1847 in poetry
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Events
- April
- Robert Browning settles with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence
- Young Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri's beloved, Elena Negri, dies in his arms onboard a ship in the Mediterranean; he channels his mourning into a poem, "SteluÈa" ('Little Star')[1]
- Between July and October â Rev. Henry Francis Lyte composes the hymn "Abide with Me" a few months before his death
- September 16 â William Shakespeare's house of birth in Stratford-upon-Avon in England is bought by the United Shakespeare Company for preservation;[2] this year also, Schiller's house in Weimar is opened to the public as a museum
Works published in English
United Kingdom
- Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) to 30 books[3]
- Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruikshank and John Leech (see also Ingoldsby Legends 1840, 1842)[3]
- Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball[3]
- Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor[3]
- Mary Fawler Maude, "Thine for ever! God of love"[4]
- Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti[3]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous[3]
- Robert Southey and Caroline Southey, Robin Hood[3]
- Alfred Tennyson's The Princess,[3] including "Tears, Idle Tears"
United States
- William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second Series[5]
- Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and Hart[6]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems[5]
- Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck[5]
- Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems[5]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie[5]
- Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems[5]
- William Wetmore Story, Poems[5]
Works published in other languages
- Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll, German long narrative poem on political and cultural topics[7]
- Raja Ali Haji or his sister Saleha, Syair Abdul Muluk, Malay syair
- Petar II PetroviÄ-NjegoÅ¡, Prince-Bishop of Montenegro, The Mountain Wreath (ÐоÑÑки виÑенаÑ, Gorski vijenac), Serbian epic verse drama
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 8 â Matei Donici (died 1921), Bessarabian Romanian poet and Imperial Russian Army general
- February 10 â Nabinchandra Sen নবà§à¦¨à¦à¦¨à§à¦¦à§à¦° সà§à¦¨ (died 1909), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
- April 7 â Jens Peter Jacobsen (died 1885), Danish poet[8]
- September 22 â- Alice Meynell, née Thompson (died 1922), English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist
- December 1 â Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" (died 1920), American poetaster
- Date not known â Brij Raj (died 1919), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet[9]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- July 21 â William Shepherd (born 1768), English dissenting minister, politician, poet and writer
- September 10 â Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789), Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet
- November 20 â Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793), Scottish-born English Anglican divine and hymn-writer
- December 30 â Sima MilutinoviÄ Sarajlija (born 1791), BosnianâSerbian poet, hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat and adventurer
- Date not known â Liang Desheng (born 1771), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty
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
