Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
Charles Baudelaire's collection Les Épaves is published in
Belgium containing poems suppressed from Les Fleurs du mal (Paris,
1857) for outraging public morality.[1] His poems also appear in the first anthology by the "Parnassians", Le Parnasse contemporain, published this year.
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli's sonnets in the
Romanesco dialect of Rome (Sonetti Romaneschii, mostly written in the 1830s) are first published, posthumously in an expurgated selection by his son Ciro.
First publications by the
Romanian poet
Mihai Eminescu, aged 16: In January
Romanian teacher
Aron Pumnul dies and his students in
Cernăuţi publish a pamphlet, Lăcrămioarele învățăceilor gimnaziaști ("Tears of the Gymnasium Students") in which a poem entitled "La mormântul lui Aron Pumnul" ("At the Grave of Aron Pumnul") appears, signed "M. Eminovici"; on 25 February his poem "De-aș avea" ("If I were to have") is published in
Iosif Vulcan's literary magazine Familia in
Pest.
In this year a masterpiece of cheese-making, a 7,000-pound Canadian behemoth produced in
Perth, Ontario, and sent to exhibitions in Toronto, New York and Britain, is given its appropriate due in poetry by one
James McIntyre (
1828–
1906), a Canadian known as "The Cheese Poet", whose work outlasts his subject and might even make its fame immortal. Herewith, an excerpt of his "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over 7,000 Pounds":
McIntyre's poetry is the subject of books in the twentieth century, however, the greatest boost to his fame probably comes from a number of his poems being anthologized in the collection Very Bad Poetry, edited by Ross and Kathryn Petras (Vintage, 1997).
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abcdeLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)