1862 in poetry

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February — Dante Gabriel Rossetti places a sheaf of poems (a few years later retrieved) in the coffin of his wife Elizabeth Siddal
Emily Dickinson's period of greatest poetic productivity was 1862

Emily Dickinson's "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers –," entitled "The Sleeping," as published in the Springfield Republican this year

Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer: Last Words, a reply to F. W. Newman's Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice 1861, itself a reply to Arnold's On Translating Homer, published that year^[1]
William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect: Third Collection (see also 1844, 1869, 1868)^[1]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Last Poems, edition prepared by her husband, Robert Browning; posthumously published^[1]
Charles Calverley, published anonymously, Verses and Translations^[1]
A. H. Clough, Last Poems, published posthumously with a memoir by F. T. Palgrave^[1]
Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets, first publication of the author's series of biographical essays on the Lake Poets, including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (originally published separately in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1834, 1835, 1839 and 1840; see also Selections Grave and Gay 1854, which included some of the essays)
George Meredith, Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside^[1]
Coventry Patmore, Victories of Love
Adelaide A. Procter, A Chaplet of Verses, illustrated by Richard Doyle^[1]
Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems (see also Poems 1890)^[1]

Charles Harpur, A Poet's Home, verse pamphlet, Australia^[2]
Henry Kendall, Poems and Songs, Australia
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn, including "Paul Revere's Ride", United States
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Furnace Blast, United States^[3]

Aleardo Aleardi, Canto politico ("Political Songs"), Italy
Charles Baudelaire, Petits poèmes en prose, France
Dalpatram, editor, Kavhadohan, an anthology of Gujarati-language poetry (India)^[4]
Leconte de Lisle, Poèmes barbares, France

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

January 10 – Hoshino Tenchi 星野天知 (died 1950), Japanese Meiji period poet and martial arts master; a co-founder of Bungakukai literary magazine; 8th Grand Master and a teacher of the Yagyu Shinkage-ryu martial-arts school (surname: Hoshino)
February 17 – Mori Ōgai 森鷗外 / 森鴎外 (died 1922) physician, translator, novelist and poet (surname: Mori)
April 24 – Arthur Christopher Benson (died 1925), English
May 22 – John Kendrick Bangs (died 1922), American
Also:
- Jean Blewett, Canadian
- John Jay Chapman (died 1923), American
- Edith Emma Cooper (half of "Michael Field")
- William T. Goodge (died 1909), Australian
- Thomas William Heney (died 1928), Australian
- Sir Henry John Newbolt
- John Bernard O'Hara (died 1927), Australian
- George Santayana, American
- Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian
- Irayimman Thampi ഇരയിമ്മന്‍ തമ്പി (born 1783), Indian, Malayalam-language court poet and musician
- Edith Wharton, American

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

February 11 – Elizabeth Siddall (born 1829), English artist, artist's model and poet; wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; from an opium overdose
March 13 – Roderick Flanagan (born 1828), Australian
May 6 – Henry David Thoreau, (born 1817), American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist, from tuberculosis
date not known – Gopala Krishna Pattanayak (born 1785), Indian, Oriya-language poet^[5]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ "Charles Harpur" article, Dictionary of Australian Biography Angus and Robertson, 1949, Project Gutenberg Australia website, retrieved May 11, 2009. Archived 2009-05-14.
^ Wagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
^ Blackburn, Stuart H., and Vasudha Dalmia, editors, India's Literary History, "Chapter 11: Dalpatram and the Nature of Literary Shifts in Nineteenth-Century Ahmedabad" by Svati Joshi, pp 338–357, published by Orient Blackswan, 2004 ISBN 9788178240565, retrieved Google Books (partial) version, December 16, 2008
^ 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 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008