1846 in poetry
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Events
- c. May 22 â The Brontë sisters' first published work, the collection Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, is issued in London.[1] It sells just two copies in the first year.[2]
- September 12 â Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning marry privately in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, departing for the continent a week later.
Works published in English
United Kingdom
- William Barnes, Poems, Partly of Rural Life[1]
- Robert Bell, ed., Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry of England
- Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell[1]
- Robert Browning, Luria: a Tragedy; a Soul's Tragedy, volume 8 of Bells and Pomegranates (see also Bells and Pomegranates 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1845)[1]
- John Burgon, Petra: a poem, to which a few short poems are now added
- Henry Cary, Lives of English Poets, from Johnson to Kirke White, verse first published in the London Magazine from 1821 to 1824[1]
- Thomas Hood, Poems[1]
- John Keble, Lyra Innocentium: Thoughts in verse on Christian children[1]
- Edward Lear, writing under the pen name "Derry Down Derry", A Book of Nonsense, also illustrated by Lear; expanded in 1855,[3] 1861, 1863[1] etc. (See also, Nonsense Songs 1870, dated 1871,[1] More Nonsense 1872,[3] Laughable Lyrics 1877[1]
- Carolina, Lady Nairne (died 1845), Lays from Strathern, Scottish
United States
- Oliver Wendell Holmes:
- Elijah Kellogg, Spartacus to the Gladiators[4]
- Henry Morford, The Rest of Don Juan[4]
- John Godfrey Saxe, Progress: A Satirical Poem[4]
- William Gilmore Simms, Areytos, or Songs of the South[5]
- John Greenleaf Whittier, Voices of Freedom[6]
Works published in other languages
- Aleardo Aleardi, Lettere a Maria ("Letters to Mary"), Italy
- Gottfried Keller, Gedichte
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 4 â Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (died 1870), French
- April 24 â Marcus Clarke (died 1881), Australian novelist and poet
- May 25 â Naim Frashëri (died 1900), Albanian
- August 17 â Alexander MacGregor Rose (died 1898), Scottish-born Canadian
- August 28 â G. H. Gibson, "Ironbark" (died 1921), Australian
- September 26 â Mary Hannay Foott (died 1918), Australian
- October 9 â Holger Drachmann (died 1908), Danish[7]
- October 27 â Katherine Harris Bradley, half of "Michael Field" (died 1914), English
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 7 â John Hookham Frere (born 1769), English
- February 14 (probable date) â Standish O'Grady (born before 1793), Irish-Canadian poet and priest[8]
- April 11 â Barron Field (born 1786), Anglo-Australian
- May 14 â Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (born 1759), American[9]
- November 23 â George Darley (born 1795), Irish-born
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