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Contents 1 Events 2 Awards 3 Works published 4 Births 5 Deaths 6 See also

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
• date not known:
  • William Henry Davies (died 1940), Welsh-born poet and writer who spent most of his life as a tramp in the United States and United Kingdom, but became known as one of the most popular poets of his time
  • Ralph Edwin Hodgson
  • Francis Joseph Sherman (Canada)

Deaths

• Alice and Phoebe Cary
• Charlotte Elliott
• John Frederick William Herschel
• Thomas Buchanan Read, American poet
• James Monroe Whitfield

See also

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