This article covers 1865 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Works published in English United Kingdom Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" Robert Browning, Poetical Works: Fourth Edition 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 Mary Wright Sewell, Mother's Last Words: a ballad Algernon Charles Swinburne: Atalanta in Calydon Chastelard
United States Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems Fitz-Greene Halleck, Young America: A Poem Oliver Wendell Holmes, Humorous Poems George Moses Horton, Naked Genius; this year, Horton, a slave, gains his liberty, publishes the book in Raleigh, North Carolina, and moves to Philadelphia Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Translator, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, two volumes (Volume 2 in 1867) Household Poems James Russell Lowell, Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University John Godfrey Saxe, Clever Stories of Many Nations Rendered in Rhyme Richard Henry Stoddard, Abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode Samuel Ward, Lyrical Recreations Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps, a collection of poems on the American Civil War, published in April 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
Other in English Charles Harpur, The Tower of a Dream, verse pamphlet, Australia"Charles Harpur" in Dictionary of Australian Biography. Angus and Robertson (1949). Project Gutenberg Australia website, retrieved 2009-05-11. Charles Heavysege, Jephthah's Daughter, Canada
Works published in other languages Giosuè Carducci, "Inno a Satana", Italy Victor Hugo, Les Chansons des rues et des bois, France Pamphile Lemay, Essais poétiques; French language; Canada Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston), Duain agus Orain, collection, Scottish Gaelic poet published in ScotlandWhyte, Christopher (1991). William Livingston/Uilleam Macdhunleibhe (1808-70): a survey of his poetry and prose. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 2014-08-18. 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 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 poetPaniker, Ayyappa. "Modern Malayalam Literature" in George, K. M., ed., Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, Sahitya Akademi (1992) pp. 231-255. Retrieved 2009-01-10. 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 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 November 18 – Joseph Déjacque (born 1821), French anarchist and poet
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
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