1871 in poetry
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[edit] Events
[edit] Works published
[edit] United Kingdom
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Robert Browning:
- Lewis Carroll (pen name of C. L. Dodgson), Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, including "Jabberwocky" (published this year, although the book states "1872")[1]
- Edward Lear, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.[1]
- 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)
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Songs before Sunrise[1]
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament" published in the Contemporary Review, December edition (one of Tennyson's "Arthurian Idylls", later published in Gareth and Lynette 1872)[1]
[edit] Other
- Joaquin Miller, pen name of Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller, Songs of the Sierras, United States
- Arthur Rimbaud, Le bateau ivre ("The Drunken Boat"), France
- Walt Whitman, Passage to India, United States
[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
- July 15 – Kunikida Doppo 國木田 獨歩 (died 1908), Japanese, Meiji period romantic poet and one of the novelists who pioneered naturalism in Japan (surname: Kunikida)
- 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:
- Francis Joseph Sherman, Canadian
- Madhavanuj, pen name of Kashinath Hari Modak (died 1917), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator; a physician[2]
[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
[edit] 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
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ 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
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