- 1870 in poetry
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Awards
Works published
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Adam Lindsay Gordon , "Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes"
*Giovanni Marradi , "Canzone moderne"
*Dante Gabriel Rossetti , "Poems", including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life"
*James Joseph Sylvester , a mathematician, publishes "The Laws of Verse"Births
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March 4 —Thomas Sturge Moore (died 1944), English poet, author, playwright, artist and long-term friend ofW.B. Yeats
*July 27 —Hilaire Belloc (died 1953), English writer whose "cautionary tale s" (humorous poems with a moral) are the most widely known of his writing
*October 22 — LordAlfred Bruce Douglas (died 1945), a minor Uranian poet best remembered as a lover of the writerOscar Wilde
*November 1 —Christopher Brennan (died 1932), Australian poet
* date not known:
**Eva Selena Gore-Booth of IrelandDeaths
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January 25 — David Bates, 60, American poet
*June 24 —Adam Lindsay Gordon , 36, Australian poet and jockey
* June ?? —William Gilmore Simms , 64, Southern American poet, novelist and historian
*July 24 —Anders Abraham Grafström , 80, Swedish poet and historian
* date not known —James M. Whitfield ee also
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Poetry
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