1876 in poetry

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Years in poetry:	1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
Years in literature:	1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879
Decades in poetry:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
Centuries in poetry:	18th century 19th century 20th century
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
Years:	1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879

1 Events
2 Works published
- 2.1 The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 See also

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[edit] Works published

Robert Browning, "Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper"
William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, and the Fall of the Niblungs
Stéphane Mallarmé, L'après-midi d'un faune (Afternoon of a Faun)

[edit] The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public

Mrs. Moore

This year Poetaster Julia A. Moore's first book of verse, The Sentimental Song Book, was published in Grand Rapids, and quickly went into a second printing. A copy fell into the hands of one James F. Ryder, a Cleveland, Ohio, publisher who recognized its awful majesty and soon republished it under the title The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public. Ryder sent out numerous review copies to newspapers across the country, with a cover letter filled with low key mock praise.

And so Moore received national attention. Following Ryder's lead, contemporary reviews were amusedly negative. For instance, The Rochester Democrat wrote of Sweet Singer, that "Shakespeare, could he read it, would be glad that he was dead …. If Julia A. Moore would kindly deign to shed some of her poetry on our humble grave, we should be but too glad to go out and shoot ourselves tomorrow."

[edit] Births

Sarah Cleghorn (died 1959), American poet and socialist

[edit] Deaths

June 20 — John Neal, 82, author, art critic, literary critic, poet, who refused to emulate British authors by writing strictly in a clean tone, instead writing more as he spoke and allowing his characters to speak gruffly, if the story called for it; also an early women's rights advocate, prohibitionist, temperance advocate, accomplished lawyer, boxer, and architect who reportedly, at the age of 79, threw a smoker off a non-smoking trolley when the man refused to stop
date not known — Charles Heavysege