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Overview of the events of 1879 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1879 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France ).
Events
Works published in English
Edwin Arnold , The Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation (see also The Light of the World
1891 )
[1]
Louisa Sarah Bevington , Key-Notes
[1]
Robert Bridges , Poems (see also Poems
1873 ,
1880 )
[1]
Robert Browning , Dramatic Idyls ,
[1] including "Ivàn Ivànovitch" (see also dramatic Idyls
1880
[1] )
Edmund Gosse , New Poems
[1]
Kate Greenaway ,
Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children
[1]
Emily Pfeiffer , Quarterman's Grace, and Other Poems
[1]
Alfred Lord Tennyson , The Lover's Tale
[1]
Works published in other languages
Marcellus Emants , "Lilith",
Netherlands
Louis-Honoré Fréchette , Fleurs boréales , winner of the
Prix Montyon of the
French Academy ; French language; Quebec,
Canada
[3]
José Hernández , Martin Fierro , the second part of an epic
Spanish -language
Argentine poem in which the hero defends his way of life against encroaching socialization and civilization; an example of the
Gaucho poetry literary movement in Argentina (see also first part
1872 )
[4]
Victor Hugo ,
L'Art d'être grand-père ,
France
[5]
Stéphane Mallarmé , Les Dieux antiques ,
France
Awards and honors
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 13 –
Sarojini Naidu (died
1949 ) also known by the sobriquet Bharatiya Kokila ("The Nightingale of
India "), poet (
in English ) and elected official who was president of the
Indian National Congress and the first woman governor of
Uttar Pradesh
March 14 –
Harold Monro (died
1932 ),
English poet, proprietor of the
Poetry Bookshop in London
March 26 –
Joseph Campbell (died
1987 ),
Irish
March 28 –
Terence MacSwiney (died on hunger strike
1920 ),
Irish playwright, poet and politician
April 3 –
Takashi Nagatsuka 長塚 節 (died
1915 ),
Japanese poet and novelist
April 14 –
James Branch Cabell (died
1958 ),
American writer
May 10 –
James Alexander Allan (died
1967 ),
Australian poet and local historian
June 21 –
Leslie Holdsworth Allen (died
1964 ),
Australian
September 13 –
James Larkin Pearson (died
1981 ),
American poet, newspaper publisher;
North Carolina Poet Laureate , 1953–1981
October 2 –
Wallace Stevens (died
1955 ),
American
October 13 –
Patrick Joseph Hartigan (died
1952 ),
Australian
November 10 –
Vachel Lindsay (died
1931 ),
American
December 18 –
Paul Klee (died
1940 ), Swiss painter and poet of
German nationality
Deaths
Grave of
Sarah Josepha Hale in Philadelphia
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes
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i Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6 .
^
a
b
c
d Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). "Preface".
Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 . New York: Oxford University Press. p. vi. 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.
^ Story, Noah (1967). "Poetry in French".
The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature . Oxford University Press. pp.
651–654 .
^ Henderson, Helene; Pederson, Jay P., eds. (2000).
Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary . Detroit: Omnigraphics Inc.
^ Rees, William (1992).
The Penguin Book of French Poetry: 1820-1950 . Penguin.
ISBN
978-0-14-042385-3 .
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