1855 in poetry
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[edit] Events
- 12 June - Gaisford Prize founded
[edit] Works published
[edit] United Kingdom
- William Allingham, The Music-Master, illustrated by Arthur Hughes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and J. E. Millais[1]
- Matthew Arnold, Poems, Second Series (see also Poems 1853)[1]
- Philip James Bailey, The Mystic, and Other Poems (see also Festus 1839)[1]
- William Cox Bennett:
- Anti-Maud, "by a poet of the people"; parody of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Maud (see below)[1]
- War Songs[1]
- Robert Browning, Men and Women,[1] including "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writing under the pen name "Owen Meredith", Clytemnestra; The Earl's Return; The Artist, and Other Poems[1]
- Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope, with Other Poems (first published 1799), illustrated by Birket Foster, George Thomas and Harrison Weir[1]
- Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
- Sydney Dobell, writing under the pen name "S. Yendeys", and Alexander Smith, Sonnets on the War[1]
- Leigh Hunt, Stories in Verse,[1] a collection of his narrative poems, original and translated
- George MacDonald, Within and Without, the author's first published book[1]
- Louisa Shore, War Lyrics[1]
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Maud, and Other Poems, including "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (first published in a periodical in 1854), "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 1852 (see also William Cox Bennett's Anti-Maud parody, above)[1]
- Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica, first series, a popular translation of Versuch eines allgemeinen evangelischen Gesang- und Gebetbuchs by Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr von Busen (second series published in 1858)[1]
[edit] United States
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha
- Lucy Terry, first known African American poet, "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", a ballad, posthumously published [2]
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
[edit] Other
- Charles Heavysege, Sonnets, Canada[3]
- Christian Winther, Hjortens Flugt ("The Flight of the Hart"); Denmark[4]
[edit] Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 1 – Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay) (died 1924), (UK)
- May 21 – Emile Verhaeren (died 1916), (Belgian / French)
- August 3 – Henry Cuyler Bunner (died 1896), American
- September 12 – William Sharp (d 1905), Scots
- December 15 – Maurice Bouchor (died 1929), French
- December 28 – Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (Uruguay)
- Date not known:
- Devendranath Sen (died 1920), Indian, Bengali-language poet[5]
- Govardhanram N. Tripathi (died 1907), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist and poet[6]
- Alexander Young, Scots
[edit] Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 10 - Mary Russell Mitford (UK)
- January 25 - Dorothy Wordsworth (UK)
- January 26 - Gérard de Nerval, French
- March 31 - Charlotte Brontë (UK)
- June 29 - Delphine de Girardin, French
- November 26 - Adam Mickiewicz (born 1798), Polish Romantic poet
- December 18 - Samuel Rogers (UK)
- Date not known:
- Robert Montgomery
- Mahmud Gami (born 1765), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
[edit] 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
- Poetry
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Davis, Cynthia J., and Kathryn West, Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History, Oxford University Press US, 1996 ISBN 9780195090536, retrieved via Google Books on February 7, 2009
- ^ Bentley, D. M. R., "Poetry in English", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ 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 9788172017989, 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 9780313287787, retrieved December 10, 2008
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