• Source: 1870 in poetry

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Works published






= United Kingdom

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Edward Lear, Nonsense Songs, stories, Botany, and Alphabets (published this year, although the book states "1871"; see also Book of Nonsense 1846, More Nonsense 1872, Laughable Lyrics 1877)
William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, Part 4 (Parts 1 and 2 1868, Part 3 1869)
Arthur O'Shaughnessy, An Epic of Women, and Other Poems
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems, including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life", exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave
James Joseph Sylvester, a mathematician, publishes The Laws of Verse
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King with eight Idylls in the order Tennyson wanted at this point (see also Idylls of the King 1859, 1889, The Holy Grail 1869, "The Last Tournament" 1871, Gareth and Lynette 1872, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885)
Augusta Webster, Portraits
William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: The Centenary Edition (see also Misfcellaneous Poems 1820, Poetical Works 1836, 1840, Poems 1845, Poetical Works 1857)




= United States

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Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James (a pirated edition titled The Heathen Chinee also appeared)
James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral
Epes Sargent, The Woman Who Dared




= Other

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Estanislao del Campo, Collected Works, Spanish-language, Argentina
Adam Lindsay Gordon, Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes, published the day before he died, Australia
Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Poésies, a prose work in two parts, the first on aesthetics and rejecting Romanticism, the second a collection of maxims rewritten to change their original meanings (see "Deaths" section, below)
John Reade, Merlin's Prophecy and Other Poems, Canada.
Giovanni Marradi, Canzone moderne, Italy




Births


Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 6 – Helen Power (died 1957), Australian
January 29 – Süleyman Nazif (died 1927), Turkish poet and politician
March 4 – Thomas Sturge Moore (died 1944), English poet, author, playwright, artist and long-term friend of W. B. Yeats
May 22 – Eva Gore-Booth (died 1926), Irish
July 1 – Inoue Kenkabō 井上剣花坊 pen name of Inoue Koichi (died 1934), Japanese, late Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period journalist and writer of senryū (short, humorous verse); surname: Inoue
July 27 – Hilaire Belloc (died 1953), French-born English writer whose "cautionary tales" (humorous poems with a moral) are the most widely known of his writing
October 10 – Louise Mack (died 1935), Australian poet, journalist and novelist
October 22 – Lord Alfred Douglas (died 1945), English minor Uranian poet best remembered as a lover of the writer Oscar Wilde
November 1 – Christopher Brennan (died 1932), Australian
November 27 – Damodar Botadkar (died 1924), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
Also:
Va. Ba. Patavardhan (died 1921), Indian, Marathi-language critic and poet




Deaths


Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 25 – David Bates, 60, American poet
April 24 – Louisa Stuart Costello (born 1799), English miniature-painter, poet, historical novelist and travel writer
June 11 – William Gilmore Simms, 64, Southern American poet, novelist and historian
June 24 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, 36, Australian poet and jockey
July 24 – Anders Abraham Grafström, 80, Swedish poet and historian
November 24 – Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (born 1846), French
December 22 – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (born 1836), Spanish Andalusian poet and short-story writer
Also:
William Livingston (Uilleam Macdhunleibhe) (born 1808), Scottish Gaelic poet
Rasul Mir, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet




See also



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

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• William Plomer
• Rufus Wilmot Griswold
• Britania Raya
• Nino Martoglio
• Mathilde Blind
• Korina
• Arthur Rimbaud
• Inggris
• After the Deluge (lukisan)
• Helenisme (neoklasisisme)
• 1870 in poetry
• 1870
• List of years in poetry
• 1860 in literature
• David Bates (poet)
• 1870 in literature
• Marcus Furius Bibaculus
• Historical poetry
• Arabic poetry
• Elementary Education Act 1870