1882 in poetry

This article covers 1882 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

June 30 - Convicted assassin Charles Guiteau writes a poem called "I am Going to the Lordy", which he recites immediately before his execution the same day

Works published

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

William Allingham, Evil May-Day
F. J. Child, ed., The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, in 5 volumes, including multiple versions of 305 ballads, American scholar published in England
Toru Dutt, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hidnustan, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. ; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
William Livingston, Duain agus Orain, Scottish Gaelic poet published in Scotland
George Robert Sims, The Dagonet Ballads
Algernon Charles Swinburne, ''Tristram of Lyonesse, and Other Poems''

Great scientist this year a published poet

James Clerk Maxwell, whose contributions to science were profound, this year became a published poet when a collection of his poems was published by his friend Lewis Campbell, two years after Maxwell's death.
As a great lover of British poetry, Maxwell memorized poems and wrote his own. The best known is Rigid Body Sings closely based on Comin' Through the Rye by Robert Burns, which he apparently used to sing while accompanying himself on a guitar. It has the immortal opening lines :

United States">American poetry">United States

Amos Bronson Alcott, Sonnets and Canzonets
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems
George Henry Boker, The Book of the Dead
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Idyls of Norway
Paul Hamilton Hayne, Collected Poems
Emma Lazarus, Songs of a Semite
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, In the Harbor: Ultima Thule, Part II
William Gilmore Simms, Works, 10 volumes, including poetry, New York
Mary Ashley Townsend, ''Down the Bayou and Other Poems''

Other

Gabriele D'Annunzio, Canto novo, Italy
Octave Crémazie, Œuvres complètes, Canada
Toru Dutt, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hidnustan, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
Kalidasa, Sakuntalam translated from the original Sanskrit into Malayalam by Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, India
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Germany, a study embracing poetry, philosophy and the author's "God is dead" view
Jacques Perk, Mathilde, Netherlands
Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Lyrische Gänge, Germany
Iosif Vulcan, Lira mea, Romanian, published in Austria-Hungary

Births

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January 6 – Fan Noli, Albanian writer, scholar, archbishop and politician
January 15 – Jun Kawada 川田順, Japanese, Shōwa period tanka poet and entrepreneur
January 18 – A. A. Milne, English author, playwright and writer of children's poetry best known for his books about the teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, and for various children's poems
February 2 – James Joyce, Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century
February 4 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet
February 6 – Anne Spencer, American Black poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement
February 9 – James Stephens, Irish novelist and poet
February 10 – Winifred Mary Letts, English writer
March 24 – Enid Derham, Australian poet and academic
May 5 – Kyōsuke Kindaichi 金田一京助, Japanese linguist and poet, father of linguist Haruhiko Kindaichi
May 14 – Mokichi Saitō, Japanese, Taishō period poet of the Araragi school and psychiatrist, father of novelist Kita Morio
June 1 – John Drinkwater, English poet and dramatist
June 5 – Seemab Akbarabadi سیماب اکبرآبادی, born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui, Urdu poet from India
July 13 – Catherine Pozzi, French poet and woman of letters
July 22 – Frederic Manning, Australian poet and novelist
September 17 – Darrell Figgis, Irish poet and nationalist
September 23 – Brian Vrepont, Australian
October 2 – Martin Armstrong, English writer and poet
November 26 – Ikuma Arishima, 有島生馬 pen-name of Arishima Mibuma, Japanese novelist, poet and painter; member of the Shirakaba literary circle
December 3 – Santōka Taneda 種田山頭火 pen name of Taneda Shōichi 種田正一, author and haiku poet
December 5 – Natalia Negru, Romanian poet
December 11 – Subramania Bharati, Tamil writer, poet, journalist, Indian independence activist and social reformer
December 27 – Mina Loy, English artist, poet, Futurist, actor, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps and bohemian
Also:
* C. Subrahamania Bharati, Indian, Tamil-language poet also writing Indian poetry in English
* Wallace Gould, American

Deaths

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

February 8 – Berthold Auerbach, German-Jewish poet and novelist
March 29 – Sibella Elizabeth Miles, English poet, writer and schoolteacher
April 10 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti 63, English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
April 23 – William Brighty Rands, English writer of nursery rhymes
April 27 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 78, American author, poet and philosopher
March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 75, American poet
June 3 – James Thomson, 48, British poet whose fame rests primarily upon the reputation of his long poem of 1874, The City of Dreadful Night
June 30 – Charles J. Guiteau,, American writer and lawyer, assassin of United States President James A. Garfield
August 1 – Henry Kendall, Australian
August 25 – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian author and poet
October 30 – William Forster, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and poet
Also:
* Charles R. Thatcher, Australian