1837 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1834
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840

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

Events[]

Works in English[]

United Kingdom[]

  • Richard Harris Barham's Ingoldsby Legends
  • Lord Byron, Dramas (poetry, despite the title)[2]
  • Eliza Cook's The Old Armchair
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters and Works, including introductory anecdotes by Lady Louisa Stuart (See also Works 1803)[2]
  • Thomas Love Peacock's The Paper Money Lyrics
  • Robert Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, first two volumes published this year; second two volumes published in 1838[2]
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon, writing under the pen name "L.E.L." Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838

United States[]

  • Thomas Holley Chivers, Nacoochee[3]
  • George Moses Horton's Hope of Liberty — Poems by a Slave, a second edition of Hope of Liberty, originally published in 1829; the new edition was published in Philadelphia by an antislavery group; Horton received no royalties (although the North Carolina slave was trying to earn money for his freedom), and likely didn't even know that this and another edition had been published in Boston in 1838);[3] contains 23 poems, including three on the author's feelings about having been a slave;[4]
  • , The Trollopiad; or, Travelling Gentlemen in America, a verse satire on British travel writer Frances Trollope, who wrote harshly about Americans in her Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832[4]
  • John Greenleaf Whittier, Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, the author's first poetry book, published in an unauthorized edition by Boston abolitionists; the next year, Whittier expanded the collection and published it under the title Poems; includes poems attacking slavery, such as "Clerical Oppressors", which focuses on Southern church leaders who use Christianity to defend slavery, and "Stanzas", on the irony of America's commitments to both freedom and slavery[4]

Works published in other languages[]

Births[]

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Deaths[]

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See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Making of America". Cornell University Library. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
  2. ^ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  3. ^ a b Rubin, Louis D., Jr., The Literary South, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, ISBN 0-471-04659-0
  4. ^ a b c 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
  5. ^ a b Rees, William (1992). The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3.
  6. ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009.
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