1847 in poetry

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

Events

 * Henry Francis Lyte composes Abide with Me

United Kingdom

 * Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) to 30 books
 * Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruickshank and John Leech (see also Ingoldsby Legends 1840, 1842)
 * Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball
 * Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor
 * Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti
 * Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous
 * Robert Southey and Caroline Southey, Robin Hood
 * Alfred Lord Tennyson's The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears"

United States

 * William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second Series
 * Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and Hart
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems
 * Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck
 * Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems
 * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
 * Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems
 * William Wetmore Story, Poems

Works published in other languages

 * Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll, long narrative poem on political and cultural topics

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (died 1885), Danish
 * September 22 –- Alice Meynell, née Thompson (died 1922), English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist
 * December 1 – Julia A. Moore, American poet, famed for her notoriously bad poetry
 * Also:
 * Brij Raj (died 1919), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet
 * Nabinchandra Sen নবীনচন্দ্র সেন (died 1909), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * September 10 – Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789), Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet


 * November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793), Anglican divine and hymn-writer born in Scotland
 * Also:
 * Liang Desheng (born 1771), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty
 * William Shepherd