1844 in poetry
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Works published in English
United Kingdom
- Isabella Banks, Ivy Leaves, including "Neglected Wife"
- William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect[1]
- Frances Browne, The Star of Atteghei; The Vision of Schwartz, and Other Poems[1]
- Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning), Poems, including "A Drama of Exile" and ballads[1]
- Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, The Two Destinies[1]
- Frederick William Faber, Sir Lancelot[1]
- Leigh Hunt, What is Poetry?, critical essay[2]
- Monckton Milnes, Palm Leaves
- Coventry Patmore, Poems[1]
United States
- Lydia Maria Child â "Over the River and Through the Wood"[3]
- James Freeman Clarke, Hymn Book for the Church of the Disciples (expanded edition, 1852)[4]
- Christopher Pearse Cranch, Poems[4]
- Samuel Henry Dickson, Poems, including his popular "I Sigh for the Land of the Cypress and Pine"[5]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet an essay of literary criticism in Essays, Second Series
- Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The Poets and Poetry of England in the Nineteenth Century, anthology
- Charles Fenno Hoffman, The Echo[4]
- William H. C. Hosmer, Yonnonidio, or Warriors of the Genesee[4]
- Sarah Anna Lewis, Records of the Heart[4]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, editor, Poets and Poetry of Europe, anthology[6]
- James Russell Lowell, Poems[4]
- Epes Sargent, The Light of the Lighthouse and Other Poems
- Lydia Maria Child, Flowers for Children, Volume 2, including "Over the River and Through the Woods", which was later set to music
- Bayard Taylor, Ximena; or, The Battle of the Sierra Morena and Other Poems[4]
Works published in other languages
- Aleardo Aleardi, l' Arnalda di Roca ("Rock of Arnalda"), Italy
- Heinrich Heine, German poet and author living in France:
- Frederik Paludan-Müller, Denmark:
- Dryadens bryllup ("The Dryad's Wedding")
- Tithon ("Tithonus")
- Abels Død ("The Death of Abel")
- Henrik Wergeland, Norway:
- Den Engelske Lods ("The English Pilot")
- Jødinden ("The Jewess")
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 8 â Richard Watson Gilder (died 1909), American poet and editor
- March 14 â Arthur O'Shaughnessy (died 1881), English poet and herpetologist
- March 30 â Paul Verlaine (died 1896), French Symbolistt poet
- March 31 â Andrew Lang (died 1912), Scottish writer
- June 28 â John Boyle O'Reilly (died 1890), Irish-born American poet, journalist and fiction writer
- July 21 â Matilda Maranda Crawford (died 1920), American-Canadian poet, writer, correspondent
- July 28 â Gerard Manley Hopkins (died 1889), English poet and Jesuit priest
- October 12 â George Washington Cable (died 1925), American novelist
- October 13 â Ernest Myers (died 1921), English poet and classicist
- October 23
- Robert Bridges (died 1939), English Poet Laureate
- Laura Rosamond White (died 1922), American poet, author, and editor
- November 12 â Ismail Merathi (died 1917), Indian poet from Mughal and British era[8]
- November 21 â Ada Cambridge (died 1926), English writer and poet living in Australia after 1870
- Date not known:
Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 6 â Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, (born 1803), American poet and teacher[10]
- June 15 â Thomas Campbell (born 1777), Scottish poet especially of sentimental poetry dealing with human affairs
- November 21 â Ivan Krylov (1769), Russian fabulist
- Date not known â Margaret Miller Davidson, senior (born 1787), American novelist, mother of poets Lucretia Maria Davidson, Margaret Miller Davidson and Levi P. Davidson
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