1875 in poetry

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	This is part of the List of years in poetry
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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works published 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also

[edit] 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.

[edit] Awards

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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"

[edit] See also

• Poetry