- Source: 1875 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
February/March - Arthur Rimbaud meets Paul Verlaine for the last time in Stuttgart, Germany, after Verlaine's release from prison, gives him the manuscript of his poems Illuminations and gives up literary writing entirely at the age of 20.
October 1 - American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore, Maryland, with a larger memorial marker. Some controversy arises years later as to whether the correct body was exhumed.
December 6 - German emigrant ship SS Deutschland runs aground in the English Channel resulting in the death of 157 passengers and crew and inspiring Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Wreck of the Deutschland. This introduces his innovative sprung rhythm and metre but, being rejected for publication in 1876, is not published until 1918.
Works published in English
= United Kingdom
=George Barlow, Under the Dawn
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, published under the pen name "Proteus", Sonnets and Songs (see also Love Sonnets 1881, Love Lyrics 1892)
Robert Browning, Aristophanes' Apology
Alice Meynell, Preludes
Sir Henry Taylor, A Sicilian Summer; St. Clement's Eve; The Eve of the Conquest
= United States
=William Cullen Bryant, Poems
Will Carleton, Farm Legends
Christopher Pearse Cranch, The Bird and the Bell
Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day
Paul Hamilton Hayne, The Mountain of the Lovers
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Songs of Many Seasons
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems
Helen A. Manville, Heart Echoes
John Godfrey Saxe, Leisure-Day Rhymes
Bayard Taylor, Home Pastorals, Ballads, and Lyrics
John Greenleaf Whittier, Hazel-Blossoms
Works published in other languages
François Coppée, Olivier
Holger Drachmann, Dæmpede Melodier ("Muffled Melodies"), Denmark
French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", by Stéphane Mallarmé with drawings by Édouard Manet
Awards and honors
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 4 – William Williams (Crwys) (died 1968), Welsh poet
March 30 – Edmund Clerihew Bentley (died 1956), popular English novelist and humorist and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous pseudo-biographical verse
June 8 (May 27 O.S.) – Ernst Enno (died 1934), Estonian poet
July 19 – Alice Dunbar-Nelson (died 1935) African-American poet, journalist and political activist and part of the Harlem Renaissance; her husband Paul Laurence Dunbar is also a poet
July 26 – Antonio Machado (died 1939), Spanish poet
August – Fannie B. Linderman (died 1960), American poet, writer, educator, entertainer
November 3 – Samukawa Sokotsu 寒川鼠骨(died 1954), Japanese Haiku poet of Meiji period, Masaoka Shiki's pupil
November 8 – Qiu Jin (executed 1907), Chinese revolutionary, feminist and poet
December 4 – Rainer Maria Rilke (died 1926) who will be called one of the greatest 20th-century poets in German
December 8 – Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎 (died 1947), Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist, and literary critic in both English and Japanese; father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi
December 15 – Emilio Jacinto (died 1899), Filipino revolutionary general and poet
Also:
Jean Charbonneau (died 1960) French Canadian poet, primary founder of the Montreal Literary School
Percy MacKaye (died 1956), American dramatist and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 22 – Charles Sprague, 83, American banker and poet
January 23 – Charles Kingsley, 55, English novelist and poet
June 4 – Eduard Mörike, 70, German Romantic poet
October 24 – Raffaello Carboni (born 1817), Australian
December 3 – Robert Stephen Hawker, 71, English poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, Anglican clergyman and reputed eccentric best known as the author of Cornwall's "national anthem" "The Song of the Western Men"
December 10 – Ōtagaki Rengetsu 太田垣蓮月, member of the Todo family who took "Rengetsu" ("Lotus Moon") as her Buddhist name when she became a nun, and is known as "Rengetsu" (born 1791), Buddhist nun, widely regarded to have been one of the greatest Japanese poets of the 19th century; potter, painter and expert calligrapher
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
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Saraswati
- Majapahit
- Sihir
- Invictus
- Aleksander Gierymski
- Jean de La Fontaine
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Henri Lehmann
- Qiu Jin
- 1875 in poetry
- 1875 in literature
- 1875
- 1865 in literature
- List of years in poetry
- American poetry
- Limerick (poetry)
- Modernist poetry
- Shaul Tchernichovsky
- Rainer Maria Rilke