1843 in poetry
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Events
- April 4 â William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (following the death of Robert Southey on March 21) on being assured that it is regarded as a purely honorific position.[1]
Works published
United Kingdom
- R. S. Hawker, Reeds Shaken with the Wind[2]
- Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt", a poem (published in the Christmas issue of Punch)[2]
- Richard Henry Horne, Orion: An epic poem[2]
United States
- William Ellery Channing (poet), Poems, published at the expense of the author's friend Samuel Gray Ward; the volume is admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau but condemned by Edgar Allan Poe in "Our Amateur Poets", an essay in Graham's[3]
- Thomas Dunn English, "Ben Bolt", a popular ballad written for the New York Mirror and later set to music numerous times[3]
- William Lloyd Garrison, Sonnets[4]
- James Russell Lowell, Miscellaneous Poems
- Cornelius Mathews, Poems on Man in His Various Aspects under the American Republic[4]
- William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida, a verse tale; Charleston[5]
- James Gates Percival, The Dream of a Day[4]
- John Pierpont, The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont[4]
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Sinless Child and Other Poems, acclaimed by critics, including Edgar Allan Poe[3]
- John Greenleaf Whittier, Lays of My Home and Other Poems, regional poetry, including "The Merrimack", "The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis", "The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" and "Massachusetts to Virginia"[3]
- Nathaniel Parker Willis:
Other
- Hilario Ascasubi, El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números, Argentina
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Bouquets et prières, France[6]
- Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"); see also revised edition 1849; Denmark[7]
- Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exÃlio", Brazil
- Mikhail Lermontov, "Valerik", Russia, posthumously in the anthology Dawn
- Betty Paoli, Nach dem Gewitter ("After the Storm"), Austria
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 24 â Violet Fane, pen name of Lady Mary Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb (died 1905), English novelist, poet and essayist
- May 3 â Edward Dowden (died 1913), Irish-born poet and critic
- August 19 â Charles Montagu Doughty (died 1926), English poet, writer and traveller
- December 7 â Helena Nyblom, née Roed (died 1926), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
- December 21 â Thomas Bracken (died 1898), Irish-born New Zealander
- December 24 (December 12 O.S.) â Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen (died 1886), Estonian
- Undated â Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (died 1873), Greek
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 11 â Francis Scott Key (born 1779), American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- March 21 â Robert Southey (born 1774), English Poet Laureate
- June 6 â Friedrich Hölderlin (born 1770), German lyric poet
- July 9 â Washington Allston, 63 (born 1779), American poet and painter[8]
- December 11 - Casimir Delavigne (born 1793), French poet and dramatist
See also
- 19th century in poetry
- 19th century in literature
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- Victorian literature
- French literature of the 19th century
- Biedermeier era of German literature
- Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800â1850)
- Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) a loose group of German writers from about 1830 to 1850
- List of poets
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards