1873 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• July 10 â€" Paul Verlaine shoots at and wounds Arthur Rimbaud in Brussels.

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Alexander Anderson, A Song of Labour, and Other Poems
• Robert Bridges, Poems by Robert Bridges (see also Poems 1879, 1880)
• Robert Browning, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country; or, Turf and Towers
• Edward Carpenter, Narcissus, and Other Poems
• Austin Dobson, Vignettes in Rhyme
• Dora Greenwell, Songs of Salvation
• William Morris, Love is Enough; or, The Freeing of Pharamond
• Emily Pfeiffer, Gerard's Monument, and Other Poems

United States

• Will Carleton, Farm Ballads
• William Dean Howells, Poems
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Aftermath
• Bayard Taylor, Lars: A Pastoral of Norway

Works published in other languages

France

• Tristan Corbière, Les amours jaunes
• Arthur Rimbaud, Une Saison en Enfer ("A Season in Hell")
• Théodore de Banville, Trente-six ballades joyeuses, Paris: Lemerre; France
• Paul Verlaine:
  • Romances sans paroles
  • Art poétique, criticism

Awards and honors

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 9 â€" Hayim Nahman Bialik, חיים נחמן ×'יאליק (died 1934), Russian-born Hebrew poet
• January 7 â€" Charles Péguy (killed in action 1914), French poet and essayist
• February 26 â€" Tekkan Yosano, 与謝野 鉄幹, pen-name of Yosano Hiroshi (died 1935), Japanese late Meiji period, Taishō and early Shōwa period author and poet; husband of author Yosano Akiko; grandfather of cabinet minister and politician Kaoru Yosano (surname: Yosano)
• March 28 â€" Gilbert E. Brooke (died 1936), French-born English poet and colonial medical officer
• April 12 â€" Kumaran Asan (died 1924), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
• April 25 â€" Walter De la Mare (died 1956), English poet, short story writer and novelist
• August 3 â€" Alexander Posey (drowned 1908), Native American poet, journalist, humorist and politician
• October 10 â€" George Cabot Lodge (died 1909) American
• December 7 â€" Willa Cather (died 1947), American novelist and poet
• December 11 â€" Tilly Aston (died 1947), Australian
• December 12 â€" Lola Ridge (died 1941), American
• Date not known â€" George Clarke, Canadian

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 26 â€" Vladimir Benediktov (born 1807), Russian poet and translator
• May 22 â€" Alessandro Manzoni (born 1785), Italian poet and novelist
• July 13 â€" Caroline Clive, also known as "Caroline Wigley Clive", 71 (born 1801), English author and poet
• October 27 â€" Janet Hamilton (born 1795), Scottish poet

• Also:
  • Michael Madhusudan Dutta (মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত also spelled "Maikel Modhushudôn Dôtto" and "Datta") (born 1824â€"1873), born Madhusudan Dutt, Indian, English-language poet and dramatist
  • Kasiprasad Ghose, Indian
  • Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (born 1843), Greek
  • Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (born 1821), American

See also

• 19th century in poetry
• 19th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• Victorian literature
• French literature of the 19th century
• Poetry

Notes