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

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
 * 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
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 * 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