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1847 in poetry
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1847 poetry literature
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Events
April
Robert Browning settles with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence
Young Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri's beloved, Elena Negri, dies in his arms onboard a ship in the Mediterranean; he channels his mourning into a poem, "Steluța" ('Little Star')G. C. Nicolescu Viața lui Vasile Alecsandri Bucharest 1975
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;Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 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 booksCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
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)
Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball
Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor
Mary Fawler Maude, "Thine for ever! God of love"Benson Louis FitzGerald Studies of Familiar Hymns 1903 Westminster 978-0-7905-5685-7 253–62 https://archive.org/details/studiesoffamilia00bens_2/page/252 Internet Archive 19 December 2023 en XXIV - THINE FOR EVER! GOD OF LOVE
Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous
Robert Southey and Caroline Southey, Robin Hood
Alfred Tennyson's The Princess, including "Tears, Idle Tears"
United States
William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second SeriesLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and HartRubin, Louis D., Jr., The Literary South, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, 0-471-04659-0
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems
Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems
William Wetmore Story, Poems
Works published in other languages
Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll, German long narrative poem on political and cultural topicsCook, Roger F., A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, "Introduction", Boydell & Brewer, 2002, 978-1-57113-207-9, retrieved via Google Books on April 2, 2009
Raja Ali Haji or his sister Saleha, Syair Abdul Muluk, Malay syair
Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro, The Mountain Wreath (Горски вијенац, Gorski vijenac), Serbian epic verse drama
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 8 – Matei Donici (died 1921), Bessarabian Romanian poet and Imperial Russian Army general
February 10 – Nabinchandra Sen নবীনচন্দ্র সেন (died 1909), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (died 1885), Danish poetPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
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 poetaster
Date not known – Brij Raj (died 1919), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poetDas, 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, 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
July 21 – William Shepherd (born 1768), English dissenting minister, politician, poet and writer
September 10 – Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789), Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet
November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793), Scottish-born English Anglican divine and hymn-writer
December 30 – Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (born 1791), Bosnian–Serbian poet, hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat and adventurer
Date not known – Liang Desheng (born 1771), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty
See also
Poetry
19th century in poetry
19th century in literature
List of years in poetry
List of years in literature
Victorian literature
French literature of the 19th century
Biedermeier era of German literature
Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850)
Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) a loose group of German writers from about 1830 to 1850
List of poets
Poetry
List of poetry awards
Notes
Category:19th-century poetry
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