— From "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, first published this year

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Works published in English

United Kingdom

William Allingham, Day and Night SongsCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, W. E. Aytoun, writing under the pen name "T. Percy Jones", Firmilian; or, The Student of Badajoz, subtitle: "A Spasmodic tragedy" Thomas De Quincey, Selections Grave and Gay, including biographical essays (originally published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1834, 1835, 1839 and 1840) on some of the Lake Poets (see also Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets 1860, in which all of the Recollections essays were published) Eliza Craven Green, "Ellan Vannin" (later set to music) John Keats, The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Richard Monckton Milnes; posthumously published Coventry Patmore, "The Angel in the House", Part I, also known as The Betrothal (see also The Espousals 1856, Faithful for Ever 1860, The Victories of Love 1863) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" published in The Examiner on December 9

United States Benjamin Paul Blood, The Bride of the IconoclastLudwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press William Cullen Bryant, Poems Phoebe Cary, Poems and Parodies William J. Grayson, The Hireling and the Slave William Howe Cuyler Hosmer, Poetical Works Julia Ward Howe, Passion Flowers Frances Harper, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects

Works published in other languages

France Louise Colet: Ce qu'on rêve en aimant L'Acropole d'Athènes Gérard de Nerval, The Chimeras (), poems appended to the author's book of short stories, Les Filles du feu Tiouttchev, Poésies

Other Heinrich Heine, Gedichte. 1853 und 1854 ("Poems. 1853 and 1854"), German poet and author living in FranceCook, Roger F., A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, "Introduction", Boydell & Brewer, 2002, , retrieved via Google Books on April 2, 2009

Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 9 – Govind Vasudev Kanitkar (died 1918), Indian, Marathi-language poet and translator"A Chronology of Indian Events", "1918", pp 528–535 Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, , retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008 April 13 – William Henry Drummond (died 1907), CanadianGarvin, John William, editor, Canadian poets (anthology), published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916, retrieved via Google Books, June 5, 2009 September 24 – George Frederick Cameron (died 1885), Canadian October 16 – Oscar Wilde (died 1900), Irish-born playwright and poet October 20 Alphonse Allais (died 1905), French humorist Arthur Rimbaud (died 1891), French November 19 – Danske Dandridge, born Caroline Bedinger (died 1914), Denmark-born American

Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 12 — Eliza Townsend (born 1788), American March 29 – Charlotte Caroline Richardson (born 1796), English April 3 – John Wilson (born 1785), Scots April 16 – Julia Nyberg (born 1784), Swedish poet and songwriter April 24 – Gabriele Rossetti (born 1783), English April 30 – James Montgomery (born 1771), Scots November – Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq (born 1790), Urdu December 9 – Almeida Garrett (born 1799), Portuguese

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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