October 26
** Miloš Crnjanski, (died 1977) Serbian poet and novelist
** Thomas MacGreevy (died 1967), Irish poet and director of the National Gallery of Ireland
* November 3 – Arthur Bourinot (died 1969), Canadian poet and lawyer
* December 4 – Herbert Read (born 1968), English anarchist poet and critic of literature and art
* December 6 – Sylvia Townsend Warner (died 1978), English novelist and poet
* December 30 – Gerald Bullett (died 1958), English writer and poet
* Also – Dharanidhar Sharma Koirala (died 1980), Indian, Nepali-language poet

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 23 – Phillips Brooks (born 1835), American Episcopal clergyman and hymnwriter
* January 15 – Fanny Kemble (born 1809), English author, poet, playwright and actress
* April 19 – John Addington Symonds (born 1840), English poet and literary critic
* August 5 – Sarah T. Bolton, née Barrett (born 1814), American poet
* December 5 – Matsudaira Katamori 松平容保 (born 1836), Japanese samurai and poet in the last days of the Edo period and the early to mid Meiji period (surname: Matsudaira)
* December 9 – Charles Sangster (born 1822), Canadian poet
* Also – Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (born 1844), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry