Overview of the events of 1849 in poetry
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Events
- January - "What is Poetry? And What Is It Good For?" essay by John Neal published in Sartain's Union Magazine
- November 14 - A public festival is held in Denmark to celebrate the 70th birthday of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger
- La Tribune des Peuples, a pan-European romantic nationalist periodical, is published between March and November by Adam Mickiewicz.
Works published
United Kingdom
- Cecil Frances Alexander, Moral Songs
- Matthew Arnold, writing under the pen name "A", The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems
- William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and Other Poems
- Robert Browning, Poems, his first collected edition
- Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, King Arthur, first published in three parts, 1848–1849
- Edward Caswall, Lyra Catholica
- A. H. Clough, Ambarvalia
- Robert Southey, all posthumously published:
- Southey's Common-place Book: First Series, and Second Series (each series in a separate volume), edited by John Wood Warter, poetry and prose
- The Life and Correspondence of the Late Robert Southey, edited by Cuthbert Southey, biography
- Isaac Williams, The Christian Scholar
United States
- William Ellery Channing, The Woodman
- James T. Fields, Poems, Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company
- Caroline Howard Gilman, Verses of a Life-time
- Henry Beck Hirst, The Penance of Roland
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poems
- Richard Henry Stoddard, Foot-Prints
- Alfred Billings Street, Frontenac
Other
- Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, Songes, Sweden
- Petrus Augustus de Genestet, De Sint-Nicolaasavond ("Saint Nicholas's Eve"), Netherlands
- Micah Joseph Lebensohn, Harisut Troya, translation of Virgil's Aeneid after Schiller, Lithuania, Hebrew language
- Elias Lönnrot, comp., Kalevala, new version, Finland
- Fazal Shah Sayyad, Sohni Mahiwal, India, Punjabi language
- Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"), Denmark
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- July 22 - Emma Lazarus (died 1887), American
- July 30 - Lettie S. Bigelow (died 1906), American
- August 1 - William Larminie (died 1900), Irish poet and folklorist
- August 23 - William Ernest Henley (died 1903), English poet, critic and editor
- September 3 - Sarah Orne Jewett (died 1909), American regional fiction writer and poet
- September 21 - Edmund Gosse (died 1928), English poet, critic and memoirist
- October 7 - James Whitcomb Riley (died 1916), American dialect poet
- November 18 - Libbie C. Riley Baer (died 1929), American patriotic poet
- December 23 - Stine Andresen (died 1927), German
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 6 - Hartley Coleridge (born 1796), English poet and writer
- January 26 - Thomas Lovell Beddoes (born 1803), English poet, dramatist and physician
- February 8 - France Prešeren (born 1800), Slovenian Romantic poet
- February 19 - Bernard Barton (born 1784), English Quaker poet
- May 28 - Anne Brontë (born 1820), English novelist and poet (tuberculosis)
- June 20 - James Clarence Mangan (born 1803), Irish poet (cholera)
- July 7 - Goffredo Mameli (born 1827), Italian patriot and poet
- July 31 - Sándor Petőfi (born 1823), Hungarian poet and revolutionary (probably killed in Battle of Segesvár)
- October 7 - Edgar Allan Poe (born 1809), American short-story writer, poet and editor
- December 1 - Ebenezer Elliott (born 1781), English "Corn Law rhymer"
- date unknown — Cynthia Taggart (born 1801), American poet
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
- 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
- Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 147. ISBN 080-5-7723-08.
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- Fields, James T., Poems, title page, Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company, retrieved via Making of America website on March 4, 2009
- Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.