1837 in poetry

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John Clare is institutionalized as insane.
The United States Magazine and Democratic Review established, a political and literary magazine that published Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and others.

Richard Harris Barham's Ingoldsby Legends
Lord Byron, Dramas (poetry, despite the title)^[1]
Eliza Cook's The Old Arm Chair
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters and Works, including introductory anecdotes by Lady Louisa Stuart (See also Works 1803)^[1]
Thomas Love Peacock's The Paper Money Lyrics
Robert Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, first two volumes published this year; second two volumes published in 1838^[1]

Thomas Holley Chivers, Nacoochee^[2]
George Moses Horton's Hope of Liberty — Poems by a Slave, a second edition of Hope of Liberty, originally published in 1829; the new edition was published in Philadelphia by an antislavery group; Horton received no royalties (although the North Carolina slave was trying to earn money for his freedom), and likely didn't even know that this and another edition had been published in Boston in 1838)^[2]
George Moses Horton, The Hope of Liberty, the first book by an African American poet in more than 50 years and the first by an African American from the South; contains 23 poems, including three on the author's feelings about having been a slave;^[3] he had hoped to make enough money from this and later poetry books to buy his freedom, but was unsuccessful; published in Raleigh, North Carolina^[2]

Frederick William Shelton, The Trollopiad; or, Travelling Gentlemen in America, a verse satire on British travel writer Frances Trollope, who wrote harshly about Americans in her Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832^[3]
John Greenleaf Whittier, Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, the author's first poetry book, published in an unauthorized edition by Boston abolitionists; the next year, Whittier expanded the collection and published it under the title Poems; includes poems attacking slavery, such as "Clerical Oppressors", which focuses on Southern church leaders who use Christianity to defend slavery, and "Stanzas", on the irony of America's commitments to both freedom and slavery^[3]

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January 29 – Aleksandr Pushkin Russian, killed in a duel
June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian
September 8 – Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, English
October 17 – George Colman the Younger (born 1762), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
date not known – Thomas Green Fessenden, (born 1771), American^[4]

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^ ^a ^b ^c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ ^a ^b ^c Rubin, Louis D., Jr., The Literary South, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, ISBN 0471046590
^ ^a ^b ^c Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books
^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009