1848 in poetry explained
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published in English
- Cecil Frances Alexander, The Baron's Little Daughter, and Other Tales in Prose and Verse[2]
- William Edmondstoune Aytoun, Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, Scotland
- John Stanyan Bigg, The Sea-King[2]
- Arthur Hugh Clough, The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich: A Long-Vacation Pastoral[2]
- Robert Davidson, Leaves from a Peasant's Cottage Drawer, Scotland
- Aubrey Thomas de Vere, English Misrule and Irish Deeds[2]
- Dora Greenwell, Poems[2]
- John Keats, Ode on Indolence first published, posthumously (the author died in 1821)
- Charles Kingsley, The Saint's Tragedy[2]
- Walter Savage Landor, The Italics of Walter Savage Landor[2]
- Monckton Milnes, Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats
- John Quincy Adams, Poems of Religion and Society[3]
- Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Female Poets of America, anthology
- Henry Beck Hirst, Endymion[3]
- James Russell Lowell:
- Fitz-Greene Halleck, The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck, Now First Collected, New York: D. Appleton & Company[5]
- James Mathewes Legare, Orta-Undis, and Other Poems, the only book of poetry published in the author's lifetime; Boston: Ticknor and Company, printed at the author's expense[6]
- Edgar Allan Poe, , United States[7]
- Adrien Rouquette, Wild Flowers: Sacred Poetry[3]
- William Gilmore Simms:
- The Eye and the Wing, New York [8]
- Lays of the Palmetto: a Tribute to the South Carolina Regiment in the War with Mexico, Charleston[8]
- The Cassique of Accabee[3]
- Charleston and Her Satirists: A Scribblement[3]
- William Ross Wallace, Alban the Pirate[3]
Works published in other languages
- José Bonifácio, Rosas e Goivos ("Roses and Cresses"), Brazil
- James Huston, editor, Le répertoire national, anthology of French Canadian poetry in four volumes, published from this year to 1850, including poetry by Joseph Mermet ("Les Boucheries: fêtes rurales du Canada"), Isidore Bédard ("Sol canadien, terre chérie"), François-Xavier Garneau, Napoléon Aubin, François-Magloire Derome and Pierre Chauveau
- Andreas Munch, Digte, gamle og nye, Norway[9]
- Johan Ludvig Runeberg, The Tales of Ensign Stål (Swedish original title: Swedish: Fänrik Ståls sägner, Finnish: Vänrikki Stoolin tarinat), first part, Finland
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 19 - Isaac D'Israeli (born 1766), English scholar and man of letters
- February 11 - Thomas Cole (born 1801), English-born American landscape painter and occasional poet
- February 23 - John Quincy Adams (born 1767), American statesman, sixth President of the United States
- May 25 - Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (born 1797), German author and poet
- August 14 - Sarah Fuller Flower Adams (born 1805), English religious poet (tuberculosis)
- September 24 - Branwell Brontë (born 1817), English painter, writer and poet (tuberculosis)
- December 19 - Emily Brontë (born 1818), English novelist and poet (tuberculosis)
- Undated - Ann Batten Cristall (born c. 1769), English
- Undated - Leyla Khanim, Turkish woman poet
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Anita. Winkler. Initial successes. The abolition of censorship. The World of the Habsburgs. 2014-06-06.
- Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6. registration.
- Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- Wagenknecht, Edward. James Russell Lowell: Portrait of a Many-Sided Man. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971
- Halleck, Fitz-Greene, [''The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck, Now First Collected''] 1848, New York: D. Appleton & Company, retrieved via Making of America website, retrieved March 4, 2009
- Rubin, Louis D., Jr., The Literary South, John Wiley & Sons, 1979,
- Web page titled "Edgar Allan Poe" at the Academy of American Poets website, retrieved March 1, 2009
- Simms, William Gilmore . 25 . 123–124.
- Book: Hauge, Ingard. Poetisk realisme og nasjonalromantikk. Norges Litteraturhistorie. 2. Norwegian. Beyer, Edvard. Edvard Beyer. 318–325. 1975. Cappelen. Oslo.
- "A Chronology of Indian Events", "1918", pp 528 - 535 Das, Sisir Kumar and various, History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956: struggle for freedom: triumph and tragedy, Volume 2, 1995, published by Sahitya Akademi,, retrieved via Google Books on December 23, 2008