1875 in poetry

This article covers 1875 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

February/March - Arthur Rimbaud meets Paul Verlaine for the last time in Stuttgart, Germany, after Verlaine's release from prison, gives him the manuscript of his poems Illuminations and gives up literary writing entirely at the age of 20.
October 1 - American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore, Maryland, with a larger memorial marker. Some controversy arises years later as to whether the correct body was exhumed.
December 6 - German emigrant ship SS Deutschland runs aground in the English Channel resulting in the death of 157 passengers and crew and inspiring Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Wreck of the Deutschland. This introduces his innovative sprung rhythm and metre but, being rejected for publication in 1876, is not published until 1918.

George Barlow, Under the Dawn
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, published under the pen name "Proteus", Sonnets and Songs
Robert Browning, Aristophanes' Apology
Alice Meynell, Preludes
Sir Henry Taylor, ''A Sicilian Summer; St. Clement's Eve; The Eve of the Conquest''

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 4 - William Williams (Crwys), Welsh poet
March 30 - Edmund Clerihew Bentley, popular English novelist and humorist and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous pseudo-biographical verse
June 8 - Ernst Enno, Estonian poet
July 19 - Alice Dunbar-Nelson African-American poet, journalist and political activist and part of the Harlem Renaissance; her husband Paul Laurence Dunbar is also a poet
July 26 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet
August - Fannie B. Linderman, American poet, writer, educator, entertainer
November 3 - Samukawa Sokotsu 寒川鼠骨, Japanese Haiku poet of Meiji period, Masaoka Shiki's pupil
November 8 - Qiu Jin, Chinese revolutionary, feminist and poet
December 4 - Rainer Maria Rilke who will be called one of the greatest 20th-century poets in German
December 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
December 15 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino revolutionary general and poet
Also:
* Jean Charbonneau French Canadian poet, primary founder of the Montreal Literary School
* Percy MacKaye, American dramatist and poet

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 22 - Charles Sprague, 83, American banker and poet
January 23 - Charles Kingsley, 55, English novelist and poet
June 4 - Eduard Mörike, 70, German Romantic poet
October 24 - Raffaello Carboni, Australian
December 3 - Robert Stephen Hawker, 71, English poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, Anglican clergyman and reputed eccentric best known as the author of Cornwall's "national anthem" "The Song of the Western Men"
December 10 - Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月, member of the Todo family who took "Rengetsu" as her Buddhist name when she became a nun, and is known as "Rengetsu", Buddhist nun, widely regarded to have been one of the greatest Japanese poets of the 19th century; potter, painter and expert calligrapher