Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). [edit] Events [edit] Works published - 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 Thoreau but condemned by Edgar Allan Poe in "Our Amateur Poets", an essay in Graham's[2]
- Thomas Dunn English, "Ben Bolt", a popular ballad written for the New York Mirror and later set to music numerous times[2]
- William Lloyd Garrison, Sonnets[3]
- James Russell Lowell, Miscellaneous Poems
- Cornelius Mathews, Poems on Man ain His Various Aspects under the American Republic[3]
- William Gilmore Simms, Donna Florida, a verse tale; Charleston[4]
- James Gates Percival, The Dream of a Day[3]
- John Pierpont, The Anti-Slavery Poems of John Pierpont[3]
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith, The Sinless Child and Other Poems, acclaimed by critics, including Edgar Allan Poe[2]
- 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"[2]
- Nathaniel Parker Willis:
- The Sacred Poems[3]
- Poems of Passion[3]
- The Lady Jane and Other Poems[3]
[edit] Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: [edit] Deaths Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: - January 11 – Francis Scott Key, American, American lawyer, author, and amateur poet who wrote the words to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- March 21 – Robert Southey, English
- June 6 – Friedrich Hölderlin, German
- July 9 – Washington Allston, 63, (born 1779), American poet and painter[7]
- December 11 - Casimir Delavigne, French
[edit] See also - ^ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e f g Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Web page titled "William Gilmore Simms" at the "Classic Encyclopedia" website, based on the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 29, 2009
- ^ Rees, William, The Penguin book of French poetry: 1820-1950, Penguin, 1992, ISBN 978-0140423853
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Web page titled "American Poetry Full-Text Database / Bibliography" at University of Chicago Library website, retrieved March 4, 2009
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