Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
- Matthew Arnold, New Poems, including "Dover Beach"
- Philip James Bailey, Universal Hymn (see also Festus 1839)
- Mathilde Blind, publishing under the pen name "Claude Lake", Poems
- Jean Ingelow, A Story of Doom, and Other Poems
- Ellen Johnston, "the 'factory girl'", Autobiography, Poems and Songs (Scotland)
- William Morris, The Life and Death of Jason
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Song of Italy
- Augusta Webster, A Woman Sold, and Other Poems
- George Arnold, Poems, Grave and Gay, published posthumously
- John Burroughs, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person, biography and criticism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day and Other Pieces
- Bret Harte, The Lost Galleon
- Josiah Gilbert Holland, Kathrina: Her Life and Mine, in a Poem
- Emma Lazarus, Poems and Translations
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Flower-de-Luce
- James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers, Second Series
- William Gilmore Simms, editor, War Poetry of the South
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Religious Poems
- Rose Hartwick Thorpe, Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight
- Henry Timrod, ""
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, fourth edition (first edition 1855)
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The Tent on the Beach
Other in English
Australia:
Works published in other languages
Other
- Lydia Koidula, Emajõe ÃÂöbik ("The Nightingale of the Mother River"), Estonia
- Jan Neruda, Knihy verÃ
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¯ ("Books of Verses"), Czech
- Piet Paaltjens (François Haverschmidt), Snikken en grimlachjes: poëzie uit den studententijd ("Sobs and Bitter Grins: poetry of student days"), Netherlands
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 9 – Natsume SÃ
Âseki å¤Âç® æ¼±ç³ (commonly referred to as "SÃ
Âseki"), pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke å¤Âç®éÂÂä¹Âå© (died 1916), Japanese, Meiji Era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature; from 1984–2004, his portrait appears on the 1000 yen note (surname: Natsume)
- March 2 – Louis Lavater (died 1953), Australian
- March 15 – Lionel Pigot Johnson (died 1902), English
- April 10 – George William Russell "ÃÂ" (died 1935), Irish
- June 5 - Paul-Jean Toulet (died 1920), French
- June 17 – Henry Lawson (died 1922), Australian
- August 2 – Ernest Dowson (died 1900), English poet, novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement
- August 13 – Rudolf G. Binding (died 1938), Swiss-born German
- September 17 – Masaoka Shiki æ£岡 Ã¥ÂÂè¦Â, pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori æ£岡 常è¦Â, who changes his name to Noboru å (died 1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player (surname: Masaoka)
- November 8 – Sadakichi Hartmann (died 1944), American
- November 26 – Roderic Quinn (died 1949), Australian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 5? – Alexander Smith (born 1829), Scottish Spasmodic poet
- January 20 – Nathaniel Parker Willis (born 1806), American author, poet and editor
- February 2 – Forceythe Willson (born 1837), American poet
- February 23 – Pietro Zorutti (Pieri ÃÂorut, born 1792), Friulian poet
- August 31 – Charles Baudelaire (born 1821), French poet, critic and translator
- October 7 – Henry Timrod (born 1829), American poet
- November 19 – Fitz-Greene Halleck (born 1790), American poet
- John Hollin Ridge (born 1827), American poet
See also
Notes