1882 in poetry

Events

• June 30 - Convicted assassin Charles Guiteau writes a poem called "I am Going to the Lordy", which he recites immediately before his execution the same day

  Works published

United Kingdom">English poetry">United Kingdom

• William Allingham, Evil May-Day
• F. J. Child, ed., The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, in 5 volumes, including multiple versions of 305 ballads, American scholar published in England
• Toru Dutt, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hidnustan, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co. ; Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
• William Livingston , Duain agus Orain, posthumous collection, Scottish Gaelic poet published in Scotland
• George Robert Sims, The Dagonet Ballads
• Algernon Charles Swinburne, Tristram of Lyonesse, and Other Poems

  Great scientist this year a published poet

United States">American poetry">United States

• Amos Bronson Alcott, Sonnets and Canzonets
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Poems
• George Henry Boker, The Book of the Dead
• Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Idyls of Norway
• Paul Hamilton Hayne, Collected Poems
• Emma Lazarus, Songs of a Semite
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, In the Harbor: Ultima Thule, Part II
• William Gilmore Simms, Works, 10 volumes, including poetry, New York; posthumous
• Mary Ashley Townsend, Down the Bayou and Other Poems

  Other

• Gabriele D'Annunzio, Canto novo, Italy
• Octave Crémazie, Œuvres complètes, posthumous, Canada
• Toru Dutt, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hidnustan, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Indian poet, writing in English, published in the United Kingdom
• Kalidasa, Sakuntalam translated from the original Sanskrit into Malayalam by Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, India
• Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Germany, a study embracing poetry, philosophy and the author's "God is dead" view
• Jacques Perk, Mathilde, posthumous, Netherlands
• Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Lyrische Gänge, Germany
• Iosif Vulcan, Lira mea, Romanian, published in Austria-Hungary

  Awards and honors

Births

• January 15 – Jun Kawada 川田 順, Japanese, Shōwa period tanka poet and entrepreneur
• January 18 – A. A. Milne, English author, playwright and writer of children's poetry best known for his books about the teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, and for various children's poems
• February 2 – James Joyce, Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century
• February 4 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet
• February 6 – Anne Spencer, American Black poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement
• February 9 – James Stephens, Irish novelist and poet
• February 10 – Winifred Mary Letts, English writer
• March 24 – Enid Derham, Australian poet and academic
• May 5 – Kyōsuke Kindaichi 金田一 京助, Japanese linguist and poet, father of linguist Haruhiko Kindaichi
• May 14 – Mokichi Saitō, Japanese, Taishō period poet of the Araragi school and psychiatrist, father of novelist Kita Morio
• June 1 – John Drinkwater, English poet and dramatist
• June 5 – Seemab Akbarabadi سیماب اکبرآبادی, born Aashiq Hussain Siddiqui, Urdu poet from India
• July 13 – Catherine Pozzi, French poet and woman of letters
• July 22 – Frederic Manning, Australian poet and novelist
• September 17 – Darrell Figgis, Irish poet and nationalist
• September 23 – Brian Vrepont, Australian
• October 2 – Martin Armstrong, English writer and poet
• November 26 – Ikuma Arishima, 有島生馬 pen-name of Arishima Mibuma, Japanese novelist, poet and painter; member of the Shirakaba literary circle
• December 3 – Santōka Taneda 種田 山頭火 pen name of Taneda Shōichi 種田 正一, author and haiku poet
• December 5 – Natalia Negru, Romanian poet
• December 11 – Subramania Bharati, Tamil writer, poet, journalist, Indian independence activist and social reformer
• December 27 – Mina Loy, English artist, poet, Futurist, actor, Christian Scientist, designer of lamps and bohemian
• Also:
• * C. Subrahamania Bharati, Indian, Tamil-language poet also writing Indian poetry in English
• * Wallace Gould, American

  Deaths

• February 8 – Berthold Auerbach, German-Jewish poet and novelist
• March 29 – Sibella Elizabeth Miles, English poet, writer and schoolteacher
• April 10 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti 63, English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
• April 23 – William Brighty Rands, English writer of nursery rhymes
• April 27 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 78, American author, poet and philosopher
• March 24 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 75, American poet
• June 3 – James Thomson, 48, British poet whose fame rests primarily upon the reputation of his long poem of 1874, The City of Dreadful Night
• June 30 – Charles J. Guiteau,, American writer and lawyer, assassin of United States President James A. Garfield
• August 1 – Henry Kendall, Australian
• August 25 – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian author and poet
• October 30 – William Forster, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and poet
• Also:
• * Charles R. Thatcher, Australian