1876 in poetry

Events

• February 24 – Première of first stage production of the poetic drama Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, in Christiania, Norway.

  Works published in English

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• Robert Bridges, The Growth of Love
• Robert Browning, Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper; with Other Poems
• Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark
• Edward Dowden, Poems
• Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields: Verse Translations and Poems, Bhowanipur, Calcutta: B. M. Bose ; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
• Dora Greenwell, Camera Obscura
• Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Wreck of the Deutschland, submitted for publication but not in fact published until 1918
• Edward Lear, Laughable Lyrics: Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, &c., including "The Dong with a Luminous Nose", "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò", "The Pobble Who Has No Toes", "The Quangle Wangle's Hat" and "The Akond of Swat", published December 1876, dated 1877
• William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
• Emily Pfeiffer, Poems
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Harry Buxton Forman, eight volumes published from this year through 1880

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Poems
• Herman Melville, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
• Julia A. Moore, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public
• Bayard Taylor, The Echo Club and Other Literary Diversions
• Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, sixth edition
• John Greenleaf Whittier, Mabel Martin

  ''The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public''

Other in English

• Toru Dutt, A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields: Verse Translations and Poems, Bhowanipur, Calcutta: B. M. Bose ; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
• Behramji Merwanji Malabari, editor, The Indian Muse in English Garb, Bombay: Merwanji Nowroji, Daboo, 99 pages; Indian poetry in English

  Works published in other languages

France">French poetry">France

• François Coppée, Olivier
• Stéphane Mallarmé, L'après-midi d'un faune, published in April, with illustrations by Manet
• Catulle Mendès, Poesies, jere serie

  Spanish">Spanish poetry">Spanish

• Rosario de Acuña, Ecos del alma

  Births

• January 19 – Dragotin Kette, Slovene
• January 25 – William Ellery Leonard, American
• January 30 – Eva Dobell English poet, nurse, and editor best known for her verses related to World War I soldiers
• February 4 – Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, American poet and socialist
• February 6 – Alice Guerin Crist, Irish-born Australian
• March 4 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French editor, poet and essayist
• March 15 – Kambara Ariake 蒲原有明 pen-name of Kambara Hayao, Japanese Taishō and Shōwa period poet and novelist
• June 20 – Edmond Laforest, Haitian French language poet
• July 12 – Max Jacob, French painter, poet and critic
• July 25 – Mihai Codreanu, Romanian
• September 7 – C. J. Dennis, Australian poet, author of The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
• October 4 – Hugh McCrae, Australian
• December 9 – Mizuho Ōta 太田水穂 pen-name of "Teiichi Ōta" 太田 貞, occasionally also using the pen name, "Mizuhonoya", Japanese Shōwa period poet and literary scholar
• Also:
• * William Lawson, Australian
• * Saishū Onoe 尾上柴舟, Japanese tanka poet and calligrapher

  Deaths

• June 20 – John Neal, eccentric and influential American writer, critic, lecturer, and activist
• July 14 – Charles Heavysege, Canadian
• December 23 – Charles Neaves, Scottish judge and poet
• December 27 – Frederik Paludan-Muller, Danish
• December 30 – Christian Winther, Danish
• Also:
• * Gu Taiqing, Chinese poet during the Qing Dynasty
• * Maqbool Shah Kralawari, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
• * Meenakshi Sundaram Pillai, Indian Tamil scholar and poet