1837 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * John Clare is institutionalized as insane.
 * The United States Magazine and Democratic Review established, a political and literary magazine that published Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and others.

United Kingdom

 * Richard Harris Barham's Ingoldsby Legends
 * Lord Byron, Dramas (poetry, despite the title)
 * Eliza Cook's The Old Arm Chair
 * Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters and Works, including introductory anecdotes by Lady Louisa Stuart (See also Works 1803)
 * Thomas Love Peacock's The Paper Money Lyrics
 * Robert Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, first two volumes published this year; second two volumes published in 1838

United States

 * Thomas Holley Chivers, Nacoochee
 * George Moses Horton's Hope of Liberty &mdash; Poems by a Slave, a second edition of Hope of Liberty, originally published in 1829; the new edition was published in Philadelphia by an antislavery group; Horton received no royalties (although the North Carolina slave was trying to earn money for his freedom), and likely didn't even know that this and another edition had been published in Boston in 1838); contains 23 poems, including three on the author's feelings about having been a slave;
 * Frederick William Shelton, The Trollopiad; or, Travelling Gentlemen in America, a verse satire on British travel writer Frances Trollope, who wrote harshly about Americans in her Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832
 * John Greenleaf Whittier, Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, the author's first poetry book, published in an unauthorized edition by Boston abolitionists; the next year, Whittier expanded the collection and published it under the title Poems; includes poems attacking slavery, such as "Clerical Oppressors", which focuses on Southern church leaders who use Christianity to defend slavery, and "Stanzas", on the irony of America's commitments to both freedom and slavery

France

 * Victor Hugo, Les Voix intérieures
 * Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Les Pensées d'août, France


 * Alphonse de Lamartine's Chute d'un ange

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 24 – Rosalía de Castro (died 1885), Spanish writer and poet
 * March 1 – William Dean Howells, American
 * March 6 – Sully Prudhomme (died 1907), French
 * April 5 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English
 * September 8 – Joaquin Miller, American
 * Also:
 * Ram Sharma (died 1918), Indian, English-language poet and journalist
 * Julia Augusta Webster
 * Forceythe Willson, American

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 29 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian, killed in a duel
 * June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian
 * September 8 – Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, English
 * October 17 – George Colman the Younger (born 1762), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
 * October 19 – Hendrik Doeff, (born 1764), the first westerner to write haiku in Japanese
 * Also: – Thomas Green Fessenden, (born 1771), American