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1858 in poetry
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1858 poetry literature
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Events
February 20 – Giacomo Meyerbeer pays Mathilde Heine 4,500 francs not to publish four poems by her late husband Heinrich Heine.http://musicandhistory.com/component/content/article/2-years/117-1858.html?qh=YToxOntpOjA7aToxODU4O30%3D 1858 Music And History 2015-04-10February 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes
Charles Baudelaire's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine.
Works published
United Kingdom
Cecil Frances Alexander, Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for the Use of SchoolsCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Matthew Arnold, Merope
William Barnes, Hwomely Rhymes: A second collection of poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect
Elizabeth Rundle Charles, The Voice of Christian Life in Song
Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)
William Johnson Cory, Ionica
Charles Kingsley, Andromedia, and Other Poems
Walter Savage Landor, Dry Sticks, Fagoted
William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the author's first book
Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics, first series, (1858–61), including "The Lost Chord", set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan
Joseph Skipsey "The Pitman Poet", LyricsWatson Robert Spence Joseph Skipsey: his life and work 1909 T Fisher Unwin London https://archive.org/details/josephskipseyhis00watsrich/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater 2025-09-16
Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica: Second Series (see also Lyra Germanica 1855)
United States
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Course of True Love Never Did Run SmoothLudwig, Richard M. Nault, Clifford A. Jr. Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983 https://archive.org/details/annalsofamerican00ludw registration 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. Preface vi
Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)
James T. Fields, A Few Verses for a Few Friends
William J. Grayson, The Country
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, essays
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems
Frances Harper, "Bury Me in a Free Land", November 20
Other in English
Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian Ballads, Montreal, CanadaBentley, D. M. R. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/poetry-in-english/ Poetry in English The Canadian Encyclopedia 2009-02-08
Other languages
Alphonse Daudet, Les Amoureuses, France
Aleksey K. Tolstoy, Vasily Shibanov, Russia
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 24 – Constance Naden (died 1889), English poet and philosopher
June 1 – William Wilfred Campbell (died 1918), Canadian
June 16 – Isabel Richey (died 1910), American
July 1 – Velma Caldwell Melville (died 1924), American editor and writer
August 2 – Sir William Watson (died 1935), English
August 15 – Edith Nesbit (died 1924), English author and poet
September 5 – Victor Daley (died 1905), Australian
Also:
Balashankar (died 1899), Indian, Gujarati-language poetMohan, Sarala Jag https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&dq=Urdu+poets&pg=PA100 Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" Natarajan, Nalini Nelson, Emanuel Sampath Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Publishing Group 1996 978-0-313-28778-7 2008-12-10
Dollie Radford, née Caroline Maitland (died 1920), English poet and writer, wife of Ernest Radford
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
December 18 – Thomas Holley Chivers (born 1807), AmericanRubin, Louis D. Jr. The Literary South https://archive.org/details/literarysouth00rubi registration John Wiley & Sons 1979 0-471-04659-0
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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