1865 in poetry

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Events

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series,^[1] including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
• Robert Browning, Poetical Works: Fourth Edition^[1]
• Robert Williams Buchanan, "The Session of the Poets," an attack on Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in The Spectator
• Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, children's novel, including the prefatory poem "All in the golden afternoon..." and a number of nonsense verses
• Arthur Hugh Clough, Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, including Dipsychus (see also Poems and Prose 1869), posthumously published^[1]
• Samuel Ferguson, Lays of the Western Gael
• Mary Wright Sewell, Mother's Last Words: a ballad
• Algernon Charles Swinburne:
  • Atalanta in Calydon^[1]
  • Chastelard^[1]

United States

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems^[2]
• Fitz-Greene Halleck, Young America: A Poem^[2]
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Humorous Poems^[2]
• George Moses Horton, Naked Genius; this year, Horton, a slave, gains his liberty, publishes the book in Raleigh, North Carolina, and moves to Philadelphia^[3]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
  • Translator, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, two volumes (Volume 2 in 1867)^[2]
  • Household Poems^[2]
• James Russell Lowell, Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University^[2]
• John Godfrey Saxe, Clever Stories of Many Nations Rendered in Rhyme^[2]
• Richard Henry Stoddard, Abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode^[2]
• Samuel Ward, Lyrical Recreations^[2]
• Walt Whitman:
  • Drum-Taps, a collection of poems on the American Civil War, published in April^[2]
  • Sequel to Drum-Taps, a collection of 18 poems mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, including "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", published in Autumn^[2]

Other in English

• Charles Harpur, The Tower of a Dream, verse pamphlet, Australia^[4]
• Charles Heavysege, Jephthah's Daughter, Canada^[5]

Works published in other languages

• Giosuè Carducci, "Inno a Satana", Italy
• Victor Hugo, Les Chansons des rues et des bois, France^[6]
• Pamphile Lemay, Essais poétiques; French language; Canada^[7]
• Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston), Duain agus Orain, collection, Scottish Gaelic poet published in Scotland^[8]
• Sully Prudhomme, Stances et poèmes, France
• Rimes et Poësies Jersiaises, Jersey

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March – Edward Dyson (died 1931), Australian
• March 20 – Arthur Bayldon (died 1958), Australian
• March 23 – Madison Cawein (died 1914), American
• March 27 – Marion Angus (died 1946), Scots language poet
• April 9 – Adela Florence Nicolson, née Cory ("Lawrence Hope"; died 1904), English
• May 2 – William Gay (died 1897), Scottish-born Australian
• May 5 – Helen Maud Merrill (died 1943), American
• May 15 – Albert Verwey (died 1937), Dutch
• May 20 – Henry Ernest Boote (died 1949), English-born Australian
• June 13 – W. B. Yeats (died 1939), Irish poet and playwright
• July 18 – Dowell O'Reilly (died 1923), Australian
• July 21 (or 1868?) – Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (died 1924), English writer and poet
• August 16 – Mary Gilmore (died 1962), Australian poet and journalist
• September 12 – Sophus Claussen (died 1931), Danish^[9]
• September 21 – Francis Kenna (died 1932), Australian
• December 30
  • Rudyard Kipling (died 1936), Indian-born English novelist, writer and poet
  • Emily Julian McManus (died 1918), Canadian poet, author, and educator
• Also:
  • Kunjikuttan Thampuran (died 1913), Indian, Malayalam-language poet^[10]
  • Samuel Williamson (died 1936), Australian

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• May 1 – Isaac Williams (born 1802), English writer, poet and clergyman
• June 10 – Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, the "Sweet Singer of Hartford" (born 1791), American poet and writer of conduct books^[11]
• August 4 – William Edmondstoune Aytoun (born 1813), Scottish lawyer and poet
• September 5 – Hannah Flagg Gould (born 1789), American poet
• September 29 – Richard Lower (born 1782), English dialect poet
• October 15 – Andrés Bello (born 1781), Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
• November 9 – George Arnold (born 1834), American writer, poet and artist

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

1. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
2. Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). "Preface". Annals of American Literature 1602-1983. New York: Oxford University Press. p. vi. If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year.
3. Rubin, Louis D. Jr. (1979). The Literary South. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-04659-0.
4. "Charles Harpur" in Dictionary of Australian Biography. Angus and Robertson (1949). Project Gutenberg Australia website, retrieved 2009-05-11.
5. Bentley, D. M. R. "Poetry in English". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
6. Rees, William (1992). The Penguin Book of French Poetry, 1820-1950. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3.
7. Story, Noah (1967). "Poetry in French". The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature. Oxford University Press. pp. 651–654.
8. Whyte, Christopher (1991). William Livingston/Uilleam Macdhunleibhe (1808-70): a survey of his poetry and prose. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
9. Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
10. Paniker, Ayyappa. "Modern Malayalam Literature" in George, K. M., ed., Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, Sahitya Akademi (1992) pp. 231-255. Retrieved 2009-01-10.
11. "Bibliography". American Poetry Full-Text Database. University of Chicago Library. Retrieved 2009-03-04.