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  2. 1870 in poetry - Wikipedia

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    Estanislao del Campo, Collected Works, Spanish-language, Argentina; Adam Lindsay Gordon, Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes, published the day before he died, Australia; Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Poésies, a prose work in two parts, the first on aesthetics and rejecting Romanticism, the second a collection of maxims rewritten to change their original meanings [3 ...

  3. The Heathen Chinee - Wikipedia

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    Harte's poem shaped the popular American conception of the Chinese more than any other writing at the time, [12] and made him the most popular literary figure in America in 1870. [1] The poem was especially relevant to Harte's fame as his other most popular works, " The Luck of Roaring Camp " and " The Outcasts of Poker Flat ", were originally ...

  4. Category:1870s poems - Wikipedia

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  5. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Wikipedia

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    Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's friend and fellow poet John Addington Symonds and his wife Catherine Symonds. The term "runcible", used for the phrase "runcible spoon", was invented for the poem. It is believed that the cat in the poem was based on Lear's own pet cat, Foss. [2]

  6. 1870s - Wikipedia

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    The 1870s (pronounced "eighteen-seventies") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1870, and ended on December 31, 1879. The trends of the previous decade continued into this one, as new empires , imperialism and militarism rose in Europe and Asia .

  7. Historical poetry - Wikipedia

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    Historical poetry is a subgenre of poetry that has its roots in history. Its aim is to delineate events of the past by incorporating elements of artful composition and poetic diction . It seems that many of these events are limited to the phenomenon of war , merely because war in and of itself foments not only hostilities amongst men, but also ...

  8. The City of Dreadful Night - Wikipedia

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    The City of Dreadful Night is a long poem by the Scottish poet James "B.V." Thomson, written between 1870 and 1873, and published in the National Reformer in 1874, [1] then, in 1880, in a book entitled The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems. [2] The poem is noted for the pessimistic philosophy that it expresses. [3]

  9. Category:1870s works - Wikipedia

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    View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... 1870s poems (10 C) S. 1870s science fiction ...