1862 in poetry


 * ''Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
 * ''He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
 * ''He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
 * ''His truth is marching on.

-- first stanza of Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic conceived as both poem and lyrics to a popular tune and first published in February in The Atlantic Monthly

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

Events

 * February &mdash; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, on returning home with Algernon Charles Swinburne after a night on the town, finds his wife, Elizabeth Siddal, dead on the floor from an oversose of laudanum. At her funeral, he places a sheaf of poems (a few years later retrieved) in the coffin of his wife Elizabeth Siddal
 * Emily Dickinson's period of greatest poetic productivity was 1862

Australia

 * Charles Harpur, A Poet's Home, verse pamphlet, Australia
 * Henry Kendall, Poems and Songs,

United Kingdom

 * Matthew Arnold, On Translating Homer: Last Words, a reply to F. W. Newman's Homeric Translation in Theory and Practice 1861, itself a reply to Arnold's On Translating Homer, published that year
 * William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect: Third Collection (see also 1844, 1869, 1868)
 * Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Last Poems, edition prepared by her husband, Robert Browning; posthumously published
 * Charles Calverley, published anonymously, Verses and Translations
 * A.H. Clough, Last Poems, published posthumously with a memoir by F.T. Palgrave
 * Thomas De Quincey, Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets, first publication of the author's series of biographical essays on the Lake Poets, including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (originally published separately in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1834, 1835, 1839 and 1840; see also Selections Grave and Gay 1854, which included some of the essays)
 * George Meredith, Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside
 * Coventry Patmore, Victories of Love
 * Adelaide A. Procter, A Chaplet of Verses, illustrated by Richard Doyle
 * Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems (see also Poems 1890)

United States

 * Oliver Wendell Holmes:
 * Songs in amany Keys
 * The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes
 * Julia Ward Howe, The Battle Hymn of the Republic
 * William Ross Wallace, The Liberty Bell
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ''Tales of a Wayside Inn, including "Paul Revere's Ride", United States
 * John Greenleaf Whittier, The Furnace Blast, United States

Works published in other languages

 * Aleardo Aleardi, Canto politico ("Political Songs"), Italy
 * Charles Baudelaire, Petits poèmes en prose, France
 * Dalpatram, editor, Kavhadohan, an anthology of Gujarati-language poetry (India)
 * Leconte de Lisle, Poèmes barbares, France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 10 – Hoshino Tenchi 星野天知 (died 1950), Japanese Meiji period poet and martial arts master; a co-founder of Bungakukai literary magazine; 8th Grand Master and a teacher of the Yagyu Shinkage-ryu martial-arts school (surname: Hoshino)
 * February 17 – Mori Ōgai 森 鷗外 / 森 鴎外 (died 1922) physician, translator, novelist and poet (surname: Mori)
 * April 24 – Arthur Christopher Benson (died 1925), English
 * May 22 – John Kendrick Bangs (died 1922), American
 * Also:
 * Jean Blewett, Canadian
 * John Jay Chapman (died 1923), American
 * Edith Emma Cooper (half of "Michael Field")
 * William T. Goodge (died 1909), Australian
 * Thomas William Heney (died 1928), Australian
 * Sir Henry John Newbolt
 * John Bernard O'Hara (died 1927), Australian
 * George Santayana, American
 * Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian
 * Irayimman Thampi ഇരയിമ്മന്‍ തമ്പി (born 1783), Indian, Malayalam-language court poet and musician
 * Edith Wharton, American

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 11 – Elizabeth Siddall (born 1829), English artist, artist's model and poet; wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; from an opium overdose
 * March 13 – Roderick Flanagan (born 1828), Australian
 * May 6 – Henry David Thoreau, (born 1817), American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist, from tuberculosis
 * August 23 – Friedrich Julius Hammer, born 1810, German poet
 * Also:
 * – Gopala Krishna Pattanayak (born 1785), Indian, Oriya-language poet