1880 in poetry

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Events

• June 6 – Statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (died 1837), sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow

Works published

United Kingdom

• 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:
  • 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^[1]
  • Songs of the Springtides^[1]
  • Studies in Song^[1]
• 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]

United States

• Bret Harte, Poetical Works^[2]
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Iron Gate and Other Poems^[2]
• Sidney Lanier, The Science of English Verse, scholarship
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ultima Thule^[3]
• Richard Henry Stoddard, Poems^[2]

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

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

• Poetry portal

• 19th century in poetry
• 19th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• Victorian literature
• French literature of the 19th century
• Poetry

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. 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)
3. Calhoun, Charles C. Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8070-7026-2
4. Keith, W. J., "Poetry in English: 1867-1918", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
5. Audre Lorde, 'A burst of light: Living with cancer', A Burst of Light, Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988, page 73