1876 in poetry
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Events
- February 24 – Première of first stage production of the poetic drama Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, in Christiania, Norway.
Works published in English
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love
- Robert Browning, Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper; with Other Poems
- Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark
- Edward Dowden, Poems
- Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields: Verse Translations and Poems, Bhowanipur, Calcutta: B. M. Bose ; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Dora Greenwell, Camera Obscura
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Wreck of the Deutschland, submitted for publication but not in fact published until 1918
- Edward Lear, Laughable Lyrics: Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, &c., including "The Dong with a Luminous Nose", "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò", "The Pobble Who Has No Toes", "The Quangle Wangle's Hat" and "The Akond of Swat", published December 1876, dated 1877
- William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
- Emily Pfeiffer, Poems
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, eight volumes published from this year through 1880
United States">American poetry">United States
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Poems
- Herman Melville, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
- Julia A. Moore, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public
- Bayard Taylor, The Echo Club and Other Literary Diversions
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, sixth edition
- John Greenleaf Whittier, ''Mabel Martin''
''The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public''
This year Poetaster Julia A. Moore's first book of verse, The Sentimental Song Book, was published in Grand Rapids, and quickly went into a second printing. A copy fell into the hands of one James F. Ryder, a Cleveland, Ohio, publisher who recognized its awful majesty and soon republished it under the title The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public. Ryder sent out numerous review copies to newspapers across the country, with a cover letter filled with low key mock praise.And so Moore received national attention. Following Ryder's lead, contemporary reviews were amusedly negative. For instance, The Rochester Democrat wrote of Sweet Singer, that "Shakespeare, could he read it, would be glad that he was dead.... If Julia A. Moore would kindly deign to shed some of her poetry on our humble grave, we should be but too glad to go out and shoot ourselves tomorrow."
Other in English
- Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields: Verse Translations and Poems, Bhowanipur, Calcutta: B. M. Bose ; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
- Behramji Merwanji Malabari, editor, The Indian Muse in English Garb, Bombay: Merwanji Nowroji, Daboo, 99 pages; Indian poetry in English
Works published in other languages
France">French poetry">France
- François Coppée, Olivier
- Stéphane Mallarmé, L'après-midi d'un faune, published in April, with illustrations by Manet
- Catulle Mendès, ''Poesies, jere serie''
Spanish">Spanish poetry">Spanish
- Rosario de Acuña, ''Ecos del alma''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 19 – Dragotin Kette, Slovene
- January 25 – William Ellery Leonard, American
- January 30 – Eva Dobell English poet, nurse, and editor best known for her verses related to World War I soldiers
- February 4 – Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, American poet and socialist
- February 6 – Alice Guerin Crist, Irish-born Australian
- March 4 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French editor, poet and essayist
- March 15 – Kambara Ariake 蒲原有明 pen-name of Kambara Hayao, Japanese Taishō and Shōwa period poet and novelist
- March 23
- * Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet and activist
- * Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, Burmese poet, writer and political leader
- June 20 – Edmond Laforest, Haitian French language poet
- July 12 – Max Jacob, French painter, poet and critic
- July 25 – Mihai Codreanu, Romanian
- September 7 – C. J. Dennis, Australian poet, author of The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
- October 4 – Hugh McCrae, Australian
- October 25 – Geoffrey Winthrop Young, English mountaineer, poet and educator
- December 9 – Mizuho Ōta 太田水穂 pen-name of "Teiichi Ōta" 太田 貞, occasionally also using the pen name, "Mizuhonoya", Japanese Shōwa period poet and literary scholar
- Also:
- * William Lawson, Australian
- * Joseph Lee, Scottish war poet, artist and journalist
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- June 20 – John Neal, eccentric and influential American writer, critic, lecturer, and activist
- July 14 – Charles Heavysege, Canadian
- December 23 – Charles Neaves, Scottish judge and poet
- December 27 – Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish
- December 30 – Christian Winther, Danish
- Also:
- * Gu Taiqing, Chinese poet during the Qing Dynasty
- * Maqbool Shah Kralawari, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
- * Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai, Indian Tamil scholar and poet