1874 in poetry

1874 in poetry

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Events

Awards

Works published

* Arthur Rimbaud, "Illuminations"
* J. Thomson, "The City of Dreadful Night," published in "National Reformer", and later in 1880

Births

* January 16 — Robert William Service (died 1958) a Scots-Canadian poet who wrote "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
* February 3 — Gertrude Stein (died 1946), American writer, poet and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France
* February 9 — Amy Lowell (died 1925), American poet of the imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
* 26 March — Robert Frost (died 1963), American poet
* April 27 — Maurice Baring (died 1945), English poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer, and war correspondent
* May 29 — G. K. Chesterton (died 1936), influential English writer, journalist, poet, biographer, Christian apologist short story writer and novelist
* June 20 — Trumbull Stickney (died 1904), American classical scholar and poet best known for his sonnets
* November 30 — Lucy Maud Montgomery (died 1942), Canadian author and poet best known for a series of novels beginning with "Anne of Green Gables"
*date not known:
** Ursula Bethell (died 1945) (New Zealand)
** Gordon Bottomley (died 1948), English poet known particularly for his verse dramas
** A. H. Reginald Buller (died 1944), a British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust who also wrote limericks, some of which were published in "Punch"
** Stanley de Vere Alexander Julius
** Josephine Peabody

Deaths

* August 22 — Sydney Thompson Dobell, 50, English poet and critic
* October 5 — Barry Cornwall, 86, English poet.
* date not known — Charles Shirley Brooks, English journalist, novelist and poet

ee also

*Poetry


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