1867 in poetry

Events

• The first blue plaque is erected in London by the Royal Society of Arts on the birthplace (1788) of English poet Lord Byron, subsequently demolished.

Works published in English

[[Canadian poetry|Canada]]

• Charles Heavysege, "Jezebel," New Dominion Monthly (Montreal)

[[English poetry|United Kingdom]]

• Matthew Arnold, New Poems, including "Dover Beach"
• Philip James Bailey, Universal Hymn (see also Festus 1839)
• Mathilde Blind, publishing under the pen name "Claude Lake", Poems
• Jean Ingelow, A Story of Doom, and Other Poems
• Ellen Johnston, "the 'factory girl'", Autobiography, Poems and Songs (Scotland)
• William Morris, The Life and Death of Jason
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, Song of Italy
• Augusta Webster, A Woman Sold, and Other Poems

[[American poetry|United States]]

• George Arnold, Poems, Grave and Gay, published posthumously
• John Burroughs, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person, biography and criticism
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, May-Day and Other Pieces
• Bret Harte, The Lost Galleon
• Josiah Gilbert Holland, Kathrina: Her Life and Mine, in a Poem
• Emma Lazarus, Poems and Translations
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Flower-de-Luce
• James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers, Second Series
• William Gilmore Simms, editor, War Poetry of the South
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, Religious Poems
• Rose Hartwick Thorpe, Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight
• Henry Timrod, "Ode: Sung on the Occasion of Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C., 1867"
• Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, fourth edition (first edition 1855)
• John Greenleaf Whittier, The Tent on the Beach

Other in English

Australia:

• Adam Lindsay Gordon
  • Ashtaroth, a Dramatic Lyric
  • Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
• Henry Kendall – "Bell-Birds"

Works published in other languages

[[French poetry|France]]

• François Coppée, Les Intimites and Poemes modernes, published from this year to 1869
• Alfred de Vigny, Journal d’un poète ("Journal of a Poet"), posthumously published

Other

• Lydia Koidula, Emajõe Ööbik ("The Nightingale of the Mother River"), Estonia
• Jan Neruda, Knihy veršů ("Books of Verses"), Czech
• Piet Paaltjens (François Haverschmidt), Snikken en grimlachjes: poëzie uit den studententijd ("Sobs and Bitter Grins: poetry of student days"), Netherlands

Births

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

• February 9 – Natsume Sōseki 夏目 漱石 (commonly referred to as "Sōseki"), pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke 夏目金之助 (died 1916), Japanese, Meiji Era novelist, haiku poet, composer of Chinese-style poetry, writer of fairy tales and a scholar of English literature; from 1984–2004, his portrait appears on the 1000 yen note (surname: Natsume)
• March 2 – Louis Lavater (died 1953), Australian
• March 15 – Lionel Pigot Johnson (died 1902), English
• April 10 – George William Russell "Æ" (died 1935), Irish
• June 5 - Paul-Jean Toulet (died 1920), French
• June 17 – Henry Lawson (died 1922), Australian
• August 2 – Ernest Dowson (died 1900), English poet, novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement
• August 13 – Rudolf G. Binding (died 1938), Swiss-born German
• September 17 – Masaoka Shiki 正岡 子規, pen-name of Masaoka Tsunenori 正岡 常規, who changes his name to Noboru 升 (died 1902), Japanese author, poet, literary critic, journalist and, early in his life, a baseball player (surname: Masaoka)
• November 8 – Sadakichi Hartmann (died 1944), American
• November 26 – Roderic Quinn (died 1949), Australian

Deaths

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

• January 5? – Alexander Smith (born 1829), Scottish Spasmodic poet
• January 20 – Nathaniel Parker Willis (born 1806), American author, poet and editor
• February 2 – Forceythe Willson (born 1837), American poet
• February 23 – Pietro Zorutti (Pieri Çorut, born 1792), Friulian poet
• August 31 – Charles Baudelaire (born 1821), French poet, critic and translator
• October 7 – Henry Timrod (born 1829), American poet
• November 19 – Fitz-Greene Halleck (born 1790), American poet
• John Hollin Ridge (born 1827), American poet

Notes

References

1. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
2. Klaus, H. Gustav. (1998). "Factory Girl: Ellen Johnston and Working-class Poetry in Victorian Scotland". Peter Lang.
3. 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)
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5. Wagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
6. {{cite EB1911
7. (1998). "Snikken en grimlachjes: Poëzie uit den studententijd". Querido.