Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
June 29 –
Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies in the arms of her husband and fellow poet
Robert Browning in
Florence; on July 1 she is buried in the Protestant cemetery there. Robert leaves the city soon afterwards
Francis William Newman, Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice, a reply to
Matthew Arnold's On Translating Homer, above; Arnold replied with On Translating Homer: Last Words in
1862, criticism[1]
Francis Turner Palgrave, The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics (a poetic anthology revised and enlarged in
1891; second series published in
1897)[1]
January 23 –
Katharine Tynan (died
1931),
Irish-born novelist, poet and writer who, after her marriage in 1898, usually wrote under the names "Katharine Tynan Hinkson", "Katharine Tynan-Hinkson" or "Katharine Hinkson-Tynan"
March 10 –
Pauline Johnson, also known as "E. Pauline Johnson" and "Tekahionwake" (died
1913),
Canadian known for her poems and performances that celebrate her aboriginal heritage, including the frequently anthologized "The Song My Paddle Sings"
October 16 –
Arthur Alfred Lynch (died
1934),
Australian-born,
Irish and
British civil engineer, physician, journalist, author, soldier, anti-imperialist and polymath serving as a member of the
House of Commons after being convicted of treason, sentenced to death, having his sentence reduced and then being released (for having recruited volunteers for the
Boer side during the
Boer War in
South Africa), later raising his own
Irish battalion towards the end of
World War I
^Bentley, D. M. R.,
"Poetry in English", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
^
abcLudwig, 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)
^Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
^Rutledge, Martha,
"Moses, John (Jack) (1861–1945)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 2023-07-08
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
June 29 –
Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies in the arms of her husband and fellow poet
Robert Browning in
Florence; on July 1 she is buried in the Protestant cemetery there. Robert leaves the city soon afterwards
Francis William Newman, Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice, a reply to
Matthew Arnold's On Translating Homer, above; Arnold replied with On Translating Homer: Last Words in
1862, criticism[1]
Francis Turner Palgrave, The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics (a poetic anthology revised and enlarged in
1891; second series published in
1897)[1]
January 23 –
Katharine Tynan (died
1931),
Irish-born novelist, poet and writer who, after her marriage in 1898, usually wrote under the names "Katharine Tynan Hinkson", "Katharine Tynan-Hinkson" or "Katharine Hinkson-Tynan"
March 10 –
Pauline Johnson, also known as "E. Pauline Johnson" and "Tekahionwake" (died
1913),
Canadian known for her poems and performances that celebrate her aboriginal heritage, including the frequently anthologized "The Song My Paddle Sings"
October 16 –
Arthur Alfred Lynch (died
1934),
Australian-born,
Irish and
British civil engineer, physician, journalist, author, soldier, anti-imperialist and polymath serving as a member of the
House of Commons after being convicted of treason, sentenced to death, having his sentence reduced and then being released (for having recruited volunteers for the
Boer side during the
Boer War in
South Africa), later raising his own
Irish battalion towards the end of
World War I
^Bentley, D. M. R.,
"Poetry in English", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
^
abcLudwig, 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)
^Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
^Rutledge, Martha,
"Moses, John (Jack) (1861–1945)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 2023-07-08