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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1875. ==Events== *January 16 - Henry James Byron's comedy ''Our Boys'' opens at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. It becomes the world's longest-running play up to this time, with 1,362 performances until April 1879.〔Booth, Michael R. Review of plays by H. J. Byron including ''Our Boys'' in ''Modern Language Review'', 82:3, pp. 716-17 (July 1987: Modern Humanities Research Association).〕 It also opens this year in New York, at the New Fifth Avenue Theatre. *February/March - Arthur Rimbaud meets Paul Verlaine for the last time in Stuttgart, Germany, after Verlaine's release from prison, gives him the manuscript of his poems ''Illuminations'' and gives up literary writing entirely at the age of 20. *February 12 - Robert Louis Stevenson is introduced (by Leslie Stephen) to fellow writer W. E. Henley, at this time (August 1873–April 1875) a patient of surgeon Joseph Lister in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; he will be the model for Long John Silver. Henley has also met his future wife while in hospital and written the poems collected as ''In Hospital''.〔 〕 *October 1 - American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe is reburied in Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, Baltimore, Maryland, with a larger memorial marker. Some controversy arises years later as to whether the correct body was exhumed. *December 5–6 - German emigrant ship SS ''Deutschland'' runs aground in the English Channel resulting in the death of 157 passengers and crew and inspiring Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem ''The Wreck of the Deutschland''. This introduces his innovative sprung rhythm and metre but, being rejected for publication in 1876, is not published until 1918. * Flammarion publishing house founded in Paris, France. * Isaac K. Funk establishes the publishing house of I.K. Funk & Company, predecessor of Funk & Wagnells, in the United States. * Caroline M. Hewins begins a children's library in Hartford, Connecticut. * ''Nebelspalter'' is founded by Jean Nötzli of Zürich (Switzerland) as an "illustrated humorous political weekly". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1875 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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