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[edit] Works published
- J. Thomson, "The City of Dreadful Night," published in National Reformer, and later in 1880
[edit] Births
- January 16 — Robert William Service (died 1958) a Scots-Canadian poet who wrote "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
- February 3 — Gertrude Stein (died 1946), American writer, poet and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France
- February 9 — Amy Lowell (died 1925), American poet of the imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926
- 26 March — Robert Frost (died 1963), American poet
- April 27 — Maurice Baring (died 1945), English poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer, and war correspondent
- May 29 — G. K. Chesterton (died 1936), influential English writer, journalist, poet, biographer, Christian apologist short story writer and novelist
- June 20 — Trumbull Stickney (died 1904), American classical scholar and poet best known for his sonnets
- November 30 — Lucy Maud Montgomery (died 1942), Canadian author and poet best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables
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