1865 in poetry
This article covers 1865 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published in English
United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom
- Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
- Robert Browning, Poetical Works: Fourth Edition
- Robert Williams Buchanan, "The Session of the Poets," an attack on Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in The Spectator
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, children's novel, including the prefatory poem "All in the golden afternoon..." and a number of nonsense verses
- Arthur Hugh Clough, Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, including Dipsychus, posthumously published
- Mary Wright Sewell, Mother's Last Words: a ballad
- Algernon Charles Swinburne:
- * Atalanta in Calydon
- * ''Chastelard''
United States">American poetry">United States
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems
- Fitz-Greene Halleck, Young America: A Poem
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Humorous Poems
- George Moses Horton, Naked Genius; this year, Horton, a slave, gains his liberty, publishes the book in Raleigh, North Carolina, and moves to Philadelphia
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
- * Translator, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, two volumes
- * Household Poems
- James Russell Lowell, Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University
- John Godfrey Saxe, Clever Stories of Many Nations Rendered in Rhyme
- Richard Henry Stoddard, Abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode
- Samuel Ward, Lyrical Recreations
- Walt Whitman:
- * Drum-Taps, a collection of poems on the American Civil War, published in April
- * Sequel to Drum-Taps, a collection of 18 poems mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, including "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", published in Autumn
Other in English
- Charles Harpur, The Tower of a Dream, verse pamphlet, Australia
- Charles Heavysege, Jephthah's Daughter, Canada
Works published in other languages
- Giosuè Carducci, "Inno a Satana", Italy
- Victor Hugo, Les Chansons des rues et des bois, France
- Pamphile Lemay, Essais poétiques; French language; Canada
- Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe, Duain agus Orain, collection, Scottish Gaelic poet published in Scotland
- Sully Prudhomme, Stances et poèmes, FranceRimes et Poësies Jersiaises, Jersey
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March - Edward Dyson, Australian
- March 20 - Arthur Bayldon, Australian
- March 23 - Madison Cawein, American
- March 27 - Marion Angus, Scots language poet
- April 9 - Adela Florence Nicolson, née Cory, English
- May 2 - William Gay, Scottish-born Australian
- May 5 - Helen Maud Merrill, American
- May 15 - Albert Verwey, Dutch
- May 20 - Henry Ernest Boote, English-born Australian
- June 13 - W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright
- July 18 - Dowell O'Reilly, Australian
- July 21 - Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, English writer and poet
- August 16 – Mary Gilmore, Australian poet and journalist
- September 12 - Sophus Claussen, Danish
- September 21 - Francis Kenna, Australian
- December 30
- *Rudyard Kipling, Indian-born English novelist, writer and poet
- *Emily Julian McManus, Canadian poet, author, and educator
- Also:
- * Kunjikuttan Thampuran, Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- * Samuel Williamson, Australian
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- May 1 - Isaac Williams, English writer, poet and clergyman
- June 10 - Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, the "Sweet Singer of Hartford", American poet and writer of conduct books
- August 4 - William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Scottish lawyer and poet
- September 5 - Hannah Flagg Gould, American poet
- September 29 - Richard Lower, English dialect poet
- October 15 - Andrés Bello, Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
- November 9 - George Arnold, American writer, poet and artist
- November 18 - Joseph Déjacque, French anarchist and poet