1860 in poetry
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Events
- Andreas Munch becomes the first person to be granted a poet's pension by the Parliament of Norway.
Works published in English
Canada
- Charles Heavysege, Count Filippo[1]
- Charles Sangster, Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics[1]
United Kingdom
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems Before Congress[2]
- Samuel Lover, Metrical Tales, and Other Poems, illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, Kenney Meadows and others[2]
- Coventry Patmore, Faithful for Ever (The Angel in the House, Volume 3; see also The Betrothal 1854, The Espousals 1856, The Victories of Love 1863)[2]
- John Leicester Warren, writing under the pen name "George F. Preston", Ballads and Metrical Sketches[2]
United States
- William Turner Coggeshall, editor, Poets and Poetry of the West, anthology[3]
- Paul Hamilton Hayne, Avolio: A Legend of the Island of Cos[3]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, fiction, nonfiction and verse[3]
- William Dean Howells and John James Piatt, Poems of Two Friends[3]
- Adrien Rouquette, L'Antoniade, ou la solitude avec Dieu[3]
- Edmund Clarence Stedman, Poems, Lyrical and Idyllic[3]
- Henry Timrod, Poems[3]
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, third edition[3]
- John Greenleaf Whittier, Home Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics[3]
Works published in other languages
- Charles Baudelaire, Les paradis artificiels ("Artificial Paradise"), France
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Poésies posthumes[4] (posthumous)
- Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Tilottama Sambhab Kabya (তিলোত্তমাসম্ভব কাব্য, "Birth of Tilottama"), Bengali
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 – Charles G. D. Roberts (died 1943), Canadian poet and writer known as the "Father of Canadian Poetry" because he serves as an inspiration for other writers of his time; also known as one of the "Confederation poets" (together with his cousin Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott)
- June 1 – Wilfred Campbell (died 1918), Canadian
- August 5 – John Philip Bourke (died 1914), Australian
- September 6 – Lorentzos Mavilis (died 1912), Greek
- September 14 – Hamlin Garland, (died 1940), American novelist, poet, essayist and short story writer
- September 18 – Clinton Scollard (died 1932), American
- October 6 – Rosamund Marriott Watson, born Rosamund Ball and writing as Graham R. Tomson (died 1911), English
- December 8 – Amanda McKittrick Ros, born Anna McKittrick (died 1939), Irish novelist and poet noted for her purple style
- December 12 – Harriet Monroe (died 1936), American editor, scholar, literary critic and patron of the arts, best known as the founder and longtime editor of Poetry magazine
- Date not known:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 6 – James Kirke Paulding (born 1778),[6] American novelist, poet, writer for and sometime owner of Salamagundi magazine and a United States Secretary of the Navy
- August 25 – Johan Ludvig Heiberg (born 1791), Danish
- November 24 – George Croly (born 1780), Irish-born poet, novelist, historian, and clergyman
See also
Notes
- Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- 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)
- Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3
- Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
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