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Events
Awards
Works published
- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, including "Jabberwocky"
- Edward Lear, Nonsense Songs, including "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat"
- Thomas Maitland (i.e., Robert Williams Buchanan) attacks Dante Gabriel Rossetti in "The Fleshly School of Poetry" in Contemporary Review (October); and Rossetti replies in "The Stealthy School of Criticism" in Athenaeum (December)
- Joaquin Miller, Songs of the Sierras
- Arthur Rimbaud, Le bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat)
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Songs before Sunrise
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament"
- Walt Whitman, Passage to India
Births
- April 16 — John Millington Synge (died 1909), Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, collector of folklore and a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre
- June 17 — James Weldon Johnson (died 1938), African-American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance
- October 30 — Paul Valéry (died 1945), French philosopher, author and Symbolist poet who also wrote essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music and current events
- November 1 — Stephen Crane (died 1900), American novelist, poet and journalist
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Deaths
See also
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