1874 in poetry

Events

Works published in English

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Alfred Austin, The Tower of Babel
• Robert William Dale, The English Hymn Book
• Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Fables in Song
• Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Music and Moonlight
• James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, published in the National Reformer, and later in 1880

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Cloth of Gold and Other Poems
• William Cullen Bryant, Among the Trees
• Mary Mapes Dodge, Rhymes and Jingles
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
• * Editor, Poems of Places, anthology, United States
• * The Hanging of the Crane
• Mary Ashley Townsend, The Captain's Story

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• François Coppée, Le Cahier rouge
• Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations, France
• Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Les Chants de Maldoror, prose poems full of Gothic horror ; France
• Paul Verlaine, Romances sans paroles, France

  Awards and honors

Births

• January 16 - Robert William Service, "the Bard of the Yukon", Scots-Canadian poet, writer of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
• February 3 - Gertrude Stein, American writer, poet and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature; spends most of her life in France
• February 9 - Amy Lowell, American poet of the imagist school, posthumous winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
• February 20 - Gordon Bottomley, English poet known particularly for his verse dramas
• February 22 - Kyoshi Takahama 高浜 虚子, pen name of Kiyoshi Takahama, Japanese, Shōwa period poet; close disciple of Masaoka Shiki
• March - Stanley de Vere Alexander Julius, English military officer and poet
• March 26 - Robert Frost, American poet
• April 27 - Maurice Baring, English poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer and war correspondent
• May 29 - G. K. Chesterton, influential English writer, journalist, poet, biographer, Christian apologist, short story writer and novelist
• May 30 - Josephine Preston Peabody, American poet and playwright
• June 20 - Trumbull Stickney, American classical scholar and poet best known for his sonnets
• July 7 - José María Eguren, Peruvian symbolist poet
• July 29 - August Stramm, German Expressionist poet and playwright
• August 19 - A. H. Reginald Buller, British/Canadian mycologist mainly known as a researcher of fungi and wheat rust; also writer of limericks, some of which are published in Punch
• September 8 - Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎, Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist and literary critic in both English and Japanese; father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi
• October 6 - Ursula Bethell
• November 27 - Ridgely Torrence, American poet and editor
• November 30 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author and poet best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables
• Also:
• * Kalapi, Indian, Gujarati-language poet
• * R. H. Long, Australian
• * J. W. Gordon , Australian

  Deaths

• February 23 - Charles Shirley Brooks, 57, English journalist, novelist and poet
• August 22 - Sydney Thompson Dobell, 50, English poet and critic
• October 5 - Bryan Procter, 86, English poet