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1866 in poetry
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1871 in poetry
— From Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky", published as part of Through the Looking Glass Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). April – French author Victor Hugo moves to Brussels to take care of the family of his son, who has just died, but closely follows events in the Paris Commune, on April 21 publishing the poem "Pas de représailles" (No reprisals) and on June 11 writing the poem "Sur une barricade" (On the barricade).
1857 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Commissioned with other Hungarian poets to write a poem of praise for a visit of Franz Joseph I of Austria to his country, János Arany instead produces the subversive ballad The Bards of Wales (A walesi bárdok), unpublished until 1863. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, dated this year but first published at the end of 1856 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writing under the pen name "Owen Meredith", The Wanderer Elizabeth Gaskell, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Smith, Elder & Co.
1944 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 1 & June 5 – The first and (modified) second lines respectively of Paul Verlaine's 1866 poem Chanson d'automne (Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne / Bercent mon cœur d'une langueur monotone.) are broadcast by the Allies over BBC Radio Londres among coded messages to the French Resistance to prepare for the D-Day landings (second broadcast at 22:15 local time).
1889 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). June 8 – English poet and Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins dies aged 54 in Dublin of typhoid; he is buried in Glasnevin Cemetery; most of his poetry remains unpublished until 1918. December 12 – English poet Robert Browning dies aged 77 at Ca' Rezzonico in Venice on the same day his book Asolando; Fancies and facts is published; he is buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey; Alfred, Lord Tennyson will be buried adjacently.