1879 in poetry
This article covers 1879 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- October 10 - American poet Ethel Lynn Beers' collected works "All Quiet Along The Potomac" and Other Poems are published; the following day she dies aged 52 at Orange, New Jersey.
- Critic and poet Theodore Watts-Dunton takes the alcoholic poet Algernon Charles Swinburne into his permanent care at Watts' Putney home.
Works published in English
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- Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation
- Louisa Sarah Bevington, Key-Notes
- Robert Bridges, Poems
- Robert Browning, Dramatic Idyls, including "Ivàn Ivànovitch"
- Edmund Gosse, New Poems
- Kate Greenaway, Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children
- Emily Pfeiffer, Quarterman's Grace, and Other Poems
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, ''The Lover's Tale''
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- Ethel Lynn Beers, All Quiet Along the Potomac and Other Poems
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The School-Boy
- Edmund Clarence Stedman, Lyrics and Idylls, with Other Poems
- Celia Thaxter, ''Drift-Weed''
Works published in other languages
- Marcellus Emants, "Lilith", Netherlands
- Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Fleurs boréales, winner of the Prix Montyon of the French Academy; French language; Quebec, Canada
- José Hernández, Martin Fierro, the second part of an epic Spanish-language Argentine poem in which the hero defends his way of life against encroaching socialization and civilization; an example of the Gaucho poetry literary movement in Argentina
- Victor Hugo, L'Art d'être grand-père, France
- Stéphane Mallarmé, Les Dieux antiques, France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 13 - Sarojini Naidu also known by the sobriquet Bharatiya Kokila, poet and elected official who was president of the Indian National Congress and the first woman governor of Uttar Pradesh
- March 14 - Harold Monro, English poet, proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London
- March 26 - Joseph Campbell, Irish
- March 28 - Terence MacSwiney, Irish playwright, poet and politician
- April 3 - Takashi Nagatsuka 長塚 節, Japanese poet and novelist
- April 14 - James Branch Cabell, American writer
- May 10 - James Alexander Allan, Australian poet and local historian
- June 21 - Leslie Holdsworth Allen, Australian
- September 13 - James Larkin Pearson, American poet, newspaper publisher; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1953–1981
- October 2 - Wallace Stevens, American
- October 13 - Patrick Joseph Hartigan, Australian
- November 10 - Vachel Lindsay, American
- December 18 - Paul Klee, Swiss painter and poet of German nationality
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 2 - Richard Henry Dana Sr., American poet, critic and lawyer
- April 30 - Sarah Josepha Hale, American writer and poet, author of the popular nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and successful promoter of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday
- August 21 - Frances Browne, Irish novelist, short-story writer and poet
- September 20 - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, Canadian novelist and poet
- October 11 - Ethel Lynn Beers, American poet
- November 5 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist
- date not known
- * Chō Kōran, female Japanese poet and nanga artist
- * Aristotelis Valaoritis, Greek poet