1866 in poetry
- In the old days (a custom laid aside
- With breeches and cocked hats) the people sent
- Their wisest men to make the public laws.
- * * *
- He rose, slow cleaving with his steady voice
- The intolerable hush. "This well may be
- The Day of Judgment which the world awaits;
- But be it so or not, I only know
- My present duty, and my Lord's command
- To occupy till He come. So at the post
- Where He hast set me in His providence,
- I choose, for one, to meet Him face to face,
- No faithless servant frightened from my task,
- But ready when the Lord of the harvest calls;
- And therefore, with all reverence, I would say,
- Let God do His work, we will see to ours.
- Bring in the candles." And they brought them in.
-- Lines 1-3, 36-48 from John Greenleaf Whittier's "Abraham Davenport" (text), a poem about an incident involving a Connecticut legislator.
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Events
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).
Works published in English
- Sarah Elizabeth Carmichael, Poems
- Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Return of the Guards, and Other Poems[1]
- John Henry Newman, The Dream of Gerontius[1]
- Christina Rossetti, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems[1]
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads, first series, including "Dolores" (second series, 1878; third series, 1889)[1]
Works published in other languages
French
France
- Théodore de Banville, Les Exilés
- François Coppée, Le Reliquaire[4]
- Paul Verlaine, Poèmes saturniens, including "Chanson d'automne" ("Autumn Song")
- Le Parnasse contemporain ("The Contemporary Parnassus"), first of three volumes (Volume II 1871, Volume III 1876), including poems by Théophile Gautier, Théodore de Banville, Leconte de Lisle, Baudelaire, José-Maria de Heredia, François Coppée, Catulle Mendès, Sully Prudhomme, Paul Verlaine and Mallarmé
Belgium
Other languages
Births
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See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ^ Wagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
- ^ "FRANCOIS EDOUARD JOACHIM COPPEE", article in Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 edition, as published at the "LoveToKnow 1911 Classic Encyclopedia" website, retrieved February 7, 2010
- ^ Henderson, Helene, and Jay P. Pederson, editors, Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary, Detroit: Omnigraphics Inc., 2000
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