| “ | 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
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— 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). [edit] Events [edit] Works published Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - Robert Browning:
- Blaustion's Adventure[1]
- Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau, Saviour of Society[1]
- Lewis Carroll (pen name of C. L. Dodgson), Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, including "Jabberwocky" (published this year, although the book states "1872")[1]
- Edward Lear, More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.[1]
- "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)
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Songs before Sunrise[1]
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament" published in the Contemporary Review, December edition (one of Tennyson's "Arthurian Idylls", later published in Gareth and Lynette 1872)[1]
[edit] Awards and honors [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - 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
- July 3 – 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
- July 15 – Kunikida Doppo 國木田 獨歩 (died 1908), Japanese, Meiji period romantic poet and one of the novelists who pioneered naturalism in Japan (surname: Kunikida)
- September 2 – John Le Gay Brereton (died 1933), Australian poet, critic and academic
- September 9 – Ralph Hodgson (died 1962), British
- 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
[edit] Deaths Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] See also - ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
- ^ Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature : 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
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