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1872 poetry literature
This article covers 1872 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
First printed version of the Thai epic Khun Chang Khun Phaen.
Works published in English
United Kingdom
Alfred Austin, InterludesCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair
C. S. Calverley, published anonymously, Fly Leaves
Samuel Ferguson, Congal
W. S. Gilbert, More "Bab" Balads (see also "Bab" Ballads 1869)
Edward Lear, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.Happy Birthday Edward Lear Oxford Ashmolean Museum 2012 978-1-85444-273-4 28
Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man
Christina Rossetti, Sing-Song, book of nursery rhymes
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette (see also Idylls of the King 1859, The Holy Grail 1869, Idylls of the King 1870, 1889, "The Last Tournament" 1871, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885),
United States
Thomas Gold Appleton, Faded LeavesLudwig, 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)
Paul Hamilton Hayne, Legends and Lyrics
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, a book that combines fiction and nonfiction prose, together with poetry
Albert Pike, Hymns to the Gods
Celia Thaxter, Poems
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, United StatesWagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
Other in English
Alfred Domett, Ranolf and Amohia, epic poem in a Maori setting, New Zealand
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Three Books of SongCalhoun, Charles C. Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. 0-8070-7026-2
Works published in other languages
France
François Coppée:
fr Les Bijoux de la delivrance, short verse drama inspired by the Franco-Prussian War; FranceCoppée, François Édouard Joachim 7 102
fr Les Humbles
Victor Hugo, fr L'Année terrible, FranceRees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, 978-0-14-042385-3
Catulle Mendès, fr La Part du roi, verse drama, a one-act comedy; FranceMendès, Catulle 18 124
Other languages
Hilario Ascasubi, es Obras completas ("Complete Works"), three volumes compiled by the author; Argentine author writing in Spanish
Girolamo de Rada, aae Skënderbeu i pafat, begins publication, Arbëresh
Holger Drachmann, da Digte ("Poems"), DenmarkPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
José Hernández, Martín Fierro, the first part of an epic Spanish-language Argentine poem in which the hero defends his way of life against encroaching socialization and civilization; an example of the Gaucho literature movement in South America (second part 1879)Henderson, Helene, and Jay P. Pederson, editors, Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary, Detroit: Omnigraphics Inc., 2000
Michel Rodange, Renert odder de Fuuss am Frack an a Maansgréisst, Luxembourg
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 22 – John Shaw Neilson (died 1942), Australian
June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar (died 1906), African American
July 8 – Sasaki Nobutsuna 佐佐木信綱 (died 1963), Japanese, Shōwa period tanka poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods (surname: Sasaki)
August 15 – Sri Aurobindo (Bengali: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo) (died 1950), Indian nationalist, poet, Yogi and spiritual Guru writing mostly in EnglishKnippling, Alpana Sharma, "Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature in English", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
October 10 – Arthur Talmage Abernethy (died 1956), American poet, journalist, theologian and minister; North Carolina Poet Laureate 1948–1953
October 18 (October 6 O.S.) – Mikhail Kuzmin (died 1936), Russian poet, novelist and composer
November 7 – Leonora Speyer (died 1956), American poet and violinist
November 30 – John McCrae (died on active service in World War I 1918), Canadian war poet, physician, author, artist and soldier best known for the poem "In Flanders Fields"
December 6 – Arthur Henry Adams (died 1936), Australian
Also:
Hafiz Ibrahim (died 1932), Egyptian poet called "the poet of the Nile"
Divakarla Tirupti Shastri (died 1920), Indian, Telugu-language poet; one of the two poets in the due known in Telugu literature as "Triupati Vankata Kavulu"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, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 21 – Franz Grillparzer (born 1791), Austrian dramatic poet
March 20 – William Wentworth (born 1790), Australian
March 31 – Samuel Henry Dickson (born 1798), American poet, physician, writer and educator
September 2 – N. F. S. Grundtvig (born 1783), Danish
October 15 – Handrij Zejler (born 1804), Sorbian
December 24 – William Rankine (born 1820), Scottish physicist and engineer
Also:
Henry Howard Brownell (born 1820), American poet and historian
See also
Poetry
19th century in poetry
19th century in literature
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
Victorian literature
French literature of the 19th century
Poetry
Notes
Category:19th-century poetry
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