1876 in poetry explained
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Events
Works published in English
- Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love (revised and expanded in 1889)[1]
- Robert Browning, Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper; with Other Poems[1]
- Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark
- Edward Dowden, Poems[1]
- Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields: Verse Translations and Poems, Bhowanipur, Calcutta: B. M. Bose (expanded edition, Bhowanipur: Saptahik Sambad Press 1878; London: Kegan Paul 1880); Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom[2]
- Dora Greenwell, Camera Obscura[1]
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Wreck of the Deutschland, submitted for publication but not in fact published until 1918
- Edward Lear, Laughable Lyrics: Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, &c., including "The Dong with a Luminous Nose", "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò", "The Pobble Who Has No Toes", "The Quangle Wangle's Hat" and "The Akond of Swat", published December 1876, dated 1877[3]
- William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
- Emily Pfeiffer, Poems[1]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, eight volumes published from this year through 1880[1]
The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public
This year Poetaster Julia A. Moore's first book of verse, The Sentimental Song Book, was published in Grand Rapids, and quickly went into a second printing. A copy fell into the hands of one James F. Ryder, a Cleveland, Ohio, publisher who recognized its awful majesty and soon republished it under the title The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public. Ryder sent out numerous review copies to newspapers across the country, with a cover letter filled with low key mock praise.
And so Moore received national attention. Following Ryder's lead, contemporary reviews were amusedly negative. For instance, The Rochester Democrat wrote of Sweet Singer, that "Shakespeare, could he read it, would be glad that he was dead …. If Julia A. Moore would kindly deign to shed some of her poetry on our humble grave, we should be but too glad to go out and shoot ourselves tomorrow."
Other in English
- Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields: Verse Translations and Poems, Bhowanipur, Calcutta: B. M. Bose (expanded edition, Bhowanipur: Saptahik Sambad Press 1878; London: Kegan Paul 1880); Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom[2]
- Behramji Merwanji Malabari, editor, The Indian Muse in English Garb, Bombay: Merwanji Nowroji, Daboo, 99 pages; Indian poetry in English[5]
Works published in other languages
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 19 – Dragotin Kette (died 1899), Slovene
- January 25 – William Ellery Leonard (died 1944), American
- January 30 – Eva Dobell (died 1963) English poet, nurse, and editor best known for her verses related to World War I soldiers
- February 4 – Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (died 1959), American poet and socialist
- February 6 – Alice Guerin Crist (died 1941), Irish-born Australian
- March 4 – Léon-Paul Fargue (died 1947), French editor, poet and essayist
- March 15 – Kambara Ariake 蒲原有明 pen-name of Kambara Hayao (died 1952), Japanese Taishō and Shōwa period poet and novelist
- March 23
- June 20 – Edmond Laforest (suicide 1915), Haitian French language poet
- July 12 – Max Jacob (died 1944), French painter, poet and critic
- July 25 – Mihai Codreanu (died 1957), Romanian
- September 7 – C. J. Dennis (died 1938), Australian poet, author of The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
- October 4 – Hugh McCrae (died 1958), Australian
- October 25 – Geoffrey Winthrop Young (died 1958), English mountaineer, poet and educator
- December 9 – Mizuho Ōta 太田水穂 pen-name of "Teiichi Ōta" 太田 貞, occasionally also using the pen name, "Mizuhonoya" (died 1955), Japanese Shōwa period poet and literary scholar
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Deaths
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See also
Notes and References
- Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6. registration.
- Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984,,), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- Web site: A Chronology of Edward Lear's Life. Edward Lear Home Page. nonsenselit.org. 2012-08-10. 2017-02-24.
- 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)
- Joshi, Irene, compiler, "Poetry Anthologies", "Poetry Anthologies" section, "University Libraries, University of Washington" website, "Last updated May 8, 1998", retrieved June 16, 2009. Archived 2009-06-19.
- Coppée, François Édouard Joachim . 7 . 102.
- Blackmore, E. H., and A. M. Blackmore, translators, Stéphane Malarmé Collected Poems and Other Verse, "Chronology" page xxxv, 2006, New York (this edition): Oxford University Press,, retrieved February 6, 2010 via Google Books
- Mendès, Catulle . 18 . 124.
- Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
