1880 in poetry

• June 6 – Statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (died 1837), sculpted by Alexander Opekushin, is unveiled in Strastnaya Square, Moscow

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 14 – Joseph Warren Beach (died 1957), American poet, critic and literary scholar
• February 27 – Angelina Weld Grimke (died 1958), African American lesbian journalist and poet^[5]
• August 12 – Radclyffe Hall (died 1943), English lesbian poet and novelist
• August 24 – Bahinabai Chaudhari बहिणाबाई चौधरी (died 1951), illiterate, Indian, Marathi-language poet whose son writes down her poems
• August 26 – Guillaume Apollinaire (died 1918), French poet, writer and art critic
• September 16 – Alfred Noyes (died 1958), English poet, best known for his ballads "The Highwayman" (1906) and "The Barrel Organ"
• November 30 – Grant Hervey, born George Henry Cochrane (died 1933), Australian versifier and swindler
• December 2 – Elizabeth Rebecca Ward, née Daniels (died 1978), English versifier
• December 28 – C. Louis Leipoldt (died 1947), South African Afrikaans poet, writer and pediatrician

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• May 8 – Jones Very (born 1813), American essayist, poet, clergyman, and mystic associated with the American Transcendentalism movement
• June 20 – Eliza Dunlop (born 1796), Australian lyricist and ethnographer
• July 7 – Lydia Maria Child, 78 (born 1802), American abolitionist, Indian and women's rights activist, opponent of American expansionism, novelist, journalist and poet
• November 6 – Estanislao del Campo (born 1834), Argentine
• December 22 – George Eliot, pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 61 (born 1819), English novelist and poet
• December 30 – Epes Sargent (born 1813), American editor, poet and playwright

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