Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events February 20 – Giacomo Meyerbeer pays Mathilde Heine 4,500 francs not to publish four poems by her late husband Heinrich Heine. Charles Baudelaire's study on Théophile Gautier is published in Revue contemporaine. Works published United Kingdom Cecil Frances Alexander, Hymns Descriptive and Devotional for the Use of Schools Matthew Arnold, Merope William Barnes, Hwomely Rhymes: A second collection of poems of rural life in the Dorset Dialect Elizabeth Rundle Charles, The Voice of Christian Life in Song Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862) William Johnson Cory, Ionica Charles Kingsley, Andromedia, and Other Poems Walter Savage Landor, Dry Sticks, Fagoted William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, and Other Poems dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti; the author's first book Adelaide Anne Procter, Legends and Lyrics, first series, (1858–61), including "The Lost Chord", set to music by Sir Arthur Sullivan Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica: Second Series (see also Lyra Germanica 1855) United States Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth Arthur Hugh Clough, "Amours de Voyage", English poet published in The Atlantic Monthly in the United States (reprinted in the author's posthumous Poems 1862) James T. Fields, A Few Verses for a Few Friends William J. Grayson, The Country Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, essays Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems Frances Harper, "Bury Me in a Free Land", November 20 Other in English Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian Ballads, Montreal, Canada Other languages Alphonse Daudet, Les Amoureuses, France Aleksey K. Tolstoy, Vasily Shibanov, Russia Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 24 – Constance Naden (died 1889), English poet and philosopher June 1 – William Wilfred Campbell (died 1918), Canadian June 16 – Isabel Richey (died 1910), American July 1 – Velma Caldwell Melville (died 1924), American editor and writer August 2 – Sir William Watson (died 1935), English August 15 – Edith Nesbit (died 1924), English author and poet September 5 – Victor Daley (died 1905), Australian Also: Balashankar (died 1899), Indian, Gujarati-language poet Dollie Radford, née Caroline Maitland (died 1920), English poet and writer, wife of Ernest Radford Deaths Death years link to the corresponding "[year]