1861 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 29 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies in the arms of her husband and fellow poet Robert Browning in Florence; on July 1 she is buried in the Protestant cemetery there. Robert leaves the city soon afterwards November 19 – Julia Ward Howe composes "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer (see also F. W. Newman's response, Homeric Translation, below), criticism Richard Watson Dixon, Christ's Company, and Other Poems Edward Lear, A Book of Nonsense (3rd edition, the first giving the author's name and with woodcut illustrations) Alexander McLachlan, The Emigrant and Other Poems, Toronto, Canada Francis William Newman, Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice, a reply to Matthew Arnold's On Translating Homer, above; Arnold replied with On Translating Homer: Last Words in 1862, criticism Francis Turner Palgrave, The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics (a poetic anthology revised and enlarged in 1891; second series published in 1897) Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Early Italian Poets (reissued in 1874 under the title Dante and his Circle) Annie Louisa Walker, Leaves from the Backwoods Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Pampinea and Other Poems Lucius Manlius, The Ballad of the Abolition Blunderbuss Edmund Clarence Stedman, The Battle of Bull Run about the First Battle of Bull Run Aleardo Aleardi, I sette soldati ("The Seven Soldiers"), Italy Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Meghnad Badh Kabya (মেঘনাদবধ কাব্য, "Slaying of Meghnad"), Bengali Joseph Fiset, Jude et Grazia; ou, Les malheurs de l'émigration; French language; a long narrative poem; Quebec, Canada Imre Madách, The Tragedy of Man (Az ember tragédiája), Hungary; poetic drama Nikolai Nekrasov, Korobeiniki, Russian Frederik Paludan-Müller, Denmark: Paradiset ("Paradise") Benedikt fra Nurcia ("Benedict of Nurcia") Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 7 – Louise Imogen Guiney (died 1920), American poet and essayist January 12 – Jack Moses, Australian poet (died 1945) January 15 – Saint-Pol-Roux, pen name of Paul Roux (died 1940), French January 22 – Maurice Hewlett (died 1923), English historical novelist, poet and essayist January 23 – Katharine Tynan (died 1931), Irish-born novelist, poet and writer who, after her marriage in 1898, usually wrote under the names "Katharine Tynan Hinkson", "Katharine Tynan-Hinkson" or "Katharine Hinkson-Tynan" March 10 – Pauline Johnson, also known as "E.