1862 in poetry
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—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
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
American poetry
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American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional uni
Emily Dickinson
Title page of second (posthumous) edition of Anne Bradstreet's poems, 1678
Phillis Wheatley, a slave, wrote poetry during the colonial period.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1873.