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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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- William Wordsworth becomes Poet Laureate (English)
Works publishedEdit
United KingdomEdit
- R.S. Hawker, Reeds Shaken with the Wind[1]
- Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt", a poem (published in the Christmas issue of Punch)[1]
- Richard Henry Horne, Orion: An epic poem[1]
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur
United StatesEdit
- William Ellery Channing (poet), Poems, published at the expense of the author's friend Samuel Gray Ward; the volume is admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau but condemned by Edgar Allan Poe in "Our Amateur Poets", an essay in Graham's[2]
- Thomas Dunn English, "Ben Bolt", a popular ballad written for the New York Mirror and later set to music numerous times[2]
- William Lloyd Garrison, Sonnets[3]
- James Russell Lowell, Miscellaneous Poems
- Cornelius Mathews, Poems on Man ain His Various Aspects under the American Republic[3]
- William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida, a verse tale; Charleston[4]
- James Gates Percival, The Dream of a Day[3]
- John Pierpont, The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont[3]
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Sinless Child and Other Poems, acclaimed by critics, including Edgar Allan Poe[2]
- John Greenleaf Whittier, Lays of My Home and Other Poems, regional poetry, including "The Merrimack", "The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis", "The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" and "Massachusetts to Virginia"[2]
- Nathaniel Parker Willis:
OtherEdit
- Hilario Ascasubi, El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números, Argentina
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Bouquets et prières, France[5]
- Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"); see also revised edition 1849; Denmark[6]
- Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exílio", Brazil
- Mikhail Lermontov, "Valerik", Russia
BirthsEdit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 24 – Violet Fane, pen name of Lady Mary Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb (died 1905), English novelist, poet and essayist
- May 3 – Edward Dowden (died 1913)
- December 21 – Thomas Bracken (died 1898)
- Also
- Charles Montagu Doughty (died 1926), English poet, writer, and traveller
- Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (died 1873), Greek
DeathsEdit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 11 – Francis Scott Key, American, American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- March 21 – Robert Southey, English
- June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German
- July 9 – Washington Allston, 63, (born 1779), American poet and painter[7]
- December 11 - Casimir Delavigne, French
See alsoEdit
- 1843 in literature
- 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
NotesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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 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
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ↑ Web page titled "William Gilmore Simms" at the "Classic Encyclopedia" website, based on the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 29, 2009
- ↑ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3
- ↑ Preminger, Alex and T. V.F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ↑ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
External linksEdit
- "A Time-Line of Poetry in English" Web page of the Representative Poetry Online Web site, University of Toronto
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