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Events
Oscar Wilde's arrest and conviction
February 18 – John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry (father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover), leaves his calling card at the Albemarle Club in London, inscribed: "For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite", i.e. a sodomite, inducing Wilde to charge him with criminal libel. April 3–5 – Libel case of Wilde v Queensberry at the Old Bailey in London: Queensberry is acquitted. Evidence of Wilde's homosexual relationships with young men renders him liable to criminal prosecution under the Labouchere Amendment, while the Libel Act 1843 renders him legally liable for the considerable expenses Queensberry has incurred in his defence, leaving Wilde penniless. April 6 – Wilde is arrested at the Cadogan Hotel, London, for "unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons" and detained on remand in Holloway Prison. May 25 – Criminal case of Regina v. Wilde: After a retrial at the Old Bailey, Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and is taken to Pentonville Prison to begin his two years' sentence of hard labour. November 21 – Wilde is transferred to Reading Gaol.
Other events
December 19 – Robert Frost marries Elinor Miriam White at Lawrence, Massachusetts. Rudyard Kipling writes the poem If—. Ernest Thayer recites Casey at the Bat at a Harvard class reunion, resolving the "mystery" of the poem's authorship.
Works published in English
Canada
Bliss Carman, A Seamark: A Threnody for Robert Louis Stevenson. Boston: Copeland & Day. Bliss Carman, Behind The Arras: A Book Of The Unseen. Illus. Tom B. Meteyard. Boston: Lamson, Wolffe. Sophia Almon Hensley, A Woman's Love Letters. Emily Pauline Johnson, The White Wampum, Toronto: Copp Clark; London: John Lane. Marie Joussaye, Songs that Quinte Sang. Archibald Lampman, Lyrics of Earth Arthur Stringer, Pauline and Other Poems. Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, The House of the Trees and Other Poems
United Kingdom
Robert Bridges, Invocation to Music
Gelett Burgess, "The Purple Cow" John Davidson, Fleet Street Eclogues, second series (first series, 1893) Austin Dobson, The Story of Rosina, and Other Verses Maurice Hewlett, A Masque of Dead Florentines Lionel Johnson, Poems William Morris, The Tale of Beowulf Coventry Patmore, The Rod, the Root, and the Flower Arthur Quiller-Couch, editor, The Golden Pomp, anthology of 16th- and 17th-century English lyricists Arthur Symons, London Nights James Thomson, Poetical Works, posthumously published; edited, with a memoir, by Bertram Dobell William Watson, The Father of the Forest, and Other Poems William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, anthology Poems, drama and poetry
United States
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Unguarded Gates
Katharine Lee Bates, "Pikes Peak" a poem later set to music and becoming known as "America the Beautiful", originally published in the July 4 edition of The Congregationalist, a church periodical Orelia Key Bell, Poems Ina Coolbrith, Songs from the Golden Gate Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines Paul Laurence Dunbar, Majors and Minors, including "We Wear the Mask" William Dean Howells, Stops of Various Quills James Russell Lowell, Last Poems, published posthumously James Whitcomb Riley, "Little Orphant Annie" Henry David Thoreau, Poems of Nature, published posthumously (died 1862)
Other in English
Sri Aurobindo, Song to Myrtilla, Calcutta: Arya Publishing House; India, Indian poetry in English Banjo Paterson, The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses, major single-author collection of Australian bush poetry William Butler Yeats, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom: Editor, A Book of Irish Verse, anthology Poems, drama and poetry
Works published in other languages
José Santos Chocano, Peru: En la aldea ("In the Village") Iras santas Francis Jammes, Un jour, France Catulle Mendès, La Grive des vignes, France Władysław Mickiewicz, Vie d'Adam Mickiewicz ("Life of Adam Mickiewicz"), four volumes, Poznań, Poland, published beginning 1890 through this year; published by the poet's son K. C. Kesava Pillai, Asanna-Marana Chinta Satakam, lyric in the form of a monologue of a man about to die, Indian, Malayalam-language Émile Verhaeren, Les villes tentaculaires ("The tentacular towns"), Belgium, French language Verner von Heidenstam, Dikter ("Poems"), Sweden Manilal Dwivedi, Atmanimajjan, a collection of Gujarati language poems.