1865 in poetry
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Events

Works published

• Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
• Robert Williams Buchanan, "The Session of the Poets," an attack on Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in The Spectator
• George Moses Horton, Naked Genius
• John Newman, The Dream of Gerontius
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon
• Walt Whitman, "When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd," on the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Henry Clay Work, "Marching through Georgia"

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Arthur A. D. Bayldon, Australian
• Madison Cawein (died 1914), American
• Adela Florence Nicolson Cory (pseud. "Lawrence Hope")
• Thomas William Hodgson Crosland
• Rudyard Kipling, English novelist, writer and poet
• William Butler Yeats, Irish

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• George Arnold
• William Edmondstone Aytoun
• Lydia Howard Sigourney
• Isaac Williams

See also

Poetry portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry