- 1880 in poetry
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Awards
Works published
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , "Ultima Thule"
*Algernon Charles Swinburne , "The Heptalogia"
* SevenBalliol College Oxford members led byH.C. Beeching andJ.W. Mackail publish "The Masque of B-ll--l", which is immediately suppressed by authoritiesBirths
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August 12 —Radclyffe Hall (died 1943), British poet and novelist
*August 26 —Guillaume Apollinaire , 38, poet, writer, and art critic
*September 16 —Alfred Noyes (died 1958), English poet, best known for his ballads "The Highwayman" (1906) and "The Barrel Organ"
* date not known —Joseph Warren Beach Deaths
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July 7 —Lydia Maria Child , 78, American abolitionist, women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, Indian rights activist, novelist, journalist and poet
*December 22 —George Eliot , pseudonym ofMary Ann Evans , 61, English novelist and poet
* date not known:
**Eliza Dunlop
** Epes Sargent
**Jones Very , English essayist and poetee also
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Poetry
*List of years in poetry
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