1832 in poetry
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Events
Works published in English
- W. E. Aytoun, Poland, Homer, and Other Poems[1]
- Henry Glassford Bell, My Old Portfolio; or, Tales and Sketches[1]
- William Lisle Bowles, St. John in Patmos[1]
- Barry Cornwall, see Bryan Waller Proctor, below
- James Hogg, writing under the pen name "The Ettrick Shepherd", Altrive Tales[1]
- Leigh Hunt, The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt[1] published by subscription
- Thomas Miller, Songs of the Sea Nymphs[1]
- Bryan Waller Proctor, writing under the pen name "Barry Cornwall", English Songs[1]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Masque of Anarchy, posthumous, preface by Leigh Hunt[1]
- Alfred Tennyson, Poems, including "The Lady of Shalott", "Mariana in the South", "Oenone", "The Palace of Art", "A Dream of Fair Women" and "The Lotos-Eaters"; published in December of this year, although the book states "1833" (see also Poems 1842)[1]
- William Cullen Bryant, Poems, has most of the author's significant work since 1818, with five previously unpublished poems, including "To a Fringed Gentian" and "The Song of Marion's Men"; described as "the best volume of American verse that has ever appeared" by a writer in The North American Review[2]
- Thomas Holley Chivers, The Path of Sorrow; or, The Lament of Youth; the author's first book of poetry, written while he was studying medicine[2]
- Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, The Last Night of Pompeii, a narrative poem about the conflicts between the Christian and pagan faiths; written in three cantos of blank verse[2]
- William Gilmore Simms, Atalantis: A Story of the Sea, a poem about a sea-fairy saved from a demon by a Spanish knight, who is then led by her into the caves of the ocean[2]
- Frederick William Thomas, The Emigrant, the author's first book; about the Ohio River region, influenced by William Wordsworth and Lord Byron[2]
Works published in other languages
- Théophile Gautier, Albertus, 62 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; an expanded version of Poésies 1830, which contained 40 pieces composed when the author was 18 years old (since that work was published during the July Revolution, no copies were sold and it was eventually withdrawn; see also the revised edition, 1845), includes "Albertus", written in 1831, a long narrative poem of 122 alexandrine stanzas parodying macabre and supernatural Romantic tales; France
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, part II, Germany
- Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Russia
- Frederik Paludan-Muller Fire Romancer ("Four Romances"), his first book of poems, Denmark
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 27 – Lewis Carroll, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, English
- June 10 – Sir Edwin Arnold, English
- October 1 – Henry Clay Work, American
- October 9 – Elizabeth Akers Allen (died 1911), American author, journalist and poet
- November 21 – Benjamin Paul Blood (died 1919), American philosopher and poet
- December 13 – Matsudaira Teru 松平照 also called "Teruhime" 照姫, literally translated, "Princess Teru" (died 1884), late Edo and early Meiji period Japanese aristocrat and skilled waka poet who instructed Matsudaira Katamori in poetry and calligraphy
- date not known – Joseph Skipsey (died 1903), English
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 3 – George Crabbe, English
- March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German
- August 17 – James Bisset
- September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish
- December 17 – Robert Charles Sands, (born 1799), American writer and poet[3]
- December 18 – Philip Freneau (born 1752), American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor
- date not known – Anna Maria Porter (born 1780), English poet, novelist and sister of Jane Porter
See also
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
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