1866 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 |
| Years in literature: | 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 18th century 19th century 20th century |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s |
| Years: | 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 |
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[edit] Ode on the Mammoth Cheese
In this year a masterpiece of cheese-making, a 7,000-pound Canadian behemoth produced in Perth, Ontario, and sent to exhibitions in Toronto, New York and Britain, was given its appropriate due in poetry by one James McIntyre (1828–1906), a Canadian known as "The Cheese Poet", whose work has outlasted his subject and might even make its fame immortal. Herewith, an excerpt of his "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over 7,000 Pounds":
- We have seen thee, Queen of Cheese,
- Lying quietly at your ease,
- Gently fanned by evening breeze;
- Thy fair form no flies dare seize.
- All gaily dressed, soon you'll go
- To the provincial show,
- To be admired by many a beau
- In the city of Toronto.
- from "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese" [1]
McIntyre's poetry has been the subject of books in the twentieth century, however, the greatest boost to his fame probably came from a number of his poems being anthologized in the collection Very Bad Poetry, edited by Ross and Kathryn Petras (Vintage, 1997).
[edit] Works published
- Álvares de Azevedo, O Conde Lupo (posthumous)
- Sarah Elizabeth Carmichael, Poems
- Christina Rossetti, The Prince's Progress
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, 1st series, including "Dolores"
- John Greenleaf Whittier, Snow-Bound
[edit] Births
- Barcroft Blake (Australia)
- Katharine Harris Bradley (half of "Michael Field")
- Gelett Burgess (US)
- Edmund Vance Cooke (US)
