# 1865 in poetry

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

## Works published in English
### United Kingdom

* Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, First Series, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
* Robert Browning, Poetical Works: Fourth Edition
* Robert Williams Buchanan, "The Session of the Poets," an attack on Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in The Spectator
* Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, children's novel, including the prefatory poem "All in the golden afternoon..." and a number of nonsense verses
* Arthur Hugh Clough, Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, including Dipsychus (see also Poems and Prose 1869), posthumously published
* Samuel Ferguson, Lays of the Western Gael
* Mary Wright Sewell, Mother's Last Words: a ballad
* Algernon Charles Swinburne:
** Atalanta in Calydon
** Chastelard

### United States

* Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems
* Fitz-Greene Halleck, Young America: A Poem
* Oliver Wendell Holmes, Humorous Poems
* George Moses Horton, Naked Genius; this year, Horton, a slave, gains his liberty, publishes the book in Raleigh, North Carolina, and moves to Philadelphia
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
** Translator, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, two volumes (Volume 2 in 1867)
** Household Poems
* James Russell Lowell, Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University
* John Godfrey Saxe, Clever Stories of Many Nations Rendered in Rhyme
* Richard Henry Stoddard, Abraham Lincoln: An Horation Ode
* Samuel Ward, Lyrical Recreations
* Walt Whitman:
** Drum-Taps, a collection of poems on the American Civil War, published in April
** Sequel to Drum-Taps, a collection of 18 poems mourning the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, including "O Captain! My Captain!" and "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", published in Autumn

### Other in English

* Charles Harpur, The Tower of a Dream, verse pamphlet, Australia
* Charles Heavysege, Jephthah's Daughter, Canada

## Works published in other languages

* Giosuè Carducci, "Inno a Satana", Italy
* Victor Hugo, Les Chansons des rues et des bois, France
* Pamphile Lemay, Essais poétiques; French language; Canada
* Uilleam Mac Dhun Lèibhe (William Livingston), Duain agus Orain, collection, Scottish Gaelic poet published in Scotland
* Sully Prudhomme, Stances et poèmes, France
* Rimes et Poësies Jersiaises, Jersey

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* March – Edward Dyson (died 1931), Australian
* March 20 – Arthur Bayldon (died 1958), Australian
* March 23 – Madison Cawein (died 1914), American
* March 27 – Marion Angus (died 1946), Scots language poet
* April 9 – Adela Florence Nicolson, née Cory ("Lawrence Hope"; died 1904), English
* May 2 – William Gay (died 1897), Scottish-born Australian
* May 5 – Helen Maud Merrill (died 1943), American
* May 15 – Albert Verwey (died 1937), Dutch
* May 20 – Henry Ernest Boote (died 1949), English-born Australian
* June 13 – W. B. Yeats (died 1939), Irish poet and playwright
* July 18 – Dowell O'Reilly (died 1923), Australian
* July 21 (or 1868?) – Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (died 1924), English writer and poet
* August 16 – Mary Gilmore (died 1962), Australian poet and journalist
* September 12 – Sophus Claussen (died 1931), Danish
* September 21 – Francis Kenna (died 1932), Australian
* December 30
** Rudyard Kipling (died 1936), Indian-born English novelist, writer and poet
** Emily Julian McManus (died 1918), Canadian poet, author, and educator
* Also:
** Kunjikuttan Thampuran (died 1913), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
** Samuel Williamson (died 1936), Australian

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* May 1 – Isaac Williams (born 1802), English writer, poet and clergyman
* June 10 – Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, the "Sweet Singer of Hartford" (born 1791), American poet and writer of conduct books
* August 4 – William Edmondstoune Aytoun (born 1813), Scottish lawyer and poet
* September 5 – Hannah Flagg Gould (born 1789), American poet
* September 29 – Richard Lower (born 1782), English dialect poet
* October 15 – Andrés Bello (born 1781), Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist
* November 9 – George Arnold (born 1834), American writer, poet and artist