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{{Year nav topic5|1855|poetry|literature}}Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events- June 12 – Gaisford Prize founded
- September 27 – Alfred Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London; Dante Gabriel Rossetti makes a sketch of him doing so[1]
- Belarusian writer Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich publishes «Гапон» (Hapon) in the Russian Empire, the first poem written wholly in modern Belarusian.
Works publishedCanada- Charles Heavysege:
- The Revolt of Tartarus, a poem in six parts (Montreal)
- Sonnets (Montreal: H. & G.M. Rose) [2]
United Kingdom- William Allingham, The Music-Master, illustrated by Arthur Hughes, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John Everett Millais[3]
- Matthew Arnold, Poems, Second Series (see also Poems 1853)[3] including Balder Dead
- Philip James Bailey, The Mystic, and Other Poems (see also Festus 1839)[3]
- William Cox Bennett:
- Anti-Maud, "by a poet of the people"; parody of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Maud (see below)[3]
- War Songs[3]
- Robert Browning, Men and Women,[3] including Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, writing under the pen name "Owen Meredith", Clytemnestra; The Earl's Return; The Artist, and Other Poems[3]
- Thomas Campbell, The Pleasures of Hope, with Other Poems (first published 1799), illustrated by Birket Foster, George Housman Thomas and Harrison Weir[3]
- Sydney Dobell, writing under the pen name "S. Yendeys", and Alexander Smith, Sonnets on the War[3]
- Leigh Hunt, Stories in Verse,[3] a collection of his narrative poems, original and translated
- George MacDonald, Within and Without, the author's first published book[3]
- Louisa Shore, War Lyrics[3]
- Alfred Tennyson, Maud and other poems, including The Charge of the Light Brigade (first published in a periodical in 1854), Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 1852 (see also William Cox Bennett's Anti-Maud parody, above)[3]
- Catherine Winkworth, Lyra Germanica, first series, a popular translation of Versuch eines allgemeinen evangelischen Gesang- und Gebetbuchs by Christian Karl Josias, Freiherr von Busen (second series published in 1858)[3]
United States- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Bells: A Collection of Chimes[4]
- Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne, Poetical Works, posthumously published[4]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha,[4] a very popular poem, often satirized from within days of its publication through the 20th century
- Bayard Taylor:
- Poems of the Orient[4]
- Poems of Home and Travel[4]
- Lucy Terry, first known African American poet, "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746", a ballad, posthumously published [5]
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass,[4] the first edition, July 4; Whitman would make many revisions in succeeding editions
Other- Christian Winther, Hjortens Flugt ("The Flight of the Hart"); Denmark[6]
BirthsDeath years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - May 1 – Marie Corelli (Mary Mackay) (died 1924), English novelist
- May 21 – Emile Verhaeren (died 1916), Belgian French
- August 3 – Henry Cuyler Bunner (died 1896), American
- September 12 – William Sharp (died 1905), Scottish poet writing as "Fiona Macleod"
- December 15 – Maurice Bouchor (died 1929), French
- December 28 – Juan Zorrilla de San Martín (died 1931), Uruguayan
- Date not known:
- Devendranath Sen (died 1920), Indian, Bengali-language poet[7]
- Govardhanram N. Tripathi (died 1907), Indian, Gujarati-language novelist and poet[8]
- Alexander Young, Scottish
DeathsBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 3 – János Majláth (born 1786), Hungarian
- January 10 – Mary Russell Mitford (born 1787), English writer
- January 25 – Dorothy Wordsworth (born 1771), English diarist and companion to her poet brother William
- January 26 – Gérard de Nerval (born 1808), French
- March 31 – Charlotte Brontë (born 1816), English novelist and poet
- April 6 – Robert Davidson (born 1778), Scottish peasant poet
- June 29 – Delphine de Girardin (born 1804), French writer
- July 6 – Andrew Crosse (born 1784), English 'gentleman scientist' and poet
- November 26 – Adam Mickiewicz (born 1798), Polish Romantic, dies in Istanbul while organizing Polish and Jewish volunteers to fight against Russia in the Crimean War
- December 3 – Robert Montgomery (born 1807), English
- December 18 – Samuel Rogers (born 1763, English
- Date not known
- Mahmud Gami (born 1765), Indian, Kashmiri
- Sunthorn Phu (born 1786), Thai
See also{{portal|Poetry}}- 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
- Poetry
Notes1. ^{{cite web|title=Tennyson Reading 'Maud'|url=http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1904p495/tennyson-reading-maud/|work=Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource|publisher=Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery|accessdate=2013-05-09}}
2. ^{{cite encyclopedia|last=Bentley|first=D. M. R|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/poetry-in-english/|title=Poetry in English|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia|accessdate=2009-02-08}}
3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 {{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6}}
4. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite book|last1=Ludwig|first1=Richard M.|first2=Clifford A.|last2=Nault, Jr.|title=Annals of American Literature 1602-1983|year=1986|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|quote=If the title page is one year later than the copyright date, we used the latter since publishers frequently postdate books published near the end of the calendar year — Preface.|page=vi}}
5. ^{{cite book|last1=Davis|first1=Cynthia|first2=Kathryn|last2=West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yqi0x7BEvCoC&pg=PR11&dq=Timeline+poetry&ei=alWOSayyBZm8zgSR0ZHfDQ#PPA10,M1|title=Women Writers in the United States: A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1996|isbn=978-0-19-509053-6|accessdate=2009-02-07}}
6. ^{{cite book|author1=Preminger, Alex |author2=Brogan, T. V. F. |title=The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics|year=1993|location=New York|publisher=MJF Books/Fine Communications|display-authors=etal}}
7. ^{{cite encyclopedia|last=Das|first=Sisir Kumar|title=A Chronology of Literary Events 1911-1956|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqBjpV9OzcsC&printsec=frontcover|editor=Das, Sisir Kumar|encyclopedia=History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy|volume=2|year=1995|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=978-81-7201-798-9|accessdate=2008-12-23|display-editors=etal}}
8. ^{{cite book|last=Mohan|first=Sarala Jag|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA100&lpg=PP9&dq=Urdu+poets&num=100&output=html|chapter=Chapter 4: Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature|editor1=Natarajan, Nalini |editor2=Nelson, Emanuel Sampath|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|location=Westport, Connecticut|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=1996|isbn=978-0-313-28778-7|accessdate=2008-12-10}}
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