1877 in poetry

Events

The ''Annus mirabilis'' of poetastery

Works published in English

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• William Allingham, Songs, Ballads, and Stories
• William Johnson Cory, published anonymously, Ionica II
• Austin Dobson, Proverbs in Porcelain
• John Abraham Heraud, Uxmal; Macee de Leodepart
• 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, although book states "1877"
• George Moore, Flowers of Passion, published this year, although book states "1878"
• William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
• Coventry Patmore, published anonymously, The Unknown Eros, and Other Odes, odes 1-31; a second, expanded edition was published under Patmore's name in 1878

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Flower and Thorn
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poetical Works
• Sidney Lanier, Poems
• James Russell Lowell, Three Memorial Poems
• Edmund Clarence Stedman, Hawthorne and Other Poems

  Works published in other languages

• Giosuè Carducci, Barbarian Odes, Book 1, Italy
• Holger Drachmann:
• * Sange ved Havet, Denmark
• * Derovre fra grænsen, prose work, with interludes in verse, a series of impressions made on the poet by a visit to the scenes of the war with Germany; Denmark
• Victor Hugo, France:
• * L'Art d'être grand-père
• * La Légende des siècles, second series
• Rahman Baba, Dīwān, India, Pashto language, first printed version

  Births

• January 20 - Ștefan Petică, Romanian Symbolist poet and writer
• February 7 - Alfred Williams, English "hammerman poet"
• March 16 - Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi, full name: Nanalal Dapatram Kavi, Indian, Gujarati-language author and poet; son of Kavishwar Dalpatram
• April 2 - Richard Rowley, Irish poet and writer
• April 24 - :lb:Marcel Noppeney|Marcel Noppeney, Luxembourg French-language poet
• May 28 - Oscar Milosz, also known as O V de LMilosz, Lithuanian diplomat, later a French citizen, also a fiction writer, playwright, poet and essayist; a cousin of Czeslaw Milosz, on whom he exerted a great influence
• June 6 - Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer ഉള്ളൂര് എസ്. പരമേശ്വരയ്യര്, Indian, Malayalam-language poet, scholar and government official, author of a five-volume history of Malayalam literature
• June 11 - Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn, English-born French-language Symbolist poet
• July 15 - Nina Salaman, born Paulina Ruth Davis, English poet noted for her translations from medieval Hebrew poetry
• August 15 - Stanley Vestal, American writer, poet and historian
• November 9 - Sir Muhammad Iqbal Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, writing in Persian and Urdu, praised as Muffakir-e-Pakistan, Shair-i-Mashriq, and Hakeem-ul-Ummat ; his birthday is annually commemorated in Pakistan as "Iqbal Day", a national holiday
• November 22 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet

  Deaths

• July 14 - Richard Davies , Welsh poet
• August 5 - Robert Williams , Welsh poet
• August 30 - Toru Dutt, 21, Indian poet, novelist and translator writing in English, of pulmonary tuberculosis