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

Events

Works published

• Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
• Robert Williams Buchanan, "The Session of the Poets," an attack on Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in The Spectator
• George Moses Horton, Naked Genius
• John Newman, The Dream of Gerontius
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon
• Walt Whitman, "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd," on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Henry Clay Work, "Marching through Georgia"

Births

• Arthur A. D. Bayldon (Australia)
• Madison Cawein (US)
• Adela Florence Nicolson Cory (pseud. "Lawrence Hope")
• Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
• Rudyard Kipling (UK)
• William Butler Yeats (Ireland)

Deaths

• George Arnold
• William Edmondstone Aytoun
• Lydia Howard Sigourney
• Isaac Williams

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry