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1880 in poetry
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1821 in poetry
— words chiselled onto the tombstone of John Keats, at his request Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The Saturday Evening Post founded in Philadelphia Lord Byron writes Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari and Cain Percy Bysshe Shelley's Queen Mab: a philosophical poem (1813) is distributed by an unauthorized publisher in London leading to prosecution by the Society for the Prevention of Vice.
1958 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April 18 — American poet Ezra Pound's indictment for treason is dismissed. He is released from St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Maryland, after spending 12 years there (starting in 1946) and returns to Italy. June 29 — A monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky is unveiled in the centre of Moscow and becomes a focus for informal poetry readings.
1878 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). July – Notorious Scottish poetaster William McGonagall journeys on foot from Dundee to Balmoral Castle over mountainous terrain and through a violent thunderstorm in a fruitless attempt to perform his verse before Queen Victoria. July 26 – In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach.
1885 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette, a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement. Frederick George Scott, Justin and Other Poems. Published at author's expense.
1876 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 24 – Première of first stage production of the poetic drama Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, in Christiania, Norway. Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love (revised and expanded in 1889) Robert Browning, Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper; with Other Poems Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark Edward Dowden, Poems Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields: Verse Translations and Poems, Bhowanipur, Calcutta: B.