1880 in poetry

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

Events

 * June 6 – Statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (died 1837), sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow

United Kingdom

 * H. C. Beeching and J. W. Mackail lead a group of seven Balliol College, Oxford members in publishing The Masque of B-ll—l, which is immediately suppressed by the authorities
 * Robert Bridges, Poems (see also Poems 1873, 1879)
 * Robert Browning, Dramatic Idyls, second series (see also Dramatic Idyls 1879)
 * Jean Ingelow, Poems, Volume 1 is a reprint the 23rd edition of Poems (1863); Volume 2 is a reprint from the sixth edition of A Story of Doom (1867); (see also Poems: Third Series 1885)
 * Andrew Lang, XXII Ballades in Blue China
 * William McGonagall, "The Tay Bridge Disaster"
 * Emily Pfeiffer, Sonnets and Songs
 * Algernon Charles Swinburne:
 * The Heptalogia; or, The Seven Against Sense, parodies of seven contemporary poets: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Browning, Coventry Patmore, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Swinburne himself
 * Songs of the Springtides
 * Studies in Song
 * John Addington Symonds, New and Old
 * James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, and Other Poems, the title poem was first published in the National Reformer, March 22–May 17, 1874
 * William Watson, The Prince's Quest, and Other Poems

United States

 * Bret Harte, Poetical Works
 * Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Iron Gate and Other Poems
 * Sidney Lanier, The Science of English Verse, scholarship
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ultima Thule
 * Richard Henry Stoddard, Poems

Other

 * Rosario de Acuña, Morirse a tiempo, Spain
 * Rosalia de Castro, Follas novas, Galician poems written in Spain
 * Henry Kendall, Songs from the Mountains, Australia
 * Guido Mazzoni, Versi, Italy
 * Charles G. D. Roberts, Orion and Other Poems, Canada, published at author's expense
 * Paul Verlaine, Sagesse, France

Births
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 * January 14 – Joseph Warren Beach (died 1957), American poet, critic and literary scholar
 * February 27 – Angelina Weld Grimke (died 1958), African American lesbian journalist and poet
 * August 12 – Radclyffe Hall (died 1943), English lesbian poet and novelist
 * August 24 – Bahinabai Chaudhari बहिणाबाई चौधरी (died 1951), illiterate, Indian, Marathi-language poet whose son writes down her poems
 * August 26 – Guillaume Apollinaire (died 1918), French poet, writer and art critic
 * September 16 – Alfred Noyes (died 1958), English poet, best known for his ballads "The Highwayman" (1906) and "The Barrel Organ"
 * November 30 – Grant Hervey, born George Henry Cochrane (died 1933), Australian versifier and swindler
 * December 2 – Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, née Daniels (died 1978), English versifier
 * December 28 – C. Louis Leipoldt (died 1947), South African Afrikaans poet, writer and pediatrician

Deaths
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 * May 8 – Jones Very (born 1813), American essayist, poet, clergyman, and mystic associated with the American Transcendentalism movement
 * June 20 – Eliza Dunlop (born 1796), Australian lyricist and ethnographer
 * July 7 – Lydia Maria Child, 78 (born 1802), American abolitionist, Indian and women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, novelist, journalist and poet
 * November 6 – Estanislao del Campo (born 1834), Argentine
 * December 22 – George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 61 (born 1819), English novelist and poet
 * December 30 – Epes Sargent (born 1813), American editor, poet and playwright