1871 in poetry
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[edit] Events
[edit] Works published
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, including "Jabberwocky"
- Edward Lear, 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 (October); and Rossetti replies in "The Stealthy School of Criticism" in Athenaeum (December)
- Joaquin Miller, Songs of the Sierras
- Arthur Rimbaud, Le bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat)
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Songs before Sunrise
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament"
- Walt Whitman, Passage to India
[edit] Awards and honors
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 16 – John Millington Synge (died 1909), Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, collector of folklore and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre
- June 17 – James Weldon Johnson (died 1938), African-American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance
- July 3 – William Henry Davies (died 1940), Welsh-born poet and writer who spent most of his life as a tramp in the United States and United Kingdom, but became known as one of the most popular poets of his time
- September 2 – John Le Gay Brereton (died 1933), Australian poet, critic and academic
- September 9 – Ralph Hodgson (died 1962), British
- October 30 – Paul Valéry (died 1945), French philosopher, author and Symbolist poet who also wrote essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music and current events
- November 1 – Stephen Crane (died 1900), American novelist, poet and journalist
- Date not known:
[edit] Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Alice and Phoebe Cary
- Charlotte Elliott
- John Frederick William Herschel
- Thomas Buchanan Read, American poet
- James Monroe Whitfield

