1879 in poetry

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Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation (see also The Light of the World 1891)^[1]
Louisa Sarah Bevington, Key-Notes^[1]
Robert Bridges, Poems (see also Poems 1873, 1880)^[1]
Robert Browning, Dramatic Idyls,^[1] including "Ivàn Ivànovitch" (see also dramatic Idyls 1880^[1])
Edmund Gosse, New Poems^[1]
Kate Greenaway, Under the Window: Pictures & rhymes for children^[1]
Emily Pfeiffer, Quarterman's Grace, and Other Poems^[1]
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Lover's Tale^[1]

José Hernández, Martin Fierro, the second part of an epic Spanish-language Argentine poem in which the hero defends his way of life against encroaching socialization and civilization; an example of the Gaucho poetry literary movement in Argentina (see also first part 1872)^[2]
Stéphane Mallarmé, Les Dieux antiques, France

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

February 13 – Sarojini Naidu (died 1949) also known by the sobriquet Bharatiya Kokila ("The Nightingale of India"), poet (in English) and elected official who was president of the Indian National Congress and the first woman governor of Uttar Pradesh
March 14 – Harold Monro (died 1932), English poet, proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London
March 26 – Joseph Campbell (died 1987), Irish
April 3 – Takashi Nagatsuka 長塚節 (died 1915), Japanese poet and novelist
April 14 – James Branch Cabell (died 1958)
June 21 – Leslie Holdsworthy Allen (died 1964), Australian
October 2 – Wallace Stevens (died 1955), American
October 13 – Patrick Joseph Hartigan (died 1952), Australian
November 10 – Vachel Lindsay (died 1931), American
December 18 – Paul Klee (died 1940), Swiss painter and poet of German nationality
date not known – Louis Esson (died 1943), Australian

Grave of Sarah Josepha Hale in Philadelphia

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

April 30 – Sarah Josepha Hale (born 1788), American writer and poet who wrote the popular nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and who successfully promoted Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday
November 5 – James Clerk Maxwell (born 1831), Scots mathematician and theoretical physicist

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Henderson, Helene, and Jay P. Pederson, editors, Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary, Detroit: Omnigraphics Inc., 2000

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