1837 in poetry
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| This is part of the List of years in poetry | |
| Years in poetry: | 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 |
| Years in literature: | 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 |
| Decades in poetry: | 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s |
| Centuries in poetry: | 18th century 19th century 20th century |
| Centuries: | 18th century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s |
| Years: | 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 |
Contents |
[edit] Events
- 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.
[edit] Works
- Richard Harris Barham's Ingoldsby Legends
- Eliza Cook's The Old Arm Chair
- Alphonse de Lamartine's Chute d'un ange
- George Moses Horton's Hope of Liberty -- Poems by a Slave (2nd edn.; first published as early as 1829)
- Thomas Love Peacock's The Paper Money Lyrics
[edit] Births
March 6 - Sully Prudhomme, poet (+ 1907)
- March 1 - William Dean Howells (US)
- March 6 - Sully Prudhomme (France) (d. 1907)
- April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne (UK)
- September 8 - Joaquin Miller (US)
Date unknown:
- Julia Augusta Webster
- Forceythe Willson (US)
[edit] Deaths
- January 29 - Aleksandr Pushkin (Russian), killed in a duel
- June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi (Italian)
- September 8 - Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (UK)
