1880 in poetry
This article covers 1880 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- June 6 - Statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow
Works published
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- H. C. Beeching and J. W. Mackail lead a group of seven Balliol College, Oxford members in publishing The Masque of B-ll—l, which is immediately suppressed by the authorities
- Robert Bridges, Poems
- Robert Browning, Dramatic Idyls, second series
- Jean Ingelow, Poems, Volume 1 is a reprint the 23rd edition of Poems ; Volume 2 is a reprint from the sixth edition of A Story of Doom ;
- Andrew Lang, XXII Ballades in Blue China
- William McGonagall, "The Tay Bridge Disaster"
- Emily Pfeiffer, Sonnets and Songs
- Algernon Charles Swinburne:
- * The Heptalogia; or, The Seven Against Sense, parodies of seven contemporary poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Browning, Coventry Patmore, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Swinburne himself
- * Songs of the Springtides
- * Studies in Song
- John Addington Symonds, New and Old
- James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, and Other Poems, the title poem was first published in the National Reformer, March 22-May 17, 1874
- William Watson, ''The Prince's Quest, and Other Poems''
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- Bret Harte, Poetical Works
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Iron Gate and Other Poems
- Sidney Lanier, The Science of English Verse, scholarship
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ultima Thule
- Richard Henry Stoddard, ''Poems''
Other
- Rosario de Acuña, Morirse a tiempo, Spain
- Rosalia de Castro, Follas novas, Galician poems written in Spain
- Henry Kendall, Songs from the Mountains, Australia
- Guido Mazzoni, Versi, Italy
- Charles G. D. Roberts, Orion and Other Poems, Canada, published at author's expense
- Paul Verlaine, Sagesse, France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 14 - Joseph Warren Beach, American poet, critic and literary scholar
- February 27 - Angelina Weld Grimke, African American lesbian journalist and poet
- August 12 - Radclyffe Hall, English lesbian poet and novelist
- August 24 - Bahinabai Chaudhari बहिणाबाई चौधरी, illiterate, Indian, Marathi-language poet whose son writes down her poems
- August 26 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet, writer and art critic
- September 16 - Alfred Noyes, English poet, best known for his ballads "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel Organ"
- November 30 - Grant Hervey, born George Henry Cochrane, Australian versifier and swindler
- December 2 - Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, née Daniels, English versifier
- December 28 - C. Louis Leipoldt, South African Afrikaans poet, writer and pediatrician
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- May 8 - Jones Very, American essayist, poet, clergyman, and mystic associated with the American Transcendentalism movement
- June 20 - Eliza Dunlop, Australian lyricist and ethnographer
- July 7 - Lydia Maria Child, 78, American abolitionist, Indian and women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, novelist, journalist and poet
- November 6 - Estanislao del Campo, Argentine
- December 22 - George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 61, English novelist and poet
- December 30 - Epes Sargent, American editor, poet and playwright