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1843 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1843 in poetry
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- April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (following the death of Robert Southey on March 21) on being assured that it is regarded as a purely honorific position.[1]
United Kingdom
- R. S. Hawker, Reeds Shaken with the Wind[2]
- Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt", a poem (published in the Christmas issue of Punch)[2]
- Richard Henry Horne, Orion: An epic poem[2]
United States
- William Ellery Channing (poet), Poems, published at the expense of the author's friend Samuel Gray Ward; the volume is admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau but condemned by Edgar Allan Poe in "Our Amateur Poets", an essay in Graham's[3]
- Thomas Dunn English, "Ben Bolt", a popular ballad written for the New York Mirror and later set to music numerous times[3]
- William Lloyd Garrison, Sonnets[4]
- James Russell Lowell, Miscellaneous Poems
- Cornelius Mathews, Poems on Man in His Various Aspects under the American Republic[4]
- William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida, a verse tale; Charleston[5]
- James Gates Percival, The Dream of a Day[4]
- John Pierpont, The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont[4]
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Sinless Child and Other Poems, acclaimed by critics, including Edgar Allan Poe[3]
- John Greenleaf Whittier, Lays of My Home and Other Poems, regional poetry, including "The Merrimack", "The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis", "The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" and "Massachusetts to Virginia"[3]
- Nathaniel Parker Willis:
Other
- Hilario Ascasubi, El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números, Argentina
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Bouquets et prières, France[6]
- Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"); see also revised edition 1849; Denmark[7]
- Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exílio", Brazil
- Mikhail Lermontov, "Valerik", Russia, posthumously in the anthology Dawn
- Betty Paoli, Nach dem Gewitter ("After the Storm"), Austria
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 24 – Violet Fane, pen name of Lady Mary Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb (died 1905), English novelist, poet and essayist
- May 3 – Edward Dowden (died 1913), Irish-born poet and critic
- August 19 – Charles Montagu Doughty (died 1926), English poet, writer and traveller
- December 7 – Helena Nyblom, née Roed (died 1926), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
- December 21 – Thomas Bracken (died 1898), Irish-born New Zealander
- December 24 (December 12 O.S.) – Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen (died 1886), Estonian
- Undated – Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (died 1873), Greek
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 11 – Francis Scott Key (born 1779), American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- March 21 – Robert Southey (born 1774), English Poet Laureate
- June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin (born 1770), German lyric poet
- July 9 – Washington Allston, 63 (born 1779), American poet and painter[8]
- December 11 - Casimir Delavigne (born 1793), French poet and dramatist
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- Pinion, F. B. (1988). A Wordsworth Chronology. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press. p. 201. ISBN 0-333-38860-7.
- Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Simms, William Gilmore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 123.
- Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3
- Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009