1856 in poetry
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Events
- Henry Wallis exhibits his romantic painting of The Death of Chatterton in London with the young poet and novelist George Meredith posing as his 18th-century predecessor Thomas Chatterton.
Works published in English
United Kingdom
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
- Sydney Dobell, England in Time of War[1]
- Edward Fitzgerald, written anonymously, Salaman and Absal[1]
- Walter Savage Landor, Antony and Octavius[1]
- Coventry Patmore, The Espousals (The Angel in the House, Volume 2; see also The Betrothal 1854, Faithful for Ever 1860, The Victories of Love 1863)[1]
- Wesley family, The Bards of Epworth, anthology
United States
- George Henry Boker, Plays and Poems[2]
- Thomas Holley Chivers, BirthâDay Song of Liberty[2]
- William Wilberforce Lord, Andre[2]
- Mortimer Thomson, writing under the pen name "Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B." (Without the pen name's abbreviations: "Queer Kritter Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick"), Plu-ri-bus-tah, A Song That's by No Author,[2] a satire of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha[3]
- Francois Dominique Rouquette, Fleurs d'Amerique[2]
- Charles Sangster, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay and Other Poems , Canadian poet published in New York[4]
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, second edition[2]
- John Greenleaf Whittier, The Panorama and Other Poems[2]
Other
- Charles Sangster, The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay and Other Poems , Canadian poet published in New York[4] by subscription[5]
Works published in other languages
- Aleardo Aleardi, Il Monte Circello ("Mount Circello"), Italy
- Juris AlunÄns, Songs, Latvia
- Victor Hugo, Les Contemplations, France[6]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 9 â Lizette Woodworth Reese (died 1935), American
- January 22 â A. D. Godley (died 1925), Irish-born English classical scholar and writer of light verse
- March 4 â Toru Dutt (died 1877), Indian, writing in Sanskrit, French and English
- April 7 â Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (died 1920), poet and emir of Diiriye Guure[7]
- August 20 â Jakub Bart-ÄiÅ¡inski (died 1909), Sorbian poet, writer, playwright and translator
- Date not known â Kattakkayathil Cherian Mappila (died 1936), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[8]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 17 â Heinrich Heine (born 1797), German
- May 2 â James Gates Percival (born 1795), American poet and scientist
- July 21 â Emil Aarestrup (born 1806), Danish
- July 29 â Karel HavlÃÄek Borovský, Czech
- Date not known â Irayimman Thampi (born 1782), Indian, Malayalam-language poet in the court of Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma; wrote ' 'Omana tinkal kitjavo' ', a "cradle song" (or lullaby) still popular in Malayalam[8]
