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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also

Events

Works published

• William Barnes, Hwomely Rhymes: A second collection of poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect
• William Johnson Cory, Ionica
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish
• William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems
• Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics (1858-61), including "A Lost Chord"

Births

• William Wilfred Campbell (Canada)
• Edith Nesbit
• Dollie Radford
• Sir William Watson

Deaths

• Thomas Holley Chivers

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry