1882 in poetry

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	This is part of the List of years in poetry
Years in poetry:	1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
Years in literature:	1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885
Decades in poetry:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Centuries in poetry:	18th century 19th century 20th century
Centuries:	18th century · 19th century · 20th century
Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
Years:	1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885

1 Events
2 Awards
3 Works published
- 3.1 Great scientist this year a published poet
4 Births
5 Deaths
6 See also

[edit] Events

[edit] Awards

[edit] Works published

F. J. Child's edition of English and Scottish Popular Ballads, in 5 volumes (1882-98), including multiple versions of 305 ballads
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, In the Harbor
George Robert Sims, The Dagonet Ballads

[edit] Great scientist this year a published poet

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), whose contributions to science were profound (including formulation of Maxwell's equations which for the first time expressed the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in a unified fashion, and other discoveries that helped usher in modern physics), 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[1]:

Gin a body meet a body

Flyin' through the air.

Gin a body hit a body,

Will it fly? And where?

(Maxwell is also known for creating the first true-colour photograph in 1861.)

[edit] Births

January 18 — A. A. Milne (died 1956), British 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 (died 1941), Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the Twentieth century
February 4 — E.J. Pratt (died 1964), Canadian poet
February 9 — James Stephens (Ireland) (died 1950), Irish novelist and poet said he was born on this date, although some think it may have been two years earlier (1880)
June 1 — John Drinkwater (died 1937) English poet and dramatist
December 27 — Mina Loy (died 1966) English artist, poet, Futurist, actor, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps and bohemian
date not known:
- Martin Armstrong, English writer and poet
- Anne Spencer, American Black poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement

[edit] Deaths

April 10 — Dante Gabriel Rossetti 63, English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
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
date not known — William Brighty Rands