1831 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
	... 1821 . 1822 . 1823 . 1824 . 1825 . 1826 . 1827 ...; 1828 1829 1830 -1831- 1832 1833 1834; ... 1835 . 1836 . 1837 . 1838 . 1839 . 1840 . 1841 ... In literature: 1828 1829 1830 -1831- 1832 1833 1834
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events[]

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Works[]

United Kingdom[]

John Banim and Michael Banim, The Chaunt of the Cholera^[1]
Henry Glassford Bell, Summer and Winter Hours^[1]
Thomas Campbell, Poland: A Poem. Lines on the View from St. Leonard's^[1]
James Hogg, Songs, by the Ettrick Shepherd^[1]
Charles Lamb, anonymously published, Satan in Search of a Wife^[1]
Walter Savage Landor, Gebir, Count Julian and Other Poems (Geber originally published 1798; Count Julian originally published 1812)^[1]
Winthrop Mackworth Praed, The Ascent of Elijah^[1]

United States[]

William Cullen Bryant, "Song of Marion's Men", lyric poem, about Francis Marion, an American military figure in the American Revolution^[2]
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "The Last Leaf", about an aging participatn in the Boston Tea Party^[2]
Lowell Mason, Church Psalmody^[2]
Edgar Allan Poe, Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Second Edition, including early, unrevised versions of some of the author's most significant verses, including "To Helen", "Israfel" and "The Doomed City"; the preface, "Letter to B", discusses Poe's critical theories, much of which was borrowed from Samuel Taylor Coleridge^[2]
Samuel Francis Smith, "America", five stanzas; one of the most popular patriotic hymns in the United States, written at Lowell Mason's request; composed in 30 minutes; set to the music of the British anthem "God Save the King" and first sung at an Independence Day gathering in Boston; known for its opening line "My country 'tis of thee", published by Mason in The Choir 1832^[2]
William Joseph Snelling, Truth: A New Year's Gift for Scribblers, a verse satire on contemporary poets, calling many of them inferior, especially those portraying American Indians with stereotypes^[2]
John Greenleaf Whittier, Legends of New-England in Prose and Verse, the author's first book; uncomfortable with the gothic style of the volume, Whittier suppressed it later^[2]
Emma Hart Willard, The Fulfillment of a Promise, includes "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep", about the poet's trip home from Europe, which became a very popular poem set to music by Joseph P. Knight^[2]
Nathaniel Parker Willis, Poem Delivered Before the Society of United Brothers^[2]

Other[]

Victor Hugo, Les Feuilles d'automne, France^[3]
Giacomo Leopardi, Canti, Italy

Births[]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

March 18 – David Mills (died 1903), Canadian poet, politician, author and jurist
May 25 – Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton (died 1873)
June 13 – James Clerk Maxwell (died 1879), an important mathematician and theoretical physicist whose poetry was published by a friend in 1881, two years after his death.
September 12 – Álvares de Azevedo, Brazilian
December 22 – Charles Stuart Calverley, English poet, wit and literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour"

Also

- Isa Craig, Scots
- Charles R. Thatcher (thought to have died in 1882), Australian

Deaths[]

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 14 – Henry Mackenzie (born 1745), Scottish novelist, writer, critic and poet
January 21 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim (born 1781), German poet and novelist
March 8 - Laurence Hynes Halloran, 64, Irish-Australian pioneer schoolteacher and journalist (who published poetry before he was shipped to Australia as a convict)
May 11 – John Trumbull, (born 1750), American^[4]
June 30 - William Roscoe, English poet
December 23 - Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, 22, Indian poet and academic of Eurasian and Portuguese descent

Also

- Henry Derozio (born 1809), Indian poet writing in English^[5]
- Ryōkan 良寛 (born 1758), Japanese waka poet and calligrapher, Buddhist monk, often a hermit

Notes[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 ^2.8 Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
↑ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3
↑ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
↑ Knippling, Alpana Sharma, "Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature in English", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN

External links[]

"A Time-Line of Poetry in English" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto

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[cocel-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

[dbcal-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 ^2.8 Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books

[pbfp-3] Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3

[ucapb-4] Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009

[20cile-5] Knippling, Alpana Sharma, "Chapter 3: Twentieth-Century Indian Literature in English", in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN

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