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Overview of the events of 1880 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France ).
Events
Works published
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 (see also Poems
1873 ,
1879 )
[1]
Robert Browning , Dramatic Idyls , second series (see also Dramatic Idyls
1879 )
[1]
Jean Ingelow , Poems , Volume 1 is a reprint the 23rd edition of Poems (
1863 ); Volume 2 is a reprint from the sixth edition of A Story of Doom (
1867 ); (see also Poems: Third Series
1885 )
[1]
Andrew Lang , XXII Ballades in Blue China
[1]
William McGonagall , "
The Tay Bridge Disaster "
Emily Pfeiffer , Sonnets and Songs
[1]
Algernon Charles Swinburne :
John Addington Symonds , New and Old
[1]
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
[1]
William Watson , The Prince's Quest, and Other Poems
[1]
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 ,
[4] published at author's expense
Paul Verlaine ,
Sagesse ,
France
Awards and honors
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 14 –
Joseph Warren Beach (died
1957 ),
American poet, critic and literary scholar
February 27 –
Angelina Weld Grimke (died
1958 ), African
American lesbian
journalist and
poet
[5]
August 12 –
Radclyffe Hall (died
1943 ),
English lesbian poet and novelist
August 24 –
Bahinabai Chaudhari बहिणाबाई चौधरी (died
1951 ), illiterate,
Indian ,
Marathi -language poet whose son writes down her poems
August 26 –
Guillaume Apollinaire (died
1918 ),
French poet, writer and art critic
September 16 –
Alfred Noyes (died
1958 ),
English poet, best known for his ballads "
The Highwayman " (
1906 ) and "The Barrel Organ"
November 30 –
Grant Hervey , born George Henry Cochrane (died
1933 ),
Australian versifier and swindler
December 2 –
Elizabeth Rebecca Ward , née Daniels (died
1978 ),
English versifier
December 28 –
C. Louis Leipoldt (died
1947 ),
South African
Afrikaans poet, writer and pediatrician
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
May 8 –
Jones Very (born
1813 ),
American essayist, poet, clergyman, and mystic associated with the American
Transcendentalism movement
June 20 –
Eliza Dunlop (born
1796 ),
Australian lyricist and ethnographer
July 7 –
Lydia Maria Child , 78 (born
1802 ),
American abolitionist, Indian and women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, novelist, journalist and poet
November 6 –
Estanislao del Campo (born
1834 ),
Argentine
December 22 –
George Eliot , pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 61 (born
1819 ),
English novelist and poet
December 30 –
Epes Sargent (born
1813 ),
American editor, poet and playwright
See also
Notes
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k Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
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c Ludwig, 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)
^ Calhoun, Charles C. Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
ISBN
0-8070-7026-2
^ Keith, W. J.,
"Poetry in English: 1867-1918" , article in The Canadian Encyclopedia , retrieved February 8, 2009
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Audre Lorde , 'A burst of light: Living with cancer', A Burst of Light , Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988, page 73
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