After the New Harmony utopian community dissolved in 1828, Francis Wright renames the New-Harmony Gazette to the Free Enquirer and broadens its focus to present more socialist and agnostic views[1]
George Moses Horton, The Hope of Liberty, the first book by an African American poet in more than 50 years and the first by an African American from the South; contains 23 poems, including three on the author's feelings about having been a slave;[1] he had hoped to make enough money from this and later poetry books to buy his freedom, but was unsuccessful; published in Raleigh, North Carolina[5]
Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American Poetry, with Critical and Biographical Notices, the first comprehensive anthology of American poetry; including 189 poets, a historical introduction and chronological listing of American poetry; the publisher, Samuel Goodrich, lost $1,500 on the publication and was annoyed to learn it had been nicknamed "Goodrich's Kettle of Poetry"[1]
Henrik Wergeland, Digte, første Ring; and Creation, Man and the Messiah, epic poem by the Norwegian poet; the sheer scale of the poem invited to criticism; in 1845, on his deathbed, Wergeland will revise the poem and publish it under the title Man.
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: