1880 in poetry

Events

• June 6 - Statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow

  Works published

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• H. C. Beeching and J. W. Mackail lead a group of seven Balliol College, Oxford members in publishing The Masque of B-ll—l, which is immediately suppressed by the authorities
• Robert Bridges, Poems
• Robert Browning, Dramatic Idyls, second series
• Jean Ingelow, Poems, Volume 1 is a reprint the 23rd edition of Poems ; Volume 2 is a reprint from the sixth edition of A Story of Doom ;
• Andrew Lang, XXII Ballades in Blue China
• William McGonagall, "The Tay Bridge Disaster"
• Emily Pfeiffer, Sonnets and Songs
• Algernon Charles Swinburne:
• * The Heptalogia; or, The Seven Against Sense, parodies of seven contemporary poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Browning, Coventry Patmore, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Swinburne himself
• * Songs of the Springtides
• * Studies in Song
• John Addington Symonds, New and Old
• James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, and Other Poems, the title poem was first published in the National Reformer, March 22-May 17, 1874
• William Watson, The Prince's Quest, and Other Poems

  United States">American poetry">United States

• Bret Harte, Poetical Works
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Iron Gate and Other Poems
• Sidney Lanier, The Science of English Verse, scholarship
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ultima Thule
• Richard Henry Stoddard, Poems

  Other

• Rosario de Acuña, Morirse a tiempo, Spain
• Rosalia de Castro, Follas novas, Galician poems written in Spain
• Henry Kendall, Songs from the Mountains, Australia
• Guido Mazzoni, Versi, Italy
• Charles G. D. Roberts, Orion and Other Poems, Canada, published at author's expense
• Paul Verlaine, Sagesse, France

  Awards and honors

Births

• January 14 - Joseph Warren Beach, American poet, critic and literary scholar
• February 27 - Angelina Weld Grimke, African American lesbian journalist and poet
• August 12 - Radclyffe Hall, English lesbian poet and novelist
• August 24 - Bahinabai Chaudhari बहिणाबाई चौधरी, illiterate, Indian, Marathi-language poet whose son writes down her poems
• August 26 - Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet, writer and art critic
• September 16 - Alfred Noyes, English poet, best known for his ballads "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel Organ"
• November 30 - Grant Hervey, born George Henry Cochrane, Australian versifier and swindler
• December 2 - Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, née Daniels, English versifier
• December 28 - C. Louis Leipoldt, South African Afrikaans poet, writer and pediatrician

  Deaths

• May 8 - Jones Very, American essayist, poet, clergyman, and mystic associated with the American Transcendentalism movement
• June 20 - Eliza Dunlop, Australian lyricist and ethnographer
• July 7 - Lydia Maria Child, 78, American abolitionist, Indian and women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, novelist, journalist and poet
• November 6 - Estanislao del Campo, Argentine
• December 22 - George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 61, English novelist and poet
• December 30 - Epes Sargent, American editor, poet and playwright