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. The empty box is found later with a taunting poem inside. Notorious American poetaster Julia A. Moore publishes her second collection, A Few Choice Words to the Public, but unlike her bestseller of 1876, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public, it finds few buyers. Moore gives her second public reading and singing performance late this year at a Grand Rapids opera house. She begins by admitting her poetry is "partly full of mistakes" and that "literary is a work very hard to do". After the poetry and the laughter and jeering in response is over, Moore ends the show by telling the audience: You have come here and paid twenty-five cents to see a fool; I receive seventy-five dollars, and see a whole houseful of fools.Her husband eventually forbids her from publishing any more poetry and in 1882 moves the family north. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Proteus and Amadeus Robert Browning, La Saisiaz; The Two Poets of Croisic Robert Buchanan, Poetical Works Coventry Patmore: Amelia; Tamerton Church-Tower (Tamerton Church-Tower first published 1853) The Unknown Eros, and Other Odes, first, shorter edition was published anonymously in 1877 Mary F.

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1957 in poetry

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1878 in poetry

1877 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). In the annals of poetasting, 1877 stands out as a historic year. The most startling incident in my life was the time I discovered myself to be a poet, which was in the year 1877. So wrote William Topaz McGonagall (1825 –1902) a Scottish weaver, "actor", and "poet" who would become comically renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language. Also this year Poetaster Julia A.