page_title: 1870 in literature
section_title: Poetry
hierarchical_section_title: 1870 in literature / New books / Poetry
caption_attribution_description: English: Edward Lear, illustration for "The Owl and the Pussycat"
context_section_description: Bret Harte – The Heathen Chinee
  Edward Lear – Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets (dated 1871), including "The Owl and the Pussycat"
  Giovanni Marradi – Canzone moderne
  Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Poems, including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life"
caption: Lear's illustration of The Owl and the Pussycat from Nonsense Songs
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