1840 in poetry
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| … 1830 . 1831 . 1832 . 1833 . 1834 . 1835 . 1836 … 1837 1838 1839 -1840- 1841 1842 1843 … 1844 . 1845 . 1846 . 1847 . 1848 . 1849 . 1850 … In literature: 1837 1838 1839 -1840- 1841 1842 1843 |
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| … 1837 . 1838 . 1839 - 1840 - 1841 . 1842 . 1843 … … 1810s . 1820s . 1830s -1840s- 1850s . 1860s . 1870s |
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[edit] Events
[edit] Works published
- Robert Browning's Sordello
- Mikhail Lermontov's The Novice
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's Defence of Poetry, posthumously published
[edit] Births
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- January 13 – Nicholas Flood Davin (died 1901), Irish-born Canadian lawyer, journalist, politician and poet
- January 18 – Henry Austin Dobson (died 1921), English poet and essayist
- March 5 – Constance Fenimore Woolson (died 1894), American novelist, short-story writer and poet; a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper
- March 18 – William Cosmo Monkhouse (died 1901), English poet and critic
- June 2 – Thomas Hardy (died 1928, English author and poet
- August 17 – Wilfred Scawen Blunt (died 1922), English poet and writer
- October 5 – John Addington Symonds (died 1893), English poet and literary critic
[edit] Deaths
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