1861 in poetry

[edit] Events

• Julia Ward Howe composes Battle Hymn of the Republic

[edit] Works published

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Last Poems (posthumous)
• Francis Turner Palgrave, The Golden Treasury (a poetic anthology revised in 1897 and since then by others)
• Annie Louisa Walker, Leaves from the Backwoods

[edit] Births

• Bliss Carman (Canada)
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
• Walter Alexander Raleigh
• Louise Imogen Guiney (US)
• Maurice Henry Hewlett
• Katharine Hinkson, aka Katharine Tynan (Ireland)
• Pauline Johnson, aka Tekahionwake (Canada)
• Archibald Lampman (Canada)
• Amy Levy
• Frederick George Scott (Canada)
• Rabindranath Tagore (India)

[edit] Deaths

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• A. H. Clough

[edit] See also

Poetry Portal

• Poetry
• List of years in poetry