1872 in poetry

This article covers 1872 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

Thomas Gold Appleton, Faded Leaves
Paul Hamilton Hayne, Legends and Lyrics
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, a book that combines fiction and nonfiction prose, together with poetry
Albert Pike, Hymns to the Gods
Celia Thaxter, Poems
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, United States

François Coppée:
*Les Bijoux de la delivrance, short verse drama inspired by the Franco-Prussian War; France
* Les Humbles
Victor Hugo, L'Année terrible, France
Catulle Mendès, La Part du roi, verse drama, a one-act comedy; France

Hilario Ascasubi, Obras completas, three volumes compiled by the author; Argentine author writing in [Latin American poetry|American poetry|Spanish]
Girolamo de Rada, Skënderbeu i pafat, begins publication, Arbëresh
Holger Drachmann, Digte, Denmark
José Hernández, Martín Fierro, the first part of an epic Spanish-language Argentine poem in which the hero defends his way of life against encroaching socialization and civilization; an example of the Gaucho literature movement in South America
Michel Rodange, Renert odder de Fuuss am Frack an a Maansgréisst, Luxembourg

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

February 22 – John Shaw Neilson, Australian
June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar, African American
July 8 – Sasaki Nobutsuna 佐佐木信綱, Japanese, Shōwa period tanka poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods
August 15 – Sri Aurobindo, Indian nationalist, poet, Yogi and spiritual Guru writing mostly in English
October 10 – Arthur Talmage Abernethy, American poet, journalist, theologian and minister; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1948–1953
October 18 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian poet, novelist and composer
November 7 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist
November 30 – John McCrae, Canadian war poet, physician, author, artist and soldier best known for the poem "In Flanders Fields"
December 6 – Arthur Henry Adams, Australian
Also:
* Hafiz Ibrahim, Egyptian poet called "the poet of the Nile"
* Divakarla Tirupti Shastri, Indian, Telugu-language poet; one of the two poets in the due known in Telugu literature as "Triupati Vankata Kavulu"

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