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1843 in poetry
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1843 poetry literature
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Events
April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (following the death of Robert Southey on March 21) on being assured that it is regarded as a purely honorific position.F. B. Pinion A Wordsworth Chronology Basingstoke Macmillan Press 1988 0-333-38860-7 201
Works published
United Kingdom
R. S. Hawker, Reeds Shaken with the WindCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt", a poem (published in the Christmas issue of Punch)
Richard Henry Horne, Orion: An epic poem
United States
William Ellery Channing (poet), Poems, published at the expense of the author's friend Samuel Gray Ward; the volume is admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau but condemned by Edgar Allan Poe in "Our Amateur Poets", an essay in Graham'sBurt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
Thomas Dunn English, "Ben Bolt", a popular ballad written for the New York Mirror and later set to music numerous times
William Lloyd Garrison, SonnetsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
James Russell Lowell, Miscellaneous Poems
Cornelius Mathews, Poems on Man in His Various Aspects under the American Republic
William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida, a verse tale; CharlestonSimms, William Gilmore 25 123
James Gates Percival, The Dream of a Day
John Pierpont, The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont
Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Sinless Child and Other Poems, acclaimed by critics, including Edgar Allan Poe
John Greenleaf Whittier, Lays of My Home and Other Poems, regional poetry, including "The Merrimack", "The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis", "The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" and "Massachusetts to Virginia"
Nathaniel Parker Willis:
The Sacred Poems
Poems of Passion
The Lady Jane and Other Poems
Other
Hilario Ascasubi, El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números, Argentina
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Bouquets et prières, FranceRees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, 978-0-14-042385-3
Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"); see also revised edition 1849; DenmarkPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exílio", Brazil
Mikhail Lermontov, "Valerik", Russia, posthumously in the anthology Dawn
Betty Paoli, Nach dem Gewitter ("After the Storm"), Austria
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 24 – Violet Fane, pen name of Lady Mary Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb (died 1905), English novelist, poet and essayist
May 3 – Edward Dowden (died 1913), Irish-born poet and critic
August 19 – Charles Montagu Doughty (died 1926), English poet, writer and traveller
December 7 – Helena Nyblom, née Roed (died 1926), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
December 21 – Thomas Bracken (died 1898), Irish-born New Zealander
December 24 (December 12 O.S.) – Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen (died 1886), Estonian
Undated – Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (died 1873), Greek
Deaths
thumbnail|right| Sign to Robert Southey's grave, St. Kentigern's Churchyard, Crosthwaite, Cumbria, England
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 11 – Francis Scott Key (born 1779), American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
March 21 – Robert Southey (born 1774), English Poet Laureate
June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin (born 1770), German lyric poet
July 9 – Washington Allston, 63 (born 1779), American poet and painterWeb page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
December 11 - Casimir Delavigne (born 1793), French poet and dramatist
See also
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
Poetry
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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