1856 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Henry Wallis exhibits his romantic painting of The Death of Chatterton in London with the young poet and novelist George Meredith posing as his 18th-century predecessor Thomas Chatterton.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
- Aurora Leigh (first published November 15, dated 1857)^[1]
- Poems (see also Poems 1844, 1850, 1853)^[1]
Sydney Dobell, England in Time of War^[1]
Edward Fitzgerald, written anonymously, Salaman and Absal^[1]
Walter Savage Landor, Antony and Octavius^[1]
Coventry Patmore, The Espousals (The Angel in the House, Volume 2; see also The Betrothal 1854, Faithful for Ever 1860, The Victories of Love 1863)^[1]
Wesley family, The Bards of Epworth, anthology

George Henry Boker, Plays and Poems^[2]
Thomas Holley Chivers, Birth–Day Song of Liberty^[2]
William Wilberforce Lord, Andre^[2]
Mortimer Thomson, writing under the pen name "Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B." (Without the pen name's abbreviations: "Queer Kritter Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick"), Plu-ri-bus-tah, A Song That's by No Author,^[2] a satire of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha^[3]
Francois Dominique Rouquette, Fleurs d'Amerique^[2]
Charles Sangster, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay and Other Poems , Canadian poet published in New York^[4]
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, second edition^[2]
John Greenleaf Whittier, The Panorama and Other Poems^[2]

Charles Sangster, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay and Other Poems , Canadian poet published in New York^[4] by subscription^[5]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 9 – Lizette Woodworth Reese (died 1935), American
January 22 – A. D. Godley (died 1925), Irish-born English classical scholar and writer of light verse
March 4 – Toru Dutt (died 1877), Indian, writing in Sanskrit, French and English
April 7 – Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (died 1920), Somali religious and patriotic leader and poet
Date not known – Kattakkayathil Cherian Mappila (died 1936), Indian, Malayalam-language poet^[7]

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

February 17 – Heinrich Heine (born 1797), German
May 2 – James Gates Percival (born 1795), American poet and scientist
July 21 – Emil Aarestrup (born 1806), Danish
July 29 – Karel Havlíček Borovský, Czech
Date not known – Irayimman Thampi (born 1782), Indian, Malayalam-language poet in the court of Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma; wrote ' 'Omana tinkal kitjavo' ', a "cradle song" (or lullaby) still popular in Malayam^[7]

1 2 3 4 5 6 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press ("If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year." — from the Preface, p vi)
↑ Web page titled "Search >> Thomson, Mortimer ( Q. K. Philander Doesticks P. B. ) (1832–1875)" (a search results page?) at The Vault at Pfaff's website, retrieved July 29, 2009
1 2 Bentley, D. M. R., "Poetry in English", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
↑ Gustafson, Ralph, The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, revised edition, 1967, Baltimore, Maryland: Penguin Books
↑ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820–1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3.
1 2 Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009

Lists of poets
By language	Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Assamese Awadhi Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Danish Dutch English French German Greek (Ancient) Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Kannada Kashmiri Konkani Korean Latin Maithili Malayalam Maltese Manipuri Marathi Nepali Nepali Oriya Pashto Pennsylvania Dutch Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Rajasthani Romanian Russian Sanskrit Sindhi Slovak Slovenian Sorbian Spanish Swedish Tamil Telugu Turkic Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Welsh Yiddish
By nationality or culture	Afghan American Argentine Australian Austrian Bangladeshi Bosniak Brazilian Breton Canadian Chicano Estonian Finnish Ghanaian Greek Indian Iranian Irish Mexican Nepali New Zealander Nicaraguan Nigerian Ottoman Pakistani Peruvian Romani Romanian Somali South African Swedish Swiss Turkish
By type	Anarchist Early-modern women (UK) Feminist Lyric Modernist National Performance Romantic Speculative Surrealist War Women

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.