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1876
 
    
In 21 years Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass has grown from 12 poems to the two volumes of the sixth edition, published in the USA's centenary year       
c. 1876
 
    
English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins develops a new verse form that he calls 'sprung rhythm'       
Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Anne Eleanor Hopkins, 1859
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1876
 
    
Lewis Carroll publishes The Hunting of the Snark, a poem about a voyage in search of an elusive mythical creature       
1884
 
     
Verlaine publishes Les Poètes maudits, short studies of various 'cursed poets' – including Rimbaud        
1889
 
    
23-year-old Irish author William Butler Yeats publishes his first volume of poems, The Wanderings of Oisin       
1890
 
   
Poems is the first of six collections of Emily Dickinson's poetry, found among her papers on her death and published posthumously      
1891
 
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A Gaelic pressure group, the Highland Association, is founded to preserve the indigenous poetry and music of Scotland      
1892
 
    
Leaves of Grass, still growing, is published in its ninth edition in the year of Walt Whitman's death       
1896
 
    
The prolific US poet Edwin Arlington Robinson publishes The Torrent and the Night Before, his first poems about the fictional Tilbury Town       
1896
 
    
English poet A.E. Housman publishes his first collection, A Shropshire Lad