<br> â From Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky", published as part of Through the Looking Glass
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- April â French author Victor Hugo moves to Brussels to take care of the family of his son, who has just died, but closely follows events in the Paris Commune, on April 21 publishing the poem "Pas de représailles" (No reprisals) and on June 11 writing the poem "Sur une barricade" (On the barricade).
Works published in English
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- Robert Browning:
- Blaustion's Adventure
- Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society
- Lewis Carroll (pen name of C. L. Dodgson), Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, including "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter" (published this year, although the book states "1872")
- "Thomas Maitland" (i.e., Robert Williams Buchanan) attacks Dante Gabriel Rossetti and other members of what Buchanan calls the "Fleshly School" of English poetry in The Contemporary Review (October); and Rossetti replies in "The Stealthy School of Criticism" in the Athenaeum (December 16)
- Monckton Milnes, falsely attributed to George Colman the Younger, The Rodiad, flagellatory poem, falsely dated 1810
- James Brunton Stephens, Convict Once, Scottish-born Australian poet published in London
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Songs before Sunrise
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament" published in The Contemporary Review, December edition (one of Tennyson's "Arthurian Idylls", later published in Gareth and Lynette 1872)
Works published in other languages
Births
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- February 3 â Francis Joseph Sherman (died 1926), Canadian
- February 25 (February 13 Old Style) â Lesya Ukrainka, born Larysa Kosach (died 1913), Ukrainian
- April 16 â John Millington Synge (died 1909), Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, collector of folklore, a prominent figure in the Irish Literary Revival and a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre
- June 17 â James Weldon Johnson (died 1938), African-American author, poet, early civil rights activist and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance
- July 3 â W. H. Davies (died 1940), Welsh-born poet and writer who spends most of his life as a tramp in the United States and United Kingdom, but becomes known as one of the most popular poets of his time
- July 15 â Kunikida Doppo Ã¥ÂÂæ¨ç° ç¨æ© (died 1908), Japanese, Meiji period romantic poet and one of the novelists who pioneers naturalism in Japan (surname: Kunikida)
- September 2 â John Le Gay Brereton (died 1933), Australian poet, critic and academic
- September 9 â Ralph Hodgson (died 1962), British
- October 30 â Paul Valéry (died 1945), French philosopher, author and Symbolist poet who also writes essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music and current events
- November 1 â Stephen Crane (died 1900), American novelist, poet and journalist
- Date not known
- Hafez Ibrahim (died 1932), Egyptian, Arabic-language "poet of the Nile"
- Madhavanuj, pen name of Kashinath Hari Modak (died 1917), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator; a physician
Deaths
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See also
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