1847 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1844
1845
1846
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1848
1849
1850

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

Events[]

  • April – Robert Browning settles with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence
  • Between July and October – Rev. Henry Francis Lyte composes the hymn "Abide with Me" a few months before his death
  • September 16 – William Shakespeare's house of birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation;[1] this year also, Schiller's house in Weimar is opened to the public as a museum

Works published in English[]

United Kingdom[]

  • Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) to 30 books[2]
  • Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruikshank and John Leech (see also Ingoldsby Legends 1840, 1842)[2]
  • Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball[2]
  • Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor[2]
  • Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti[2]
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous[2]
  • Robert Southey and , Robin Hood[2]
  • Alfred Tennyson's The Princess,[2] including "Tears, Idle Tears"

United States[]

  • William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second Series[3]
  • Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and Hart[4]
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems[3]
  • Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck[3]
  • Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems[3]
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie[3]
  • Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems[3]
  • William Wetmore Story, Poems[3]

Works published in other languages[]

Births[]

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

  • February 10 – Nabinchandra Sen নবীনচন্দ্র সেন (died 1909), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
  • April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (died 1885), Danish poet[6]
  • September 22 –- Alice Meynell, née Thompson (died 1922), English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist
  • December 1 – Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" (died 1920), American poet, famed for her notoriously bad poetry
  • Date not known – (died 1919), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet[7]

Deaths[]

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

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ Rubin, Louis D., Jr., The Literary South, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, ISBN 0-471-04659-0
  5. ^ Cook, Roger F., A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, "Introduction", Boydell & Brewer, 2002, ISBN 978-1-57113-207-9, retrieved via Google Books on April 2, 2009
  6. ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
  7. ^ 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 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
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