1855 in poetry
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Events
- June 12 â Gaisford Prize founded
- September 27 â Alfred Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London; Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so[1]
- Belarusian writer Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich publishes «Ðапон» (Hapon) in the Russian Empire, the first poem written wholly in modern Belarusian.
Works published
Canada
- Charles Heavysege:
- The Revolt of Tartarus, a poem in six parts (Montreal)
- Sonnets (Montreal: H. & G.M. Rose) [2]
United Kingdom
- William Allingham, The Music-Master, illustrated by Arthur Hughes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais[3]
- Matthew Arnold, Poems, Second Series (see also Poems 1853)[3] including Balder Dead
- Philip James Bailey, The Mystic, and Other Poems (see also Festus 1839)[3]
- William Cox Bennett:
- Anti-Maud, "by a poet of the people"; parody of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Maud (see below)[3]
- War Songs[3]
- Robert Browning, Men and Women,[3] including Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writing under the pen name "Owen Meredith", Clytemnestra; The Earl's Return; The Artist, and Other Poems[3]
- Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope, with Other Poems (first published 1799), illustrated by Birket Foster, George Housman Thomas and Harrison Weir[3]
- Sydney Dobell, writing under the pen name "S. Yendeys", and Alexander Smith, Sonnets on the War[3]
- Leigh Hunt, Stories in Verse,[3] a collection of his narrative poems, original and translated
- George MacDonald, Within and Without, the author's first published book[3]
- Louisa Shore, War Lyrics[3]
- Alfred Tennyson, Maud and other poems, including The Charge of the Light Brigade (first published in a periodical in 1854), Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 1852 (see also William Cox Bennett's Anti-Maud parody, above)[3]
- Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica, first series, a popular translation of Versuch eines allgemeinen evangelischen Gesang- und Gebetbuchs by Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr von Busen (second series published in 1858)[3]
United States
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Bells: A Collection of Chimes[4]
- Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne, Poetical Works, posthumously published[4]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha,[4] a very popular poem, often satirized from within days of its publication through the 20th century
- Bayard Taylor:
- Lucy Terry, first known African American poet, "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", a ballad, posthumously published [5]
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass,[4] the first edition, self-published July 4; Whitman would make many revisions in succeeding editions
Other
- Ricardo Palma, PoesÃas ("Poems"); Peru
- Christian Winther, Hjortens Flugt ("The Flight of the Hart"); Denmark[6]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 1 â Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay) (died 1924), English novelist
- May 21 â Emile Verhaeren (died 1916), Belgian French
- August 3 â Henry Cuyler Bunner (died 1896), American
- September 12 â William Sharp (died 1905), Scottish poet writing as "Fiona Macleod"
- December 15 â Maurice Bouchor (died 1929), French
- December 28 â Juan Zorrilla de San MartÃn (died 1931), Uruguayan
- Date not known:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 3 â János Majláth (born 1786), Hungarian
- January 10 â Mary Russell Mitford (born 1787), English writer
- January 25 â Dorothy Wordsworth (born 1771), English diarist and companion to her poet brother William
- January 26 â Gérard de Nerval (born 1808), French
- March 31 â Charlotte Brontë (born 1816), English novelist and poet
- April 6 â Robert Davidson (born 1778), Scottish peasant poet
- June 29 â Delphine de Girardin (born 1804), French writer
- July 6 â Andrew Crosse (born 1784), English 'gentleman scientist' and poet
- November 26 â Adam Mickiewicz (born 1798), Polish Romantic, dies in Istanbul while organizing Polish and Jewish volunteers to fight against Russia in the Crimean War
- December 3 â Robert Montgomery (born 1807), English
- December 18 â Samuel Rogers (born 1763), English
- Date not known
- Mahmud Gami (born 1765), Indian, Kashmiri
- Sunthorn Phu (born 1786), Thai
