1872 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

Works published in English[]

United Kingdom[]

  • Alfred Austin, Interludes[1]
  • Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair[1]
  • C. S. Calverley, published anonymously, Fly Leaves[1]
  • Samuel Ferguson, Congal
  • W. S. Gilbert, More "Bab" Balads (see also "Bab" Ballads 1869)[1]
  • Edward Lear, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.[2]
  • Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man[1]
  • Christina Rossetti, Sing-Song,[1] book of nursery rhymes
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette (see also Idylls of the King 1859, The Holy Grail 1869, Idylls of the King 1870, 1889, "The Last Tournament" 1871, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885),[1]

United States[]

  • Thomas Gold Appleton, Faded Leaves[3]
  • Paul Hamilton Hayne, Legends and Lyrics[3]
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, a book that combines fiction and nonfiction prose, together with poetry[3]
  • Albert Pike, Hymns to the Gods[3]
  • Celia Thaxter, Poems[3]
  • John Greenleaf Whittier, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, United States[4]

Other in English[]

  • Alfred Domett, Ranolf and Amohia, epic poem in a Maori setting, New Zealand
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Three Books of Song[5]

Works published in other languages[]

France[]

Other languages[]

Awards and honors[]

Births[]

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

  • February 22 – John Shaw Neilson (died 1942), Australian
  • June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar (died 1906), African American
  • July 8 – Sasaki Nobutsuna 佐佐木信綱 (died 1963), Japanese, Shōwa period tanka poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods (surname: Sasaki)
  • August 15 – Sri Aurobindo (Bengali: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo) (died 1950), Indian nationalist, poet, Yogi and spiritual Guru writing mostly in English[11]
  • October 10 – Arthur Talmage Abernethy (died 1956), American poet, journalist, theologian and minister; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1948–1953
  • October 18 (October 6 O.S.) – Mikhail Kuzmin (died 1936), Russian poet, novelist and composer
  • November 7 – Leonora Speyer (died 1956), American poet and violinist
  • November 30 – John McCrae (died on active service in World War I 1918), Canadian war poet, physician, author, artist and soldier best known for the poem "In Flanders Fields"
  • December 6 – Arthur Henry Adams (died 1936), Australian
  • Also:
    • Hafiz Ibrahim (died 1932), Egyptian poet called "the poet of the Nile"
    • (died 1920), Indian, Telugu-language poet; one of the two poets in the due known in Telugu literature as "Triupati Vankata Kavulu"[12]

Deaths[]

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

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  2. ^ Happy Birthday Edward Lear. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum. 2012. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-85444-273-4.
  3. ^ a b c d e Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("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." — from the Preface, p vi)
  4. ^ Wagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
  5. ^ Calhoun, Charles C. Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8070-7026-2
  6. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Coppée, François Édouard Joachim" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 102.
  7. ^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3
  8. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mendès, Catulle" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 124.
  9. ^ a b Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
  10. ^ Henderson, Helene, and Jay P. Pederson, editors, Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary, Detroit: Omnigraphics Inc., 2000
  11. ^ Knippling, Alpana Sharma, "Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature in English", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
  12. ^ Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
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