Victorians 1833-1903

• Robert Browning's Pauline
• Hartley Coleridge's Poems, Songs and Sonnets
• J. S. Mill's "Thoughts on Poetry and its Variants"
• Henry Francis Lyte's Poems
• Thomas John Dibdin's Last Lays of the Last of the Three Dibdins
• Park Benjamin's The Harbinger
• Maria Gowen Brooks' Zophiël
• Richard Henry Dana, Sr., Poems

Births
Richard Watson Dixon; Adam Lindsay Gordon (Australia); Edmund Clarence Stedman (US)

Deaths
Arthur Hallam, in whose memory Alfred lord Tennyson will write In Memoriam; Hannah More; John O'Keeffe; William Sotheby; Maria Jane Jewsbury

• Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies
• Thomas Pringle's African Sketches
• Sara Coleridge's Pretty Lessons in Verse for Small Children
• Amelia Opie's Lays for the Dead
• Felicia Dorothea Hemans' Scenes and Hymns of Life

Births
George Arnold (US); William Morris; Roden Berkely Wriothesley Noel; James Thomson (Scotland); Annie Fields (US)

Deaths
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (July 25); Charles Lamb; Thomas Pringle; John Thelwall; Elizabeth Margarat Chandler (US)

• Robert Browning's Paracelsus
• John Clare's The Rural Muse
• William Wordsworth's Yarrow Revisited and Other Poems
• Joseph Rodman Drake's The Culprit Fay
• George Darley's Nepenthe
• Lydia Sigourney's Zinzendorff

Births
Alfred Austin; Isodore Gordon Ascher (Canada); Augusta Cooper Bristol (US); Phillips Brooks (US); Samuel Langhorne Clemens, i.e., Mark Twain (US); Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall (India); Adah Isaacs Menken (US); John James Platt (US); Celia Thaxter (US); James Byrne Leicester Warren, baron de Tabley; Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey); James Brunton Stephens (Australia); Harriet Prescott Spofford (US); Louise Chandler Moulton (US); Lillie Devereux Blake (US)

Deaths
Felicia Dorothea Hemans; James Hogg; William Motherwell

• Lyra Apostolica, religious poems by several authors, including John Newman
• John Greenleaf Whittier's Mogg Megone
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Poems

Births
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (US); Harriet Maxwell Converse (US); W. S. Gilbert; Bret Harte (US); Charles Mair (Canada); Sarah Morgan Piatt (US); Annie Louisa Walker (Canada); Susan Nugent Wood (Australia) 

Deaths
George Colman the younger; Dorothy Kilner

VICTORIA I (1819-1901)

• Richard H. Barham's Ingoldsby Legends (-1847)
• The Civil List Act provides for pensions for needy authors in England.
• John Clare is institutionalized as insane.
• Eliza Cook's "The Old Arm Chair"
• George Moses Horton's Hope of Liberty -- Poems by a Slave (2nd edn.; first published as early as 1829)
• Thomas Love Peacock's The Paper Money Lyrics
• Richard Henry Wilde's Hesperia

Births
William Dean Howells (US); Agnes Maule Machar ("Fidelis"; Canada); Joaquin Miller (US); Algernon Charles Swinburne; Julia Augusta Webster; Forceythe Willson (US)

Deaths
Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges

• Elizabeth Barrett's The Seraphim
• Leigh Hunt publishes "Abou Ben Adhem" and "Rondeau" ("Jenny Kissed Me")
• William Wordsworth's Sonnets
• John Greenleaf Whittier's Poems Written during the Progress of the Abolition Question
• James Hillhouse's Sachem's-Wood
• Isaac Williams' The Cathedral

Births
Henry Adams (US); Sarah Elizabeth Carmichael (US); John Hay (US); William Reed Huntington (US); Charles Mair (Canada); Abram Joseph Ryan (US); Margaret E. Sangster; Alice Cunningham Fletcher (US)

Deaths
Margaret Miller Davidson; Letitia Elizabeth Landon, likely by suicide; Charles Morris; Richard Polwhele

Touchstone poems
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life" by Phoebe Cary's "A Psalm of Life: What the Heart of the Young Woman Said to the Old Maid" (1854), Franklin Pierce Adams's "A Psalm of Freudian Life" (1924), and Adrian Mitchell's "Nostalgia---Now Threepence Off" (1997)

• Charlotte Elliott's Hymns for a Week 
• Henry Wadworth Longfellow's Voices of the Night
• Jones Very's Essays and Poems

Births
Walter Pater; James Ryder Randall (US); John Todhunter; Henry Kendall (Australia)

Deaths
Thomas Haynes Bayley; Winthrop Mackworth Praed

Poems about poems
• parody: Thomas Hood's "The Beadle's Annual Address", about Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751)

• Robert Browning's Sordello
• Percy Bysshe Shelley's Defence of Poetry, posthumously published
• John Quincy Adams' "The Wants of Man"
• Caroline Clive's IX Poems by V

Births
Wilfred Scawen Blunt; Henry Austin Dobson; Thomas Hardy; William Cosmo Monkhouse; M. Ethelind Sawtell (Canada); John Addington Symonds; Constance Fenimore Woolson (US)

• Robert Browning's Pippa Passes
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ballads and other Poems, including "The Wreck of the Hesperus"
• James Russell Lowell's A Year's Life
• Lydia Sigourney's Poems and Pocahontas
• Standish O'Grady's The Emigrant

Births
Mathilde Blind; Robert Williams Buchanan; Charles Edward Carryl (US); Chief K'hhalserten Sepass (Canada); Ina Coolbrith (US); Juliana Horatia Ewing; Joaquin Miller (US); Edward Rowland Sill (US)

Deaths
Thomas John Dibdin; George Dyer; Standish O'Grady; Joseph Blanco White; Theodore Hook; Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (US)

Touchstone poems
Sarah Fuller Adams's "Nearer, my God, to Thee" by Hugh MacDiarmid's "Nearer, my God, to Thee" (1994)

William Cullen Bryant's The Fountain

• Robert Browning's Dramatic Lyrics, including "My Last Duchess" and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Poems on Slavery
• Thomas Babington Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, including "Horatius"
• Alfred Tennyson's Poems, including "Locksley Hall," "Morte d'Arthur," and "Ulysses"
• William Wordsworth's Poems Chiefly of Early and Late Years
• Susanna Blamire's Works
• Henry Wadworth Longfellow's Poems on Slavery

Births
Ambrose Bierce (US); Ina Donna Coolbrith (US); William John Courthorpe; Sidney Lanier (US); John Arthur Phillips (Canada); Henry Duff Traill; James Anderson (Canada); Charles Henry Ross (ca.); James Ferguson; Helen Burrell D'Apery (US)

Deaths
Thomas Arnold; Macdonald Clarke; Samuel Woodworth

Touchstone poems
Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" by Jon Stallworthy's "From the Life [My Last Mistress]" and Richard Howard's "Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565" (1995)

• Thomas Hood's "The Song of the Shirt" (Punch)
• William Wordsworth is made British Poet Laureate
• William Ellery Channing's Poems
• James Gates Percival's The Dream of a Day
• Elizabeth Oakes Smith's The Sinless Child
• John Greenleaf Whittier's Lays of my Home

Births
Charles Montagu Doughty; Violet Fane aka Mary Montgomerie Lamb; Michael McTurk (Guyana); Thomas Bracken (Ireland); Joseph Furphy ('Tom Collins') (Australia)

Deaths
Washington Allston; Francis Scott Key; Robert Southey

• Isabella Banks' Ivy Leaves, including "Neglected Wife"
• William Barnes' Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect
• Elizabeth Barrett's Poems
• Thomas Hood's Whimsicalities
• Nathaniel Thomas Haynes' Songs
• Frances Kemble's Poems
• Christopher Pearse Cranch's Poems
• James Russell Lowell's Poems
• Epes Sargent's The Light of the Lighthouse

Births
Robert Bridges; George Washington Cable (US); Ada Cambridge, later Cross; Richard Watson Gilder (US); Gerard Manley Hopkins; Andrew Lang (Scotland); Caroline Lindsay; Ernest Myers; John Boyle O'Reilly (US); Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy; Arabella Eugenia Smith (US), about this time Paul Verlaine (France; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (US)

Deaths
Thomas Campbell; Margaret Davidson

Touchstone poems
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Day is Done" by Phoebe Cary's "The Day is Done" (1854)

• Robert Browning's Dramatic Romances and Lyrics, including "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
• George Moses Horton's Poetical Works
• Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven and Other Poems, including "The Raven"
• Henry Wadworth Longfellow's The Belfry of Bruges
• Lydia Sigourney's Poetry for Seamen
• William Gilmore Simms' Grouped Thoughts and Scattered Fancies
• Henry Wadworth Longfellow's Poems

Births
Louisa Sarah Bevington (US); William Carleton (US); John Banister Tabb (US); Thomas E. Spencer (Australia); Henrietta R. Eliot (US)

Deaths
R. H. Barham; Maria Gowen Brooks (US); Thomas Hood; John McPherson; Sydney Smith

Touchstone poems
Robert Browning's "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" by W. J. Linton's "How they Brought the News to a Gent" (1892), Owen Seaman's "'The Guineas': Or, How they brought the Good News from Newmarket to Girton" (1908), and Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman's "How I Brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent, or Vice Versa" (1933)

• Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are married in Sept. and elope to Italy, where they settle in Casa Guidi in Florence
• Robert Browning's Bells and Pomegranates
• Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë's Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, edited by Charlotte Brontë
• Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, revised in 1861 and 1863
• William Barnes' Poems, Partly of Rural Life
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Forest Leaves
• Lydia Sigourney's The Voice of Flowers
• John Greenleaf Whittier's Voices of Freedom

Births
Alexander MacGregor Rose (Scotland-Canada); George Thomas Lanigan ; Marcus Clarke (Australia); Mary Hannay Foott (Australia); Rose Elizabeth Cleveland (US)

Deaths
George Darley; Barron Field (Australia); John Hookham Frere; Sarah Wentworth Morton (US); Elizabeth Turner; Eliza Earle (US)

• Ralph Waldo Emerson's Poems
• Walter Savage Landor's The Hellenics
• Henry Francis Lyte composes "Abide with Me"
• Alfred Tennyson's The Princess, including "Tears, idle Tears," which he adds to up to 1850
• Caroline Clive's The Queen's Ball
• Henry Wadworth Longfellow's Evangeline
• Epes Sargent's Songs of the Sea
• Lydia Sigourney's The Weeping Willow

Births
Alice Meynell, née Thompson; Alfred Scott Gatty

Deaths
Mary Lamb; Henry Francis Lyte; George William Gillespie (Canada); William Shepherd; Richard Henry Wilde

• James Russell Lowell's A Fable for Critics, Poems: Second Series, Bigelow Papers; and The Vision of Sir Launfal
• pre-Raphaelite brotherhood in London, lasting until about 1880, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Elizabeth Siddall, and others
• Lydia Sigourney's Waterdrops
• Charles Timothy Brooks' Aquidneck
• John Quincy Adams' Poems of Religion and Society
• Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka: A Prose Poem

Births
Romesh Chunder Dutt (India); Anne Glenny Wilson née Adams (New Zealand); Lilla Cabot Perry (US)

Deaths
John Quincy Adams; Emily Brontë; Thomas Cole; Sarah Fuller Flower, née Adams; Isaac D'Israeli; Ann Batten Cristall

Touchstone poems
Cecil Frances Alexander's "Maker of Heaven and Earth" by Amelia Blossom Pegram's "Burials" (1995)

• Matthew Arnold's The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Seaside and the Fireside
• Poems by Washington Allston
• Poems by Alice and Phoebe Cary

Births
Edmund Gosse; William Ernest Henley; Sarah Orne Jewett (US); Emma Lazarus (US); James Whitcomb Riley (US); Henrietta Cordelia Ray (US); Grace Denio Litchfield (US)

Deaths
Bernard Barton; Thomas Lovell Beddoes; Anne Brontë; Hartley Coleridge; Ebenezer Elliott;Edgar Allan Poe; James Clarence Mangan, of malnutrition; David Hitchcock (US)

Touchstone poems
David Bates's "Speak Gently" by Lewis Carroll's "Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy" (1866) and T. D. Sullivan's "Speak Gently" (1887) 

• Thomas Lowell Beddoes' Death's Jest-book, published posthumously
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poems with "Sonnets from the Portuguese," including How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
• Robert Browning's Christmas Eve and Easter Day
• Stephen Foster's "De Camptown Races"
• Leigh Hunt's Autobiography
• D. G. Rossetti's The Blessed Damozel, published in The Gem
• Alfred Tennyson publishes In Memoriam and is made British Poet Laureate.
• William Wordsworth's The Prelude, published posthumously in 14 Books.
• William Barnes' Hwomely Rhymes
• John Greenleaf Whittier's Songs of Labor

Births
Isabella Valency Crawford (Canada); Eugene Field (US); William Larminie (US); Robert Louis Stevenson; Rose Hartwick Thorpe (US); Albery A. Whitmann (US); Ella Wheeler Wilcox (US); Laura E. Richards; Florence Earle Coates (US)

Deaths
Manoah Bodman; William Lisle Bowles; Philip Pendleton Cooke; Margaret Fuller (US); William Wordsworth; Frances Sargent Locke Osgood (US)

Touchstone poems
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "How Do I Love Thee?" by Wilfred Owen's "How do I Love Thee?" (1983) and Rafael Campo's "IX. Sonnet for the Portuguese" (1996)

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Casa Guidi Windows
• Stephen Foster's "Old Folks at Home"
• George Meredith's Poems, including "Love in the Valley"
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Golden Legend

Births
James Lister Cuthbertson (Australia); Arthur Clement Hilton; John Wilson Bengough; Rose Hawthorne Lathrop ("Mother Alphonsa") (US); Arthur Patchett Martin (Australia); Albery Allson Whitman (US)

Deaths
Joanna Baillie; David Macbeth Moir; M. Ethelind Sawtell (Canada)

• Matthew Arnold's Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems
• Edmund Hamilton Sears' "It Came upon a Midnight Clear"
• Alice Cary's Lyra
• David Macbeth Moir's Poetical Works

Awards
• Lydia Sigourney's Olive Leaves

Births
Francis Coutts; Emma Maria Caillard; Edwin Markham (Academy of American Poets Web site; US);Henry Van Dyke (US); Alfred T. Chandler ('Spinifex') (Australia); Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (US)

Deaths
Sara Coleridge (daughter of S.T.C.); Thomas Moore; John Howard Payne; Thomas Moore; John Hamilton Reynolds; Richard Scrafton Sharpe

• Matthew Arnold's Poems, including "Sobrab and Rustum" and "The Scholar-Gipsy"
• Martha Browne's [Mattie Griffith's] Poems
• Charles Timothy Brooks' Songs of Field and Flood
• William Gilmore Simms' Poems
• James Whitfield's America
• John Greenleaf Whittier's The Chapel of the Hermits

Births
Ernest Fenollosa (US); Thomas Nelson Page (US); Lillian H. Shuey (US)

Deaths
Joseph Cottle; Maria White Lowell; Amelia Opie

• Julia Ward Howe's Passion Flowers
• Coventry Patmore's The Angel in the House, Part I (Part II in 1856, Part III in 1860; and Part IV in 1863)
• Alfred Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade," published in The Examiner on Dec. 9
• Phoebe Cary's Poems and Parodies
• Frances Harper's Poems
• Lydia Sigourney's The Western Home

Births
James A. Bland (US); George Frederick Cameron (Canada); William Henry Drummond (Canada);Oscar Wilde; George Frederick Cameron (Canada); James Montgomery (Scotland); Edith M. Thomas (US); Fanny Parnell (US)

Deaths
James Montgomery (Scotland)

Touchstone poems
Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Rudyard Kipling's "The Last of the Light Brigade" (1890)

Poems about poems
• parody: Phoebe Cary's "When Lovely Woman" (Poems and Parodies 1854) about Oliver Goldsmith's "When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly" (1766)
• parody: Phoebe Cary's "The Day is Done" (Poems and Parodies 1854) about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Day is Done" (1844)
• parody: Phoebe Cary's "Jacob" (Poems and Parodies 1854) about William Wordsworth's "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" (1800)
• parody: Phoebe Cary's "A Psalm of Life: What the Heart of the Young Woman Said to the Old Maid" about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life" (1838)
• parody: Phoebe Cary's "The Annoyer" about Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, act II, scene v (1820)
• parody: Phoebe Cary's "I Remember, I Remember" about Thomas Hood's "I Remember, I Remember" (1826)

• Matthew Arnold's Poems, Second Series
• Robert Browning's Men and Women, including "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
• Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"
• Caroline Hayward (Canada) active about this time
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha
• Alfred lord Tennyson's Maud and Other Poems
• Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, regularly amplified (2nd edn., 1856; final author's edition, 1891-92)
• Alice Cary's The Maiden of Tiascala
• Maria White Lowell's Poems
• Lydia Sigourney's Sayings of the Little Ones and Poems for their Mothers

Births
Jones Bannerman (Canada); Henry Cuyler Bunner (US); Frances Gertrude E. H. Bustill (US); Armistead Churchill Gordon (US); Thomas Thornely; Woodrow Wilson (US); Alexander Young (Scotland)

Deaths
Charlotte Brontë; Mary Russell Mitford; Samuel Rogers; Dorothy Wordsworth; Adelaide O'Keeffe

Touchstone poems
Robert Browning's "'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'" by Carl Sandburg's "Manitoba Childe Roland" (1918), Stevie Smith's "Childe Rolandine" (1957) and "A Soldier Dear to Us" (1975), and Jon Stallworthy's "The Thread" (1995)
Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" by Shirley Brooks's "Waggawocky" (1872)

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh (post-dated 1857), a verse novel in 11,000 lines about a woman writer
• Sydney Dobell's England in Time of War
• Coventry Patmore's The Espousals
• John Greenleaf Whittier's The Panorama
• Charles Sangster's The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay

Births
Toru Dutt (India); Alfred Denis Godley; Lizette Woodworth Reese (US)

Deaths
James Gates Percival

• Frederick Locker Lampson's London Lyrics (12 re-editions to 1893)
• Julia Ward Howe's Words for the Hour

Births
Jane Barlow (Ireland); Hubert N. W. Church (Australia); Edward Cordle (Barbados); John Davidson(Scotland); Margaret Deland (US); Benjamin Franklin King (US); Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald(Canada)

Touchstone poems
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Brahma" by Andrew Lang's "Brahma" (1905)

• William Barnes' Hwomely Rhymes: A second collection of poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect
• William Johnson Cory's Ionica
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Courtship of Miles Standish
• William Morris' The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
• Adelaide Anne Procter's Legends and Lyrics (1858-61), including "A Lost Chord"
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "The Chambered Nautilus" and "The Deacon's Masterpiece"
• Walter Savage Landor's Dry Sticks
• D'Arcy McGee's Canadian Ballads and Occasional Verses

Births
Edith Nesbit; Dollie Radford; Sir William Watson; Victor Daley (Australia); Milicent W. Shinn (US)

Deaths
Thomas Holley Chivers

CHARLES DARWIN'S ORIGIN OF SPECIES 

• Daniel Decatur Emmett's "Dixie's Land"
• Edmund Fitzgerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, revised up to 1879
• Alfred lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King, including "Enid," "Vivien," "Elaine," and "Guinevere"

Births
Katharine Lee Bates (US); Kenneth Grahame; William Herbert Carruth (US); Perceval Gibbon(South Africa); Susan Francis Harrison ("Seranus"; Canada); A. E. Housman; Egbert Martin ('Leo') (Guyana); Ernest Rhys; Ruth Huntington Sessions (US); James Kenneth Stephen; Francis Thompson; Lucy E. Tilley (US)

Deaths
Leigh Hunt; Washington Irving; James Mathews Legaré; Thomas Babington Macaulay, buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, early in 1860; Lady Morgan, née Sydney Owenson

Touchstone poems
Edward Fitzgerald's "Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám" by Gelett Burgess's "The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne" (1904), Wendy Cope's "From Strugnell's Rubáiyát" (1986), Edwin Morgan's "Variations on Omar Khayyám" (1988), and Frank Kuppner's "In a Persian Garden" (1994)

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF USA

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Poems before Congress
• Coventry Patmore's Faithful for Ever
• Rose Terry Cooke's Poems
• Joseph Rodman Drake's and Fitz-Greene Halleck's "The Croakers" (collected edition)
• Henry Timrod's Poems
• Frederick Goddard Tuckerman's Poems
• John Greenleaf Whittier's Home Ballads
• William Kirby's "U.E."
• Charles Sangster's Hesperus
• Alexander McLachlan's The Emigrant

Births
William Wilfred Campbell (?) (Canada); Helena Jane Coleman (Canada); Hamlin Garland (US); Harriet Monroe (US); Charles G. D. Roberts (Canada); Clinton Scollard (US); Harry Dacre; Charlotte Perkins Gilman (US); James S. Martinez (ca.; Belize); William Satchell (New Zealand); Jack Moses (Australia); Mary L. Ritter (US) 

Deaths
George Croly; James Kirke Paulding

CONFEDERATE STATES TAKE FORT SUMTER ON APRIL 12: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Last Poems, posthumously published
• Julia Ward Howe composes "Battle Hymn of the Republic"
• Francis Turner Palgrave's The Golden Treasury, a poetic anthology revised in 1897 and since then by others
• Annie Louisa Walker's Leaves from the Backwoods
• "Go Down Moses" in National Anti-Slavery Standard

Births
Bliss Carman (Canada); Mary Elizabeth Coleridge; Walter Alexander Raleigh; Louise Imogen Guiney (US); Maurice Henry Hewlett; Katharine Hinkson, aka Katharine Tynan (Ireland); Pauline Johnson, aka Tekahionwake (Canada); Archibald Lampman (Canada); Amy Levy; Frederick George Scott (Canada) Rabindranath Tagore (India); Henry Cust; Minnie Hallowell Bowen (Canada); J. A. Philp (Australia); Sophie Jewett (US)

Deaths
Elizabeth Barrett Browning; A. H. Clough; Oliver Goldsmith (Canada)

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning's posthumous Last Poems, edited by Robert Browning
• Charles Calverley's Verses and Translations
• A. H. Clough's Last Poems, posthumously published
• George Meredith's Modern Love and Poems of the Roadside
• Coventry Patmore's Victories of Love
• Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems
• in February Dante Gabriel Rossetti places a sheaf of poems (a few years later retrieved) in the coffin of his wife Elizabeth Siddall
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Songs in many keys
• Emily Dickinson's "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers" published
• Lydia Sigourney's The Man of Uz

Births
John Kendrick Bangs (US); Arthur Christopher Benson; Jean Blewett (Canada); John Jay Chapman (US); Edith Emma Cooper (half of "Michael Field"); Sir Henry John Newbolt; George Santayana (US);Duncan Campbell Scott (Canada); Edith Wharton (US); Jack Judge; W. T. Goodge (Australia); Ella Higginson (US); John Bernard O'Hara (Australia)

Deaths
Elizabeth Siddall, of opium overdose; Henry David Thoreau, of tuberculosis; (Academy of American Poets Web site; US)

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Tales of a Wayside Inn, including "Paul Revere's Ride"
• William Barnes' Third Collection of Poems in Dorset Dialect
• Walter Savage Landor's Heroic Idyls

Births
Reuben Butchart (Canada); C. P. Cavafy (Egypt; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Elaine Goodale Eastman (US); George Essex Evans (Australia); Mary Gilmore (Australia); Winifred Howells (US); Mary Austin Low (Canada); Robert Fuller Murray; Stuart Merrill (US); Edward Abbott Parry;George Santayana; Ernest Lawrence Thayer (US)

Deaths
Gamaliel Bradford (US); Clement Clarke Moore (US); William Makepeace Thackeray

• Robert Browning's Dramatis Personae, including "Rabbi Ben Ezra" and "Caliban upon Setebos"
• Robert Lowry's "Beautiful River"
• William Brighty Rands' Lilliput Levee, for children
• Alfred lord Tennyson's Enoch Arden
• John Greenfield Whittier's In War-Time

Births
Miguel de Unamuno (Spain; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Richard Hovey (US); Marie Joussage (Canada); Andrew Barton ("Banjo") Paterson (Australia); Jessie Mackay (New Zealand); Harry Morant ('The Breaker') (Australia); Julie M. Lippmann (US); Charles Souter ('Dr. Nil') (Australia); Virna Woods (US)

Deaths
John Clare; Stephen Foster; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Walter Savage Landor; George Pope Morris;Adelaide Anne Procter; Lucy Aikin; Park Benjamin (US)

LINCOLN ASSASSINATED; CIVIL WAR ENDS; SLAVERY ABOLISHED DEC. 18

• Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism, 1st series, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
• Robert Williams Buchanan's "The Session of the Poets," an attack on Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in Spectator
• George Moses Horton's Naked Genius
• John Newman's The Dream of Gerontius
• Algernon Charles Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon
• Walt Whitman's "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd," on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; and Drum-Taps
• Henry Clay Work's "Marching through Georgia"
• Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Births
Laurence Alma-Tadema (ca.); Arthur A. D. Bayldon (Australia); Grace Blackburn (Canada); Madison Cawein (US); Adela Florence Nicolson Cory (pseud. "Lawrence Hope"); Thomas William Hodgson Crosland; Edward Dyson (Australia); William Gay (Australia); Rudyard Kipling (UK); William Butler Yeats

Deaths
George Arnold; William Edmondstone Aytoun; Abraham Lincoln (US); Lydia Huntley Sigourney (US); Isaac Williams; M. J. Chapman (Barbados); Hannah Gould (US)

• Sarah Elizabeth Carmichael's Poems
• Christina Rossetti's The Prince's Progress
• Algernon Charles Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, 1st series, including "Dolores"
• John Greenleaf Whittier's Snow-Bound
• Alice Cary's Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns
• Sir John Frederick William Herschel's translation of Homer's Iliad into hexameter verse
• Herman Melville's Battle-pieces
• Emily Dickinson's "A narrow fellow in the grass" published

Births
Barcroft Boake (Australia); Katharine Harris Bradley (half of "Michael Field"); Gelett Burgess (US);Edmund Vance Cooke (US); Sophia Almon Hensley (US); E. W. Hornung (Australia); Bernard O'Dowd (Australia)

Deaths
Richard Le Gallienne; Francis Sylvester Mahony; Thomas Love Peacock; Ann Taylor; Daniel Bryan (US); Robert Nugent Dunbar (UK); Dora Read Goodale (US)

Touchstone poems
Algernon Charles Swinburne's "Dolores" by Arthur Clement Hilton's "Octopus" (1872), Owen Seaman's "A Song of Renunciation (After A. C. S.)" (1896), and Gilbert Keith Chesterton's "Dolores Replies to Swinburne" in "Answers to the Poets" (Collected Poems 1932)

Poems about poems
• parody: Lewis Carroll's "You are Old, Father William" about Robert Southey's "The Old Man's Complaints" (1799)
• parody: Lewis Carroll's "Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy" about David Bates's "Speak Gently" (1849)
• parody: Lewis Carroll's "How Doth the Little Crocodile" about Isaac Watt's "Against Idleness and Mischief" (1715)
• parody: Lewis Carroll's "Twinkle, twinkle, little bat" about Ann and Jane Taylor's "The Star" (1806)

DOMINION OF CANADA ESTABLISHED ON JULY 1

• Matthew Arnold's New Poems, including "Dover Beach"
• Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark
• Ralph Waldo Emerson's May-Day
• Algernon Charles Swinburne's Song of Italy
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy
• Emma Lazarus' Poems and Translations
• Richard Henry Wilde's Hesperia
• John Greenleaf Whittier's The Tent on the Beach
• W. W. Skeat published the A-text of Piers Plowman (and the B- and C- texts in 1869 and 1873)

Births
Elizabeth Clayton Cardozo (US); Frances Densmore (US); Ernest Christopher Dowson; Lionel Pigot Johnson; Henry Lawson (Australia); Tom MacInnes (Canada); Roderic Quinn (Australia); George William Russell ("Æ"; Ireland); David McKee Wright (New Zealand)

Deaths
Charles Baudelaire (France; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Fitz-Greene Halleck (US); John Hollin Ridge; Alexander Smith; Henry Timrod; Nathaniel Parker Willis; Forceythe Willson

Touchstone poems
Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" by Anthony Hecht's "The Dover Bitch" (1967), Kenneth Patchen's "The Queer Client and the Forest-Inn" (1968), Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "The Sea is Calm Tonight" (1993), and Tom Clark's "Dover Beach" (1987)
Augusta Webster's "If? by "Arabella Eugenia Smith's "If I Should Die To-night" (1873) and Benjamin Franklin King's "If I Should Die" (by 1894)

• Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book, in 12 Books and over 21,000 lines (1868-69)
• Frederick James Furnivall founds the Chaucer Society
• William Morris' The Earthly Paradise, I, completed in 1870
• Phoebe Cary's Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love
• Adah Isaacs Menken's Infelicia
• Julia Ward Howe's Later Lyrics
• William Barnes' Poems of Rural Life in Common English
• Charles Mair's Dreamland

Births
Mary Austin (US); W.E.B. Du Bois (US); Mary Fullerton (Australia); Mary Hunter Austin (US); Edgar Lee Masters (?) (US)

Deaths
Charles Harpur (Australia); Thomas D'Arcy McGee (Canada); Adah Isaacs Menken (US)

Poems about poems
• imitation: Shirley Brooks's "For a' That and a' That" about Robert Burns's "For a' That and a' That" (1797)

• W. S. Gilbert's Bab Ballads
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems
• Alfred lord Tennyson's The Holy Grail and Other Poems, with "The Coming of Arthur," "The Holy Grail," "Pelleas and Ettarre," and "The Passing of Arthur"
• Frances Harper's Moses
• Lucy Larcom's Poems
• John Greenleaf Whittier's Among the Hills

Births
Laurence Binyon; E. J. Brady (Australia); Olivia Bush, née Ward, later Banks (US); Arthur Sheerly Cripps (Rhodesia); Stephen Leacock; Charlotte Mary Mew; William Vaughn Moody (US); Will H. Ogilvie (Australia); Edwin Arlington Robinson (US); George Sterling (US); Clara Ann Thompson; Arnold Wall (New Zealand); David McKee Wright (New Zealand)

Deaths
Charlotte Alington Barnard; George Copway (Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh; Canada)

Touchstone poems
Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Higher Pantheism" by Algernon Charles Swinburne's "The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell" (1880)
Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Higher Pantheism" by Algernon Charles Swinburne's "The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell" (1880)

Poems about poems
• parody: Hartley Coleridge's "He lived amidst th' untrodden ways" about William Wordsworth's "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" (1800) 

• Adam Lindsay Gordon's Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems, including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life"
• mathematician James Joseph Sylvester publishes his The Laws of Verse
• Helen Hunt Jackson's Verses
• James Russell Lowell's The Cathedral
• John Greenleaf Whittier's Ballads of New England

Births
Hilaire Belloc (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Christopher John Brennan (Australia); Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas; Eva Selena Gore-Booth (Ireland); Thomas Sturge Moore; Lena Guilbert Ford; Thomas MacDermot ('Tom Redcam') (Jamaica); Blanche (B. E.) Baughan (New Zealand)

Deaths
David Bates; Charles Dickens; Adam Lindsay Gordon (Australia); William Gilmore Simms; James M. Whitfield; William E. Hickson

Floruit
Christine Rutledge 

• Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, including "Jabberwocky"
• Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs, including "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"
• Thomas Maitland (i.e., Robert Williams Buchanan) attacks Dante Gabriel Rossetti in "The Fleshly School of Poetry" in Contemporary Review (Oct.); and Rossetti replies in "The Stealthy School of Criticism" in Athenaeum (Dec.)
• Joaquin Miller's Songs of the Sierras
• Algernon Charles Swinburne's Songs before Sunrise
• Alfred lord Tennyson's "The Last Tournament"
• Walt Whitman's Passage to India
• John Greenleaf Whittier's Miriam
• Frances Harper's Poems
• Emma Lazarus' Admetus

Births
Edwin Ford Aper (US); John Le Gay Brereton (Australia); Stephen Crane (US); Arthur Guiterman (US); William Henry Davies; Ralph Edwin Hodgson; James Weldon Johnson (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Francis Joseph Sherman (Canada); John Millington Synge (Ireland); Joseph Tishler ('Bellrive'; Australia); Paul Valéry (Academy of American Poets Web site; US)

Deaths
Alice Patty Lee Cary and Phoebe Cary (US); Charlotte Elliott; John Frederick William Herschel; Thomas Buchanan Read; James Monroe Whitfield

• Edward Lear's More Nonsense, Rhymes
• William Morris' Love is Enough
• Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song, a Nursery Rhyme Book
• Alfred lord Tennyson's "Gareth and Lynette"
• Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Three Books of Songs and Christus
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Drops of Water

Births
Paul Laurence Dunbar (US); Dr. John McCrae (Canada); John Shaw Nielson (Australia); Leonora Speyer (US); Jesse Edgar Middleton; Jean Blewett (Canada); Hiram Alfred Cody (Canada); Arthur H. Adams (New Zealand); Alice Katherine Fallows (US)

Deaths
Henry Howard Brownell; Samuel Henry Dickson; Helena Mabel Forrest (Australia); William J. Macquorn Rankine (Scotland); William Miller (Scotland)

Touchstone poems
Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Arthur Clement Hilton's "The Vulture and the Husbandman" (1872) 

Poems about poems
• parody: Arthur Clement Hilton's "Octopus" about Algernon Charles Swinburne's "Dolores" (1866)
• parody: Shirley Brooks's "Waggawocky" about Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" (1855)
• parody: Arthur Clement Hilton's "The Vulture and the Husbandman" (1872) about Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

• William Morris's Love is Enough
• Lucy Larcom's Childhood Songs
• Henry Timrod's Poems

Births
Gilbert E. Brooke (Singapore); George Herbert Clarke (Canada); Walter De La Mare; Ellen Glasgow (US); William Christopher Handy (US); George Cabot Lodge (US); Maude Caldwell Perry (US); Alexander L. Posey (US); Lola Ridge (US)

Deaths
Caroline Clive; Kasiprasad Ghose (India); Janet Hamilton; Joseph Howe; Janet Thomson; Frederick Goddard Tuckerman; Caroline Cheseborough (US)

Poems about poems
• imitation: Arabella Eugenia Smith's "If I Should Die To-night" about Augusta Webster's "If?" (1867)

• J. Thomson's "The City of Dreadful Night," published in National Reformer, and later in 1880
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Hanging of the Crane
• Joseph Howe's Poems and Essays

Births
Maurice Baring; Mary Ursula Bethell (New Zealand); Gordon Bottomley; Lillie A. Brooks (Canada); A. H. Reginald Buller; Gilbert Keith Chesterton; Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (US); Robert Frost(US); J. W. Gordon ('Jim Grahame') (Australia); Stanley de Vere Alexander Julius; Amy Lowell(Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canada); Josephine Peabody (US); Robert William Service (Canada); Gertrude Stein (Academy of American Poets Web site; US);Trumbull Stickney (US); Winifred Tennant (Australia)

Deaths
Shirley Brooks; Sydney Thompson Dobell; Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall); Thomas Miller; Caroline Carleton (Australia)

• Robert Browning's Aristophane's Apology
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Masque of Pandora
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Songs of Many Seasons
• John Greenleaf Whittier's Hazel Blossoms

Births
William Talbot Allison (Canada); Edmund Clerihew Bentley; Anna Hempstead Branch (US); Alice Dunbar-Nelson (US; wife of Paul L. Dunbar); Rainer Maria Rilke (Prague; Academy of American Poets Web site; US)

Deaths
Robert Stephen Hawker; Charles Kingsley; Rebekah Gumpert Hyneman (US)

Poems about poems
• imitation: William Ernest Henley's "We'll Go No More A-Roving" about George Gordon, lord Byron's "So We'll Go No More a Roving" (1830)

• Robert Browning's Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper
• Dr. Brewster Higley's "Home on the Range"
• William Morris' The Story of Sigurd the Volsung, and the Fall of the Niblungs
• Ralph Waldo Emerson's Selected Poems
• Emma Lazarus' The Spagnoletto
• Herman Melville's Clarel
• Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Passions

Births
Sherwood Anderson (US); Gertrude Bartlett; Sarah N. Cleghorn (US); C. J. Dennis (Australia); William Ellery Leonard (US); Hugh McCrae (Australia)

Deaths
Charles Heavysege; John Neal; Edmund Hamilton Sears

• Coventry Patmore's The Unknown Eros and Other Odes
• Edward Lear's Laughable Lyrics
• Sidney Lanier's Poems

Births
Rose Fyleman; Marsden Hartley (US)

Deaths
Toru Dutt (India), of pulmonary tuberculosis; Menella Bute Smedley; Elizabeth F. Ellet (US)

Touchstone poems
Gerard Manley Hopkins's "God's Grandeur" (composing date) by Maxime Kumin's "Almost Spring, Driving Home, Reciting Hopkins" (1996)

• Algernon Charles Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, 2nd series
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Keramos
• John Greenleaf Whittier's The Vision of Echard

Births
Walter Conrad Arensberg (US); Frank Oliver Call (Canada); George M. Cohan (US); Adelaide Crapsey (US); Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty (Ireland); Don Marquis (US);John Masefield; Carl August Sandburg (US); Edward Thomas; 

Deaths
William Cullen Bryant; John Dunmore Lang (Australia); Bayard Taylor; George Boyer Vashon; Sarah Helen Whitman

Floruit
Elizabeth T. Corbett

THOMAS EDISON PATENTS THE ELECTRIC LIGHTBULB

• Robert Browning's Dramatic Idyls, including "Ivàn Ivànovitch"
• Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Pirates of Penzance
• Alfred lord Tennyson's Ballads and Other Poems

Births
Joseph Campbell (Ireland); P. J. Hartigan ('John O'Brien') (Australia); Joe Hill (US); Vachel Lindsay(US); Dorothy Frances McCrae (Australia); Harold Edward Munro; Wallace Stevens (US)

Deaths
Frances Brown (Browne); James Branch Cabell (US); Richard Henry Dana; Sarah Josepha Hale;Rosanna Eleanor (Mullins) Leprohon; James Clerk Maxwell; William Howitt; Robert Tennant; Ethelinda Eliot Beers (Ethel Lynn) (US)

Touchstone poems
W. S. Gilbert's "When a felon's not engaged in his employment" (The Pirates of Penzance, 1879) by Wendy Cope's "A Policeman's Lot" (1986) 

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ultima Thule
• Algernon Charles Swinburne's The Heptalogia
• Seven Balliol College Oxford members led by H. C. Beeching and J. W. Mackail publish The Masque of B-ll--l, which is immediately suppressed by authorities
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Iron Gate
• Sidney Lanier's The Science of English Verse
• Charles G. D. Roberts' Orion

Births
Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky) (Academy of American Poets Web site; Italy); Joseph Warren Beach (US); Alfred Cruickshank (ca.; Trinidad); Angelina Weld Grimké (US); Radclyffe Hall; Wilson MacDonald (Canada); Alfred Noyes (UK; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); George Henry Powell

Deaths
Lydia Maria Child; Eliza Dunlop; Mary Ann Evans (pseud. "George Eliot"); George Moses Horton; Epes Sargent; Jones Very; Francis Macnamara ('Frank the Poet') (Australia); Susan Nugent Wood (Australia)

Floruit
Juana Manwell

Poems about poems
• translation: Emily Henrietta Hickey's translation (Verse-tales, Lyrics and Translations 1880) of "The Battle of Maldon" (1000)
• imitation: Algernon Charles Swinburne's "The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell" about Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Higher Pantheism" (1869)

• Frederick James Furnivall founds the Browning Society
• Christina Rossetti's A Pageant, and other Poems
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Ballads and Sonnets, with "The House of Life" complete, and Poems
• Oscar Wilde's Poems

Births
Franklin Pierce Adams (US); Lascelles Abercrombie; Clive Bell; Witter Bynner (US); Padraic Colum (Ireland); Abbie Huston Evans (US); Eleanor Farjeon; Edgar Guest (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Elizabeth Madox Roberts (US); Furnley Maurice (Frank Wilmot; Australia); John G. Neihardt (US)

Deaths
Thomas Carlyle; Edgar Albert Guest; Josiah Gilbert Holland; Sidney Lanier; Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy; Marcus Clarke (Australia); L. Virginia French (US)

Floruit
Sydney Dayre

• F. J. Child's edition of English and Scottish Popular Ballads, in 5 vols. (1882-98): multiple versions of 305 ballads
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's In the Harbor
• Emma Lazarus' Songs of a Semite

Births
Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong; John Drinkwater; James Joyce (Ireland); Mina Loy; A. A. Milne; E.J. Pratt (Canada; Canadian Poetry Web site); Anne Spencer (US); James Stephens (Ireland); Louise Morey Bowman (Canada); Thomas S. Jones, Jr.; Enid Derham (Australia)

Deaths
Ralph Waldo Emerson (US); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; William Brighty Rands; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; James Thomson; Henry Kendall (Australia); Brian Vrepont (Benjamin Arthur Truebridge) (Australia); Charles R. Thatcher (Australia); Sarah Mapps Douglass ("Ella") (US); Fanny Parnell (US)

Poems about poems
• parody: James Clerk Maxwell's "In Memory of Edward Wilson" about Robert Burns's "Comin thro' the Rye" (composed 1796)

• Robert Browning's Jocoseria
• Emma Lazarus writes "The New Colossus" in aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund (for the New York "Statue of Liberty")
• George Meredith's Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth
• Algernon Charles Swinburne's A Century of Roundels
• Ella (Wheeler) Wilcox's Poems of Passion
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Michael Angelo
• James Whitecomb Riley's The Old Swimmin'-hole

Births
William Baylebridge (Australia); Charles Badger Clark Jr. (US); Max Eastman (US); Arthur Davison Ficke (US); Thomas Ernest Hulme; Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy; Alfred Kreymborg (US);Marjorie Pickthall (Canada); William Carlos Williams (US)

Deaths
Charles Timothy Brooks; Edward Fitzgerald; George Moses Horton (US); William Hosack (Scotland); Sarah Louisa Forten ("Ada") (US)

• Isabella Valency Crawford's Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and Other Poems
• Amy Levy's A Minor Poet and Other Verse
• Percy Montrose's "Oh My Darling Clementine"
• Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Sidney Lanier's Complete Poems
• Lucy Larcom's Collected Poems
• Henry Timrod's Katie

Births
Donald Evans (US); James Elroy Flecker; Arthur Giovannitti (US); Edith Alice Mary Harper, aka Anna Wickham; Wilbert Snow (US); John Collings Squire; Sara Teasdale (US); W. J. Turner (Australia); Francis Brett Young

Deaths
Charles Stuart Calverley; John Harris; Henry Clay Work; Henry Horne (Australia)

• Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses
• Algernon Charles Swinburne's Marino Faliero
• Alfred lord Tennyson's Tiresias and Other Poems, and "Balin and Balan"

Births
Charles Richard Allen (New Zealand); Kingsley Fairbridge (Rhodesia); David Herbert Lawrence;Ezra Pound (US); Elinor Morton Hoyt Wylie (US); Andrew John Young (Scotland); Gerald Gould; Florence K. Frank; Vance Palmer (Australia); Dorothea Mackellar (Australia)

Deaths
George Frederick Cameron (Canada); Helen Hunt Jackson; Monckton Milnes; Susanna Moodie; Charles Whitehead; Juliana Horatia Ewing; Maria W. Chapman (US)

• Frederick James Furnivall founds the Shelley Society
• Rudyard Kipling's Departmental Ditties
• Alfred lord Tennyson's "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After"
• Emma Lazarus' "The New Colossus" is placed on a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York
• Helen Hunt Jackson's Sonnets and Lyrics
• John Greenleaf Whittier's St. Gregory's Guest
• Charles G.D. Roberts' In Divers Tones

Births
Zoë Rumbold Akins (US); William Rose Benêt (US); Daniel Aloysius Casey (Canada); Frances Cornford; Hilda Doolittle (H.D.; US); John Gould Fletcher (US); John Henry Gray; Hazel Hall (US); Roy Helton (US); Georgia Douglas Johnson (US); Joyce Kilmer (US); Ma Rainey (US); Walter Adolpe Roberts (Jamaica); Siegfried Sassoon; John Hall Wheelock (US); Charles Williams

Deaths
William Barnes; Emily Dickinson; Paul Hamilton Hayne; John Pierpont; Abram Joseph Ryan; George Thomas Lanigan; Joseph Medlicott Scriven

• Robert Browning's Parleyings with Certain People
• George Meredith's Ballads and Poems of Tragic Life
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Before the Curlew
• Emma Lazarus' By the Waters of Babylon
• Terry Rose Cooke's Complete Poems
• George Frederick Cameron's Lyrics on Freedom, Love and Death
• Archibald Lampman's Among the Millet

Births
Leonard Bacon (US); Mary Josephine Benson (Canada); Rupert Brooke; Shelton Brooks; Elizabeth Daryush, daughter of Robert Bridges; Marcus Garvey (Aug; Jamaica); Skipwith Cannell (US); Sir Julian Sorell Huxley; Orrick Johns (US); John Robinson Jeffers (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Meade Minnigerode; Marianne Craig Moore (US); Edwin Muir (Scotland); Charlie Patton (US); John Reed (US); Edith Louisa Sitwell; Sir Sacheverell Sitwell

Deaths
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik; Isabella Valency Crawford; Emma Lazarus (US); Edward Rowland Sill; Egbert Martin ('Leo') (Guyana)

Poems about poems
• parody: T.D. Sullivan's "Speak Gently" (Green Leaves. A Volume of Irish Verses 1887)about Lewis Carroll's "Speak Roughly to Your Little Boy" (1866)

• Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism, second series
• Ernest Henley's A Book of Verses
• George Meredith's A Reading of Earth
• Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"
• Winthrop Mackworth Praed's Political and Occasional Poems, ed. Sir George Young
• Thomas Nelson Page and Armistead Churchill Gordon's Befo' de War
• Walt Whitman's November Boughs

Births
Irving Berlin (US); T. S. Eliot (US to 1927; then British); Julian Grenfell; Fenton Johnson (US); Aline Kilmer (US); Haniel Long (US); Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand); Eugene O'Neill (US);Fernando Pessoa (Portugal; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); John Crowe Ransom(Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Alan Seeger (US)

Deaths
A. Bronson Alcott; Matthew Arnold; Mary Howitt; Edward Lear; John Crowe Ransom; Elizabeth Anna Hart

• Robert Browning's Asolando
• Eugene Field's A Little Book of Western Verse, including "Little Boy Blue" and "Wynkyn, Blynkyn and Nod"
• Amy Levy's A London Plane Tree
• Walter Pater's Appreciations: With an Essay on Style
• Algernon Charles Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, 3rd series
• Alfred lord Tennyson's Demeter and Other Poems; he writes "Crossing the Bar" in Oct. as he crossed the Solent
• W. B. Yeats' The Wanderings of Oisin
• Emma Lazarus' Poems

Births
Conrad Aiken (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova (Ukraine; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); William Hervey Allen (US); J. R. Hervey (New Zealand); Blanche Lamontagne Beauregard; Harley Matthews (Australia); Dion Titherage; Arthur David Waley; Dorothy Wellesley

Deaths
William Allingham (Ireland); Robert Browning; Eliza Cook; Gerard Manley Hopkins, of typhoid;Amy Levy, by suicide; Cornelius Mathews; Martin Farquhar Tupper; John Barr (New Zealand); Winifred Howells (US)

• Emily Dickinson's Poems published posthumously by editors Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson
• Walter Pater's Appreciations with an Essay on Style
• Robert Louis Stevenson's Ballads
• James Whitcomb Riley's Rhymes of Childhood
• John Greenleaf Whittier's At Sundown

Births
Zora Cross (Australia); Ivor Gurney; A. P. Herbert; Elspeth Honeyman Clarke (Canada); H.P. Lovecraft (US); Claude McKay (US); Boris Pasternak (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Jean Rhys (Dominica); Isaac Rosenberg; Joe Wallace (Canada)

Deaths
George Henry Boker (US); J. H. Newman; John Boyle O'Reilly (US); Lucy E. Tilley (US)

Poems about poems
• major influence: Rudyard Kipling's "The Last of the Light Brigade" about Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854)

• John Davidson's In a Music Hall
• William Morris's Poems by the Way
• The Rhymers Club gathered at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, London, 1891-93, including John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, W. B. Yeats, and others
• James Kenneth Stephens's Lapsus Calami and Quo Musa Tendis
• Emily Dickinson's Poems, Second Series, published by editors Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson
• Helen Hunt Jackson's Poems
• Herman Melville's Timoleon
• Walt Whitman's Good Bye My Fancy

Births
Lereine Ballantyne; John Peale Bishop (US); Edwin Gerard ('Trooper Gerardy') (Australia); Lesbia Harford (Australia); Francis Ledwidge (Ireland) Osip Mandelstam (Russia; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Cole Porter (US)

Deaths
Peter Hopegood (Australia); John Henry Hopkins, Jr.; James Russell Lowell (US); Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton; Douglas Huyghue (Canada); Herman Melville (US)

Poems about poems
• parody: James Kenneth Stephen's "A Sonnet" about William Wordsworth's "Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland" (1807)

• Rudyard Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads, including "Gunga Din"
• Alfred Tennyson's The Death of Oenone
• Lucy Larcom's At the Beautiful Gate and Other Songs of Faith

Births
Richard Aldington; Djuna Barnes (US); John Peale Bishop (US); Maxwell Bodenheim (US); Mary Phelps Crosby (US); Leon Gellert (Australia); Kenneth Leslie (Canada); Archibald MacLeish (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Hugh MacDiarmid; Edna St. Vincent Millay (US); Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West; J. R. R. Tolkien; César Vallejo (Academy of American Poets Web site; US)

Deaths
Barcroft Boake, by suicide (Australia); Josiah D. Canning; Robert P. Coffin (US); Rose Terry Cooke (US); William Johnson Cory; Christopher Pearse Cranch; Alfred Lord Tennyson; James Whitfield (US); Walt Whitman; John Greenleaf Whittier

Poems about poems
• parody: W. J. Linton's "How they Brought the News to a Gent" (Heliconundrums 1892) about Robert Browning's "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix" (1842)

SUFFRAGE REFORM IN NEW ZEALAND

• Thomas Edward Brown's Old John, and Other Poems
• John Davidson's Fleet Street Eclogues
• Francis Thompson's Poems, including "The Hound of Heaven"
• Paul Laurence Dunbar's Oak and Ivy
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In This our World
• James Whitcomb Riley's Poems Here at Home
• Bliss Carman's Low Tide on Grand Pré
• Charles G.D. Roberts' Songs on the Common Day
• Duncan Campbell Scott's The Magic House

Births
Gerald William Bullett; Arthur Stanley Bourinot (Canada); Richard Church; Frank A. Collymore (Barbados); Donald Davidson (US); Samuel Greenberg (US); Jorge Guillén (Spain; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); William Noel Hodgson; Thomas MacGreevy (Ireland); Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols; Wilfred Owen; Dorothy Parker (US); Frank Prewett (Canada); Sir Herbert Edward Read; Ivor Armstrong Richards; Sylvia Townsend Warner

Deaths
Sarah Tittle Bolton; Phillips Brooks; Frances Anne Butler Kemble (US); Charles Sangster; John Addington Symonds; Lucy Larcom (US); Elizabeth Oakes Smith (US)

• Robert Browning's Asolando
• John Davidson's "Thirty Bob a Week" 
• Verse by Ben King (2nd edn., 1898)
• Algernon Charles Swinburne's Astrophel and Other Poems
• The Yellow Book, published 1894-97
• W. B. Yeats' The Land of Heart's Desire
• Frances Harper's The Martyr of Alabama
• George Santayana's Sonnets and Other Verses

Births
Edward Estlin Cummings (US); H.L. Davis (US); Eileen Duggan (New Zealand); Rolfe Humphries (US); H. Phelps Putnam (US); Charles Reznikoff (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); W. W. E. Ross (Canada); Bessie Smith; Genevieve Taggard (US); Jean Toomer (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Mark Van Doren (US)

Deaths
John Askham; Mary E. Hewitt (US); William Charles Hodgson (New Zealand); Heinrich Hoffman;Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (US); Rosa Vertner Johnson Jeffrey (US); Eugene Jolas (US); Benjamin Franklin King; Robert Fuller Murray, of consumption; Roden Berkely Wriothesley Noel; Walter Pater; Christina Rossetti, of cancer; Robert Louis Stevenson, of a brain haemorrhage, in Samoa;Celia Thaxter (US); Julia Augusta Webster; Constance Fenimore Woolson

Touchstone poems
John Davidson's "A Ballad of a Nun" by Owen Seaman's "A Ballad of a Bun" (1896)

Poems about poems
• parody: Benjamin Franklin King's "If I Should Die" about Augusta Webster's "If?" (1867)

• Katharine Lee Bates' "America the Beautiful"
• Gelett Burgess' "The Purple Cow"
• James Whitcomb Riley's "Little Orphant Annie"
• Stephen Crane's The Black Riders
• Paul Laurence Dunbar's Majors and Minors
• James Russell Lowell's Last Poems
• Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey's Songs from Vagabondia

Births
Capel Boake (Australia); Lilian Bowes-Lyon; Alter Brody (US); Babette Deutsch (US); Paul Éluard(France; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Abraham Lincoln Gillespie (US); Robert Graves(Britain; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Oscar Hammerstein II (US); Edward Philip Harrington (Australia); Lorena Hart (US); Robert Hillyer (US); Alberta Hunter (US); David Michael Jones (Wales); Charles Hamilton Sorley; Edmund Wilson (US)

Deaths
Cecil Frances Alexander, née Humphreys; Louisa Sarah Bevington; Eugene Field; Thomas Henry Huxley; Frederick Locker-Lampson; William Wetmore Story; James Byrne Leicester Warren, baron de Tabley; Horatio Nelson Huggins (Trinidad)

• Alfred Austin made British Poet Laureate
• Ernest Christopher Dowson's Verses, including "Non Sum Qualis Eram"
• A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad
• William Morris publishes the Kelmscott Press edition of Chaucer's works
• Andrew Barton (`Banjo') Paterson's The Man from Snowy River
• Edwin Arlington Robinson's The Torrent and the Night Before
• Emily Dickinson's Poems, Third Series, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson
• Paul Laurence Dunbar's Lyrics of Lowly Life

Births
Edmund Charles Blunden; Horace Bray (Canada); Austin Clarke (Ireland); Ida Cox (US); Nancy Cunard (US); Walter D'arcy Cresswell (New Zealand); John Dos Passos (US); Thomas Hornsby Ferril (US); Ira Gershwin (US); Ramon Guthrie (US); E.Y. Harburg (US); Frederick Robert Higgins (Ireland); Eugenio Montale (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Isidor Schneider (US)

Deaths
Mathilde Blind; Henry Cuyler Bunner; Thomas Edward Brown; Alexander McLachlan; William Morris;Coventry Patmore; Paul Verlaine, at 52 (Jan. 8); (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); James Edward Fitzgerald (New Zealand)

Poems about poems
• parody: Owen Seaman's "A Song of Renunciation (After A. C. S.)" about Algernon Charles Swinburne's "Dolores" (1866)
• parody: Owen Seaman's "A Ballad of a Bun" about John Davidson's "A Ballad of a Nun"

• Edwin Arlington Robinson's The Children of the Night
• William Henry Drummond's The Habitant

Births
Louise Bogan (US); Kenneth Burke (US); Emanuel Carnevali (US); William Faulkner (US); Blind Lemon Jefferson (US); Walter Lowenfels (US); David McCord (US); John Wheelwright (US)

Deaths
Isabella Banks; William Gay (Australia); Jean Ingelow; W. J. Linton (US); Margaret Junkin Preston (US); Charles Henry Ross (ca.); James Joseph Sylvester; Pamelia Vining Yule (Canada)

• Thomas Hardy's Wessex Poems
• Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol
• Julia Ward Howe's From Sunset Ridge
• Wilfred Campbell's The Dreaded Voyage

Births
Stephen Vincent Benét (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Louise Bogan; Harindranath Chattopadhyana (India); Govinda Krishna Chettur (India); Philip Albert Child; Malcolm Cowley (US); Harry Crosby (US); Horace Gregory (US); Luis Palés Matos (Puerto Rico; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Edgell Rickword; William Soutar (Scotland); Melvin B. Tolson (US)

Deaths
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) (Jan. 14); Evan MacColl; Alexander MacGregor Rose(Scotland-Canada); Thomas Bracken (Ireland); Jane Euphemia Browne (Aunt Effie)

• Stephen Crane's War is Kind
• Ernest Dowson's Decorations: in Verse and Prose
• W. B. Yeats' The Wind among the Reeds
• Henry Timrod's Complete Poems

Births
Léonie Fuller Adams (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Noël Coward; Hart Crane(Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Thomas A. Dorsey (US); Hildegarde Flauner (US); Ernest Miller Hemingway (US); Raymond Knister (Canada); Janet Lewis (US); Federico Garcia Lorca(Spain; Academy of American Poets Web site); Joseph Moncure March (US); Vladimir Nabokov (US); Lynn Riggs (US); F. R. Scott (Canada; Canadian Poetry Web site); Allen Tate (US); Constance Woodrow (Canada)

Deaths
Archibald Lampman; Robert Lowry; Allen Tate (Academy of American Poets Web site; US)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA PROCLAIMED JULY 9

• Ernest Henley's For England's Sake
• Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch edits The Oxford Book of English Verse.
• W. B. Yeats' The Shadowy Waters
• An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor’s Critical Review of American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (reissued until 1909)
• Clarendon Press brings out Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's edition, The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250-1918, which is reissued up to 1939

Births
Basil Bunting (UK; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Edward Dahlberg (US); Robert Desnos (France; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Richard A. W. Hughes (Wales); Ernest G. Moll (Australia); Giorgos Seferis (Greece; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Yvor Winters(Academy of American Poets Web site; US)

Deaths
Stephen Crane, of tuberculosis; Richard Watson Dixon; Ernest Christopher Dowson; Richard Hovey; William Larminie; Melvin Tolson; Henry Duff Traill; Oscar Wilde

Floruit
Alice Mary Buckton (South Africa);

QUEEN VICTORIA DIES, JANUARY 22, and EDWARD VII (-1910) SUCCEEDS TO THE BRITISH THRONE

• Thomas Hardy's Poems of the Past and Present
• George Meredith's A Reading of Life
• George Santayana's Hermit of Carmel

Births
Adrian Hanbury Bell; Sterling A. Brown (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Ignatius Roy D. Campbell (South Africa); Robert Francis (US); Lindley Williams Hubbell (US); Laura Riding Jackson(Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Tom Inglis Moore (Australia); Salvatore Quasimodo(Italy; Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Kenneth Slessor (Australia)

Deaths
Robert Williams Buchanan; Sarah Elizabeth Carmichael; William Ellery Channing; William Cosmo Monkhouse; Albery Allson Whitman

Floruit
Thomas Craig (South Africa);

THE BOAR WAR ENDS (JUNE 1)

• Thomas Hardy's Poems of the Past and Present
• Walter De la Mare's Songs of Childhood
• John Edward Masefield's Salt-Water Ballads, including "Sea-Fever" ("I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and sky")
• on June 2, Clara Butt sings a special version of "Land of Hope and Glory," the final chorus from the "Coronation Ode" composed by Edward Elgar with lyrics by Arthur Christopher Benson
• W. B. Yeats' Cathleen Ni Houlihan
• George Cabot Lodge's Poems 1899-1902
• Trumbull Stickney's Dramatic Verses
• Edwin Arlington Robinson's Captain Craig

Births
Arna Bontemps (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Kay Boyle (US); Kenneth Fearing (US); R. D. Fitzgerald (Australia); Nazim Hikmet (Greece; Academy of American Poets Web site); Langston Hughes (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Philip Manderson Sherlock (Feb. 25; Jamaica);Ogden Nash (Academy of American Poets Web site; US); Michael William Edward Roberts; A. J. Smith (Canada); Stevie Smith; Eve Trlem (US)

Deaths
Philip James Bailey; Aubrey Thomas De Vere; Thomas Dunn English; Lionel Pigot Johnson, of a head injury sustained in falling off a bar-stool; Bret Harte; William McGonagall (ca; Scotland); Albery A. Whitman; Septimus Winner; Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (US); D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson; James Brunton Stephens (Australia); Harry Morant ('The Breaker') (Australia); Arthur Patchett Martin (Australia)