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1882 in poetry
Summary
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
June 30 - Convicted assassin Charles Guiteau writes a poem called "I am Going to the Lordy", which he recites immediately before his execution the same day
William Allingham, Evil May-Day
F. J. Child, ed., The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, in 5 volumes (1882–98), including multiple versions of 305 ballads, American scholar published in England
Toru Dutt, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hidnustan, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. (fifth edition, 1927; reprinted several times by various publishers since then); Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
William Livingston (Uilleam Macdhunleibhe, died 1870), Duain agus Orain, Scottish Gaelic poet published in Scotland
George Robert Sims, The Dagonet Ballads
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse, and Other Poems
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), whose contributions to science were profound (including formulation of Maxwell's equations which for the first time expressed the basic laws of electricity and magnetism in a unified fashion, and other discoveries that helped usher in modern physics), this year became a published poet when a collection of his poems was published by his friend Lewis Campbell, two years after Maxwell's death.
As a great lover of British poetry, Maxwell memorized poems and wrote his own. The best known is Rigid Body Sings closely based on Comin' Through the Rye by Robert Burns, which he apparently used to sing while accompanying himself on a guitar. It has the immortal opening lines :
Gin a body meet a body
Flyin' through the air.
Gin a body hit a body,
Will it fly? And where?
(Maxwell is also known for creating the first true-colour photograph in 1861.
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