1829 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1826
1827
1828
1829
1830
1831
1832

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

Events[]

  • The American Monthly Magazine is started in Boston by Nathaniel Parker Willis as a humorous and satirical magazine with essays, fiction, criticism, poetry and humor, largely written by the editor. Other contributors include John Lothrop Motley, Richard Hildreth, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and Albert Pike. The publication was later absorbed by the New York Mirror[1]
  • After the New Harmony utopian community dissolved in 1828, Francis Wright renames the New-Harmony Gazette to the Free Enquirer and broadens its focus to present more socialist and agnostic views[1]
  • John Neal, The Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette magazine new series volume 1, the first substantial published criticism of poetry by Edgar Allan Poe[2]

Works published in English[]

United Kingdom[]

  • George Crabbe, The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, the first single volume of the author's collected works[3]
  • Thomas Doubleday, Dioclesian[3]
  • Ebenezer Elliott, The Village Patriarch[3]
  • Thomas Hood, The Epping Hunt, illustrated by George Cruikshank[3]
  • Caroline Norton, published anonymously
  • Prolusiones Academicae, including "Timbuctoo" by Alfred Tennyson (first published in the Cambridge Chronicle, July 10), and poems by and C. Merivale[3]
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L.", The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A History of the Lyre and Other Poems

United States[]

North Carolina sign commemorating George Moses Horton
  • Lucretia Maria Davidson, Amir Khan, and Other Poems, published posthumously and edited by her mother[4]
  • George Moses Horton, The Hope of Liberty, the first book by an African American poet in more than 50 years and the first by an African American from the South; contains 23 poems, including three on the author's feelings about having been a slave;[1] he had hoped to make enough money from this and later poetry books to buy his freedom, but was unsuccessful; published in Raleigh, North Carolina[5]
  • Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices, the first comprehensive anthology of American poetry; including 189 poets, a historical introduction and chronological listing of American poetry; the publisher, Samuel Goodrich, lost $1,500 on the publication and was annoyed to learn it had been nicknamed "Goodrich's Kettle of Poetry"[1]
  • Edgar Allan Poe, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Other Poems, including "Al Aaraaf" a shortened version of "Tamerlane", and "Fairyland"[1]
  • William Gilmore Simms, The Vision of Cortes, Cain, and other Poems[6]

Works published in other languages[]

France[]

Other languages[]

  • Alexander Pushkin. Poltava
  • Henrik Wergeland, Digte, første Ring; and Creation, Man and the Messiah, epic poem by the Norwegian poet; the sheer scale of the poem invited to criticism; in 1845, on his deathbed, Wergeland will revise the poem and publish it under the title Man.

Births[]

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

Deaths[]

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

  • January 11 - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet and critic (born 1772)
  • February 9 - William Crowe, English poet (born 1745)
  • May 29 - Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist, inventor and poet (born 1778)

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c d e 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
  2. ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. pp. 113–114. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  4. ^ Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 978-0-19-509053-6, retrieved via Google Books on February 8, 2009
  5. ^ Rubin, Louis D., Jr., The Literary South, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, ISBN 0-471-04659-0
  6. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Simms, William Gilmore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 123–124.
  7. ^ a b c Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3
  8. ^ Magnusson, Magnus, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, "VIGNY, Alfred Victor, Comte de" article, p 1510, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 1990, ISBN 0-550-16040-X
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