1838 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841

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

Events[]

  • Jane Johnston Schoolcraft writes the first known poems in the Ojibwe language.
  • William Wordsworth granted an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree by Durham University.
  • December 13 - Irish-born Australian poet Eliza Hamilton Dunlop's "The Aboriginal Mother" is first published, in The Australian newspaper, between the perpetrators of the Myall Creek massacre (which it commemorates) being sentenced and hanged.

Works published[]

United Kingdom[]

  • Elizabeth Barrett, later Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Seraphim, and Other Poems[1]
  • Alexander Bethune, written with John Bethune, Tales and Sketches of the Scottish Peasantry[1]
  • Richard Hurrell Froude, died 1836, edited by John Keble and John Henry Newman, Remains of the late Richard Hurrell Froude[1]
  • Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adhem and "Jenny Kissed Me"
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon, died October 15, writing under the pen name "L.E.L.", Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1839
  • Monckton Milnes, Memorials of Residence upon the Continent and Poems of Many Years
  • Robert Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, volumes 3-5 (first two volumes published in 1837)[1]
  • Isaac Williams, The Cathedral; or, The Catholic and Apostolic Church in England[1]
  • William Wordsworth's The Sonnets of William Wordsworth[1]

United States[]

  • George Moses Horton, Hope of Liberty — Poems by a Slave, a third edition of Hope of Liberty, originally published in 1829 together with poetry by Phillis Wheatley; a second edition was published in Philadelphia in 1837 by an abolitionist group, as was this Boston edition; Horton (still alive, unlike Wheatley) received no royalties (although he slave was trying to earn money for his freedom), and likely didn't even know that these editions had been published in the North[2]
  • James Russell Lowell, "Class Poem", the author's first published poem, a satire on new ideas and reforms, including Transcendentalism, abolitionism, women's rights and temperance; Lowell later supported many of these ideas and grew to regret writing humorously at their expense[3]
  • George Pope Morris, The Deserted Bride and Other Poems, the first of numerous editions; includes the author's most popular poem, "Woodman, Spare That Tree!" (which had originally been published in the New York Mirror 1830)[3]
  • John Greenleaf Whittier, Poems, expanded edition of the unauthorized work published in 1837[3]

Other[]

  • Emil Aarestrup, Digte ("Poems"),[4] also called Erotiske Situationer ("Erotic Situations"); Denmark[5]
  • August Kopisch, Agrumi, volksthümliche Posien aus allen Mundarten Italiens und seiner Inseln, Germany

Births[]

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

Deaths[]

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See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Rubin, Louis D., Jr., The Literary South, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, ISBN 0-471-04659-0
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ "Dictionary of Literary Biography on Emil Aarestrup" article, BookRags website, retrieved March 25, 2009. Archived 2009-05-03.
  5. ^ 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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