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1862 in poetry
Summary
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
first stanza of Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic conceived as both poem and lyrics to a popular tune and first published in February in The Atlantic Monthly
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
February 11 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, on returning home with Algernon Charles Swinburne after a night on the town, finds his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, dead on the floor from an overdose of laudanum. At her funeral, he places a sheaf of poems (a few years later retrieved) in the coffin.
December 28 – Walt Whitman moves to Washington, D.C., where he will volunteer in army hospitals.
Emily Dickinson's year of greatest poetic productivity.
Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer: Last Words, a reply to F. W. Newman's Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice 1861, itself a reply to Arnold's On Translating Homer, published that year
William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect: Third Collection (see also 1844, 1869, 1868)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Last Poems, edition prepared by her husband, Robert Browning; posthumously published
Charles Stuart Calverley, published anonymously, Verses and Translations
A. H. Clough, Last Poems, published posthumously with a memoir by F. T. Palgrave
Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets, first publication of the author's series of biographical essays on the Lake Poets, including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (originally published separately in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1834, 1835, 1839 and 1840; see also Selections Grave and Gay 1854, which includes some of the essays)
Charles Hindley, writing as Mother Shipton, Mother Shipton's Prophecy, dated 1448
George Meredith, Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside
Coventry Patmore, Victories of Love
Adelaide A.
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