Victorian Poetry

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CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS

1890 Christina Rossetti, Poems
First British mosque, Woking, Surrey


1891 Morris, Chants for Socialists
Morris, Poems by the Way


1892 Michael Field, Sight and Song
W.E. Henley, The Song of the Sword and Other Verses
Kipling, Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
Meredith, Poems: The Empty Purse, with Odes to the Comic
Spirit, to Youth in Memory, and Verses
Symons, Silhouettes
Tennyson, The Death ofOenone, Akbar's Dream and Other Poems
(August) Liberal government; Gladstone (Prime Minister)


189 3 Michael Field, Underneath the Bough
Henley, London Voluntaries and Other Verses
Christina Rossetti, Verses
Independent Labour Party established
(September) Gladstone introduces Second Irish Home Rule Bill
into House of Commons
(September) Second Irish Home Rule Bill defeated in House of
Lords


1894 Swinburne, Astrophel and Other Poems
Symons, London Nights
Wilde, The Sphinx
(March) Gladstone resigns; Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of
Rosebery (Prime Minister)


1895 Lionel Johnson, Poems
Yeats, Poems (revised 1899 and 1901)
(April) Imprisonment of Wilde
(July) Conservative-Liberal Unionist government; Marquess of
Salisbury (Prime Minister)
(December) Jameson Raid, South Africa


1896 Ernest Dowson, Verses


1897 Lionel Johnson, Ireland, with Other Poems
Symons, Amoris Victima

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