1866 in poetry

McIntyre's poetry is the subject of books in the twentieth century, however, the greatest boost to his fame probably comes 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 ### [[English poetry|United Kingdom]] - *Don Leon*, falsely attributed to Lord Byron - Sarah Elizabeth Carmichael, *Poems* - Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, *The Return of the Guards, and Other Poems* - John Henry Newman, *The Dream of Gerontius* - Christina Rossetti, *The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems* - Algernon Charles Swinburne, *Poems and Ballads*, first series, including "Dolores" (second series, [1878](1878-in-poetry); third series, [1889](1889-in-poetry)) - Benjamin Thorpe, assisted by Elise Otté, translation of the *Poetic Edda* as *Edda Sæmundar Hinns Frôða: the Edda of Sæmund the Learned, from the old Norse or Icelandic* - George Yeld, *Virgil reading his Æneid to Augustus and Octavia* ### [[American poetry|United States]] - Elizabeth Akers, *Poems* - George Arnold, *Drift: A Sea-Shore Idyl* - Fitz-Greene Halleck, *Lines to the Recorder* - Herman Melville, *Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War* - George Henry Miles, *Christine* - John Greenleaf Whittier: - *Snow-Bound*, United States - "Abraham Davenport", poem published in *The Atlantic Monthly* in May (text), about an incident involving Abraham Davenport ## Works published in other languages ### French #### France - Théodore de Banville, *Les Exilés* - François Coppée, *Le Reliquaire* - Paul Verlaine, *Poèmes saturniens*, including "Chanson d'automne" ("Autumn Song") - *Le Parnasse contemporain* ("The Contemporary Parnassus"), first of three volumes (Volume II [1871](1871-in-poetry), Volume III [1876](1876-in-poetry)), 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 - Baudelaire, *Les Épaves*, French poet published in Belgium ### Other languages - Girolamo de Rada, *Rapsodi të një poeme arbëreshe*, Arbëresh - Estanislao del Campo, *Fausto*, satirical poem describing the impressions of a gaucho who attends Charles Gounod's opera *Faust*, and believes the events on stage to be happening in reality; Spanish-language, Argentina; an example of Gaucho literature ## Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - 20 January – Richard Le Gallienne (died [1947](1947-in-poetry)), English poet - 30 January – Gelett Burgess (died [1951](1951-in-poetry)), American humorist and poet - 2 March – John Gray (died [1934](1934-in-poetry)), English aesthetic poet - 26 March – Barcroft Boake (suicide [1892](1892-in-poetry)), Australian bush poet - 11 April – Bernard O'Dowd (died [1953](1953-in-poetry)), Australian poet and co-founder of paper *Tocsin* - 5 June – Edmund Vance Cooke (died [1932](1932-in-poetry)), Canadian-born American poet - 16 August – Dora Sigerson (died [1918](1918-in-poetry)), Irish poet - 12 November – (died [1938](1938-in-poetry)), Italian poet and children's writer - 3 December – Ethna Carbery, born Anna Johnston (died [1902](1902-in-poetry)), Irish poet - 12 December – Edwin Greenslade Murphy (died [1939](1939-in-poetry)), Australian poet ## Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - 23 January – Thomas Love Peacock (born [1785](1785-in-poetry)), English satirical novelist and poet - 31 January – Friedrich Rückert (born [1788](1788-in-poetry)), German poet, translator and professor of Oriental languages - 29 March – John Keble (born [1792](1792-in-poetry)), English poet and cleric - 18 May – Francis Sylvester Mahony ("Father Prout"; born [1804](1804-in-poetry)), Irish humorist and poet - 12 August – Philip Stanhope Worsley (born [1835](1835-in-poetry)), English poet and translator ## Notes ## References 1. 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