1874 in poetry
This article covers 1874 in poetry.
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Works published in English
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Alfred Austin, The Tower of Babel
- Robert William Dale, The English Hymn Book
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Fables in Song
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Music and Moonlight
- James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, published in the National Reformer, and later in 1880
United States">American poetry">United States
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Cloth of Gold and Other Poems
- William Cullen Bryant, Among the Trees
- Mary Mapes Dodge, Rhymes and Jingles
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
- * Editor, Poems of Places, anthology, United States
- * The Hanging of the Crane
- Mary Ashley Townsend, ''The Captain's Story''
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- François Coppée, Le Cahier rouge
- Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations, France
- Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Les Chants de Maldoror, prose poems full of Gothic horror ; France
- Paul Verlaine, Romances sans paroles, France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 16 - Robert William Service, "the Bard of the Yukon", Scots-Canadian poet, writer of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
- February 3 - Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature; spends most of her life in France
- February 7 - Olive Custance, English poet
- February 9 - Amy Lowell, American poet of the imagist school, posthumous winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
- February 20 - Gordon Bottomley, English poet known particularly for his verse dramas
- February 22 - Kyoshi Takahama 高浜 虚子, pen name of Kiyoshi Takahama, Japanese, Shōwa period poet; close disciple of Masaoka Shiki
- March - Stanley de Vere Alexander Julius, English military officer and poet
- March 26 - Robert Frost, American poet
- April 27 - Maurice Baring, English poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer and war correspondent
- May 29 - G. K. Chesterton, influential English writer, journalist, poet, biographer, Christian apologist, short story writer and novelist
- May 30 - Josephine Preston Peabody, American poet and playwright
- June 20 - Trumbull Stickney, American classical scholar and poet best known for his sonnets
- July 7 - José María Eguren, Peruvian symbolist poet
- July 29 - August Stramm, German Expressionist poet and playwright
- August 19 - A. H. Reginald Buller, British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust; also writer of limericks, some of which are published in Punch
- September 8 - Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎, Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist and literary critic in both English and Japanese; father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi
- October 6 - Ursula Bethell
- November 27 - Ridgely Torrence, American poet and editor
- November 30 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author and poet best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables
- Also:
- * Kalapi, Indian, Gujarati-language poet
- * R. H. Long, Australian
- * J. W. Gordon, Australian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 23 - Charles Shirley Brooks, 57, English journalist, novelist and poet
- April 12 - Ellen Johnston, "the factory girl", Scottish power loom weaver and poet
- August 22 - Sydney Thompson Dobell, 50, English poet and critic
- October 5 - Bryan Procter, 86, English poet