1872 in poetry

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Alfred Austin, Interludes^[1]
Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair^[1]
C. S. Calverley, published anonymously, Fly Leaves^[1]
W. S. Gilbert, More "Bab" Balads (see also "Bab" Ballads 1869)^[1]
Edward Lear, More Nonsense, Rhymes
Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man^[1]
Christina Rossetti, Sing-Song,^[1] book of nursery rhymes
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette (see also Idylls of the King 1859, The Holy Grail 1869, Idylls of the King 1870, 1889, "The Last Tournament" 1871, "Balin and Balan" in Tiresias 1885),^[1]

Hilario Ascasubi, Obras completas ("Complete Works"), three volumes compiled by the author
Holger Drachmann, Digte ("Poems"), Denmark^[4]
José Hernández, Martin Fierro, the first part of an epic Spanish-language Argentine poem in which the hero defends his way of life against encroaching socialization and civilization; an example of the Gaucho poetry literary movement in Argentina (see also second part 1879)^[5]
Victor Hugo, L'Année terrible, France

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

February 22 – John Shaw Neilson (died 1942), Australian
June 27 – Paul Laurence Dunbar (died 1906), African American
July 8 – Sasaki Nobutsuna 佐佐木信綱 (died 1963), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods (surname: Sasaki)
August 15 – Sri Aurobindo (Bengali: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo) (died 1950), Indian nationalist, poet, Yogi and spiritual Guru who wrote mostly in English^[6]
November 7 – Leonora Speyer, American
November 30 – John McCrae (died 1918), Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier who died in World War I and best known for writing the famous war memorial poem In Flanders Fields
December 6 – Arthur Henry Adams (died 1936), Australian

Also:
- Hafiz Ibrahim (died 1932), Egyptian poet called "the poet of the Nile"
- John Shaw Nielson, Australian
- Divakarla Tirupti Shastri (died 1920), Indian, Telugu-language poet; one of the two poets in the due known in Telugu literature as "Triupati Vankata Kavulu"^[7]

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

January 21 – Franz Grillparzer (born 1791), Austrian dramatic poet
March 20 – William Wentworth (born 1790), Australian
September 2 – N. F. S. Grundtvig (born 1783), Danish^[4]
December 24 – William Rankine (born 1820), Scots physicist and engineer
Date not known:
- Henry Brownell (born 1820), American poet and historian
- Samuel Dickson (poet)
- Helena Forrest, Australian

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Calhoun, Charles C. Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. ISBN 0807070262
^ Wagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
^ ^a ^b Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ Henderson, Helene, and Jay P. Pederson, editors, Twentieth-Century Literary Movements Dictionary, Detroit: Omnigraphics Inc., 2000
^ Knippling, Alpana Sharma, "Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature in English", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
^ Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008

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