The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his Heaven -
All's right with the world!
— Robert Browning, Pippa Passes, published this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published in English - Sarah Fuller Adams, Viva Prpetua: A dramatic poem[1]
- Robert Browning, Pippa Passes, verse drama
- W. J. Fox, Hymns and Anthems, 150 numbered hymns without music, 13 by Sarah Fuller Adams, including "Nearer, my God, to thee";[1] anthology
- Thomas Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, in 10 volumes, published starting in 1840 and ending this year;[1] Irish poet published in the United Kingdom
- Ralph Waldo Emerson:
- "Compensation"[2]
- "The Sphinx", first published in the Dial this year, it was later included in Emerson's Poems 1847[3]
- William Davis Gallagher, editor, Selections from the Poetical Literature of the West, one of the earliest American regional poetry anthologies; includes poems by 38 writers in the West, including Gallagher's own very popular poem, "Miami Woods"[3]
- Charles Follen, Works, poetry and prose, published this year and in 1842[2]
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ballads and other Poems, including "The Wreck of the Hesperus", "The Village Blacksmith", "Elcelsior" and "The Skeleton in Armor"[3]
- James Russell Lowell, A Year's Life
- Cornelius Mathews, Wakondah; The Master of Life, a narrative poem about prehistoric Native Americans[3]
- Frances Sargent Osgood, The Poetry of Flowers and the Flowers of Poetry[2]
- Adrien Emmanuel Rouquette, Les savanes[2]
- Lydia Howard Sigourney:
- Pocahontas, and Other Poems, New York: Harper & Brothers[4]
- Poems, Religious and Elegiac[2]
- Seba Smith, Powhatan[2]
[edit] Other in English [edit] Works published in other languages [edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: Also: [edit] See also - ^ a b c d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c d e f Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ a b c d 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
- ^ Sigourney, Lydia Howard, [ Pocahontas, and Other Poems, title page], New YOrk: Harper & Brothers, retrieved via Making of America Books website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- ^ Sorfleet, John R., "O'Grady, Standish", article in The Canadian Encyclopedia, retrieved February 8, 2009
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
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