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1836 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * 6 November – Czech romantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha, having overexerted himself while helping put out a fire, dies just short of his 26th birthday of pneumonia in Litoměřice; his burial (in a pauper's grave) is held on the day of his intended wedding to Eleonora Šomková about a month after the birth of their child. * The literary, social and political quarterly ''Sovremennik'' (Современник, literally ''The Contemporary''), edited by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, begins publication in Saint Petersburg. It publishes Fyodor Tyutchev's poetry and the fourth issue contains Pushkin's historical novel ''The Captain's Daughter''. Works published in English United Kingdom * Bernard Barton and Lucy Barton, ''The Reliquary'' * Walter Savage Landor, ''A Satire on Satirists, and Admonition to Detractors'' * Francis Sylvester Mahony, ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Poetry
Irish poetry is poetry written by poets from Ireland. It is mainly written in Irish language, Irish and English, though some is in Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic and some in Hiberno-Latin. The complex interplay between the two main traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English and Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise. The earliest surviving poems in Irish date back to the 6th century, while the first known poems in English from Ireland date to the 14th century. Although there has always been some cross-fertilization between the two language traditions, an English-language poetry that had absorbed themes and models from Irish did not finally emerge until the 19th century. This culminated in the work of the poets of the Irish Literary Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century. Towards the last quarter of the 20th century, modern Irish poetry tended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor (30 January 177517 September 1864) was an English writer, poet, and activist. His best known works were the prose ''Imaginary Conversations,'' and the poem "Rose Aylmer," but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity. As remarkable as his work was, it was equalled by his rumbustious character and lively temperament. Both his writing and political activism, such as his support for Lajos Kossuth and Giuseppe Garibaldi, were imbued with his passion for liberal and republican causes. He befriended and influenced the next generation of literary reformers such as Charles Dickens and Robert Browning. Summary of his work In a long and active life of 89 years Landor produced a considerable amount of work in various genres. This can perhaps be classified into four main areas—prose, lyric poetry, political writings including epigrams, and Latin. His prose and poetry have received most acclaim, but cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (14 August 1802 – 15 October 1838) was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L.E.L. The writings of Landon are transitional between Romanticism and the Victorian Age. Her first major breakthrough came with ''The Improvisatrice'' and thence she developed the metrical romance towards the Victorian ideal of the Victorian monologue, casting her influence on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti. Her influence can also be found in Alfred Tennyson and in America, where she was very popular. Poe regarded her genius as self-evident. In spite of these wide influences, due to the perceived immorality of Landon's lifestyle, her works were more or less deliberately suppressed and misrepresented after her death. Early life Letitia Elizabeth Landon was born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London to John Landon and Catherine Jane, ''née'' Bishop.Byron (2004). A precocious child, Landon learned to read as a toddler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English theologian, academic, intellectual, philosopher, polymath, historian, writer, scholar and poet, first as an Anglican ministry, Anglican priest and later as a Catholic priest and Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s, and Canonisation of John Henry Newman, was canonised as a saint in the Catholic Church in 2019. Originally an Evangelical Anglicanism, evangelical academic at the University of Oxford and priest in the Church of England, Newman became drawn to the high-church tradition of Anglicanism. He became one of the more notable leaders of the Oxford Movement, an influential and controversial grouping of Anglicans who wished to return to the Church of England many Catholicity, Catholic beliefs and liturgical rituals from before the English Reformation. In th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Awards Works published United Kingdom * Edward Lear, ''Nonsense Songs, stories, Botany, and Alphabets'' (published this year, although the book states "1871"; see also ''Book of Nonsense'' 1846, ''More Nonsense'' 1872, ''Laughable Lyrics'' 1877)Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * William Morris, ''The Earthly Paradise'', Part 4 (Parts 1 and 2 1868, Part 3 1869) * Arthur O'Shaughnessy, ''An Epic of Women, and Other Poems'' * Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ''Poems'', including "Jenny" and a fragment of "The House of Life", exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave * James Joseph Sylvester, a mathematician, publishes ''The Laws of Verse'' * Alfred Lord Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King'' with eight Idylls in the order Tennyson wanted at this point (see also ''Idylls of the King'' 1859, 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1845 In Poetry
::::— Edgar Allan Poe, ''The Raven'' Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 10—Robert Browning, 32, and Elizabeth Barrett, 38, begin their correspondence when she receives a note declaring "I love you" from Browning, a little-known poet whose verses she had praised in her poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship"; on May 20 they meet for the first time. She begins writing her ''Sonnets from the Portuguese''. * April - Nathaniel Hawthorne first publishes "P.'s Correspondence", a short story and example of alternative history in which many poets and other writers and political figures who have died in real life (such as John Keats, Percy Shelley and Lord Byron) are described as still living, and vice versa. The story, which appears in ''The United States Magazine and Democratic Review'', is later included in Hawthorne's ''Mosses from an Old Manse'' (1846). * Works published in Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1840 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published in English United Kingdom * Thomas Aird, ''Orthuriel, and Other Poems'' * Matthew Arnold, ''Alaric at Rome'' * Robert Browning, ''Sordello'' * Caroline Clive, under the pen name "V", ''IX Poems by 'V * Thomas De Quincey, ''Recollections of the Lake Poets'', final two essays on the Lake Poets published in ''Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'' (first essay published in 1836; see also ''Recollections'' 1835, 1839): ** "Westmoreland and the Dalesmen," January ** "Society of the Lakes, I, II, and III," January, March, and June * Frederick William Faber, ''The Cherwell Water-Lily, and Other Poems'' * Monckton Milnes, ''Poetry for the People'' * Thomas Moore, ''The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore'', in 10 volumes, published starting this year and ending in 1841; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom * Robert Owen, ''The Social Bible'' * Percy Byss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1820 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events *January 16 - ''Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery'' by "Northamptonshire peasant poet" John Clare is published in England by John Taylor (English publisher), John Taylor * April 22 - Walter Scott is created 1st baronet of Abbotsford House, Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom * The Cambridge Apostles, an intellectual discussion group, is established at the University of Cambridge in England * John Keats begins showing worse signs of tuberculosis. On the suggestion of his doctors, he leaves London for Italy with his friend Joseph Severn and moves into a house on the Spanish Steps in Rome, where his health rapidly deteriorates. He will die in 1821 in poetry, 1821. * William Wordsworth completes another major revision of ''The Prelude''. This revision was begun in 1819 in poetry, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1839 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * William Wordsworth granted an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree by Oxford University. Works published United Kingdom * Philip James Bailey, ''Festus'', reprinted in numerous editions up to 1889, when the 50th anniversary edition was published * Thomas De Quincey, biographical essays on the Lake Poets in the series ''Recollections of the Lake Poets'', in ''Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'' (see also ''Recollections'' 1834, 1835, 1840): ** "William Wordsworth," January, February, and April ** "William Wordsworth and Robert Southey," July ** "Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge," August ** "Recollections of Grasmere," September ** "The Saracen's Head," December * William Gaskell, ''Temperance Rhymes'' * Henry Hart Milman, ''Poetical Works'' * Percy Bysshe Shelley, posthumous works (died 1822): ** ''The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley'' in four volumes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1827 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * First publication of the 16th century Scottish Bannatyne Manuscript begins in Edinburgh by the Bannatyne Club. Works published in English United Kingdom * Bernard Barton, ''A Widow's Tale, and Other Poems'' * Robert Bloomfield, ''The Poems of Robert Bloomfield'' * Edward Lytton Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton), published anonymously, ''O'Neill, or, The Rebel'' * John Clare, ''The Shepherd's Calendar; with Village Stories and Other Poems'' * George Darley, ''Sylvia; or, The May Queen'' * Reginald Heber, ''Hymns'' * Thomas Hood: ** ''The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies; Hero and Leander; Lycus the Centaur; and Other Poems'' ** ''Whims and Oddities in Prose and Verse'', second series, poetry and prose (see also ''Whims and Oddities'' 1826) * May Howitt, and William Howitt, ''The Desolation of Eyam; The Emigrant; A Tale of the American Woods, and Other Poems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1837 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * July – English "peasant poet" John Clare first enters an asylum for the insane, at High Beach in Essex. * October – ''The United States Magazine and Democratic Review'' is established by John L. O'Sullivan, a political and literary magazine that publishes Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau and others. Works in English United Kingdom * Richard Harris Barham's ''Ingoldsby Legends'' * Lord Byron, ''Dramas'' (poetry, despite the title)Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Eliza Cook's ''The Old Armchair'' * Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, ''Letters and Works'', including introductory anecdotes by Lady Louisa Stuart (See also ''Works'' 1803) * Thomas Love Peacock's ''The Paper Money Lyrics'' * Robert Southey, ''The Poetical Works of Robert Southey'', first two volumes publish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 177023 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798). Wordsworth's ''magnum opus'' is generally considered to be ''The Prelude'', a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death from pleurisy on 23 April 1850. Early life The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in what is now named Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland, (now in Cumbria), part of the scenic region in northwestern England known as the Lake District. William's sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
