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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
[edit]- April
- Robert Browning settles with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence
- Young Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri's beloved, Elena Negri, dies in his arms onboard a ship in the Mediterranean; he channels his mourning into a poem, "Steluța" ('Little Star')[1]
- Between July and October – Rev. Henry Francis Lyte composes the hymn "Abide with Me" a few months before his death
- September 16 – William Shakespeare's house of birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation;[2] this year also, Schiller's house in Weimar is opened to the public as a museum
Works published in English
[edit]- Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) to 30 books[3]
- Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruikshank and John Leech (see also Ingoldsby Legends 1840, 1842)[3]
- Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball[3]
- Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor[3]
- Mary Fawler Maude, "Thine for ever! God of love"[4]
- Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti[3]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous[3]
- Robert Southey and Caroline Southey, Robin Hood[3]
- Alfred Tennyson's The Princess,[3] including "Tears, Idle Tears"
- William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second Series[5]
- Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and Hart[6]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems[5]
- Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck[5]
- Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems[5]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie[5]
- Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems[5]
- William Wetmore Story, Poems[5]
Works published in other languages
[edit]- Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll, German long narrative poem on political and cultural topics[7]
- Raja Ali Haji or his sister Saleha, Syair Abdul Muluk, Malay syair
- Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro, The Mountain Wreath (Горски вијенац, Gorski vijenac), Serbian epic verse drama
Births
[edit]Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 8 – Matei Donici (died 1921), Bessarabian Romanian poet and Imperial Russian Army general
- February 10 – Nabinchandra Sen নবীনচন্দ্র সেন (died 1909), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
- April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (died 1885), Danish poet[8]
- September 22 –- Alice Meynell, née Thompson (died 1922), English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist
- December 1 – Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" (died 1920), American poetaster
- Date not known – Brij Raj (died 1919), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet[9]
Deaths
[edit]Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 21 – William Shepherd (born 1768), English dissenting minister, politician, poet and writer
- September 10 – Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789), Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet
- November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793), Scottish-born English Anglican divine and hymn-writer
- December 30 – Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (born 1791), Bosnian–Serbian poet, hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat and adventurer
- Date not known – Liang Desheng (born 1771), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty
See also
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- 19th century in poetry
- 19th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- Victorian literature
- French literature of the 19th century
- Biedermeier era of German literature
- Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850)
- Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) a loose group of German writers from about 1830 to 1850
- List of poets
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
Notes
[edit]- ^ Nicolescu, G. C. (1975). Viața lui Vasile Alecsandri. Bucharest.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Benson, Louis FitzGerald (1903). "XXIV - THINE FOR EVER! GOD OF LOVE". Studies of Familiar Hymns. Westminster. pp. 253–62. ISBN 978-0-7905-5685-7. Retrieved 19 December 2023 – via Internet Archive.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ^ a b c d e f g Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Rubin, Louis D., Jr., The Literary South, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, ISBN 0-471-04659-0
- ^ Cook, Roger F., A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, "Introduction", Boydell & Brewer, 2002, ISBN 978-1-57113-207-9, retrieved via Google Books on April 2, 2009
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
