1877 in poetry

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Events

The ''Annus mirabilis'' of poetastery

In the annals of poetasting, 1877 stands out as a historic year.
So wrote William Topaz McGonagall a Scottish weaver, "actor", and "poet" who would become comically renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language.
Also this year Poetaster Julia A. Moore, following up on the renown of her first book of verse, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public of 1876, decided to appear before her public. She gave a reading and singing performance, with orchestral accompaniment, at a Grand Rapids, Michigan, opera house.
Moore managed to interpret the jeering as criticism of the orchestra.

Works published in English

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William Allingham, Songs, Ballads, and Stories
William Johnson Cory, published anonymously, Ionica II
Austin Dobson, Proverbs in Porcelain
John Abraham Heraud, Uxmal; Macee de Leodepart
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, although book states "1877"
George Moore, Flowers of Passion, published this year, although book states "1878"
William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
Coventry Patmore, published anonymously, The Unknown Eros, and Other Odes, odes 1-31; a second, expanded edition was published under Patmore's name in 1878

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Flower and Thorn
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poetical Works
Sidney Lanier, Poems
James Russell Lowell, Three Memorial Poems
Edmund Clarence Stedman, ''Hawthorne and Other Poems''

Works published in other languages

Giosuè Carducci, Barbarian Odes, Book 1, Italy
Holger Drachmann, Denmark:
* Sange ved Havet
* Derovre fra grænsen, prose work, with interludes in verse, a series of impressions made on the poet by a visit to the scenes of the war with Germany
Victor Hugo, France:
* L'Art d'être grand-père
* La Légende des siècles, second series
Stéphane Mallarmé – Poésies, France
Rahman Baba, Dīwān, India, Pashto language, first printed version

Births

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January 20 - Ștefan Petică, Romanian Symbolist poet and writer
February 7 - Alfred Williams, English "hammerman poet"
March 16 - Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, full name: Nanalal Dapatram Kavi, Indian, Gujarati-language author and poet; son of Kavishwar Dalpatram
April 2 - Richard Rowley, Irish poet and writer
April 24 - Marcel Noppeney, Luxembourg French-language poet
May 28 - Oscar Milosz, also known as O V de LMilosz, Lithuanian diplomat, later a French citizen, also a fiction writer, playwright, poet and essayist; a cousin of Czeslaw Milosz, on whom he exerted a great influence
June 6 - Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer ഉള്ളൂര് എസ്. പരമേശ്വരയ്യര്, Indian, Malayalam-language poet, scholar and government official, author of a five-volume history of Malayalam literature
June 11 - Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn, English-born French-language Symbolist poet
July 15 - Nina Salaman, born Paulina Ruth Davis, English poet noted for her translations from medieval Hebrew poetry
August 15 - Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet and historian
November 9 - Sir Muhammad Iqbal Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, writing in Persian and Urdu, praised as Muffakir-e-Pakistan, Shair-i-Mashriq, and Hakeem-ul-Ummat ; his birthday is annually commemorated in Pakistan as "Iqbal Day", a national holiday
November 22 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet

Deaths

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July 14 - Richard Davies (Mynyddog), Welsh poet
August 5 - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), Welsh poet
August 30 - Toru Dutt, 21, Indian poet, novelist and translator writing in English, of pulmonary tuberculosis