1847 in poetry

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Events

• April – Robert Browning settles with his wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Florence
• Between July and October – Rev. Henry Francis Lyte composes the hymn "Abide with Me" a few months before his death

Works published in English

United Kingdom

• Edwin Atherstone, The Fall of Nineveh, enlarged (from the 1828 edition) to 30 books^[1]
• Richard Harris Barham, writing under the pen name "Thomas Ingoldsby, Esq.", The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, verse fiction; illustrated by George Cruickshank and John Leech (see also Ingoldsby Legends 1840, 1842)^[1]
• Caroline Clive, writing under the pen name "V", The Queen's Ball^[1]
• Walter Savage Landor, The Hellenics of Walter Savage Landor^[1]
• Christina Rossetti, Verses by Christina G. Rossetti^[1]
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Mary Shelley; posthumous^[1]
• Robert Southey and Caroline Southey, Robin Hood^[1]
• Alfred Tennyson's The Princess,^[1] including "Tears, Idle Tears"

United States

• William Ellery Channing, Poems, Second Series^[2]
• Philip Pendleton Cooke, Froissart Ballads, and Other Poems, Philadelphia: Cary and Hart^[3]
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems^[2]
• Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck^[2]
• Charles Fenno Hoffman, Love's Calendar; Lays of the Hudson and Other Poems^[2]
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie^[2]
• Epes Sargent, Songs of the Sea With Other Poems^[2]
• William Wetmore Story, Poems^[2]

Works published in other languages

• Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll, long narrative poem on political and cultural topics^[4]
• Raja Ali Haji or his sister Saleha, Syair Abdul Muluk, Malay syair

Births

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

• February 10 – Nabinchandra Sen নবীনচন্দ্র সেন (died 1909), Indian, Gujarati-language poet and writer
• April 7 – Jens Peter Jacobsen (died 1885), Danish poet^[5]
• September 22 –- Alice Meynell, née Thompson (died 1922), English poet, writer, editor, critic and suffragist
• December 1 – Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan" (died 1920), American poet, famed for her notoriously bad poetry
• Date not known – Brij Raj (died 1919), Indian, Dogri-Pahadi Brajbhasha poet^[6]

Deaths

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

• July 21 – William Shepherd (born 1768), English dissenting minister, politician, poet and writer
• September 10 – Richard Henry Wilde (born 1789), Irish-born American lawyer, politician and poet
• November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte (born 1793), Scottish-born English Anglican divine and hymn-writer
• December 30 – Sima Milutinović Sarajlija (born 1791), Bosnian–Serbian poet, hajduk, translator, historian, philologist, diplomat and adventurer
• Date not known – Liang Desheng (born 1771), Chinese poet and writer during the Qing Dynasty

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. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. Rubin, Louis D., Jr., The Literary South, John Wiley & Sons, 1979, ISBN 0-471-04659-0
4. Cook, Roger F., A Companion to the Works of Heinrich Heine, "Introduction", Boydell & Brewer, 2002, ISBN 978-1-57113-207-9, retrieved via Google Books on April 2, 2009
5. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
6. Das, Sisir Kumar, "A Chronology of Literary Events / 1911–1956", in Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi, ISBN 978-81-7201-798-9, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008