1850 in poetry
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| Years in poetry: | 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 |
| Years in literature: | 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 18th century 19th century 20th century |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s |
| Years: | 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852 1853 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate
[edit] Works published
- Sir Richard Burton, translator, The Arabian Nights
- Henrik Ibsen, The Burial Mound
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest-book (posthumous)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
- Robert Browning, Christmas Eve and Easter Day
- Leigh Hunt, Autobiography in three volumes
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel in The Gem
- Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H..
- William Wordsworth, The Prelude published several months after his death; though it failed to arouse great interest at the time, but later generally recognised as his masterpiece
[edit] Births
- January 15 - Mihai Eminescu (Romanian)
- June 27 - Ivan Vazov (Bulgarian)
- July 18 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe (US)
- August 1 - William Larminie (US)
- September 2 - Eugene Field (US)
- November 5 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox (US)
- November 13 - Robert Louis Stevenson (Scot)
Dates unknown:
- Albery A. Whitmann (US)
- Isabella Valency Crawford (Canada)
[edit] Deaths
- January 20 - Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
- April 7 - William Lisle Bowles (UK)
- April 23 - William Wordsworth (UK)
- May 23 - Margaret Fuller (US)
- May 31 - Giuseppe Giusti (Tuscan)
- August 22 - Nikolaus Lenau (Austrian)
Dates unknown:
- Manoah Bodman
- Philip Pendleton Cooke
