1870 in poetry

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Edward Lear, Nonsense Songs, stories, Botany, and Alphabets (published this year, although the book states "1871"; see also Book of Nonsense 1846, More Nonsense 1871, Laughable Lyrics 1877)^[1]
William Morris, The Earthly Paradise, Part 4 (Parts 1 and 2 1868, Part 3 1869)^[1]
Arthur O'Shaughnessy, An Epic of Women, and Other Poems^[1]
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems,^[1] including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life"
James Joseph Sylvester, a mathematician, publishes The Laws of Verse
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King with eight Idylls in the order Tennyson wanted at this point (see also Idylls of the King 1859, 1889, The Holy Grail 1869, "The Last Tournament" 1871, Gareth and Lynette 1872, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885)^[1]
Augusta Webster, Portraits^[1]
William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: The Centenary Edition (see also Misfcellaneous Poems 1820, Poetical Works 1836, 1840, Poems 1845, Poetical Works 1857)^[1]

Estanislao del Campo, Collected Works, Spanish-language, Argentina
Adam Lindsay Gordon, Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes, published the day before he died, Australia
James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral, United States^[2]
Giovanni Marradi, Canzone moderne, Italy

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

March 4 – Thomas Sturge Moore (died 1944), English poet, author, playwright, artist and long-term friend of W.B. Yeats
July 1 – Inoue Kenkabō 井上剣花坊 pen name of Inoue Koichi (died 1934), Japanese, late Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period journalist and writer of senryū (short, humorous verse); surname: Inoue
July 27 – Hilaire Belloc (died 1953), English writer whose "cautionary tales" (humorous poems with a moral) are the most widely known of his writing
October 10 – Louise Mack (died 1935), Australian poet, journalist and novelist
October 22 – Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (died 1945), a minor Uranian poet best remembered as a lover of the writer Oscar Wilde
November 1 – Christopher Brennan (died 1932), Australian

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

January 25 – David Bates, 60, American poet
June 24 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, 36, Australian poet and jockey
June ?? – William Gilmore Simms, 64, Southern American poet, novelist and historian
July 24 – Anders Abraham Grafström, 80, Swedish poet and historian
Also:
- James M. Whitfield
- Rasul Mir, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Wagenknecht, Edward. James Russell Lowell: Portrait of a Many-Sided Man. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971
^ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
^ Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008

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