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

Events

• February — Dante Gabriel Rossetti places a sheaf of poems (a few years later retrieved) in the coffin of his wife Elizabeth Siddal
• Emily Dickinson's period of greatest poetic productivity was 1862

Works published

• Charles Calverley, Verses and Translations
• A. H. Clough, Last Poems, posthumously published
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn, including "Paul Revere's Ride"
• George Meredith, Modern Love and Poems of the Roadside
• Coventry Patmore, Victories of Love
• Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems

Births

• John Kendrick Bangs (US)
• Arthur Christopher Benson
• Jean Blewett (Canada)
• John Jay Chapman (US)
• Edith Emma Cooper (half of "Michael Field")
• Sir Henry John Newbolt
• George Santayana (US)
• Duncan Campbell Scott (Canada)
• Edith Wharton (US)

Deaths

• Elizabeth Siddall, of opium overdose
• Henry David Thoreau, of tuberculosis

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry