1843 in poetry

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Events

• April 4 – William Wordsworth accepts the office of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (following the death of Robert Southey on March 21) on being assured that it is regarded as a purely honorific position.[1]

Works published

United Kingdom

• R. S. Hawker, Reeds Shaken with the Wind[2]
• Thomas Hood, "The Song of the Shirt", a poem (published in the Christmas issue of Punch)[2]
• Richard Henry Horne, Orion: An epic poem[2]

United States

• William Ellery Channing (poet), Poems, published at the expense of the author's friend Samuel Gray Ward; the volume is admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau but condemned by Edgar Allan Poe in "Our Amateur Poets", an essay in Graham's[3]
• Thomas Dunn English, "Ben Bolt", a popular ballad written for the New York Mirror and later set to music numerous times[3]
• William Lloyd Garrison, Sonnets[4]
• James Russell Lowell, Miscellaneous Poems
• Cornelius Mathews, Poems on Man in His Various Aspects under the American Republic[4]
• William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida, a verse tale; Charleston[5]
• James Gates Percival, The Dream of a Day[4]
• John Pierpont, The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont[4]
• Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Sinless Child and Other Poems, acclaimed by critics, including Edgar Allan Poe[3]
• John Greenleaf Whittier, Lays of My Home and Other Poems, regional poetry, including "The Merrimack", "The Funeral Tree of the Sokokis", "The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" and "Massachusetts to Virginia"[3]
• Nathaniel Parker Willis:
  • The Sacred Poems[4]
  • Poems of Passion[4]
  • The Lady Jane and Other Poems[4]

Other

• Hilario Ascasubi, El gaucho Jacinto Cielo con doce números, Argentina
• Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Bouquets et prières, France[6]
• Christian Winther, Til Een ("To Someone"); see also revised edition 1849; Denmark[7]
• Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exílio", Brazil
• Mikhail Lermontov, "Valerik", Russia, posthumously in the anthology Dawn
• Betty Paoli, Nach dem Gewitter ("After the Storm"), Austria

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 24 – Violet Fane, pen name of Lady Mary Currie, née Mary Montgomerie Lamb (died 1905), English novelist, poet and essayist
• May 3 – Edward Dowden (died 1913), Irish-born poet and critic
• August 19 – Charles Montagu Doughty (died 1926), English poet, writer and traveller
• December 7 – Helena Nyblom, née Roed (died 1926), Danish-born poet and writer of fairy tales
• December 21 – Thomas Bracken (died 1898), Irish-born New Zealander
• December 24 (December 12 O.S.) – Lydia Koidula, born Lydia Jannsen (died 1886), Estonian
• Undated – Dimitrios Paparrigopoulos (died 1873), Greek

Deaths

Sign to Robert Southey's grave, St. Kentigern's Churchyard, Crosthwaite, Cumbria, England

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 11 – Francis Scott Key (born 1779), American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• March 21 – Robert Southey (born 1774), English Poet Laureate
• June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin (born 1770), German lyric poet
• July 9 – Washington Allston, 63 (born 1779), American poet and painter[8]
• December 11 - Casimir Delavigne (born 1793), French poet and dramatist

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

1. Pinion, F. B. (1988). A Wordsworth Chronology. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press. p. 201. ISBN 0-333-38860-7.
2. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
3. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
4. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
5. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Simms, William Gilmore" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 123.
6. Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0-14-042385-3
7. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
8. Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009