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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
June – While waiting to cross the English Channel on honeymoon, English poet Matthew Arnold probably begins to compose the poem "Dover Beach" (published 1867).[1]
Works published in English
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Title page of Thomas Holley Chivers' Eonchs of Ruby
United Kingdom
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Poems Posthumous and Collected[2]
- Edward Henry Bickersteth, Nineveh[2]
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Casa Guidi Windows[2]
- Caroline Clive, under the pen name "V", The Valley of the Rea[2]
- Hartley Coleridge, Poems by Hartley Coleridge, edited by Derwent Coleridge (posthumous)
- George Meredith, Poems, including the first version of "Love in the Valley"[2]
United States
- Thomas Holley Chivers, Eonchs of Ruby: A Gift of Love[3]
- Theodore Sedgwick Fay, Ulric; or, The Voices[3]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend (republished under the title Christius 1872)[3]
- William Wilberforce Lord, Christ in Hades[3]
- Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Poems[3]
- Frances Fuller Victor, with Metta Victoria Victor, Poems of Sentiment and Imagination[3]
- William Ross Wallace, Meditations in America, and Other Poems[3]
Works published in other languages
- Hilario Ascasubi, Santos Vega o los mellizos de la Flor, Spanish-language, Argentina[4]
- Heinrich Heine, Romanzero, Germany
- Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Shire Bat Ẓiyyon, Hebrew-language, Lithuania
Births
Dath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 1 – Arthur Clement Hilton (died 1877), English
- May 8 – James Lister Cuthbertson (died 1910), Australian
- December 18 – John Farrell (died 1904), Australian
- December 20 – Thérèse Schwartze (died 1918), Dutch portrait painter and poet
- Date not known – Albery Allson Whitman (died 1901), African American
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 1 – Mary Shelley (born 1797), English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer and poet
- February 23 – Joanna Baillie (born 1762), Scottish poet and dramatist
- July 6 – David Macbeth Moir (born 1798), Scottish physician and writer
- October 31 (October 19 O.S.) – Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (born 1813), Serbian poet and Prince-Bishop of Montenegro
- December 19 – Henry Luttrell (born 1768), English politician, wit and writer of society verse
See also
- 19th century in poetry
- 19th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- Victorian literature
- French literature of the 19th century
- Poetry
Notes
- ^ Allott, Kenneth, ed. (1965). The Poems of Matthew Arnold. London; New York: Longman Norton. p. 240. ISBN 0-393-04377-0.
- ^ a b c d e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Henderson, Helene, and Jay P. Pederson, editors, Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary, Detroit: Omnigraphics Inc., 2000