Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- Cecil Frances Alexander, Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for the Use of Schools
- Matthew Arnold, Merope
- William Barnes, Hwomely Rhymes: A second collection of poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect
- Elizabeth Rundle Charles, The Voice of Christian Life in Song
- Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)
- William Johnson Cory, Ionica
- Charles Kingsley, Andromedia, and Other Poems
- Walter Savage Landor, Dry Sticks, Fagoted
- William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the author's first book
- Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics, first series, (1858âÂÂ61), including "The Lost Chord", set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
- Joseph Skipsey "The Pitman Poet", Lyrics
- Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica: Second Series (see also Lyra Germanica 1855)
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth
- Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)
- James T. Fields, A Few Verses for a Few Friends
- William J. Grayson, The Country
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, essays
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems
- Frances Harper, "Bury Me in a Free Land", November 20
Other in English
Other languages
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 24 – Constance Naden (died 1889), English poet and philosopher
- June 1 – William Wilfred Campbell (died 1918), Canadian
- June 16 – Isabel Richey (died 1910), American
- July 1 – Velma Caldwell Melville (died 1924), American editor and writer
- August 2 – Sir William Watson (died 1935), English
- August 15 – Edith Nesbit (died 1924), English author and poet
- September 5 – Victor Daley (died 1905), Australian
- Also:
- Balashankar (died 1899), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
- Dollie Radford, née Caroline Maitland (died 1920), English poet and writer, wife of Ernest Radford
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
See also
Notes