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Concept
1870 in poetry
Summary
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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)
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
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
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.
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