1870 in poetry

1870 in poetry

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Events

Awards

Works published

* Adam Lindsay Gordon, "Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes"
* Giovanni Marradi, "Canzone moderne"
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Poems", including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life"
* James Joseph Sylvester, a mathematician, publishes "The Laws of Verse"

Births

* March 4 — Thomas Sturge Moore (died 1944), English poet, author, playwright, artist and long-term friend of W.B. Yeats
* July 27 — Hilaire Belloc (died 1953), English writer whose "cautionary tales" (humorous poems with a moral) are the most widely known of his writing
* October 22 — Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (died 1945), a minor Uranian poet best remembered as a lover of the writer Oscar Wilde
* November 1 — Christopher Brennan (died 1932), Australian poet
* date not known:
** Eva Selena Gore-Booth of Ireland

Deaths

* January 25 — David Bates, 60, American poet
* June 24 — Adam Lindsay Gordon, 36, Australian poet and jockey
* June ?? — William Gilmore Simms, 64, Southern American poet, novelist and historian
* July 24 — Anders Abraham Grafström, 80, Swedish poet and historian
* date not known — James M. Whitfield

ee also

*Poetry


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