1830 in poetry
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Events
- Godey's Lady's Book, the most popular women's magazine of the 19th century in the United States, is founded in Philadelphia by Louise Antoine Godey. Its circulation would reach 150,000. The magazine contained recipes, articles on beauty and health, sentimental and didactic writing and book reviews as well as the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The magazine lasted until 1898[1]
- In Germany, a loose group of writers known as Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) begins to flourish this year. The movement continues until 1850
- La bibliothèque canadienne, a French Canadian magazine edited by Michel Bibaud, ceases publication this year (it began in 1825)[2]
Works
- Thomas Aird, The Captive of Fez[3]
- Lord Byron, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, edited by Thomas Moore, biographical[3]
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, anonymously published, The Devil's Walk; original version published in the Morning Post, September 6, 1799 as "The Devil's Thoughts"[3]
- George Croly, Poetical Works[3]
- Ebenezer Elliott, Corn Law Rhymes: The Ranter[3]
- Caroline Fry, anonymously published, The Listener, poetry and prose[3]
- John Abraham Heraud, anonymously published, The Descent into Hell[3]
- Robert Montgomery, Satan[3]
- Alfred Tennyson, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical, including "The Kraken" and "Mariana" (see also Poems 1842)[3]
- Charles Tennyson (later Charles Tennyson Turner), Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces[3]
- Sarah Josepha Hale, Poems for Our Children, written at Lowell Mason's request; includes "Mary's Lamb", with the verse "Mary had a little lamb"; this poem and some others would be reprinted in McGuffy Readers and in various anthologies many times, without credit given to the author[1]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Old Ironsides", written after the author becomes angry that the USS Constitution, a navy ship that had seen service in the Tripolitan War and the War of 1812 was to be scrapped; first published in the Boston Daily Advertiser and reprinted nationwide, the poem saved the ship from destruction.[1]
- George Pope Morris, "Woodman, Spare That Tree!", a popular poem praised by Edgar Allan Poe, who described it as a work "of which any poet, living or dead, might justly be proud"; first published in the New York Mirror and later included in The Deserted Bride and Other Poems in 1838; frequently published in schoolbooks and reprinted in support of conservation efforts[1]
- William Gilmore Simms, Tricolor, or Three Days of Blood in Paris[4]
Other in English
- Kasiprasad Ghose, Shair and Other Poems, the first volume of poetry by an Indian in English[5]
- Adam Kidd, The Huron Chief, and Other Poems, Montreal: "Printed at the Office of the Herald and New Gazette", Canada[6]
Works published in other languages
French language
- Michel Bibaud, Épitres, satires, chansons, épigrammes et autres pièces de vers; French language;[2] Montreal: Ludger Duvernay, a l'Imprimerie de Minerve, the first book of French poetry published in Canada
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Poésies Inédites[7]
- Théophile Gautier, Poésies, 42 poems in a wide variety of verse forms, often imitating other, more established Romantic poets such as Sainte-Beuve, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Victor Hugo; composed when the author was 18 years old; since publication took place during the July Revolution, no copies were sold and it was eventually withdrawn (reissued in 1832 with 20 additional poems under the name Albertus; revised edition, 1845)
- Alphonse de Lamartine, Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
- Alfred de Musset, Comtes d'Espagne et d'Italie
- Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Les Consolations[7]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Deaths
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See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009. Archived 2009-09-11.
- ^ a b Story, Noah, The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature, "Poetry in French" article, pp 651-654, Oxford University Press, 1967
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Web page titled "William Gilmore Simms" at the "Classic Encyclopedia" website, based on the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed May 29, 2009
- ^ Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India (Google books link), Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008 ("(David McCutchion points out the first volume of poetry in English came out even before these poets made their mark, citing Shair and other Poems [1830] by Kasiprasad Ghose [McCutchion, 1969])
- ^ Kidd, Adam, The Huron Chief, and Other Poems, title page, retrieved via Google Books on February 8, 2009
- ^ a b Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3
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