1870 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Events
Awards
Works published
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Edward Lear, Nonsense Songs, stories, Botany, and Alphabets
- William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, Part 4
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy, An Epic of Women, and Other Poems
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems, including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life", exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave
- James Joseph Sylvester, a mathematician, publishes The Laws of Verse
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King with eight Idylls in the order Tennyson wanted at this point
- Augusta Webster, Portraits
- William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: The Centenary Edition
United States">American poetry">United States
- Bret Harte, Plain Language from Truthful James
- James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral
- Epes Sargent, The Woman Who Dared
Other
- Estanislao del Campo, Collected Works, Spanish-language, Argentina
- Adam Lindsay Gordon, Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes, published the day before he died, Australia
- Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Poésies, a prose work in two parts, the first on aesthetics and rejecting Romanticism, the second a collection of maxims rewritten to change their original meanings
- John Reade, Merlin's Prophecy and Other Poems, Canada.
- Giovanni Marradi, Canzone moderne, Italy
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 6 - Helen Power, Australian
- March 4 - Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet, author, playwright, artist and long-term friend of W. B. Yeats
- May 22 - Eva Gore-Booth, Irish
- July 1 - Inoue Kenkabō 井上剣花坊 pen name of Inoue Koichi, Japanese, late Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period journalist and writer of senryū ; surname: Inoue
- July 27 - Hilaire Belloc, French-born English writer whose "cautionary tales" are the most widely known of his writing
- October 10 - Louise Mack, Australian poet, journalist and novelist
- October 22 - Lord Alfred Douglas, English minor Uranian poet best remembered as a lover of the writer Oscar Wilde
- November 1 - Christopher Brennan, Australian
- November 27 - Damodar Botadkar, Indian, Gujarati-language poet
- Also:
- * Va. Ba. Patavardhan, Indian, Marathi-language critic and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 25 - David Bates, 60, American poet
- April 24 - Louisa Stuart Costello, English miniature-painter, poet, historical novelist and travel writer
- June 11 - William Gilmore Simms, 64, Southern American poet, novelist and historian
- June 24 - Adam Lindsay Gordon, 36, Australian poet and jockey
- July 24 - Anders Abraham Grafström, 80, Swedish poet and historian
- November 24 - Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, French
- December 22 - Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish Andalusian poet and short-story writer
- Also:
- * William Livingston , Scottish Gaelic poet
- * Rasul Mir, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
