'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!"

— FromLewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky", published as part ofThrough the Looking Glass

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,Irish orFrance).

• April –French authorVictor Hugo moves to Brussels to take care of the family of his son, who has just died, but closely follows events in theParis 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).

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" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter" (published this year, although the book states "1872")^[1]
• "Thomas Maitland" (i.e.,Robert Williams Buchanan) attacksDante Gabriel Rossetti and other members of what Buchanan calls the "Fleshly School" ofEnglish poetry inThe Contemporary Review (October); and Rossetti replies in "The Stealthy School of Criticism" in theAthenaeum (December 16)
• Monckton Milnes, falsely attributed toGeorge Colman the Younger,The Rodiad,flagellatory poem, falsely dated 1810
• James Brunton Stephens,Convict Once,Scottish-bornAustralian poet published in London
• Algernon Charles Swinburne,Songs before Sunrise^[1]
• Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Last Tournament" published inThe Contemporary Review, December edition (one of Tennyson's "Arthurian Idylls", later published inGareth and Lynette1872)^[1]

• William Cullen Bryant,Poems^[2]
• William Ellery Channing,The Wanderer^[2]
• Bret Harte,East and West Poems^[2]
• John Hay,Pike County Ballads^[2]
• Emma Lazarus,Admetus and Other Poems^[2]
• Joaquin Miller,pen name of Cincinnatus Heine (or Hiner) Miller:
  • Songs of the Sierras^[2]
  • Pacific Poems^[2]

• Walt Whitman:
  • Leaves of Grass, fifth edition^[2]
  • Passage to India^[2]
• John Greenleaf Whittier,Miriam and Other Poems^[2]

• François Coppée,Fais ce que dois, short verse drama inspired by theFranco-Prussian War;France^[3]
• Arthur Rimbaud,Le bateau ivre ("The Drunken Boat"),France

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

• February 3 –Francis Joseph Sherman (died1926),Canadian
• February 25 (February 13Old Style) –Lesya Ukrainka, born Larysa Kosach (died1913),Ukrainian
• April 16 –John Millington Synge (died1909),Irish dramatist, poet, prose writer, collector of folklore, a prominent figure in theIrish Literary Revival and a co-founder of theAbbey Theatre
• June 17 –James Weldon Johnson (died1938), African-American author, poet, early civil rights activist and prominent figure in theHarlem Renaissance
• July 3 –W. H. Davies (died1940), Welsh-born poet and writer who spends most of his life as a tramp in the United States and United Kingdom, but becomes known as one of the most popular poets of his time
• July 15 –Kunikida Doppo 國木田 獨歩 (died1908),Japanese,Meiji period romantic poet and one of the novelists who pioneersnaturalism in Japan (surname: Kunikida)
• September 2 –John Le Gay Brereton (died1933),Australian poet, critic and academic
• September 9 –Ralph Hodgson (died1962), British
• October 30 –Paul Valéry (died1945),French philosopher, author andSymbolist poet who also writes essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music and current events
• November 1 –Stephen Crane (died1900),American novelist, poet and journalist
• Date not known
  • Hafez Ibrahim (died1932), Egyptian,Arabic-language "poet of the Nile"
  • Madhavanuj,pen name ofKashinath Hari Modak (died1917),Indian,Marathi-language poet and translator; a physician^[4]

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

• February 12 –Alice Cary (born1820),American poet
• April 23 –James Monroe Whitfield (born1822), African-American barber, poet and abolitionist
• May 11
  • John Herschel (born1792),Englishpolymath
  • Thomas Buchanan Read (born1822),American poet and portrait painter
• July 31 –Phoebe Cary (born1824), sister of Alice,American poet
• September 22 –Charlotte Elliott (born1789),English religious poet

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