1850 in poetry

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“

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
* * *
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed

”

— From Cantos 27 and 56, In Memoriam A.H.H., by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published this year.

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Events[]

Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate after Samuel Rogers turns down the post, saying he was too old for it.^[1]
Golden Age of Russian Poetry, begun in about 1800 ends at about this time
Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) a loose group of German writers from about 1830, stops flourishing at about this time

Works published in English[]

United Kingdom[]

William Allingham, Poems^[1]
Philip James Bailey, The Angel World, and Other Poems^[1]
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, published anonymously, Death's Jest-Book; or, The Fool's Tragedy (posthumous)^[1]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems including Sonnets from the Portuguese (first printed separately in Boston 1866; see also Poems 1844, 1853, 1856)^[1]
Robert Browning, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day^[1]
Sydney Dobell, writing under the pen name "Sydney Yendys", The Roman^[1]
Dora Greenwell, Stories That Might Be True, with Other Poems^[1]
Leigh Hunt, The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt,^[1] in three volumes
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel in The Gem
John Ruskin, Poems^[1]
Robert Southey, Southey's Common-place Book: Third/Fourth Series, poems and prose, edited by John Wood Warner (see also first and second series 1849)^[1]
Alfred Tennyson:
- In Memoriam A.H.H., in memory of Tennyson's friend, Arthur Hallam^[1]
- "Ring Out, Wild Bells"
William Wordsworth, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; published several months after his death; originally intended to form the introduction to The Recluse, for which The Excursion (1814) formed the second part; though The Prelude failed to arouse great interest at the time, it was later generally recognised as his masterpiece (second edition 1851; see also "Events" for 1798, 1799, 1806, 1820, The Recluse 1888)^[1]

United States[]

Washington Allston, Lectures on Art and Poems, (scholarship)^[2]
George Copway, The Ojibway Conquest (the author also published this year the nonfiction work, Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation)^[3]
Richard Henry Dana, Sr., Poems and Prose Writings, in two volumes, Volume 1 contains poems, both new and previously published in 1827, New York: Baker and Scribner^[4]
Sylvester Judd, Philo, An Evangeliad^[3]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Seaside and the Fireside^[3]
Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of the Late Edgar Alan Poe: With a Memoir by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and Notices of His Life and Genius by N. P. Willis and J. R. Lowell, published in four volumes from this year to 1854^[3] including "The Poetic Principle", an essay; criticism (published posthumously; died 1849)
John Godfrey Saxe, Humorous and Satirical Poems^[3]
William Gilmore Simms, The City of the Silent^[5]
John Greenleaf Whittier:
- Poems, Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co.^[6]
- Songs of Labor and Other Poems^[3]

Works published in other languages[]

James Huston, editor, Le répertoire national, anthology of French Canadian poetry in four volumes, published from 1848 to this year; including poetry by Joseph Mermet ("Les Boucheries: fêtes rurales du Canada"), Isidore Bédard ("Sol canadien, terre chérie]]), François-Xavier Garneau, Napoléon Aubin, François-Magloire Derome and Pierre Chauveau^[7]

Births[]

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

January 15 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian
February 20 – Nérée Beauchemin (died 1931), Canadian poet and physician
June 27 – Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian
July 18 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American
August 1 – William Larminie, American
September 2 – Eugene Field, American
November 5 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American
November 13 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scots novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer
December 13 – William Chapman (died 1917), Canadian poet, journalist and bureaucrat
December 25 – Isabella Valancy Crawford (died 1887), Irish-born Canadian poet

Also

- Vitthal Bhagwani Lembhe (died 1920), Indian, Marathi-language poet^[8]
- Savitagauri Pandya (died 1925), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet^[9]
- Vishvanatha Dev Varma, (died 1920), Indian, Sanskrit-language poet^[8]
- Albery A. Whitmann, American

Deaths[]

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Gravestone of William Wordsworth, Grasmere, Cumbria

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

January 20 – Adam Oehlenschlager (born 1779), Danish^[10]
January 20 – Philip Pendleton Cooke (born 1816), American lawyer and poet
April 7 – William Lisle Bowles (UK)
April 23 – William Wordsworth (UK)
May 23 – Margaret Fuller, American
May 31 – Giuseppe Giusti (Tuscan)
August 22 – Nikolaus Lenau, Australian

Also

- Manoah Bodman

Notes[]

↑ ^1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
↑ Wright, Nathalia, "Samuel Henry Dickson" article in Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary,, edited by Robert Bain, Joseph M. Flora and Louis D. Rubin, Jr., p 5, Louisiana State University Press, 1979, retrieved from Google Books on September 4, 2011
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
↑ Dana, Richard Henry, Preface and title page of Poems and Prose Writings, Volume 1, New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850, retrieved via Making of America website, retrieved March 4, 2009
↑ Web page titled "William Gilmore Simms" at the "Classic Encyclopedia" website, based on the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 29, 2009; also, Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
↑ Whittier, John Greenleaf, Poems, retrieved via Making of America website, retrieved March 4, 2009
↑ Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
↑ ^8.0 ^8.1 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 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
↑ Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
↑ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

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] 1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

[2] Wright, Nathalia, "Samuel Henry Dickson" article in Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary,, edited by Robert Bain, Joseph M. Flora and Louis D. Rubin, Jr., p 5, Louisiana State University Press, 1979, retrieved from Google Books on September 4, 2011

[rmlaal-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press

[4] Dana, Richard Henry, Preface and title page of Poems and Prose Writings, Volume 1, New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850, retrieved via Making of America website, retrieved March 4, 2009

[eb1911-5] Web page titled "William Gilmore Simms" at the "Classic Encyclopedia" website, based on the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 29, 2009; also, Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press

[6] Whittier, John Greenleaf, Poems, retrieved via Making of America website, retrieved March 4, 2009

[7] Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967

[skdhil-8] 8.0 ^8.1 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 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008

[20csjm-9] Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008

[npepap-10] Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

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