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- Notorious American poetaster Julia A. Moore publishes her second collection, A Few Choice Words to the Public, but unlike her bestseller of 1876, The Sweet Singer of Michigan Salutes the Public, it finds few buyers. Moore gave her second public reading and singing performance late this year at a Grand Rapids opera house. She began by admitting her poetry was "partly full of mistakes" and that "literary is a work very hard to do". After the poetry and the laughter and jeering in response was over, Moore ended the show by telling the audience:
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You have come here and paid twenty-five cents to see a fool; I receive seventy-five dollars, and see a whole houseful of fools. |
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Her husband eventually forbade her from publishing any more poetry and in 1882 moved the family 100 miles north.
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- January 6 — Carl Sandburg (died 1967), American poet and historian
- March 3 — Edward Thomas (died 1917) one of the best-known English poets of World War I, died in action at Arras
- June 1 — John Edward Masefield (died 1967), English poet and writer, Poet Laureate, 1930–1967
- July 29 — Don Marquis (died 1937), American poet, artist, newspaper columnist, humorist, playwright and author best known for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel"
- August 17 — Oliver St. John Gogarty (died 1957, Irish poet, writer, physician and ear surgeon, one of the most prominent Dublin wits, political figure of the Irish Free State, and now best known as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses
- September 9 — Adelaide Crapsey (died 1914), American
- October 2 — Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (died 1962), British poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work
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