Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• Notorious American poetaster Julia A. Moore publishes her second collection, A Few Choice Words to the Public, but unlike her bestseller of 1876, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public, it finds few buyers. Moore gave her second public reading and singing performance late this year at a Grand Rapids opera house. She began by admitting her poetry was "partly full of mistakes" and that "literary is a work very hard to do". After the poetry and the laughter and jeering in response was over, Moore ended the show by telling the audience:

Her husband eventually forbade her from publishing any more poetry and in 1882 moved the family north.

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Proteus and AmadeusCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

• Robert Browning, La Saisiaz; The Two Poets of Croisic

• Robert Buchanan, Poetical Works

• Coventry Patmore:

• * Amelia; Tamerton Church-Tower (Tamerton Church-Tower first published 1853)

• * The Unknown Eros, and Other Odes, first, shorter edition was published anonymously in 1877

• Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, Second Series (see also First Series 1866, Third Series 1889)

• John Addington Symonds:

• * Many Moods

• * Shelley, biography

• Oscar Wilde, Ravenna

United States

• Charles Follen Adams, Leedle Yawcob Strauss, and Other Poems (see also Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems 1910)

• William Cullen Bryant, The Flood of YearsLudwig, 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)

• Henry James, French Poets and Novelists, criticism

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kéramos and Other Poems

• John Greenleaf Whittier, The Vision of Echard, United States

Other

• Chilichutnee, Social Scraps and Satires, Bombay; India, Indian poetry in EnglishNaik, M. K., , p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009

• Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields: Verse Translations and Poems, Bhowanipur: Saptahik Sambad Press, second, enlarged edition (first edition, Bhowanipur, Calcutta: B. M. Bose 1876; another edition: London: Kegan Paul 1880); India, Indian poetry in English

Works published in other languages

• Stéphane Mallarmé, Les Mots anglais, France

Awards and honors

Births

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

• January 6 – Carl Sandburg (died 1967), American poet and historian

• January 14 – Victor Segalen (died 1919), French naval doctor, professor of medicine in China, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic

• March 3 – Edward Thomas (died 1917) one of the best-known English poets of World War I, died in action at Arras

• April 3 – Hiraide Shū 平出修 (died 1914), Japanese, late Meiji period novelist, poet, and lawyer; represented defendant in the High Treason Incident; a co-founder of the literary journal Subaru

• May 24 – Mary Grant Bruce (died 1958), Australian

• June 1 – John Edward Masefield (died 1967), English poet and writer, Poet Laureate, 1930–1967

• June 8 – William Stanley Braithwaite (died 1962), American

• July 29 – Don Marquis (died 1937), American poet, artist, newspaper columnist, humorist, playwright and author best known for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel"

• August 17 – Oliver St. John Gogarty (died 1957, Irish poet, writer, physician and ear surgeon, one of the most prominent Dublin wits, political figure of the Irish Free State, and now best known as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses

• September 9 – Adelaide Crapsey (died 1914), American

• October 2 – Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (died 1962), British poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work

• October 13 – Patrick Joseph Hartigan [John O'Brien] (died 1952), Australian Roman Catholic priest and poet

• November 27 – Jatindramohan Bagchi (died 1948), Bengali poet

• December 7 – Akiko Yosano 与謝野 晶子 pen-name of Yosano Shiyo (died 1942), late Meiji period, Taishō period and early Showa period poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist and social reformer; one of the most famous, and most controversial, post-classical woman poets of Japan

• date not known – Vallathol Narayana Menon (died 1958), Indian, Malayalam-language poetPaniker, Ayyappa, chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009

Deaths

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

• William Cullen Bryant (died 1878), American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post

• Frank Oliver Call

• Bayard Taylor

• George Boyer Vashon

• Sarah Helen Whitman

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