1865 in poetry

Works published in English

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
• Robert Browning, Poetical Works: Fourth Edition
• Robert Williams Buchanan, "The Session of the Poets," an attack on Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in The Spectator
• Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, children's novel, including the prefatory poem "All in the golden afternoon..." and a number of nonsense verses
• Arthur Hugh Clough, Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, including Dipsychus (see also Poems and Prose 1869), posthumously published
• Mary Wright Sewell, Mother's Last Words: a ballad
• Algernon Charles Swinburne:
  • Atalanta in Calydon
  • Chastelard

[[American poetry|United States]]

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems
• Fitz-Greene Halleck, Young America: A Poem
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Humorous Poems
• George Moses Horton, Naked Genius; this year, Horton, a slave, gains his liberty, publishes the book in Raleigh, North Carolina, and moves to Philadelphia
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
  • Translator, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, two volumes (Volume 2 in 1867)
  • Household Poems
• James Russell Lowell, Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University
• John Godfrey Saxe, Clever Stories of Many Nations Rendered in Rhyme
• Richard Henry Stoddard, Abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode
• Samuel Ward, Lyrical Recreations
• Walt Whitman:
  • Drum-Taps, a collection of poems on the American Civil War, published in April
  • Sequel to Drum-Taps, a collection of 18 poems mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, including "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", published in Autumn

Other in English

• Charles Harpur, The Tower of a Dream, verse pamphlet, Australia
• Charles Heavysege, Jephthah's Daughter, Canada

Works published in other languages

• Giosuè Carducci, "Inno a Satana", Italy
• Victor Hugo, Les Chansons des rues et des bois, France
• Pamphile Lemay, Essais poétiques; French language; Canada
• Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston), Duain agus Orain, collection, Scottish Gaelic poet published in Scotland
• Sully Prudhomme, Stances et poèmes, France
• Rimes et Poësies Jersiaises, Jersey

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March – Edward Dyson (died 1931), Australian
• March 20 – Arthur Bayldon (died 1958), Australian
• March 23 – Madison Cawein (died 1914), American
• March 27 – Marion Angus (died 1946), Scots language poet
• April 9 – Adela Florence Nicolson, née Cory ("Lawrence Hope"; died 1904), English
• May 2 – William Gay (died 1897), Scottish-born Australian
• May 5 – Helen Maud Merrill (died 1943), American
• May 15 – Albert Verwey (died 1937), Dutch
• May 20 – Henry Ernest Boote (died 1949), English-born Australian
• June 13 – W. B. Yeats (died 1939), Irish poet and playwright
• July 18 – Dowell O'Reilly (died 1923), Australian
• July 21 (or 1868?) – Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (died 1924), English writer and poet
• August 16 – Mary Gilmore (died 1962), Australian poet and journalist
• September 12 – Sophus Claussen (died 1931), Danish
• September 21 – Francis Kenna (died 1932), Australian
• December 30
  • Rudyard Kipling (died 1936), Indian-born English novelist, writer and poet
  • Emily Julian McManus (died 1918), Canadian poet, author, and educator
• Also:
  • Kunjikuttan Thampuran (died 1913), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
  • Samuel Williamson (died 1936), Australian

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• May 1 – Isaac Williams (born 1802), English writer, poet and clergyman
• June 10 – Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, the "Sweet Singer of Hartford" (born 1791), American poet and writer of conduct books
• August 4 – William Edmondstoune Aytoun (born 1813), Scottish lawyer and poet
• September 5 – Hannah Flagg Gould (born 1789), American poet
• September 29 – Richard Lower (born 1782), English dialect poet
• October 15 – Andrés Bello (born 1781), Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
• November 9 – George Arnold (born 1834), American writer, poet and artist
• November 18 – Joseph Déjacque (born 1821), French anarchist and poet

Notes

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