1844 in poetry
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Events[edit]
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Works published in English[edit]
United Kingdom[edit]
- Isabella Banks, Ivy Leaves, including "Neglected Wife"
- William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect[1]
- Frances Browne, The Star of Atteghei; The Vision of Schwartz, and Other Poems[1]
- Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), Poems, including "A Drama of Exile" and ballads[1]
- Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Two Destinies[1]
- Frederick William Faber, Sir Lancelot[1]
- Leigh Hunt, What is Poetry?, critical essay[2]
- Monckton Milnes, Palm Leaves
- Coventry Patmore, Poems[1]
United States[edit]
- Lydia Maria Child – "Over the River and Through the Wood"[3]
- James Freeman Clarke, Hymn Book for the Church of the Disciples (expanded edition, 1852)[4]
- Christopher Pearse Cranch, Poems[4]
- Samuel Henry Dickson, Poems, including his popular "I Sigh for the Land of the Cypress and Pine"[5]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet an essay of literary criticism in Essays, Second Series
- Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century, anthology
- Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Echo[4]
- William H. C. Hosmer, Yonnonidio, or Warriors of the Genesee[4]
- Sarah Anna Lewis, Records of the Heart[4]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, editor, Poets and Poetry of Europe, anthology[6]
- James Russell Lowell, Poems[4]
- Epes Sargent, The Light of the Lighthouse and Other Poems
- Lydia Maria Child, Flowers for Children, Volume 2, including "Over the River and Through the Woods", which was later set to music
- Bayard Taylor, Ximena; or, The Battle of the Sierra Morena and Other Poems[4]
Works published in other languages[edit]
- Aleardo Aleardi, l' Arnalda di Roca ("Rock of Arnalda"), Italy
- Heinrich Heine, German poet and author living in France:
- Frederik Paludan-Müller, Denmark:
- Dryadens bryllup ("The Dryad's Wedding")
- Tithon ("Tithonus")
- Abels Død ("The Death of Abel")
- Henrik Wergeland, Norway:
- Den Engelske Lods ("The English Pilot")
- Jødinden ("The Jewess")
Births[edit]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 8 – Richard Watson Gilder (died 1909), American poet and editor
- March 14 – Arthur O'Shaughnessy (died 1881), English poet and herpetologist
- March 30 – Paul Verlaine (died 1896), French Symbolistt poet
- March 31 – Andrew Lang (died 1912), Scottish writer
- June 28 – John Boyle O'Reilly (died 1890), Irish-born American poet, journalist and fiction writer
- July 21 – Matilda Maranda Crawford (died 1920), American-Canadian poet, writer, correspondent
- July 28 – Gerard Manley Hopkins (died 1889), English poet and Jesuit priest
- October 12 – George Washington Cable (died 1925), American novelist
- October 13 – Ernest Myers (died 1921), English poet and classicist
- October 23
- Robert Bridges (died 1939), English Poet Laureate
- Laura Rosamond White (died 1922), American poet, author, and editor
- November 12 – Ismail Merathi (died 1917), Indian poet from Mughal and British era[8]
- November 21 – Ada Cambridge (died 1926), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
- Date not known:
- Caroline Lindsay (died 1921), English
- Venmani Mahan Namboodiri (died 1893), Indian, Malayalam-language poet associated with the Venmani School of poetry[9]
- Arabella Eugenia Smith (died 1916), American
Deaths[edit]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 6 – Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, (born 1803), American poet and teacher[10]
- June 15 – Thomas Campbell (born 1777), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
- November 21 – Ivan Krylov (1769), Russian fabulist
- Date not known – Margaret Miller Davidson, senior (born 1787), American novelist, mother of poets Lucretia Maria Davidson, Margaret Miller Davidson and Levi P. Davidson
See also[edit]
- 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
- Biedermeier era of German literature
- Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850)
- Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) a loose group of German writers from about 1830 to 1850
- List of poets
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 98, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
- ^ "Lydia Maria Child". Wayland Historical Society. Archived from the original on September 30, 2015. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Watson, Charles S., "Samuel Henry Dickson" article in Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary,, edited by Robert Bain, Joseph M. Flora and Louis D. Rubin, Jr., p 6, Louisiana State University Press, 1979, retrieved from Google Books on September 4, 2011
- ^ Calhoun, Charles C. Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8070-7026-2
- ^ a b Cook, Roger F., A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, "Introduction", Boydell & Brewer, 2002, ISBN 978-1-57113-207-9, retrieved via Google Books on April 2, 2009
- ^ 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
- ^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009