1865 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" Robert Browning, Poetical Works: Fourth Edition Robert Williams Buchanan, "The Session of the Poets," an attack on Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in The Spectator Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, children's novel, including the prefatory poem "All in the golden afternoon..." and a number of nonsense verses Arthur Hugh Clough, Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, including Dipsychus (see also Poems and Prose 1869), posthumously published Samuel Ferguson, Lays of the Western Gael Mary Wright Sewell, Mother's Last Words: a ballad Algernon Charles Swinburne: Atalanta in Calydon Chastelard Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems Fitz-Greene Halleck, Young America: A Poem Oliver Wendell Holmes, Humorous Poems George Moses Horton, Naked Genius; this year, Horton, a slave, gains his liberty, publishes the book in Raleigh, North Carolina, and moves to Philadelphia Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Translator, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, two volumes (Volume 2 in 1867) Household Poems James Russell Lowell, Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University John Godfrey Saxe, Clever Stories of Many Nations Rendered in Rhyme Richard Henry Stoddard, Abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode Samuel Ward, Lyrical Recreations Walt Whitman: Drum-Taps, a collection of poems on the American Civil War, published in April Sequel to Drum-Taps, a collection of 18 poems mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, including "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", published in Autumn Charles Harpur, The Tower of a Dream, verse pamphlet, Australia Charles Heavysege, Jephthah's Daughter, Canada Giosuè Carducci, "Inno a Satana", Italy Victor Hugo, Les Chansons des rues et des bois, France Pamphile Lemay, Essais poétiques; French language; Canada Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston), Duain agus Orain, collection, Scottish Gaelic poet published in Scotland Sully Prudhomme, Stances et poèmes, France Rimes et Poësies Jersiaises, Jersey Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March – Edward Dyson (died 1931), Australian March 20 – Arthur Bayldon (died 1958), Australian March 23 – Madison Cawein (died 1914), American March 27 – Marion Angus (died 1946), Scots language poet April 9 – Adela Florence Nicolson, née Cory ("Lawrence Hope"; died 1904), English May 2 – William Gay (died 1897), Scottish-born Australian May 5 – Helen Maud Merrill (died 1943), American May 15 – Albert Verwey (died 1937), Dutch May 20 – Henry Ernest Boote (died 1949), English-born Australian June 13 – W.