Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events October 27 – English poet Alfred Tennyson settles at Farringford House on the Isle of Wight.
Works published in English
United Kingdom Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander, Narratyve Hymns for Village Schools Matthew Arnold, Poems: a New Edition, the first collected edition of the author's poems; known as Poems: First Series (see also 1855); including "Sobrab and Rustum" and "The Scholar Gipsy" R. D. Blackmore, writing under the pen name "Melanter", Poems by Melanter Martha Browne, (a.k.a. Mattie Griffith) Poems Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (see also Poems 1844, 1850, 1856) Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Morlas Sydney Dobell, Balder Coventry Patmore, Tamerton Church-Tower (see also 1878) Alexander Smith, Poems, Scottish poet
United States Thomas Holley Chivers: Atlanta; or, the True Blessed Island of Poesy, a Paul Epic Memoralia; or, Phials of Amber Full of the Tears of Love Virginalia; or, Songs of My Summer Nights Samuel Longfellow, Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-side, compiled with Thomas Wentworth Higginson Lydia Huntley Sigourney, The Faded Hope William Gilmore Simms, Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, in two volumes, Charleston, South Carolina: John Russell Sarah Helen Whitman, Hours of Life John Greenleaf Whittier, The Chapel of the Hermits
Other Peter John Allan (died 1848), Poetical Remains of Peter John Allan, Esq., Canadian poet published in London Charles Harpur, The Bushrangers: a Play in Five Acts, and other Poems, Australia
Works published in other languages Hilario Ascasubi, Aniceto el Gallo, Argentina Álvares de Azevedo, Lira dos Vinte Anos, Brazil (posthumous) Paul Heyse, Lieder aus Sorrent ("Songs of Sorrento"), Germany Victor Hugo, Les Châtiments, France Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Kalevipoeg, Estonia (suppressed due to censorship)
Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 28 (O.S. January 16) – Vladimir Solovyov, Russian philosopher and poet (died 1900) February 18 – Ernest Fenollosa, American (died 1908) October 4 – Jane Maria Read, American poet and teacher (year of death unknown)
Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 3 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (born 1799) April 28 – Ludwig Tieck, German (born 1773) October 27 – Maria White Lowell, American (born 1821) December 2 – Amelia Opie, English novelist, writer and poet (born 1769) Dayaram, Indian, Gujarati-language poet (born 1757)Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, , retrieved December 10, 2008
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
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