-- 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

List of years in poetry (table)
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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.

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Illustration from the cover of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and Other Poems, by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti
 
Emily Dickinson's "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers –," entitled "The Sleeping," as published in the Springfield Republican this year, one of the few of her poems published in her lifetime

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Notes

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  1. ^ Jones, Neal T., ed. (1984). A Book of Days for the Literary Year. New York; London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-01332-2.
  2. ^ Reynolds, David S. (1995). Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Vintage Books. p. 411. ISBN 0-679-76709-6.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  4. ^ Notes and Queries 26 April 1873.
  5. ^ a b c d Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A. Jr. (1986). "Preface". Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. New York: Oxford University Press. p. vi. If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year.
  6. ^ Wagenknecht, Edward (1967). John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press.
  7. ^ "Charles Harpur". Dictionary of Australian Biography Angus and Robertson, 1949, Project Gutenberg Australia website. Retrieved May 11, 2009.
  8. ^ Joshi, Svati (2004). "Chapter 11: Dalpatram and the Nature of Literary Shifts in Nineteenth-Century Ahmedabad". In Blackburn, Stuart H.; Dalmia, Vasudha (eds.). India's Literary History. Orient Blackswan. pp. 338–357. ISBN 978-81-7824-056-5.
  9. ^ Das, Sisir Kumar (1995). "A Chronology of Literary Events, 1911–1956". In Das, Sisir Kumar; et al. (eds.). History of Indian Literature, 1911–1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy. Vol. 2. Sahitya Akademi. ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9. Retrieved 2008-12-23.