1876 in poetryNationality 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.
1878 in poetryNationality 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.
1899 in poetry— Opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's White Man's Burden, first published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). March 20 – Welsh "tramp-poet" W. H. Davies loses his foot trying to jump a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario. William Hughes Mearns writes "Antigonish" this year; it won't be published until 1922. Romesh Chunder Dutt's translation of the Ramayana into English verse is first published, in London.
1967 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Poetry International started by Ted Hughes and Patrick Garland May 16 – the premiere at Taganka Theater in Moscow of the staged a poetical performance Послушайте! ("Listen!"), based on the works of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. The show was in repertoire until April 1984, was revived in May 1987 and again in repertoire until June 1989.
