1865 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish
Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

).

United Kingdom
English poetry
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • Matthew Arnold
    Matthew Arnold
    Matthew Arnold was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator...

    , Essays in Criticism, First Series, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
  • Robert Browning
    Robert Browning
    Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.-Early years:...

    , Poetical Works: Fourth Edition
  • Robert Williams Buchanan
    Robert Williams Buchanan
    Robert Williams Buchanan was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist.- Early life and education :He was the son of Robert Buchanan , Owenite lecturer and journalist, and was born at Caverswall, Staffordshire, England...

    , "The Session of the Poets," an attack on Algernon Charles Swinburne
    Algernon Charles Swinburne
    Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...

    , published in The Spectator
    The Spectator
    The Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture...

  • Lewis Carroll
    Lewis Carroll
    Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...

    , "All in the golden afternoon...", prefatory poem to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures...

    '
  • Arthur Hugh Clough
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    Arthur Hugh Clough was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale...

    , Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, including Dipsychus (see also Poems and Prose 1869
    1869 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book, Volumes 3 and 4 * C. S. Calverley, Theocritus Translated into English Verse* A. H...

    ), posthumously published
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne
    Algernon Charles Swinburne
    Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...

    :
    • Atalanta in Calydon
    • Chastelard

United States

  • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
    Thomas Bailey Aldrich
    Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist, travel writer and editor.-Early life and education:...

    , Poems
  • Fitz-Greene Halleck
    Fitz-Greene Halleck
    Fitz-Greene Halleck was an American poet notable for his satires and as one of the Knickerbocker Group. Born and reared in Guilford, Connecticut, he went to New York City at the age of 20, and lived and worked there for nearly four decades. He was sometimes called "the American Byron"...

    , Young America: A Poem
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Humorous Poems
  • George Moses Horton
    George Moses Horton
    George Moses Horton was an African-American poet.-Biography:He was born into slavery on William Horton's plantation in Northampton County, North Carolina. As a very young child, he and several family members were moved to a tobacco farm in rural Chatham County, when his owner relocated. Horton...

    , Naked Genius, this year, Horton, a slave, gained his liberty, published the book in Raleigh, North Carolina, and moved to Philadelphia
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...

    :
    • Translator, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, two volumes (Volume 2 in 1867
      1867 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Charles Heavysege, "Jezebel," New Dominion Monthly - United Kingdom :...

      )
    • Household Poems
  • James Russell Lowell
    James Russell Lowell
    James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets...

    , Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University
  • John Godfrey Saxe
    John Godfrey Saxe
    John Godfrey Saxe I was an American poet perhaps best known for his re-telling of the Indian parable "The Blindmen and the Elephant", which introduced the story to a Western audience.-Biography:...

    , Clever Stories of Many Nations Rendered in Rhyme
  • Richard Henry Stoddard
    Richard Henry Stoddard
    Richard Henry Stoddard was an American critic and poet.-Biography:Richard Henry Stoddard was born on July 2, 1825, in Hingham, Massachusetts. His father, a sea-captain, was wrecked and lost on one of his voyages while Richard was a child, and the lad went in 1835 to New York City with his mother,...

    , Abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode
  • Samuel Ward
    Samuel Ward
    Samuel Ward was a farmer, politician, colonial Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and a delegate to the Continental Congress. The son of an earlier Rhode Island Governor, Richard Ward, he was well educated as he grew up in a large Newport, Rhode Island family...

    , Lyrical Recreations
  • Walt Whitman
    Walt Whitman
    Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...

    :
    • "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd," on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
    • Drum-Taps

Other in English

  • Charles Harpur
    Charles Harpur
    Charles Harpur was an Australian poet.-Early life:Harpur was born at Windsor, New South Wales, the third child of Joseph Harpur — originally from Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, parish clerk and master of the Windsor district school — and Sarah, née Chidley Harpur received his elementary education...

    , The Tower of a Dream, verse pamphlet, Australia
  • Charles Heavysege
    Charles Heavysege
    Charles Heavysege was a Canadian poet and dramatist. "He was one of the first serious poets to emerge in Canada, and his play Saul was hailed on its appearance as the greatest verse drama in English since the time of Shakespeare." -Life and Writing:Born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England,...

    , Jephthah's Daughter, Canada
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...


Works published in other languages

  • Victor Hugo
    Victor Hugo
    Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....

    , Les Chansons des rues et des bois, France
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

  • Pamphile Lemay, Essais poétiques; French language; Canada
    Canadian poetry
    - Beginnings:The earliest works of poetry, mainly written by visitors, described the new territories in optimistic terms, mainly targeted at a European audience...

  • Sully Prudhomme
    Sully Prudhomme
    René François Armand Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901....

    , Stances et poèmes, France
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...


Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • March – Edward Dyson
    Edward Dyson
    Edward George Dyson was an Australian journalist, poet, playwright and short story writer. He was the elder brother of talented illustrators Will Dyson and Ambrose Dyson.-Early life:...

     (died 1931
    1931 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of Poetry magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets...

    ), Australian
  • March 23 – Madison Cawein
    Madison Cawein
    Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky.-Biography:Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky on March 23, 1865, the fifth child of William and Christiana Cawein. His father made patent medicines from herbs...

     (died 1914
    1914 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 29 – Yone Noguchi lectures on "The Japanese Hokku Poetry" at Magdalen College, Oxford...

    ), American
  • June 13 – William Butler Yeats
    William Butler Yeats
    William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms...

    , Irish
    Irish poetry
    The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

     poet and playwright
  • July 18 – Dowell O'Reilly (died 1923
    1923 in poetry
    -- From Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", first published this year in his collection New HampshireNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:...

    ), Australian
  • September 12 – Sophus Claussen
    Sophus Claussen
    Sophus Claussen was a Danish writer. He is best remembered for his neo-romanticism poems.-Works:* Naturbørn 1887* Pilefløjter1899* Ungt Folk 1894* Djævlerier 1904...

     (died 1931
    1931 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Louis Zukofsky edits the February issue of Poetry magazine. The issue eventually will be recognized as the founding document of the Objectivist poets...

    ), Danish
  • September 21 – Francis Kenna
    Francis Kenna
    William Francis Kenna , known as Francis Kenna, was an Australian poet, journalist, and Labor Member of the Legislative Assembly in Queensland...

     (died 1932
    1932 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*W. B. Yeats rents a house in Dublin....

    ), Australian
  • December 30 – Rudyard Kipling
    Rudyard Kipling
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...

    , English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     novelist, writer and poet

  • Also:
    • Arthur Bayldon
      Arthur Bayldon
      Arthur Bayldon was born in 1865, at Leeds, England. He emigrated to Australia in 1889. He was a professional athlete as well as a poet. He died in 1958.-Bibliography:*Poems *The Eagles *Collected Poems...

       (died 1958
      1958 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Brazilian manifesto for concrete poetry, which focuses on visual and other sensory qualities...

      ), Australian
    • Henry Ernest Boote
      Henry Ernest Boote
      Henry Ernest Boote was an Australian editor, journalist, propagandist, poet, and fiction writer.-Biography:Born in Liverpool, England, 20 May 1865, Boote began working as an apprentice to a printer at the age of ten before emirating to Australia in 1889. That same year he married Mary Jane...

       (died 1949
      1949 in poetry
      Links to nations or nationalities point to articles with information on that nation's poetry or literature. For example, United Kingdom links to English poetry and Indian links to Indian poetry.-Events:...

      ), Australian
    • Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
      Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
      Thomas William Hodgson Crosland , was a British author, poet, journalist and friend of royalty.-Biography:He was born in Leeds on July 21, 1865 or 1868 ....

    • William Gay
      William Gay (poet)
      William Gay was a Scottish-born Australian poet.-Early life:Gay was born at Bridge of Weir, in Renfrewshire, Scotland, eldest child of William Gay and his wife Jane née Tagg. Gay senior was a religious man, an engraver of patterns for wallpaper and calico, his mother came from an educated family...

       (died 1897
      1897 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Canada:* Jean Blewett, Heart Songs...

      ), Australian
    • Adela Florence Nicolson Cory (pseud. "Lawrence Hope")
    • Kunjikuttan Thampuran (died 1913
      1913 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 8—Harold Monro founds the Poetry Bookshop in London...

      ), Indian
      Indian poetry
      Indian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a...

      , Malayalam
      Malayalam poetry
      There are two types of meters used in Malayalam poetry, the classical Sanskrit based and Tamil based ones.- Sanskrit Meters :Sanskrit meters are primarily based on trisyllabic feet. The short sound is called a laghu, a long sound is called a guru. A guru is twice as long as a laghu...

      -language poet
    • Samuel Williamson (poet) (died 1936
      1936 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* James Laughlin founds New Directions Publishers in New York, which published many modern poets for the first time;...

      ), Australian

Deaths

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  • June 10 – Lydia Sigourney
    Lydia Sigourney
    Lydia Huntley Sigourney , née Lydia Howard Huntley, was a popular American poet during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford". Most of her works were published with just her married name Mrs. Sigourney.-Early life:Mrs...

    , called the "Sweet Singer of Hartford
    Hartford, Connecticut
    Hartford is the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960, it is the second most populous city on New England's largest river, the Connecticut River. As of the 2010 Census, Hartford's population was 124,775, making...

    " or, often, on the title pages of her books, "Mrs. Sigourney" (born 1791
    1791 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Bartram's Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country...

    ), American
  • George Arnold
    George Arnold
    George Arnold was an author and poet. After briefly attempting a career as a portrait painter, he turned to writing and became a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and The Leader...

  • William Edmondstone Aytoun
  • Lydia Howard Sigourney
    Lydia Sigourney
    Lydia Huntley Sigourney , née Lydia Howard Huntley, was a popular American poet during the early and mid 19th century. She was commonly known as the "Sweet Singer of Hartford". Most of her works were published with just her married name Mrs. Sigourney.-Early life:Mrs...

  • Isaac Williams
    Isaac Williams
    The Reverend Isaac Williams was a prominent member of the Oxford Movement, a student and disciple of John Keble and, like the other members of the movement, associated with Oxford University...


See also

  • 19th century in poetry
    19th century in poetry
    -Decades and years:...

  • 19th century in literature
    19th century in literature
    See also: 19th century in poetry, 18th century in literature, other events of the 19th century, 20th century in literature, list of years in literature....

  • List of years in poetry
  • List of years in literature
  • Victorian literature
    Victorian literature
    Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria . It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the very different literature of the 20th century....

  • French literature of the 19th century
    French literature of the 19th century
    19th-century French literature concerns the developments in French literature during a dynamic period in French history that saw the rise of Democracy and the fitful end of Monarchy and Empire...

  • Poetry
    Poetry
    Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

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