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1856 poetry literature
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Events
Henry Wallis exhibits his romantic painting of The Death of Chatterton in London with the young poet and novelist George Meredith posing as his 18th-century predecessor Thomas Chatterton.
Works published in English
United Kingdom
Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
Aurora Leigh (first published November 15, dated 1857)Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Poems (see also Poems 1844, 1850, 1853)
Sydney Dobell, England in Time of War
Edward Fitzgerald, written anonymously, Salaman and Absal
Walter Savage Landor, Antony and Octavius
Coventry Patmore, The Espousals (The Angel in the House, Volume 2; see also The Betrothal 1854, Faithful for Ever 1860, The Victories of Love 1863)
Wesley family, The Bards of Epworth, anthology
United States
George Henry Boker, Plays and PoemsLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
Thomas Holley Chivers, Birth–Day Song of Liberty
William Wilberforce Lord, Andre
Mortimer Thomson, writing under the pen name "Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B." (Without the pen name's abbreviations: "Queer Kritter Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick"), Plu-ri-bus-tah, A Song That's by No Author, a satire of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's HiawathaWeb page titled "Search >> Thomson, Mortimer ( Q. K. Philander Doesticks P. B. ) (1832–1875)" https://web.archive.org/web/20100706225726/http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/pfaffs/p44/ 2010-07-06 (a search results page?) at The Vault at Pfaff's website, retrieved July 29, 2009
Francois Dominique Rouquette, Fleurs d'Amerique
Charles Sangster, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay and Other Poems , Canadian poet published in New YorkBentley, D. M. R., "Poetry in English", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, second edition
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Panorama and Other Poems
Other
Charles Sangster, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay and Other Poems , Canadian poet published in New York by subscriptionGustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
Works published in other languages
Aleardo Aleardi, Il Monte Circello ("Mount Circello"), Italy
Juris Alunāns, Songs, Latvia
Victor Hugo, Les Contemplations, FranceRees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820–1950, Penguin, 1992, 978-0-14-042385-3.
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 9 – Lizette Woodworth Reese (died 1935), American
January 22 – A. D. Godley (died 1925), Irish-born English classical scholar and writer of light verse
March 4 – Toru Dutt (died 1877), Indian, writing in Sanskrit, French and English
April 7 – Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (died 1920), poet and emir of Diiriye GuureOsman Omar Mohamed The Scramble in the Horn of Africa; History of Somalia (1827-1977) 2001 Indiana University 333 http://dspace-roma3.caspur.it/bitstream/2307/2960/1/The%20scramble%20in%20the%20Horn%20of%20Africa.%20History%20of%20Somalia%20(1827-1977).pdf . This letter is sent by all the Dervishes, the Amir, and all the Dolbahanta to the Ruler of Berbera ... We are a Government, we have a Sultan, an Amir, and Chiefs, and subjects ... In his last letter the Mullah pretends to speak in the name of the Dervishes, their Amir (himself), and the Dolbahanta tribes. This letter shows his object is to establish himself as the Ruler of the Dolbahanta, and it has a Mahdist look 2021-12-20 2018-07-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20180713202443/http://dspace-roma3.caspur.it/bitstream/2307/2960/1/The%20scramble%20in%20the%20Horn%20of%20Africa.%20History%20of%20Somalia%20(1827-1977).pdf bot: unknown
August 20 – Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (died 1909), Sorbian poet, writer, playwright and translator
Date not known – Kattakkayathil Cherian Mappila (died 1936), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 17 – Heinrich Heine (born 1797), German
May 2 – James Gates Percival (born 1795), American poet and scientist
July 21 – Emil Aarestrup (born 1806), Danish
July 29 – Karel Havlíček Borovský, Czech
Date not known – Irayimman Thampi (born 1782), Indian, Malayalam-language poet in the court of Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma; wrote ' 'Omana tinkal kitjavo' ', a "cradle song" (or lullaby) still popular in MalayalamPaniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
See also
Poetry
19th century in poetry
19th century in literature
List of years in literature
Victorian literature
French literature of the 19th century
Poetry
Notes
Category:19th-century poetry