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1849 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1849 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- Cecil Frances Alexander, Moral Songs[2]
- Matthew Arnold, writing under the pen name "A", The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems[2]
- William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and Other Poems[2]
- Robert Browning, Poems, his first collected edition[2]
- Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, King Arthur, first published in three parts, 1848–1849[2]
- Edward Caswall, Lyra Catholica[2]
- A. H. Clough, Ambarvalia[2]
- Robert Southey, all posthumously published:
- Southey's Common-place Book: First Series, and Second Series (each series in a separate volume), edited by John Wood Warter, poetry and prose[2]
- The Life and Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey, edited by Cuthbert Southey, biography[2]
- Isaac Williams, The Christian Scholar[2]
Other
- Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Songes, Sweden
- Petrus Augustus de Genestet, De Sint-Nicolaasavond ("Saint Nicholas's Eve"), Netherlands
- Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Harisut Troya, translation of Virgil's Aeneid after Schiller, Lithuania, Hebrew language
- Elias Lönnrot, comp., Kalevala, new version, Finland
- Fazal Shah Sayyad, Sohni Mahiwal, India, Punjabi language
- Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"), Denmark[5]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 22 - Emma Lazarus (died 1887), American
- July 30 - Lettie S. Bigelow (died 1906), American
- August 1 - William Larminie (died 1900), Irish poet and folklorist
- August 23 - William Ernest Henley (died 1903), English poet, critic and editor
- September 3 - Sarah Orne Jewett (died 1909), American regional fiction writer and poet
- September 21 - Edmund Gosse (died 1928), English poet, critic and memoirist
- October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley (died 1916), American dialect poet
- November 18 - Libbie C. Riley Baer (died 1929), American patriotic poet
- December 23 - Stine Andresen (died 1927), German
Deaths
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Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 6 - Hartley Coleridge (born 1796), English poet and writer
- January 26 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes (born 1803), English poet, dramatist and physician
- February 8 - France Prešeren (born 1800), Slovenian Romantic poet
- February 19 - Bernard Barton (born 1784), English Quaker poet
- May 28 - Anne Brontë (born 1820), English novelist and poet (tuberculosis)
- June 20 - James Clarence Mangan (born 1803), Irish poet (cholera)
- July 7 - Goffredo Mameli (born 1827), Italian patriot and poet
- July 31 - Sándor Petőfi (born 1823), Hungarian poet and revolutionary (probably killed in Battle of Segesvár)
- October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe (born 1809), American short-story writer, poet and editor
- December 1 - Ebenezer Elliott (born 1781), English "Corn Law rhymer"
- date unknown — Cynthia Taggart (born 1801), American poet
See also
Notes
- ^ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 147. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Fields, James T., Poems, title page, Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company, retrieved via Making of America website on March 4, 2009
- ^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
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