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I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
* * *
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law
Tho' Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek'd against his creed
— From Cantos 27 and 56, In Memoriam A.H.H., by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate after Samuel Rogers turns down the post, saying he was too old for it.
- Golden Age of Russian Poetry, begun in about 1800 ends at about this time
- Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) a loose group of German writers from about 1830, stops flourishing at about this time
Works published in English
Sonnet XLIIIHow Do I Love Thee?
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
from Sonnets From the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written 1845, published this year
United Kingdom
- William Allingham, Poems
- Philip James Bailey, The Angel World, and Other Poems
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes, published anonymously, Death's Jest-Book; or, The Fool's Tragedy (posthumous)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems including Sonnets from the Portuguese (first printed separately in Boston 1866; see also Poems 1844, 1853, 1856)
- Robert Browning, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
- Sydney Dobell, writing under the pen name "Sydney Yendys", The Roman
- Dora Greenwell, Stories That Might Be True, with Other Poems
- Leigh Hunt, The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt, in three volumes
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel in The Gem
- John Ruskin, Poems
- Robert Southey, Southey's Common-place Book: Third/Fourth Series, poems and prose, edited by John Wood Warner (see also first and second series 1849)
- Alfred Tennyson:
- In Memoriam A.H.H., in memory of Tennyson's friend, Arthur Hallam
- "Ring Out, Wild Bells"
- William Wordsworth, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind; published several months after his death; originally intended to form the introduction to The Recluse, for which The Excursion (1814) formed the second part; though The Prelude failed to arouse great interest at the time, it was later generally recognised as his masterpiece (second edition 1851; see also "Events" for 1798, 1799, 1806, 1820, The Recluse 1888)
United States
- Washington Allston, Lectures on Art and Poems, (scholarship)
- George Copway, The Ojibway Conquest (the author also published this year the nonfiction work, Traditional History of the Ojibway Nation)
- Richard Henry Dana, Sr., Poems and Prose Writings, in two volumes, Volume 1 contains poems, both new and previously published in 1827, New York: Baker and Scribner
- Sylvester Judd, Philo, An Evangeliad
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Seaside and the Fireside
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of the Late Edgar Alan Poe: With a Memoir by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and Notices of His Life and Genius by N. P. Willis and J. R. Lowell, published in four volumes from this year to 1854 including "The Poetic Principle", an essay; criticism (published posthumously; died 1849)
- John Godfrey Saxe, Humorous and Satirical Poems
- William Gilmore Simms, The City of the Silent
- John Greenleaf Whittier:
- Poems, Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co.
- Songs of Labor and Other Poems
Works published in other languages
- James Huston, editor, Le répertoire national, anthology of French Canadian poetry in four volumes, published from 1848 to this year; including poetry by Joseph Mermet ("Les Boucheries: fêtes rurales du Canada"), Isidore Bédard ("Sol canadien, terre chérie"), François-Xavier Garneau, Napoléon Aubin, François-Magloire Derome and Pierre Chauveau
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 15 – Mihai Eminescu, Romanian
- February 20 – Nérée Beauchemin (died 1931), Canadian poet and physician
- June 27 – Ivan Vazov, Bulgarian
- July 18 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American
- August 1 – William Larminie, American
- September 2 – Eugene Field, American
- November 5 – Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American
- November 13 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scots novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer
- December 13 – William Chapman (died 1917), Canadian poet, journalist and bureaucrat
- December 25 – Isabella Valancy Crawford (died 1887), Irish-born Canadian poet
- Also:
- Vitthal Bhagwani Lembhe (died 1920), Indian, Marathi-language poet
- Savitagauri Pandya (died 1925), Indian, Gujarati-language woman poet
- Vishvanatha Dev Varma, (died 1920), Indian, Sanskrit-language poet
- Albery A. Whitmann, American
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 20 – Adam Oehlenschlager (born 1779), Danish
- January 20 – Philip Pendleton Cooke (born 1816), American lawyer and poet
- April 7 – William Lisle Bowles (UK)
- April 23 – William Wordsworth (UK)
- May 23 – Margaret Fuller, American
- May 31 – Giuseppe Giusti (Tuscan)
- August 22 – Nikolaus Lenau, Australian
- Also:
See also
- 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
- List of poets
Notes
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- "How Do I Love Thee?". Poet.org
- Wright, Nathalia, "Samuel Henry Dickson" article in Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary,, edited by Robert Bain, Joseph M. Flora and Louis D. Rubin, Jr., p 5, Louisiana State University Press, 1979, retrieved from Google Books on September 4, 2011
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- Dana, Richard Henry, Preface and title page of Poems and Prose Writings, Volume 1, New York: Baker and Scribner, 1850, retrieved via Making of America website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- Web page titled "William Gilmore Simms" at the "Classic Encyclopedia" website, based on the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed May 29, 2009; also, Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, Poems, retrieved via Making of America website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
- ^ 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
- Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008
- Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications