1858 in poetry

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Events

• February 20 – Giacomo Meyerbeer pays Mathilde Heine 4,500 francs not to publish four poems by her late husband Heinrich Heine.[1]
• Charles Baudelaire's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine.

Works published

United Kingdom

• Cecil Frances Alexander, Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for the Use of Schools[2]
• Matthew Arnold, Merope[2]
• William Barnes, Hwomely Rhymes: A second collection of poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect
• Elizabeth Rundle Charles, The Voice of Christian Life in Song[2]
• Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)[2]
• William Johnson Cory, Ionica[2]
• Charles Kingsley, Andromedia, and Other Poems[2]
• Walter Savage Landor, Dry Sticks, Fagoted[2]
• William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the author's first book[2]
• Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics, first series,[2] (1858–61), including "The Lost Chord", set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan[2]
• Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica: Second Series (see also Lyra Germanica 1855)[2]

United States

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth[3]
• Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862)[2]
• James T. Fields, A Few Verses for a Few Friends[3]
• William J. Grayson, The Country[3]
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, essays[3]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems[3]

Other in English

• Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian Ballads, Montreal, Canada[4]

Other languages

• Alphonse Daudet, Les Amoureuses, France
• Aleksey K. Tolstoy, Vasily Shibanov, Russia

Births

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

• January 24 – Constance Naden (died 1889), English poet and philosopher
• June 1 – William Wilfred Campbell (died 1918), Canadian
• July 1 – Velma Caldwell Melville (died 1924), American editor and writer
• August 2 – Sir William Watson (died 1935), English
• August 15 – Edith Nesbit (died 1924), English author and poet
• September 5 – Victor Daley (died 1905), Australian
• Also:
  • Balashankar (died 1899), Indian, Gujarati-language poet[5]
  • Dollie Radford, née Caroline Maitland (died 1920), English poet and writer, wife of Ernest Radford

Deaths

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

• December 18 – Thomas Holley Chivers (born 1807), American[6]

See also

• 19th century in poetry
• 19th century in literature
• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• Victorian literature
• French literature of the 19th century
• Poetry

Notes

1. "1858". Music And History. Retrieved 2015-04-10.
2. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
3. Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). "Preface". Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. New York: Oxford University Press. p. vi. 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.
4. Bentley, D. M. R. "Poetry in English". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
5. Mohan, Sarala Jag (1996). "Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature"". In Natarajan, Nalini; Nelson, Emanuel Sampath (eds.). Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
6. Rubin, Louis D. Jr. (1979). The Literary South. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-04659-0.