1839 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- William Wordsworth granted an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree by Oxford University.
Works published
- Philip James Bailey, Festus, reprinted in numerous editions up to 1889, when the 50th anniversary edition was published[1]
- Thomas De Quincey, biographical essays on the Lake Poets in the series Recollections of the Lake Poets, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (see also Recollections 1834, 1835, 1840):
- "William Wordsworth," January, February, and April
- "William Wordsworth and Robert Southey," July
- "Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge," August
- "Recollections of Grasmere," September
- "The Saracen's Head," December
- Henry Hart Milman, Poetical Works[1]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in four volumes is published from January to May, edited by Mary Shelley, with her preface and notes, and dedicated to the Shelleys' son, Percy Florence Shelley; London: Edward Moxon (reprinted in 1847[1]); posthumous
- Ralph Waldo Emerson:
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Voices of the Night, the author's first volume of original poetry; includes "A Psalm of Life" and "Light of the Stars"[2]
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Haunted Palace, an allegory of mental states; considered one of the author's best poems, written at a time when his finances forced him to concentrate on stories rather than poetry; originally published in the Baltimore Museum and later included in "The Fall of the House of Usher"[2]
- William Gilmore Simms, Southern Passages and Pictures, lyrical, sentimental and descriptive poems; New York[3]
- Jones Very, Essays and Poems, prose and poetry[4]
Other
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Pauvres Fleurs, France[5]
- Gooru Churun Dutt, School Hours or Poems Composed at School, Calcutta: T. B. Scott and Co.; India, Indian poetry in English[6]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 - James Ryder Randall, American
- April 18 - Henry Kendall (died 1882), Australian
- June 21 - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (died 1909), Brazilian
- August 4 - Walter Pater (UK)
- August 25 - Bret Harte (d 1902)
- December 30 - John Todhunter, Irish
- Date not known:
- William Little (Australian poet) (died 1916), Australian
- Velutteri Keshavan Vaidyar (died 1897), Indian, Malayalam-language poet[7]
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 4 - Denis Davydov (born 1784), Russian soldier-poet of the Napoleonic Wars who invented a specific genre — hussar poetry noted for its hedonism and bravado
- May 21 - José María Heredia y Campuzano, Cuban
- July 15 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed (UK)
- Date not known:
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 (1800–1850)
- Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) a loose group of German writers from about 1830 to 1850
- List of poets
- Poetry
- List of poetry awards
Notes
- ^ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 9780618168217, retrieved via Google Books
- ^ Web page titled "William Gilmore Simms" at the "Classic Encyclopedia" website, based on the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 29, 2009
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0140423853
- ^ Naik, M. K., Perspectives on Indian poetry in English, p. 230, (published by Abhinav Publications, 1984, ISBN 0391032860, ISBN 9780391032866), retrieved via Google Books, June 12, 2009
- ^ Paniker, Ayyappa, "Modern Malayalam Literature" chapter in George, K. M., editor, Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology, pp 231–255, published by Sahitya Akademi, 1992, retrieved January 10, 2009