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| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 |
| Years in literature: | 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 18th century 19th century 20th century |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s |
| Years: | 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 |
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Events
- American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground on October 1, 1875 with a larger memorial marker. Some controversy arose years later regarding if the correct body was exhumed.
Awards
Works published
- Robert Browning, Aristophane's Apology
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Masque of Pandora
- French translation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", by Stéphane Mallarmé with drawings by Edouard Manet
Births
- March 30 — Edmund Clerihew Bentley (died 1956), popular English novelist and humorist and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics
- July 19 — Alice Dunbar-Nelson (died 1935) African-American poet, journalist and political activist and part of the Harlem Renaissance; her husband Paul Laurence Dunbar was also a poet
- December 4 — Rainer Maria Rilke (died 1926) considered by many one of the greatest Twentieth century poets in German.
Deaths
- January 23 — Charles Kingsley, 55, English novelist and poet
- December 3 — Robert Stephen Hawker, 71, English poet, antiquarian of Cornwall, Anglican clergyman and reputed eccentric best known as the author of Cornwall's "national anthem" "The Song of the Western Men"
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