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Events edit
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Works published in English edit
United Kingdom edit
- Matthew Arnold, Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems[1]
- Alfred Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington[1]
United States edit
- Thomas Holley Chivers, The Death of the Devil, A Serio-Ludicro, Tragico-Comico, Nigero-Whiteman Extravaganza
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes[2]
- Richard Realf, Guesses at the Beautiful[2]
- Richard Henry Stoddard, Poems[2]
Works published in other languages edit
France edit
- Théophile Gautier's Emaux et camées
- Leconte de Lisle, Poèmes antiques
- Gérard de Nerval, et Les illuminés
Other edit
- Andreas Munch, Sorg og Trøst, Norwegian[3]
- Theodor Storm, Gedichte ("Poems"), Germany
Births edit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 24 – George Moore (died 1933) Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist
- March 15 – Lady Gregory (died 1932), Irish dramatist, folklorist and poet
- March 22 – Francis William Bourdillon (died 1921), English poet and translator
- April 23 – Edwin Markham (died 1940), American poet
- June 17 – M. A. Bayfield (died 1922), English classical scholar and writer on poetry
- October 31 – Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (died 1930), American novelist and poet
- November 10 – Henry van Dyke (died 1933), American author, poet, educator and clergyman
- Also:
- Ganesh Janardan Agasha (died 1919), Indian, Marathi-language poet and literary critic[4]
- Emma Maria Caillard
- Moyinkutty Vaidyar (died 1891), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
Deaths edit
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 17 – Micah Joseph Lebensohn (born 1828), Lithuanian Jewish, Hebrew language poet (tuberculosis)
- February 25 – Thomas Moore (born 1779), Irish-born poet and songwriter
- April 10 – John Howard Payne (born 1791), American actor, playwright, author and consul in Tunis (1842–1852); most remembered as creator of "Home! Sweet Home!"[5]
- April 25 – Álvares de Azevedo (born 1831), Brazilian Ultra-Romantic poet and writer (tuberculosis)
- May 3 – Sara Coleridge (born 1802), English writer
- November 15 – John Hamilton Reynolds (born 1794), English poet, satirist, critic and playwright
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ a b Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ "Andreas Munch". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 2011-09-03.
- ^ 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 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008
- ^ "Bibliography". American Poetry Full-Text Database. University of Chicago Library. Retrieved March 4, 2009.