1862 in poetry
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| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 |
| Years in literature: | 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 |
| 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: | 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- February — Dante Gabriel Rossetti places a sheaf of poems (a few years later retrieved) in the coffin of his wife Elizabeth Siddal
- Emily Dickinson's period of greatest poetic productivity was 1862
[edit] Works published
- Charles Calverley, Verses and Translations
- A. H. Clough, Last Poems, posthumously published
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn, including "Paul Revere's Ride"
- George Meredith, Modern Love and Poems of the Roadside
- Coventry Patmore, Victories of Love
- Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems
[edit] Births
- John Kendrick Bangs (US)
- Arthur Christopher Benson
- Jean Blewett (Canada)
- John Jay Chapman (US)
- Edith Emma Cooper (half of "Michael Field")
- Sir Henry John Newbolt
- George Santayana (US)
- Duncan Campbell Scott (Canada)
- Edith Wharton (US)
[edit] Deaths
- Elizabeth Siddall, of opium overdose
- Henry David Thoreau, of tuberculosis
