Concept

1875 in poetry

Summary
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February/March - Arthur Rimbaud meets Paul Verlaine for the last time in Stuttgart, Germany, after Verlaine's release from prison, gives him the manuscript of his poems Illuminations and gives up literary writing entirely at the age of 20. October 1 - American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore, Maryland, with a larger memorial marker. Some controversy arises years later as to whether the correct body was exhumed. December 6 - German emigrant ship SS Deutschland runs aground in the English Channel resulting in the death of 157 passengers and crew and inspiring Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Wreck of the Deutschland. This introduces his innovative sprung rhythm and metre but, being rejected for publication in 1876, is not published until 1918. George Barlow, Under the Dawn Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, published under the pen name "Proteus", Sonnets and Songs (see also Love Sonnets 1881, Love Lyrics 1892) Robert Browning, Aristophanes' Apology Alice Meynell, Preludes Sir Henry Taylor, A Sicilian Summer; St. Clement's Eve; The Eve of the Conquest William Cullen Bryant, Poems Will Carleton, Farm Legends Christopher Pearse Cranch, The Bird and the Bell Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day Paul Hamilton Hayne, The Mountain of the Lovers Oliver Wendell Holmes, Songs of Many Seasons Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems John Godfrey Saxe, Leisure-Day Rhymes Bayard Taylor, Home Pastorals, Ballads, and Lyrics John Greenleaf Whittier, Hazel-Blossoms François Coppée, Olivier Holger Drachmann, Dæmpede Melodier ("Muffled Melodies"), Denmark French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", by Stéphane Mallarmé with drawings by Édouard Manet Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 4 – William Williams (Crwys) (died 1968), Welsh poet March 30 – Edmund Clerihew Bentley (died 1956), popular English novelist and humorist and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous pseudo-biographical verse June 8 (May 27 O.
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