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1846 poetry literature
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Events
c. May 22 – The Brontë sisters' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, is issued in London. It sells just two copies in the first year.The Oxford Companion to the Brontës Christine Alexander Margaret Smith Oxford University Press 2006 978-0-19-866218-1 registration https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000unse_x4t6
September 12 – Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, departing for the continent a week later.
Works published in English
United Kingdom
180px|thumb|Cover of the first edition of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, by the Brontë sisters
William Barnes, Poems, Partly of Rural LifeCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Robert Bell, ed., Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England
Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
Robert Browning, Luria: a Tragedy; a Soul's Tragedy, volume 8 of Bells and Pomegranates (see also Bells and Pomegranates 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1845)
John Burgon, Petra: a poem, to which a few short poems are now added
Henry Cary, Lives of English Poets, from Johnson to Kirke White, verse first published in the London Magazine from 1821 to 1824
Thomas Hood, Poems
John Keble, Lyra Innocentium: Thoughts in verse on Christian children
Edward Lear, writing under the pen name "Derry Down Derry", A Book of Nonsense, also illustrated by Lear; expanded in 1855,Happy Birthday Edward Lear Oxford Ashmolean Museum 2012 978-1-85444-273-4 24–28 1861, 1863 etc. (See also, Nonsense Songs 1870, dated 1871, More Nonsense 1872, Laughable Lyrics 1877
Carolina, Lady Nairne (died 1845), Lays from Strathern, Scottish
United States
Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Urania: A Rhymed LessonLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
Poems
Elijah Kellogg, Spartacus to the Gladiators
Henry Morford, The Rest of Don Juan
John Godfrey Saxe, Progress: A Satirical Poem
William Gilmore Simms, Areytos, or Songs of the SouthSimms, William Gilmore 25 123–124
John Greenleaf Whittier, Voices of FreedomWagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
Works published in other languages
Aleardo Aleardi, Lettere a Maria ("Letters to Mary"), Italy
Gottfried Keller, Gedichte
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April 4 – Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (died 1870), French
April 24 – Marcus Clarke (died 1881), Australian novelist and poet
May 25 – Naim Frashëri (died 1900), Albanian
August 17 – Alexander MacGregor Rose (died 1898), Scottish-born Canadian
August 28 – G. H. Gibson, "Ironbark" (died 1921), Australian
September 26 – Mary Hannay Foott (died 1918), Australian
October 9 – Holger Drachmann (died 1908), DanishPreminger, Alex Brogan, T. V. F. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics https://archive.org/details/newprincetonency00alex registration 1993 New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications etal
October 27 – Katherine Harris Bradley, half of "Michael Field" (died 1914), English
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 7 – John Hookham Frere (born 1769), English
February 14 (probable date) – Standish O'Grady (born before 1793), Irish-Canadian poet and priestPreliminaries for a Life of Standish O'Grady Brian Trehearne http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol21/trehearne.htm 2016-01-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20161026180850/http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol21/trehearne.htm 2016-10-26 dead
April 11 – Barron Field (born 1786), Anglo-Australian
May 14 – Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (born 1759), Americanhttps://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/AmPo1/AmPo.bib.html American Poetry Full-Text Database Bibliography University of Chicago Library 2009-03-04
November 23 – George Darley (born 1795), Irish-born
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
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