1850 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate after Samuel Rogers turns down the post, saying he was too old for it.[1]
- Golden Age of Russian Poetry, begun in about 1800 ends at about this time
- Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) a loose group of German writers from about 1830, stops flourishing at about this time
[edit] Works published
[edit] United Kingdom
- William Allingham, Poems[1]
- Philip James Bailey, The Angel World, and Other Poems[1]
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes, published anonymously, Death's Jest-Book; or, The Fool's Tragedy (posthumous)[1]
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems including Sonnets from the Portuguese (first printed separately in Boston 1866; see also Poems 1844, 1853, 1856)[1]
- Robert Browning, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day[1]
- Sydney Dobell, writing under the pen name "Sydney Yendys", The Roman[1]
- Dora Greenwell, Stories That Might Be True, with Other Poems[1]
- Leigh Hunt, The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt,[1] in three volumes
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel in The Gem
- John Ruskin, Poems[1]
- Robert Southey, Southey's Common-place Book: Third/Fourth Series, poems and prose, edited by John Wood Warner (see also first and second series 1849)[1]
- Alfred Tennyson:
- In Memoriam A.H.H., in memory of Tennyson's friend, Arthur Hallam[1]
- "Ring Out, Wild Bells"
- William Wordsworth, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; published several months after his death; originally intended to form the introduction to The Recluse, for which The Excursion (1814) formed the second part; though The Prelude failed to arouse great interest at the time, it was later generally recognised as his masterpiece (second edition 1851; see also The Recluse 1888)[1]
[edit] United States
- Richard Henry Dana, Sr., Poems and Prose Writings, in two volumes, Volume 1 contains poems, both new and previously published in 1827, New York: Baker and Scribner[2]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Seaside and the Fireside
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Poetic Principle", an essay; criticism (published posthumously)
- William Gilmore Simms, The City of the Silent[3]
- John Greenleaf Whittier:
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 15 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian
- February 20 – Nérée Beauchemin (died 1931), Canadian poet and physician
- June 27 – Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian
- July 18 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American
- August 1 – William Larminie, American
- September 2 – Eugene Field, American
- November 5 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American
- November 13 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scots novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer
- December 13 – William Chapman (died 1917), Canadian poet, journalist and bureaucrat
- December 25 – Isabella Valancy Crawford (died 1887), Irish-born Canadian poet
- Also:
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- Vitthal Bhagwani Lembhe (died 1920), Indian, Marathi-language poet[6]
- Savitagauri Pandya (died 1925), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet[7]
- Vishvanatha Dev Varma, (died 1920), Indian, Sanskrit-language poet[6]
- Albery A. Whitmann, American
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 20 – Adam Oehlenschlager (born 1779), Danish[8]
- January 20 – Philip Pendleton Cooke (born 1816), American lawyer and poet
- April 7 – William Lisle Bowles (UK)
- April 23 – William Wordsworth (UK)
- May 23 – Margaret Fuller, American
- May 31 – Giuseppe Giusti (Tuscan)
- August 22 – Nikolaus Lenau, Australian
- Also:
[edit] 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
- List of poets
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Dana, Richard Henry, Preface and title page of Poems and Prose Writings, Volume 1, New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850, retrieved via Making of America website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "William Gilmore Simms" at the "Classic Encyclopedia" website, based on the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 29, 2009
- ^ Whittier, John Greenleaf, Poems, retrieved via Making of America website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- ^ Wagenknecht, Edward. John Greenleaf Whittier: A Portrait in Paradox. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967
- ^ a b Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 9788172017989, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ 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, ISBN 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
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